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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1906
Page
7
Rev Sunday leads a revival urging personal effort to win souls and reform city life. He criticizes card playing, announces men’s meeting, women’s sermon, and plans to distribute any salvage funds to churches after paying tabernacle costs. Humorous incidents with Prof Fischer and ministers enliven services as attendance rises and finances near $1,000 by Sunday.
A preacher based on Nehemiah 4 16 urges the congregation to have a mind to work. He contrasts zeal with indifference, warns against worldly distractions, and champions personal effort for salvation. He cites Kossuth Moody Dewey and Atalanta myths to illustrate perseverance and warns against wealth as a false measure of value.
In a recent sermon, the speaker criticized women absorbed in pastimes and urged the Mayor to order their arrest for gambling. Saloons and breweries faced sharp rebuke as causes of want and desolation in homes. He singled out three breweries and urged the congregation to be boosters for God and truth, not knockers for the devil.
Mr Sunday stressed that the wise win souls and condemned the church for lacking enthusiasm toward the poor. He warned meetings are not his but the congregation's and urged members to take ownership. He likened church members to an ice wagon and said spiritual renewal comes through anxious members and sinners, not preaching alone.
An advertisement touts Scott’s Emulsion as the best nourishment and a digestive aid. It promises easy digestion and improved digestion for those run down or with poor nourishment, urging readers to try it.
A fragmented listing shows multiple times and dates from April 20 to May 10 with various counts and totals. The garbled OCR mentions Saturday Evening April 28 and May dates including May 1 through May 10, alongside several numeric figures, indicating a schedule or collection tally.
The wives mothers sisters and cousins of honorably discharged Spanish American War soldiers are invited to a meeting this evening at the G A R room in City Hall to lay groundwork for a ladies auxiliary to the Spanish War Veterans.
A historical ad copy proclaims that deaths from appendicitis decrease in step with rising use of Dr. King’s New Life Pills. The pills promise relief from constipation, improved strength, and vigor, sold by Jos. Emert, druggist, at 26 cents.
Riley and Wheat advertise a larger line of new goods offered at lower prices than competitors. The message invites customers to visit and save money, highlighting substantial value and a shift in pricing.
Public notice states a chancery cause is pending in the Circuit Court of Stephenson County Illinois Leah Ward plaintiff and Robert S Ward defendant A summons has been issued returnable the first Monday in June at the Freeport court house Clerk W E Boyington and Solicitor A J Clarity for the complainant participate in the notice with standard court placeholders
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