Taxpayers' league on breweries and liquor trade debate
A long defending piece argues the breweries in Freeport are overvalued and denounces confiscation fears. It cites tax records showing a fraction of claimed plant value, defends denatured alcohol use, analyzes the liquor trade’s payroll and tax impact, and urges enforcement of anti saloon laws while detailing fire and municipal funding concerns.
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Business Men’s Association
Freeport
Republic
Port Aprik
Down's Kidney Pills Safer Cures Claims Rise in Freeport
Testimony published from Freeport residents claims Down's Kidney Pills relieve back and kidney pain. A Mrs Elias Church reports severe symptoms improved after use, with others asserting lasting relief. Advert copy lists prices 10 cents and urges readers to buy from Foster Mitchuin Co. as sole U.S. agents.
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Down
Fred
Wwe
Freeport
Elias Church
Spring Se
Tel
Proan
Das Hotusewerk
Sears
Foster Mitchuin
Daily Journal delivery available citywide at 10c a week
The Daily Journal announces citywide home delivery for ten cents per week, offering affordable access to local news for every neighborhood.
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the Daily Journal
Amusements at Mason's Corner Play Draws City Guest
An annual Mason's Corner Town Hall concert erupts when Quincy Adams Sawyer, a Boston visitor, whistles Listen to the Mocking Bird. Deacon Mason boards him while Obadiah Strout complains but the audience cheers as Sawyer’s performance electrifies the crowd. Grand opera house matinee and night on March 28.
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Mason's Corner
Quincy Adams Sawyer
Sawyer
Deacon Mason's
Obadiah Strout
Boston
Mr. Sawyer
Mr. Strout
Sawyer Sawyer
Grand Opera House
Vaudeville Returns At Bijou Impresses Freeport Crowd
A large audience welcomed straight vaudeville at the Bijou last evening as the program offered a strong mix of acts. Monday and Thursday will bring changes in motion pictures and vaudeville. Highlights include Wilbur Amos the comedy juggler, Davis and Walker, Holland and Vernon with a new blackface sketch and daring shooting feats on a trapeze. The show, praised for dexterity and novelty, is described as the best in some time.
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Bijou
Wilbur Amos
Davis
Walker
Holland
Vernon
Freeport
Grand Sunday Evening Show Attracts Freeport Audience
There will be one moving picture entertainment at the Grand next Sunday evening because the opera house is booked for Mrs. Lake's afternoon lecture. The bill offers humorous views, entirely new to Freeport, with three illustrated songs by Miss Ruby Smith and admission set at ten cents for all seats.
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Grand
Opera
Tola
Ruby Smith
South Dakota Crop Note From Alexandria Farmer Letter
Ananias Lambert, known to Stephenson County readers, writes from Alexandria South Dakota about seed corn. He notes farmers are busy sowing, fields are long and wide, and much corn is needed for seed as they work through the driving season.
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Mans
Medi Ti Stahl
Stover
Pheuies
Arcade
Doefer
Alb
Phere
Iidee
Imorospect
Tibet
Sane
Ilinoiis
Peoria
Quincey
Stephenson County
Ananias Lambert
Alexandria
S. D
Mareh Wt
Dakota fields spur high hopes for wheat here
The writer notes vast corn and wheat fields in Dakota, with orders for seventy bushels awaiting shipment. They describe strong fieldwork, early sowing in Han son county, and comparisons to Stephenson county. Weather is praised, stock looks good, and the author imagines farmers moving from Illinois to South Dakota for open, unfenced fields.
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Dakota
Hanson County
Stephenson County
Tlinois
South Dakota
W C T U Leader to Speak in Lena Churches
Mrs Frances Beauchamp state president of the W C T U Kentucky will visit Lena next Sunday to speak at Amity Glutheran in the morning and at the Methodist church in the evening. Also notes Miss Lottie Frisbie ill at home and several locals planning to attend the W C T U institute at Davis next week.
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Lena
Lottie Frisbie
Frances KF. Beauchamp
Kentucky
Amity Glutheran Church
Methodist Church
M. C. Steel
Bert Polhill
W. C. T. U. Institute
Davis
M. C. Biesemeier
Belle Waite
Freeport
A.M. Smith
Louis Bauscher
Equity
Miss Thorn
Ackley
Town
John Reiland
Electric Bitters Endorsed by Local Architect in San Francisco
Prominent architect Norman R. Coulter in the Delbert Building San Francisco endorses Electric Bitters as a universal tonic. He says it corrects stomach liver and kidney disorders promptly and builds up the system. The remedy is touted as the best spring medicine and blood purifier sold by druggists.
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Norman R. Coulter
Delbert
San Francisco
Joseph Emmert
Former Staver Shoe worker opens new store under Bengston’s
John Pera announces resignation from Staver Shoe and purchase of Philip Mattern’s shop under Bengston’s Jewelry, inviting friends to visit. He promises first class work and notes his new location at 821d1w.
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Staver Shoe
Philip Mattern
Bengston
John Pera
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Galloway
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C. J
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Reedy
Pat
Metzger
Joe
Burns
Dr. R. J
Lonergan
P. J
Kracht
McGovern
Graham
G. W
Bennethan
Balles
Keller
H. J
Duplicates
Freeport Chemical Co
John Buss
H. UW. Schulte & Co
Ous
Hainois
Germany
Amervicen
Cnloon
Patherland
Sileon
U.S. Internal Revenue
Meyer
Fire Department
Schmid Bros Fu
Schlott
Galena Avenue
Lweadtt
Texas
Washburn
Crosby
the Journal
Davenport Savings Bank
South West Corner
2D and Main Sts
Davenport
O. Schmiot
Henry C. Struck
Louis Halien
W.H. Witson
The
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Prohibition
Rights and Liberty League
Freeport Railway, Light & Power CO
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