Freight and passenger rail schedules and connections
Rail and interurban timetables show departures and arrivals at Freeport Rock Island Maple Leaf Route and connections to Beloit Janesville Milwaukee Madison and points west and north. Stations listed include Freeport Rockford Belvidere Dubuque Chicago Milwaukee and Rock Island with notes on buffet parlor car service and Sunday operations.
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Rockford
Beloit
Janesville
Milwaukee
Madison
Belvidere
Sycamore
DeKalb
Harvard
Spring Valley
Pacific Coast
John FL Daly
Rock Island
Payen- Dove
Chicago
Kansas City
Omaha
Cedar Rapids
North
South Dakota
J. B. Swratt
Truncated transit note from Forrestolisssccerere area
Fragmentary OCR item notes a Sunday departure and arrival near East and Forresto areas with a four dollar fare cited for a family option. Absent clear names, dates, or places.
Public Transit Schedules From Freeport to Rockford
WM NE ESE, agent, lists weekday service from Freeport to Rockford with morning runs at 4:85 am and 2:50 pm, latest car from Freeport at 1 pm. Rockford services depart 6:30 am on weekdays and include a direct connection to Beloit, Janesville, Belvidere, Algon, and routes to Aurora and Chicago. Sunday times align with weekday departures.
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Freeport
Rockford
Beloit
Janesville
Belvidere
Algin
Aurora Chicago
Cleveland Street Riot Opens Car Strike Turmoil
Cleveland sees a one day flare of violence as a street car strike disrupts service. Widespread vandalism includes cut trolley wires and ripped tracks. Mayor Johnson demands order while International President Minthon travels from Chicago.
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Cleveland
Johnson Demanda
Ham
May S
Municipal Traction Company
Gompers Foresees Labor Remains After Court Rulings
Samuel Gompers, president of the Federation of Labor, told a state senate subcommittee that organized labor will not be driven out by court actions. He warned against weakening the American workers and urged amendments to the Sherman act while defending press and speech freedoms amid recent Supreme Court decisions. He argued for protection of rights even for papers with anarchistic tones.
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Washington
Samuel Hompers
Federation of Labor Inn Archiment
Sttte Committee
Organization of Labor
Tabor
Daily Journal Delivery Rate Fact
The Daily Journal offers citywide delivery at ten cents per week.
Strike Threat Looms as Chicago Drivers Vote May Action
A parcel of text reports a threatened strike by 4,000 truck drivers in Chicago. Discussion includes unions led by Canarechy and Gompers with worker committees directed to press owners for a wage dispute before the strike order takes effect. The wording implies labor tensions and planned industrial action.
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Chicago
Court makes a fatal error in Wausinh Wis story
In a case of supposed insanity Albert Milbauer killed several people and injured others before killing himself. Victims include his wife Hannah Milbauer and Lettie Odell with fatal gunshot wounds. Odell’s dressmaker mother and Milbauer’s niece were among the wounded as Milbauer fired from his upstairs vantage. He had previously asked to be locked up, was deemed sane after a court examination, and released.
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Wausinh Wis
Abert Millauer
Hronah Millauer
Lettie Odell
Fred Burnett
Milbauer
Tiehard Odell
Aosen
Senate and House Act on Tariff Revision and Land Purchases
In Washington on May 8 the Senate accepted a Finance Committee resolution authorizing export assistance for tariff revision. A bill passed authorizing 1.5 million dollars to acquire lands in southern Appalachian watershed areas. The sundry civil appropriation bill moved to conference. military academy, deficiencies, and injury compensation for government employees advanced. Ways and Means gains authority to schedule recess tariff work.
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Senate
House
Briet
Washington
Committee On Finance
Appalachian
Inden Waterways Commission
Ways and Means
Court ruling nulls Dakota divorce in Canada and Scotland
In chancery court, a divorce granted in Dakota is declared invalid in Canada and Scotland. The decision affects Richard Stirling, a British Columbia resident, who loses estates in Scotland valued at about $400,000. The ruling highlights cross border recognition limits of divorce decrees.
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London
Amny
Chancery Court
Dakota
Canada
Scotland
Richard Stirling
British Columbia
Atlantic battleship fleet sails from San Francisco to Puget Sound
The Atlantic fleet of battleships after twelve days of naval pageantry and merrymaking in San Francisco harbor set sail at 10 o'clock this morning for Puget Sound and will arrive off Seattle on May 22.
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San Francisco
Puget Sound
Seattle
Duma Rejects Plan for Four Battleships This Year
The Duma budget committee in St. Petersburg has rejected the ministerial demand to lay down four battleships within the current year. The decision highlights ongoing tensions between the government and the legislative body over naval expansion and military spending.
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St. Petersburg
Bordgcet
The
Dutma
Court to rule on Warry Thin sanity case next Monday
Judge Morschauser at the New York supreme court holds Warry Thin's sanity case with a decision due next Monday. Indictments for accepting rebates on cotton shipments were returned at New Orleans against the Interstate and Yazoo Mississippi Vires railroads by a federal grand jury.
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Warry Thin
Morschauser
New York Supreme Court
New Ohletus
Ipads Central
Mississippi
Bulli Ag
Brogkin
War Department
Port Crook
Congress
National Association of Manufacturers
New York
Presbyterian General Assembly
Isinsiosity
Phusday
Peter Bourgide
Averbistoy
Santa Fe
Ds Desubin
Thier
Tle
New York Press Mystery Note as Readers Seek Clarification
The fragment indicates a puzzled query about a marriage notice or testaments with hints of names and dates tied to a New York press item. Readers are left unsure about the exact details, suggesting a missing or garbled obituary or announcements section.
Taft Favored By Delegates In Early Convention News
Chicago May 18 Temporary officers for the Republican national convention were chosen by the arrangements committee. Julius C Burrews Michigan was temporary chairman and John J Malloy Columbus Ohio general secretary. Affiliated officials included Lafayette Gleason New York City as chief assistant secretary and several other regional secretaries. The committee adjourned with most members returning home, New and Stone remaining in Chicago. Columbus May 18 Arthur I Vorys Taft manager claims Taft is near a first ballot nomination on the strength of 505 delegates instructed to support him, 225 for other candidates, 192 uncommitted and 182 contested seats. He cites 980 total delegates with 505 pledged, 126 contests, and 126 contested.
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Chicago
Stb
Peim Rary
Julius C. Burrews
Michigan
Joh
Malloy
Columbus
Lafayette B. Gleason
New York City
Charles Brooks Smith
Parkers
Burs
W. Winp
Ernest Walker Smith
Thartford
Conn
Philip M. Eheofele
St. Louis
M. J. Tobin
Vinton
Fartt
Toc
Arthur I. Vorys
Taft
Vorys
Ohio
Socialist meet ends in Chicago amid raucous ratification
The Socialist national convention adjourned after a heated session where the platform praised the movement as economic and political. Willian J. Hollywood, ex-secretary of the We B. AL, delivered the notable speech amid talk of court complicity in ex-Governor Steunenbergs assassination.
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Chicago
Socialist National Convention
Socialist Movement
Willian J. Hollywood
We B. AL
Ai Tdh
Steunenbers
Bealy
Claywood
Judges who make them and who have sweetbread instead of brains
A fragment comments on judges, accusing them of making people and possessing brains described as sweetbread. The line reflects a dismissive, satirical tone typical of the period’s columnist rhetoric.
Maine man denounces Congress at Brooklin banquet
Represents Ve Tdttlefield of Maine attacks Congress as cowardly while citing Speaker Cannon misquote. He claims re election drives legislators to avoid actions. says resignation followed such climate. In Alabama Montgomery May 18 voters in Democratic primary show direct presidential vote for John A Johnson and William J Bryan. winner gains Shinkama delegation to Denver.
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New York
Ve Tdttlefield
Maine
Union League Club
Brooklin
Congresames
United States
Cannont
Congress
Hea
Alabama
Montgoanery
Ada
Democratic Party
John A. Johnson
William Jo. Brean
Shinkama
Denver
Tim
Old Soldiers Feud Ends in Barracks Murder
In May at the Soldiers Home two elderly veterans quarreled and John Samuel, sixty seven, threw Faimes Bowlin, seventy three, from a second story window. Bowlin died from the fall and Bowlin’s skull injury led to his death later. Samuel was jailed on murder charges with no expressed remorse.
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Tasten
Tlome
John Samuel
Faimes Bowlin
Bowlin
C&ment
Eris
Saimuer
King Inquires On Cleveland During Denmark Visit
London on May 18 reports from Copenhagen say Grover Cleveland was critically ill. King Ea ward sent multiple inquiries to the United States legation about the ex president’s condition. English interest stems from Cleveland’s Venezuelan message.
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King
Cleveland
London
King Eaward
Denmark
Copenhagen
Grover Cleveland
United States
Legation
Mobile players charged with Sunday baseball in Southern League game
Mobile Alabama May 18 Deputy Sheriff Nugent Sunday arrested eighteen ballplayers and Vampire Pfenninger who took part in the Mobile versus Montgomery game on charges of playing ball on Sunday. Bond was posted and the game continued without interference.
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Mobile
Ala
Nugent
Vimpire Pfenninger
Montgomery
Southern League
Baseball scores and standings from Chicago May 18
National standings show Chicago 22 15 7 for 68.2 percent, Philadelphia 22 9 4 138, Pittsburgh 21 12 9, New York 24 18 11, Boston 22 2 14, Cincinnati 23 11 12, St. Louis 27 10 17. Reports include end of sixth inning calls, weather notes, and Saturday scores across leagues with Brooklyn Chicago and others.
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W. L. BC
Chicago
Philadelphia
BSR
Pittsburg
New York
Boston Co
Cincinnati
Aes
St. Louis
Boston
St. Louis Co. Ce
Tain
Beston
Loston
Brooklyn
Pittsborg
Washington
Detroit
Cleveland
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Fast Mail
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Madison District
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Racine
Mt Caarroll
I Echt
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Des Moines
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NEESE
J.P Foumer
G. BP. A
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Forreston
Rockford & Interurban RY
Oswego
Kingsford
Kingsford’s
T. Kingsford & Son
N. Y
National Sterch Co
Business Directory
BANKS
Fred Dorman
H.H. Antrim
Cash
Henry Kater
State Bank
Ill
J. Fred Smith
Fred W. Hoefer
H. H. Antrim
J. H. Stealy
W. H. Wagner
Henry Bater
Homer F. Aspinwall
Savings Department
German Bank
Cc. O. Collmann
J. 8. Collman
U. R. Jungkunz
A. F. Schulte
Ass’t
D. B. Schulte
Wm. Trembor
August Bergman
W. T. Rawleigh
W. N. Cronkrite
John 8. Collman
First National Bank
O. B. Bel
Pee
Wm. O. Righ
A. Bianet Lashihier
J. M. Clark
Ass’t Cashier
John Burrell
Josee Salkamert
C. H. Little
Wm. C. Wr . B. Bidwell
Boyd P. Hill
Addison Ja
M. V. B. Elson
Pres
L. Z. Farwell
V. Pres
D. F. Graham
Second National Bank
Ilinois
J. F. Fair
Reuben Silegfried
F. Graham
J. L. Meyers
J. H. Graham
A. Ruthe
Carpenter and Contractor
Douglas Ave
Stephenson &J
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J. M
H. H. Hineline
J. Sheldon Clark
Hettinger
Stephenson St
Chas
H. Rosenstiel
Jackson and Mechanic Lts
W. J. Rideout, M. D
Stephenson Street
Freeport, II
Attorneys AT Law
R. P. Eckert
Freeport, Ilinois
D&w
L. H. Burrell
Court House Freeport, I
Douglas Pattison
Freeport, Illinois
Robert B. Mitchell
van Buren St
Tel
Illinois
N. Galena Ave
Court House
Wagner
Angeiger
Spring Streets
Deliv
People’s Column
Freeport Tron & Metal Co
Freeport Furniture Exchange
TL Galena Street
Adder
Stearns & Zips
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Galena Ave
Float St
Oswear ‘Baylor
Journal Ceu
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Union St
S. Galena Ave
Elk St
Wm. Walton
Galena Street
Chestnut Street
Aladin
Ouse
Clark Ave
B.S. Gransden
County Clerk's Office
Grove Street
Eva Schofield
J. J Wells
C. B. Kling
Galena Avenue
Vorner Frudt and Garden Sts
M. Thirenger
Williams St
Black Dal
Upper Stephenson St
John Hea
Os Galena
Hecht
Pleasant St
Carroll and Empire Sts
Yad Moor
Re- Namara
Monument
John Stoskopf
Sean O
Marstin
Hardin St
B.C. Scott
North Galena Tives
Nor Sale
Wilton Rus
Rug
Cure Journal
Hazelton
Cateadin
Kimball
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Tuquire
Bath
H.C. Tempel
Wilcoxon
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Yi Chirk
Osale
Iowa
Londle
Corporation of Speger
L. Breidinger
Spencer
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Hournal
Ryan
Calloon Rd. Stans
Tom LL. Tounison
Tibule
Miles Avenue
Condivetor
Minthon
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
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Johnson
Afayvor Johnson
Traction Company
Elkring
Comprimytse
Gompers
Daily Journal
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Pad Omeasbers
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Chatman Nelson
Association of the Tera
Canarechy
Nelson
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Frisco
Duma Shira
Tea
New York Press
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Michigan Statesman
Pau
Charlies M. Harger
Albilene
Van
Alien Hollis
Concord
N. H
Reading
Thomas W. Williamson
Edwardsville
George A. Wilson
Les Moines
Asher C. Hinds
M. W. Blumenberg
Empsirdel Stone
Indianapolis
John H. Jackson
Cincinnatic
Will
New and Stone
Sergeant At Arms Stone
Julius C. Burrows
W. D. Haywood
H. J. Mooge
WM. F. Jungbunz
Steprenon
Bright's
Detica
Game
Rafir
Toledo
Louisvile
le Paul
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