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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1907
Page
5
Grandmother Lewis pressures Millard to abduct Jessy to escape her social ambitions. Jessy defies an engagement with De Bonne, while Millard schemes to use acting friends to free himself and keep their plans secret. The family plots clash with Jessy’s longing for a plain, domestic life.
The term admiral appears late in England, with earlier titles such as crot taneus maris and keeper of the seacoasts. Arabic amir influenced use in foreign lands, while YPrynne notes admiralty courts existed by Henry I’s era, tracing regal sea dominion to rulers like King Edgar who guarded the British coast with ships numbering from 1,200 to possibly 4,890.
A Metropolitan Magazine definition explains that fireproof status depends on design and materials, not simply on noncombustible content. Proper use of incombustible, nondamageable materials and unit arrangement limits loss, even if contents burn, preserving the structure itself.
A concise explanation of why the sky appears blue and how color in the night sky would change with altitude. The text notes the moon’s color, stars of various hues, and that stars are burning suns whose colors reflect their temperatures.
The text explains how cold constricts small vessels between arteries and veins, stiffening the skin, then nerves suspend activity allowing vessels to dilate and skin reddens. Veins dilate causing blue skin, lymph coagulates, skin cracks, and deeper cold can coagulate blood, defining frostbite.
Pain from boils burns cuts scalds and skin disease is promptly relieved by DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve. Good for piles. Sold by Wim F Jurgkung druggist at 5 Stephenson Street.
J Burdelt the piano tuner places orders at Brown and Dollmoyer's or by phone, indicating business activity and local trade in piano servicing.
Springfield dispatch reports Governor Deneen vetoed items in the omnibus appropriation bill for eight cottages at the Asylum for the Insane Bartonville at a cost of 280000, and 10000 annually for Watertown grounds up front with 10000 second year cut to curb state taxes. The veto aims to curb curative versus custodial care and avoid higher taxes. The Optometry bill creating a state board and licensing faced agitation from physicians and supporters. Other notes include dissolution of Chicago, Illinois and Indiana Railroad and capital increases for McKinley system interurbans from 5000 to 500000 for two companies.
May 22 Torono Illinois farmers report green bug findings in oats and wheat fields. Two returned Oklahoma men identified the pest as ravaging small grains, with some fields turning yellow. A Chicago commission representative investigated, driving through farms in the oats belt and confirming the infestation.
Miss Mehitable Lamson of Willowby objects to having two teeth removed. She frets the teeth cannot be filled soon and worries about being a chambermaid with no replacement teeth during a busy Willowby Inn summer season.
The article asserts men have larger brains on a body scale and women’s brains weigh less yet retain higher relative brain weight. It cites average brain weights: men 49.5 ounces, women 44 ounces, with critical thresholds for mental decline at 37.5 ounces for men and 32.5 ounces for women. It claims female brains begin losing weight after age thirty, ten to fifteen years earlier than men, but women maintain higher brain weight relative to body and weight.
A London Ladies Field essay notes how hard it is to judge married life by a home filled with friends. It argues bachelors invite single friends to flaunt their wives, yet such gatherings often dull, possibly driving men toward marriage, though the husbands seldom admit it.
A Washington lawyers club discussion questions whether lawyers always tell the truth. One member notes the average man assumes they are dishonest, while a criminal lawyer replies they will do anything at times to win a case.
Urbana and Champaign sit dry as the Sahara, with twenty six Champaign saloons closed and not a drop sold by druggists even on prescription. Urbana’s town is tight. druggists are hampered by red tape and will not handle liquor.
In a London Fun quip, Mrs Scribbles notes she just paid the rent and is short, thinking the knock may be the butcher. Ferdy asks Scribbles to tell him the visitor is the landlord, then she says she has also paid the butcher and is short.
A back-and-forth dialogue from London Tit-Bits notes a couple debating marriage. One asks for a clergyman to marry them. the response shifts to arranging marriage to someone else, reflecting humorous social banter of the era.
Mary Hilda Schonder, a Belleville high school pupil, aged 10, died after taking carbolic acid. Police find no motive for the act. Family noted as prominent in Belleville and she was associated with the younger society element.
In a voiced exchange, the speakers mock the notion that early rising is healthy. They joke that many women break down their constitution by waking husbands for breakfast, reflecting era attitudes toward routine and gender roles.
The Afth triennial state convention of Mincer bees of the World held in Bloomington elected officers: great commander De I. Donuver of Chicago and grant record keeper Thomas M. Doig of Chicago.
An exchange about a barber provokes a quick joke as one speaker reveals needing a new barber because his baby now says cute things. The light quip hinges on a playful misdirection about routine grooming and infant chatter.
The fifty seventh annual meeting of the Tilmots Suite Medical association began in Rockford HK on May 22 with a large attendance. The opening session was devoted to Iyor Posiuip.
The Heralds' college was granted a charter in 1488 by Richard III and a nearby house. A large house on the corner remains, the sole property in its row that is rented. The scene mixes historic endowment with late nineteenth century tenancy.
Sir Peter Warren, vice admiral of the British fleet, settled in Greenwich Village in 1744. He married Bosannah De Lancey and established a 300 acre estate from Christopher Street to West Twenty, laid out as an English park with hedges and avenues. Their mansion attracted New York’s social elite. his three daughters forged notable marriages in England, one becoming the Countess of...
An advertisement touts Kodol for indigestion and dyspepsia as digesting food and toning the stomach while strengthening the body. It claims to make rich, pure blood and notes production under the National Pure Food and Drug Law. Sold by Wm. F. Jungkuat, druggist, $5, Stephenson Street.
Illinois Central announces sale dates May 20 21 and 23 for the round trip to Decatur Illinois with a return limit of May 24 One fare for the round trip applies and travel may be limited to those dates by the event organizers.
New York May 22 A fund of 1 500 900 to be spent in fighting industrial oppression in three years was called for by President Jay W Van Cleave of the National Association of Manufacturers at its annual convention in New York City He said open shop opposition to the boycott and limits on output and apprentices would be pursued by the association which represents nearly 4 000 000 workers He warned of new labor perils and the need for a league of employers while denouncing labor unions and defending the right to fight for labor in court free of union influence
The association adopts a report from the Interstate commerce committee opposing any mandatory passenger rate reductions, arguing freight increases or other revenue would offset cuts and that bankruptcies could result. The event also includes a bronze tablet for David M M Parry of Indianapolis and papers by I C G Nunemacher of Louisville praising eight hour work day adoption.
New Orleans on May 22 reports a cable from Nicaragua's president Zelaya saying a Salvadoran revolution has broken out led by Prudencio Alvarado. The message contained no additional details.
LaCrosse Wisconsin May 22 The President a well known trotting stallion with a record of many grand circuit races and a 2 07% winning record died suddenly The horse was valued at $15 000
May cold wave tightens grip across New England with freezing readings in northern districts and about 40 above zero in the Ruston area on Monday night.
The Illinois Elks Association annual meeting notices Bloomington for travel on a one and one third fare round trip. Dates of sale May 20 to 23 with a return limit listed.
Seventeenth century Malagasy traders visited Le de France to buy shells shaped as vessels from the extinct epytornis eggs. Some shells survive in European museums, three feet in length and over two gallons capacity, about 150 times an ordinary egg. Other extinct birds yielded eggs up to twenty seven inches in circumference, making the ostrich still smaller by comparison.
Miss Thyllis Rankin recounts a Broadway umbrella shop encounter with wordplay on price and ups and downs. The salesman mistakes the phrase for a literal sale while the Davenport couple navigate pricing confusion leading to a purchase, amid remarks about an insane asylum and the storekeeper’s line about ups and downs.
Strand Magazine describes a folk remedy used near Moscow where an ants nest is placed in a linen bag and heated in hot bath water. The resulting formic acid odor creates a skin irritant effect that supposedly relieves rheumatic pain by counter irritation.
Freeport readers are urged to act quickly in kidney danger. Mrs. K E Moroney of 195 Spring Street, Freeport, testifies her father’s years of pain and poor energy improved after using Dean's Kidney Pills. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, NY, sole U.S. agents. remember the name Dean and take no other.
A witty exchange unfolds as a woman invites a colonel to attend an event and he responds with a sharp retort that he commands a regiment, underscoring his military rank and authority. The moment blends humor with a display of hierarchy.
A short attribution quotes Sir Willam Temple on truth good sense humor and wit as the firal in conversation. The fragment frames a fourfold sequence of conversational virtues with archaic spelling and names.
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