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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1907
Page
3
A Colorado mining tale shows Jim Benton engineering a market surge for Rip Roarer shares by using a coded telegram to his broker Critchlow. Maggie Benton, initially cautious, helps trigger the phone and exchange rally that makes Bentons rich as Rip Roarer stock soars.
The article explains whitlow or felon as an inflammation of the finger, detailing its location dependent seriousness. It describes superficial whitlow as painful but often less dangerous, while deeper forms affect tendons, sinews, or bone coverings and demand greater concern.
Readers are advised to provide a bone fragment and occasional sugar to canaries. Keep cages draft free and cool at night but avoid extreme heat. Feed mainly canary seed with occasional rape seed. Do not use painted cages as birds may peck and ingest paint. Use large cages, keep them clean, and avoid handling. Clean bottom with brown paper and wash perches daily.
The excerpt highlights butchers as premier weight guessers skilled at judging exact portions of beef. It notes the trade demands precise cuts to satisfy buyers who want a single piece at the exact weight ordered.
The passage argues that substantial slices of whole meal Wheaten bread with crust and good butter meet life and strength needs. It notes bread contains most constituents for tissue building and health, and that fresh milk or buttermilk with it would yield an almost complete diet for sustaining physical health.
The piece notes that Bristol in earlier centuries faced street undermining as Pepys observed. Only carts drawn by horses moved in the streets while cellars beneath stored wealth such as tobacco Bristol milk and sherry, hinting at a hidden urban economy.
A Jefferson quote on liberty and the right of peoples to be free, arguing that wishing freedom for others is natural and just as opposing tyrannical rule.
The New York Press suggests Baby's love grows from holding the child in your arms as Mrs Benham is advised on winning affection and a winning approach.
A patent remedy named Wodol claims to ease indigestion and dyspepsia, tone the stomach, and strengthen the body. It is said to produce rich, pure blood and is made under the national pure food and drug law. Sold by Wi FF Jung hung, druggist, 53 Stephenson street.
The Daily Journal announces weekly home delivery at 10 cents per week for residents in a specified city area. The notice highlights affordable distribution and local readership access.
Illinois Central lists sale dates May 16 and May 20 for round trip travel to Champaign for the scholastic meet. Return limit May 20 with one and one third fare for the round trip.
Decatur HI announces an Encampment event with a round trip fare. Ticket sale dates are May 20 21 and 22 with a return limit May 24.
Rupert Beecher recalls a Colorado Springs challenge with Mark Dykeman. A bet on a solo climb to Pike's Peak ends with Beecher discovering Dykeman asleep at the summit, revealing the feud and the meaning of tenderfoot to the rivals.
Officer William Figeley, dog tax collector, will start rounds on June first. Ladley with valuable pets must be ready to settle assessments when he calls. Tramp dogs and stray animals should be brought to the police station or arrangements made for disposal.
Bloomington Illinois Elks hold annual meeting and announce round trip sale dates May 20 22 and 28 with return limit May 25. Details reference QL and 4-22d td.
Dr. Cohen of London prescribes a light, balanced diet for those over forty to slow aging. He recommends mutton, white fish, lean fowl, milk, cereals, vegetables, stewed fruits, and small amounts of alcohol, with soft water and modest portions. Moderation, air, exercise, and mental hygiene complete the plan.
A guide notes root crops thrive in moist cool western Oregon and Washington with yields of twenty to thirty five tons per acre, reports of forty five to fifty tons. It describes a scuffle hoe used for thinning and weeding, blade description, and cultivation practices with horse cultivators for efficiency.
In Greenfield Indiana at James Webb's sawmill a walnut pin driven 2 feet into a log reached the heart of the log. A coil of long black hair was attached revealing a pioneer custom to bind quarrelling couples by placing hair in the tree. Old residents recall the practice as a means to mend disputes.
A Belfast man is charged with burgling a prison after claiming his urge to break in was so strong he sought a like minded place. He previously said he aimed to steal a corpse from a Dublin hospital. He allegedly scaled walls twelve and fourteen feet high without ladders.
Jo Sutton of Wimberley South Africa reports a diamond weighing just over one carat that contains a small irregular garnet of about one tenth carat. The fragment is thought to have formed from a rough diamond of about two carats, possibly with two or three garnets or garnets and diamonds inside. Sutton notes other garnets found with embedded diamonds.
A tense exchange reveals a client recalling an advices fee dated January and a prior day’s retainer discussion. The lawyer confirms awareness of a prior offer to take the case, framing the conversation around a disputed bill and timing.
Pain from bails burns cuts and skin diseases is relieved by DeWitts Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve. Also good for piles. Sold by Wm. F. Jungkunz at 86 Stephenson Street, druggist.
For starting a strawberry bed the soil must be well prepared and the plants well selected and fresh and live ly. Then proper culture must be given for the next four months. Above all things, set only good plants. You may have bought plants at high prices and have the feeling that you cannot afford to lose them, yet if you find them wilted, showing no sign of vitality, the only thing is to throw them away, says Iowa Home stead. It only adds to your expense and final disappointment to set out half dead plants. Better face the loss now and set only plants that show life. Then the culture must be constant. Keep the soil loose and fine as a gar den until August. Let the planter be guided by those principles and then he prepared to mulch his beds when November comes, and he will be reasonably sure of a crop the second year.
The article describes early blight caused by Alternaria solani affecting potato leaves with grayish brown spots and targetlike concentric rings. Spots enlarge over about ten days turning half the plant brown and withered while stems stay green, tubers stop growing as the disease progresses.
A wealthy New Yorker near Greenwich, Connecticut, feuded with a neighbor over hens dining in his garden. After failed appeals, he staged a tile strategy by nightly placing eggs under a grape vine and then quietly removing them each morning, effectively deterring the hens.
A cryptic boarder dialogue from Chicago News prompts inquiry into how matches are made in heaven while brimstone remains in the other place. The piece introduces strophanthidin as an extremely deadly poison from an African plant, described as more lethal than cyanogen gas or arsine.
In a recent interview Secretary Wilson argues universal crop failure cannot be blamed. He cites Walk street flurries not affecting farmers, notes Western agriculturists keep away from stock manipulation and rail securities, and observes farmers moving billions to Canada to buy land as confidence in markets declines.
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