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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1906
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR mentions Freeport national, ByPee, labor in its eA department. Vague references to Shor Srna dena and Alma 1aRy appear without clear context or readable facts.
Daily notes list morning arrivals and departures from Winslow and nearby towns. John Barr and Lena travel to Chicago. Jennie Fearer and others visit DeKalb. Strohacker and Wheeler head to Chicago. Mrs Miller and Eakle travel to Adeline for a funeral. Visitors from Minot and Waukesha are noted, with Casual mentions of California winter stays and a Rockford business trip.
A regular meeting of the report club will be held this evening at American Stars Equity. A gala meeting is planned to promote exercises on December. The Janesville baseball park hosts a movement to form a six year schedule for Eagles lodges in Freeport Janesville Beloit Rockford Elgin and Watertown.
Transfers recorded include Mayer to Meyers, Wolf to Wolk, Niblo to Peter Wolf, and Hildreth to Knowlton involving Freeport Rock Grove Buck Kaye and Waterman properties. Abstracts of title furnished on short notice with deeds mortgages and legal instruments accurately drawn by C. Taylor & Frick Conveyancers.
BE LePelley trustee of QOI Yeager bankrupt reports a final dividend of 650 on proven claims. Checks are being disbursed to creditors after Rockford last week.
Miss Fay Wippy received an award in a word contest and a piano was delivered to her home as a gesture of congratulations. The young lady is being kept in good cheer amid celebrations from neighbors and family.
The opening spring session of the northern deanery diocese of Chicago met at Grace Episcopal church with Rev BF Sherman of Grace church Aurora delivering an address on The Church of the Twentieth Century. He traced the nineteenth to the twentieth century shift from muscular labor to organized industry, urged the church to occupy idle time, promote unity among denominations, and balance individualism with centralized church power. The session included clergy papers by Rev J H Dennis and Rev Sherman, plus a noon luncheon.
Rab Whok e speaks in playful misquotes about paying for value while references to Rocky Mountain Peas and Joseph Emmort appear in a fragmented market chatter. The readable text remains unclear on concrete events or dates.
The contest between the timer's union and displayers of that labor class ended at a meeting on May 1 with no strike. A one year contract raises wages from twenty eight to thirty cents per hour plus time and a half after five and double time on Sundays. The hardware merchants agreed to the union demands if the union permits open shop. About forty tin workers are employed in the city across hardware stores, J W Miller Incubator, and Peepats Gas Machine plants. The union is not affiliated with Freeport Trades and Labor council.
The Stephenson County Fish and Game Protective association elected W. B. Lillis as president J. R. Guyer as vice president A. I. Snyder as secretary J. I. Sage as treasurer and named trustees W. B. Lillis T. N. Hollis Charles Mellnick H. E. B. Keiser A. F. Wagner N. Laurd and S. E. Snyder. A $26 reward was set for arrests and convictions of seine set net dip net or dynamiting in any county stream.
The funeral will be held from the family residence on upper Stephenson street at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon with Rev H L Moore of First Presbyterian Church officiating. Interment will be in Oakland Cemetery. Pallbearers named are O B Bidwell John Burrell George W Whiteside William Everedte E LePelley and C H Little.
Fire crews were summoned about 8 PM to 241 Union Street for a blaze in a rear summer kitchen fed by a kiln used for burning handpainted china. The fire was put out before crews arrived and damages were slight.
The employer of the White Front dry goods store spent a pleasant evening in Forreston at the home of Mr and Mrs P Aykens.
The Freeport chapter with 110 members forms a large roster for the upcoming state council meeting to be held May 18 and 19. The list includes D. H. Johnson, J. K. Leininger, D. N. Byres, A. H. Stevenson and many others. The order reports total membership 33,628 with 65,508 initiated last year and $1,322,053.28 paid out in losses. Insurance benefits include weekly disability payments, death benefits, and loss of sight or limbs. Memorial Day observances are held each April for deceased members, with eulogies and roll calls.
Dr. King's New Life Pills are promoted as preventing dangers and easing pains. The ad claims they save from constipation and related ills, with guarantees by Jos. Emmert, druggist, priced at 25 cents. The copy emphasizes strength and vigor following use.
A testimonial notes headaches from coffee abate after switching to Postum in 1896. The speaker claims kidney trouble neuraglia eczema rheumatic pains and general relief after discontinuing coffee and using Postum. She cites seven years of use and urges others to try the product from Postum Co Battle Creek and the Road to Wellville booklet.
The document notes the sale of items described as abillisrd tables and states that the work of the toomen will be started.
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