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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1906
Page
2
A label acknowledges the Freeport journal on the International Type Pephichelon for employing Union Jabot in its mechanical departments.
Short list of residents and visitors with many Chicago and Wisconsin links. Names include Ana Alice Wasson Kenneth Burrell Ry D. Dirksen J. Hartruhr Charles Ascher Martin P. Sweet H. B. Witte F. B. Calkins M. C. Skinner Fred Austin T. A. Kyle Gertrude Lillian Schottle Julia Trotter Irene Place A8 Kennedy and F B Kennedy visiting relatives and planning trips to Grand Rapids New ark Sterling and Pennsylvania sites.
City council meets tonight as Globe Home Garrison hosts a card. Freeport groups confer Master degrees and hold a card party at I O C F hall with admission. Ladies Aid meets at Mrs Bushell's home Tuesday. Victor Yarros to discuss Russian literature at the Freeport Shakespeare society tonight. Mrs George Halsey, 86, dies near Dixon leaving eighteen children, seventy five grandchildren and seventy four great grandchildren. Lone Stars beat 2nd High School Midgets 81 to 18 with Emil Grove homer. Invitations sent to Shakespeare clubs and Woman's club federations meeting at Masonic temple Wednesday and Thursday.
George T. Allen of Chicago attends circuit court sessions and is a former OBE county resident with many local friends. He served in the Civil War, sworn into the Fifteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry on May 24 1861 in Freeport. The unit was among Illinois first three year regiments and veterans will meet in Belvidere on May 24 with Allen serving as secretary.
Dr A E Smith will travel to Chicago tomorrow morning for the fifty first annual Illinois Homeopathic Medical Association meeting at the Masonic Temple. He will head the bureau of Materia Medica and on Thursday forenoon he will present a paper entitled By What Marks Shall we Know Them.
Attend Dental Meeting a Cc. Tinder EB. H. Allen HH Bow B. Munn and F. M. Carr will attend the meeting of the State Dental Society in session Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Friday at Springfield.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions an unidentified population and regional places as well as uncertain names and dates leaving a vague public notice without clear actions or stakes. The readable fragments imply places near the West Sea and local affairs but lack concrete details.
Rev. William A Sunday led five evangelistic meetings in Freeport praising revival, denouncing sin and urging aggressive faith. He spoke on moral decay, immigration, and the need for strict observance of Christian duties, drawing crowds of hundreds including children engaged in patriotic activities at the tabernacle.
Indianapolis journalist Jah P Brown, longtime Ram's Horn editor and noted epigrammatic writer, joins Mr Sunday in Pontiac to dedicate the new Y M C A building. Brown will address the afternoon audience while Sunday returns to Freeport for Tuesday evening services. Prayer meetings are set for morning and a strong choir led by Prof. Fred Fischer enhances the gatherings.
Mr. Sunday conducted a Saturday afternoon meeting for the children at three o'clock. The event was a local gathering aimed at engaging young attendees in a brief program.
Rev Sunday urged a church awakening against evil and modern complacency. He attacked evolution, ethical culture, and higher criticism, pressed return to evangelical preaching, back to Pentecost, and urged believers to stand firm, join Christ, and fight sin in Freeport and beyond.
A preacher cites Naaman the mighty in valor and extols bravery with moral backbone. He laments hypocrites and urges 100 volunteers to dedicate themselves to God's work, praising church leaders as the best of humanity while warning against turncoats and disloyalty.
Mr and Mrs D O Clark and daughter Myrtle left this morning for Memphis Tennessee where Mr Clark will attend the B of L E convention.
The advertisement extols Scott's Emulsion as both food and medicine, stressing its value in wasting diseases and imperfect growth. It claims effectiveness for children and adults, emphasizing vitality, strength, and health in fragile conditions.
Reports show the organization expanded its civic work during the year. Mrs F H Townlee was unanimously reelected president for 1906 7 after serving a term and returning from a period away. Miss Marie Barnist entertained with piano solos as members filed annual reports and elected officers for the next year.
Advertising copy touting Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as the best baby medicine that helps babies eat sleep and grow. Mentions 85 eats Tea or Tablets and credits Joseph Em mert.
Milledgeville May 6. Jacob Hengrl killed himself rather than move from his old homestead north of town to Savanna, Georgia, after his wife urged him to relocate.
A high school history teacher, Vida Graham, was inadvertently omitted from the initial printing. The error involved the misspelling of her name and is noted in the corrections column of the paper.
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