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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1907
Page
6
The article explains tapping a sixty foot rubber tree for milk. Priors describe incisions, clay cups to collect sap, and three day yields of about six ounces per tree. It details heating the milk with a wooden mold, drying, and layering rubber into five to six pounds per hour with palm nut vapor.
London Notes and Queries surveys how trousers were once deemed irreligious in 1812 at St John’s and Trinity colleges and later banned in Bethel chapel trust deeds. It notes comments by Reough Bourne about trousers wearing and temperance during the Primitive Methodist era, questioning ties between theology and clothing.
The piece notes that salt seems ordinary in daily life yet carries deep history. It recalls 1520 B C when Moses asked about savory food needing salt and references ancient Jewish practice regarding salt and diet.
A lecturer notes unusual book titles on a dingy shelf. He cites a 1792 Salem sermon volume titled Sermons to Asses and a 1748 treatise Look to It or I ll Stab Ye on polygamy. Other pamphlets mock youth and gentile women reflecting era attitudes.
A Minnesota audience notes that noble trees along streets and roads bring public benefit and personal well being. The writer claims tree planters deserve credit for altruistic work and gain happiness and contentment as a double reward from such stewardship.
A humorous Home and Abroad note considers how families and friends label roles at weddings. It ponders which relatives or guests suit the best man and other attendants based on gifts, appearance, and status.
A husband offers his wife ten dollars with a pledge of merit and asks for applause. She responds with a witty encore demand, turning a simple gift into a playful exchange about recognition.
The text notes rubber cultivation in West Africa with schools teaching the crop. It mentions each village required to plant a certain number of acres in rubber trees and reports 12,500,000 trees planted in the Kongo state. It reflects a push to develop rubber as a key resource.
A Burlington railroad wreck near Ayers avenue leaves one woman dead and about sixty injured as Suburban train 144 derails after a split rail. Engineer Harry Newland suffers burns. fireman Jc Basta unhurt. Victims include Mrs. Mars Miller and numerous residents from Hinsdale and East Grove.
In Murphysboro the sub-district United Mine Workers secretary treasurer Striauhen disappeared with about 500 dollars missing. Following a commission's recommendation, all sub-district officers resigned and a June election will fill the vacancies. The seventh sub-district has more than 14,000 members.
Perry Lee, chairman of the Hamilton county board of supervisors, died at his Fort Wayne township home after an altercation with his son during a dispute. Lee was in his second term after being re elected in the spring election.
At the grand recorder of Hlinois A. O. U. W. office it is stated Recorder Chianiel PP. VWiteh will sue U. G. Hinman and George LH. Cfawell, a former office employee, for libel over a report of a short age that was refitted this week at Ikust St. Louis.
Martin Schaberris a Puerto Rican and Miss Mary Wivel a white French descendant were married in Kewanee Hl May 9 10 Relatives of the bride attempted to stop the ceremony The groom works as a barber in a local shop Slaughter of Hawks and Crows noted at a crow hunt in Punk's Grove Bloomington WL May 10 attracting hundreds from central Pilinois with many birds killed.
Chicago on May 10 reports Louis Levando Shi aged 10 from South Chicago was added to the plate mills labor force at the Liiders Steel plant after touching a live wire.
W. Conn of Praia UL is dead from injuries after a fall from a ladder. He was 48 years old.
A joked exchange between a student and a professor ends with a quip about a turnip sound. The student asks for a clever recipe to catch rabbits, and the professor suggests a quieter tactic of hiding behind cabbage beds to blend in. The exchange appears as a light, humorous note from London Telegraph.
An advertisement describes female weakness symptoms including back pain headaches dizziness and abdominal sensations. It touts Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Pleasant Pellets as proven remedies with medical endorsements and no alcohol or habit forming drugs. The copy warns against substitutes and highlights long standing brand integrity.
An English visitor at Monte Carlo loses all money and receives a counterfeit five pound note from a friend. He exchanges it at Ciro’s restaurant for real currency, wins big at the casino, then returns to Ciro’s where the note is exposed as fake. The ruse also dupes another Briton into a large French note gamble.
In a playful note from Puck, a German doctor’s claim that brooms harbor bacteria sparks comic talk of daily antiseptic baths for cleaning tools and possible later treatments. The piece mocks domestic routines and the idea of treating household chores as medical cases.
The Burns O Brien prize bout collapsed into a sport scandal as Burns claims he agreed to lay down to let O Brien win but fought on. McCarey backs Burns while O Brien accuses Burns and McCarey of crooked scheming. referee Eyton notes his surprise at the disclosed arrangements.
Manager McCarey says Tommy Burns admitted arranging a staged bout with Jack O’Brien in Los Angeles. O’Brien allegedly wagered on himself, with Burns to share the proceeds, while the public saw a legitimate contest. Nolin denies involvement in the scheme.
In Dover New Jersey on May 1 a car drifted from the road near the town and plunged about twenty feet down an embankment. William E Rickey proprietor of Rickeys Machine companys garage in East France was instantly killed.
Gloritierst, a 20 to 1 shot ridden by L A Massa On, won the Metropolis Handicap at Belmont Park in a hard drive. Cher Ste edged Roseben for second with an added starter in the fray.
An ad describes Ely’s Cream Balm for nasal catarrh and hay fever, noting it relieves stuffed passages without cocaine or mercurial drying, available as a solid or liquid with a spraying tube. Sold by druggists or mail order from Ely Brothers, 56 Warren Street, New York.
The note highlights James Fox as a youth MP for Midhurst who spoke early and often stayed up late. It also reports on Greater New York’s housing boom, noting 16 1458 flat houses built in five years, housing 855,02L tenants at a total investment of $1,000,000,000 including land. Annual rent per tenant estimated at $171.
A columnist muses on ignorance, perseverance, and petty disputes. People mistake busyness for value in proving their own point, while patience and money spent shape their sense of satisfaction. An Atchison Globe excerpt critiques self-interest schemes.
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