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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1909
Page
3
Local testimony from Mrs. Elias Church of Freeport Illinois praises Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney illness. She says severe attacks kept her from housework, but after use she recovered and remained symptom free for ten years. Foster Milburn Co. advertises as U.S. agents, price 50 cents.
F J Burdett, a local piano tuner, takes orders at Brown's and Collier's, continuing work in town. He advertises prompt service and reliable tuning for residents and businesses.
Umbrellas repaired and covered by E F Wyan at 60 Selene Bend. Trade activity appears in brief notice with a local craftsman offering repair services and materials.
Harriet M. Burbank is listed as a piano teacher at Studio 86 located on Grove Street. The entry notes a lesson date or start time of 9-22 but provides no additional context or details.
Springfield March 31 A strong anti bucket shop bill was introduced by Representative Thomas OBrien to criminalize furnishing market quotes for stock or bond purchases by wire The House approved the Chipherfield conspiracy bill 87 to 2 limiting prosecutions to overt acts and tying punishment to the act itself The senatorial race excitement centered on Adolphus Bartlett with Governor Deneen on a Chicago trip and various officials visiting Bartlett in Chicago The sixty third joint ballot produced Hopkins 75 Novak 33 Stringer 32 Shurtleff 17 Foss 14 Mason 2 Sherman 2 McKinley 2 Lowden 1 Calhoun 1 Yates 1 The assembly debated several bills including tuberculosis control dairy legislation indeterminate sentences and emergency appropriations for hospitals and gunboat transport Other measures covered eight hour work for women and licensing for itinerant vendors Senate actions included public printing appropriations and bills on electric pole protection and mining See source for full list of introduced and advanced bills and committee actions.
Announcement from Lexington Kentucky states President Frost of Berea College invites President Taft to attend memorial services at the Lincoln farm on May 380 and plant a memorial tree in honor of Lincoln. The invite underscores a ceremony linking national figures to a historic site and commemorative act.
A saying underscoring that even quality products fail without promotion while promotion alone cannot compensate for poor goods. The phrase links marketing effort to product value, urging balanced attention to both product quality and visible advertising.
An advertisement listing numerous ailments from fevers and colds to worms, colic, coughs, rheumatic pains, malaria, and kidney issues. It promotes Pleasant Pellets that purportedly satisfy a “ves poten ois ty druggiate” effect, offered by a New York supplier with a free medical hook upon request.
Chicago society women call a letter about a French divorce a forgery. They accuse a Chicago society woman of writing it to malign Princess Engalitcheff, planning to ostracize the writer once her identity is revealed. The princess arrives in Chicago tomorrow with her husband and son to aid the investigation.
Chicago March 31 sensational reports that Frederick A Fish Evanston broker who killed his wife in September 1907 is at liberty and no proceedings were instituted against him clerks say records show the case. The September 1907 grand jury found no bill after testimony by physicians and alienists and Judge Chetlain released Fish on September 20 1907.
The Vanderrlip residence at 301 Madison avenue hosted a double funeral for Mrs Sarah Woolworth mother of Mrs Charlotte Vanderlip and grandmother of Frank A Vanderlip. She died after news of her daughter's death and the special train run from New York to Chicago failed to reach in time. Services were at 11:30 a.m. and both bodies were taken to Aurora for interment.
Chicago March 31 After two days of battle between P A Valentine and creditors committee the offer of A Booth & Co including 1 000 000 cash was accepted for the reorganized fish combine worth 7 060 000 The new name is to be chosen at a stockholders meeting within days
Noah Wy Pyle a 53 year old jeweler at 261s Cottage Grove avenue was arrested after the confessions of Albert Whent worth 25 and John Davis 19 linking him to Renwood home raids. Police recovered about 2000 dollars worth of stolen jewelry found in Pyle's store and identified as part of the thefts.
Thomas J. O'Brien, a prosperous manufacturer's agent, was beaten and kicked to death by a colored porter in John Kinneally's saloon at 546 West Lake Street Chicago. Police report two versions of the motive one linked to boxing pride between James J Jeffries and Jack Johnson and another suggesting a woman caused the altercation.
The London Chronicle notes that the phantom black dog was a long standing English superstition found in many counties. It claims some are devils, others spirits of punished humans. Example: Lady Howard of Devon, in James I era, allegedly haunts Okehampton as a dog for cruelty to her daughter.
An Atchison man, married five years, brushes hair 4475 times daily with mirrors in dispute. His wife moves the dresser and chiffonier, the mirrors flip back and forth. Frustrated, he arms himself with military brushes and shatters the moment with a loud swear.
A fragmentary historical note discusses Guido of Arezzo and the origin of the musical gamut from the first hymn of John the Baptist. It mentions the six solmization syllables ut te mni sol la and the belief that mastering the gamut enabled musical perfection within a few years.
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