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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1906
Page
8
North and West regions implement greatly reduced rates with half-fare for children. Liberal stopovers allowed on tickets. Tickets valid to specified destinations. For more on rates routes and train service contact ticket agent or A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago.
A fragmentary Bits column recounts a detective recall about a missing husband and a wife's last words. Also includes a short moral aphorism and an advertising blurb for Kodol Dyspepsia Cure boasting quick relief from indigestion and sour stomach.
The Ram's Horn notes Dr Paton answered God’s call to the New Hebrides where 18 000 who have since accepted Christ were cannibals. It reports 23 missionaries and 800 teachers among 40 000 cannibals, noting dangers include murder or enslavement, while some push on.
A fragmented ad-like report discusses James Watt and steam power, then pivots to a sensational claim about dandruff and baldness caused by a tiny germ. It promotes Newhero’s Herpicide as a remedy, urging 10 cent samples via The Herpicide Co. in Detroit with agent Joseph Emmert.
George Perkins of J P Morgan & Co and former NY Life VP faced a habeas corpus writ as police sought arrest for allegedly aiding a 48072.50 dollar transfer to the Republican national committee in 1904. Hearing adjourned. Perkins paroled to his attorney as affidavits from NY Life executives were reviewed.
Affidavits used by Magistrate Moss to issue a warrant against Perkins proceed to the supreme court via writ of certiorari. Kingsley facts describe New York Life finance committee meeting in December 1903 with McCall stating Perkins advanced large sums to Bliss for the 1904 campaign. Jerome released correspondence showing Perkins supplied campaign materials to the DA on request, with Perkins defending propriety of expenditures as company benefit. O'Sullivan urges grand jury to continue life insurance probe and to subpoena witnesses as needed.
Fire in Dover New Hampshire destroyed the Masonic Temple, the city’s largest business block, causing about 200000 dollars in losses. Several lodgers in upper stories escaped unharmed as flames swept through the building early this morning.
Tas Vegans No Mo Marehull A Santa Fe passenger train collided with the rear of a freight train at Ribera thirty miles south of Las Vegas. Thirty eight people suffered very slight bruises or cuts in the accident.
Agnes Stone sister in law of William Mc Donald of the Bostonians died suddenly at Fairmont West Virginia on March 29 after reading news of his death. The earlier death of Mc Donald was announced Tuesday night.
The original laxative cough syrup Kennedy’s Laxative Honey and Tar claims to rapidly relieve coughs colds croup and whooping cough. It promises to move bowels and clear throat and lung mucous with a pleasant taste and harmless formula available in drugstores.
The Dauy Journal is delivered to every part of the city for a week, offering broad access and steady newspaper service.
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as aiding appetite and stamina, easing chronic coughs and bronchial conditions in early stages, and claiming cures in severe cases. It promises a free medical adviser and booklets, with no alcohol or habit-forming ingredients, and invites inquiries to Buffalo New York.
The piece describes Caracas as dirty with garbage and dust until a heavy deluge forms in the mountains. A great black vapor spreads, then floods streets and courtyards with waterspouts, washing streets like a newly scrubbed floor. It also cites a Cincinnati Enquirer note on Gomera island whistle language.
Miss Hodges laments a neighbor who borrows odd items from her including shovels and a diary. The neighbor uses Hodges diary to track weather, hens eggs, and husband’s California expenses, prompting Hodges to call it “the cap sheaf” in a plaintive exchange.
An editorial notes widespread desire for peace across European courts and chanceries and lauds the American envoy Mr White as a quiet peacemaker. The Daily Telegraph says the United States influenced European affairs beyond doctrine. Also, U S claims commission awards total 76740 with costs 583000, per Rep Sullivan.
In Adeston Kentucky Maggie Perkins is linked by tape confession to a case involving farmer Mrs Bates and Charles Francis a Black man held in Lexington after a disturbance eight miles west of Richmond on Jack's Creek Pike. Separately in Lens France miners vote 20 074 affirmative 12 582 negative on continuing a strike with about 21 000 abstentions.
Rome March 29 The Osservatore Romano official Vatican newspaper contradicts British reports that J Pierpont Morgan of New York made offerings to Vene Phis X at the pope's last audience.
Quotations from the Chicago Board of Trade show wheat and corn prices with May and July contracts across wheat, oats, and corn. Live stock totals for pigs, cattle, and lambs are listed with estimated receipts and price ranges. Buffalo market notes and a closing medical advertisement conclude the report.
Money to loan on improved real estate in Freeport in sums of 500 dollars or more at current rates. Taylor & Fricke offer this service and reference the Journal's want column.
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