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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1907
Page
8
We furnish all bonds used in debt collection such as coat bonds and bonds in attachment and replevin proceedings. Our prompt supply assists manufacturers and others in collecting from distant creditors.
Seven year old Johnnie asks what happens to old moons during a starlit night. His younger sister answers that they cut them up to make stars, a whimsical exchange cited by the Chicago Tribune.
Rev. Charles F. Aked has assumed the pastorate of Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in New York after serving Pembroke Chapel in Liverpool. The church, nicknamed Rockefeller's church, counts John D. Rockefeller and family among members. Aked, 42, born in Nottingham, educated at Midland Baptist College.
The article surveys Dr. Aked a pastor famed for a fishing rescue and Pembroke chapel crowding, and writer Deacon I House described with humorous Kansas City Post anecdotes. It notes Beekman Winthrop’s 1903 appointment as assistant secretary of the treasury and his prior roles in Porto Rico and the Philippines.
DeWitts Kidney and Bladder Pills provide prompt relief for weak kidneys backache and urinary troubles. Sold by AVin FL Jungkunz druggist located at 45 Stephenson street.
A compact guide shows rinsing methods to remove soap traces using tepid then cold water to avoid stiffening fabrics. It offers a mint punch recipe with lemons and tea, a Witch Hazel Cold Cream formula, and advice to lift dents from pine floors with a hot iron and cloth. Also mentions a new dish drainer invention for holding dishes.
Drain rack supports dishes over a pan to catch drips. Warnings include benzine use to prevent stove rust, carpet inspection with kerosene wipe, immediate butter on bruises, steam help for croup, hot water ammonia for paint, moth control by water lure, and clarifying cistern water with borax and alum powder.
A small advertisement notes DeWitt's Little Early Risers pills sold by William F Jungkdarg druggist at 65 Stephenson Street. The card markets a famous remedy for quick relief and ease of daily routines.
A historical overview contrasts crude sugar making with modern Maine New Hampshire and Vermont methods. Buckets and wooden spiles give way to metal equipment and tin pails. It notes sap yields, evaporation improvements, and the ratio of sap to syrup, detailing changes in equipment and process.
The lodestone and compass emerged in Europe in the twelfth century enabling navigation beyond the shore. Early sailors used a stroked iron needle on lodestone to acquire direction guiding accurate coastlines and cartography from the Black Sea to British waters, with Portulan voyages preserved.
A physician notes that elder twins have broader faces, helping to tell them apart despite likenesses. He adds that twins more often are girls or a girl and a boy than two boys, and that twin brothers are rare.
Washanil and his wife visit a merchant tailor to order a suit. They quarrel over fabric and style, the wife angers, and she mutters that he will wear the clothes. The husband replies meekly that she may wear both coats and sc coats.
A Chicago Tribune passage records a professor of political economy asserting a broad proposition that you cannot obtain value without cost. A witty interruption from a young man remarks on receiving measles for nothing, highlighting the exchange.
An editor recalls a question about retaliation after an unseen strike. The policy cited forbids responding to anonymous contributions and suggests ignoring anonymous remarks. The passage mentions credulity and public reaction to fame, attributed to June Porter.
The Daily Journal is delivered to any part of the city for one cent a week.
The article profiles Harry Steinfeldt the Chicago third baseman born in 1876 and traces his early Texas league days, later joining Detroit and Galveston before a 1905 trade to Chicago. It also outlines Jamestown Exposition rowing events, intercity eligibility rules, and balloon prize updates plus Columbia football outlook and Yale Harvard game plans.
A small child’s handwritten plea to God for her mother on Muskisson Street reached Liverpool’s post office and editor, who activated aid leading to the mother’s swift improvement. The note impressed clerks and prompted relief efforts through the city’s newspaper.
In Freeport Illinois a business directory entry highlights banks serving the community. Financial institutions offer community services, loan options, and customer banking through local branches and online access.
Rail schedules show eastbound and westbound services with coach and parlor car notes. Connections include Rockford Beloit Janesville Chicago Milwaukee Des Moines and more. Freight and passenger distinctions, station notes, and agent credits are listed.
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