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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1907
Page
3
Effie Palgrave questions her future as a quiet, aging husband and a youthful, longing former lover intertwine. Laurence Leicester faces ruin after a risky gamble, and Effie finances a fragile path to repair by involving her husband, seeking forgiveness while torn between two men and a marriage strained by deception.
A humorous quip contrasts a bigamist with a man having more than two wives. The exchange features Jennie Ta and Pa, framed as a playful, dated joke from Irustrated Bits with light regional flavor.
A wife asks a tailor to omit pockets in her husband's suit to prevent him from looking shabby, arguing pockets tempt him to neglect pressing. The tailor agrees to check, but the suit returns with its pockets as usual. Separately, electric light greatly reduces match consumption.
On the tenth day of the Haywood trial the second special venire shows slow progress in selecting talesmen. Twenty three of sixty sought excuses. five denied, nine temporarily denied, six granted. One prospective juror, Trenry Curtis, appeared likely to qualify after a long examination, but the day ended with adjournment.
In San Francisco May 24 a large crowd gathered at the Jewish synagogue for juror selection in Mayor Schmitz's trial. Veniremen Morton and Barnard faced peremptory challenges while others were tentatively accepted. Judge Dunne ordered a new venire of fifty talesmen after intense examination and debate over impartiality and guilt assumptions.
Winshinuton May 24. Speaker Can-Wout holds a one hour conference with the president then declines discussing presidential politics. He says Congress will convene in December to get the real news and not thing stories.
The passage argues readiness requires decision, stripping away nonessential detail, and focusing on core duties. It stresses that one must simplify duties, business, and life, and understand how to start despite numerous hindrances and duties.
The lottery in Italy fascinates all classes, with offices from Rome to every hamlet. Drawings occur every Saturday in eight cities, as a blind boy selects five of ninety numbers displayed publicly. A ticket matching the drawn numbers in order wins the grand prize, a practice that enriches the state while leaving many poorer.
Boys in watch and jewelry factories reportedly killed rats that fed on oiled rags and ashore gold by burning the bodies in crucibles. The practice, cited by the London Mail, yielded small gold nuggets and netted quick pocket money for the workers’ helpers with schemes to trade shares among rat colonies.
A London Queen tale claims Tunbridge Wells chalybeate waters gain their red tint and odd flavor from St Dunstan clueing the devil with hot tongs in a medieval rhyme. The story links the saint’s nose-grabbing revenge to the well’s famed medicinal waters near Mayfield.
The London Academy recounts De Quincey’s struggle to fill a cen sus paper with set questions. He assigns himself as writer to the magazines and then faces more trouble with identifying his three daughters occupations. He finally circles their names and likens them to lilies of the field.
The judge confronts a defendant who denies impostor claims and denies blindness while conceding moral blindness. The exchange ends with the judge sentencing the defendant to six months for the deception.
A fragment notes that serious playwriting uses aristocrats, sin, and fine clothing as core ingredients, and it celebrates the varied and interesting outcomes possible from this recipe. The passage, from Outlook, emphasizes the timeless formula and its enduring appeal.
A brief dialect exchange shows two friends recognizing each other after a clean shave. They joke about not knowing themselves in the mirror, claiming only their voices remain the same. The playful moment captures everyday speech and camaraderie.
A Greek proverb notes that the right moment matters for saying what is proper. It emphasizes prudence in speech and the value of timing when choosing words.
In Amherst Massachusetts Joseph M Kellogg tore away wall paper in a parlor and uncovered frescoing painted in 1798 by Miss Esther Kellogg daughter of Dante Kellogg and grandmother of Eugene Pield. The town notes it as one of its oldest houses.
A vintage ad touts Kodol for indigestion and dyspepsia as not only digesting meals but toning the stomach and boosting overall strength. Claims it makes rich, pure blood and notes production in line with the National Pure Food and Drug Law. Sold by Wm. F. Jungk real druggist on Stephenson Street for $5.
Illinois Central announces sale dates May 20 21 and 22 for the state G A R encampment in Decatur with a round trip fare. Return limit May 24.
In Chicago the Armour & Co stockyards plant suffered a deadly ammonia pipe explosion killing five workers and injuring many others. The building rapid fumes overwhelmed twenty men before they could escape. Foreign-born workers dominated the casualties as authorities worked to remove the bodies and treat the injured.
A letter from Mary Wigner asks President to pardon her stepfather John Allison, jailed for bank robbery in Michigan years ago, served six years, escaped, lived quietly, rearrested and confined in Jackson penitentiary. The justice department sent Mary a pardon application and the conditions for consideration.
London May 24 report says relations between the Spanish and British royal families are growing closer daily and destined for perfect, intimate accord. Members of the British royal family plan to spend much of their holidays in Spain, signaling warmer ties between the two nations.
The Baptist convention of North America consisting of northern and southern groups and delegates from the Negro Baptist national convention with Mexican and Canadian Baptists in attendance adjourned sine die after a two day session in Norfolk Virginia on May 24.
The Chicago Board of Trade quotes for Wheat, Corn, and Oats show May through Dec futures with mixed highs and lows. Live stock行情 includes hogs at 6.40 to 6.45, cattle at 6.00 to 6.50 for natives, and sheep at 7.2 to 7.5 with various grain and hay prices and regional bids from East Buffalo and Dunning Stevens.
Annual meeting notice for Illinois Elk's Association held in Bloomington Washington. Mentions round trip fare as one and one third times a base rate. Specifies travel sale dates May 20 and 21 plus 2 and 3. Return limit set for May 3.
A five year old tells his three year old brother that John the Baptist was “a four legged animal” and the mother and aunt try to correct him. The child recalls the Sunday school superintendent calling him a four runner.
An ancient bequest catalog notes include Queen Atstrigilda’s demand to be buried with her husband and physicians, a husband who would haunt a wife if she remarried, a woman urging executors to find a pretty second wife for her spouse, and Napoleon leaving 10 000 francs to Cantillon, linked to an assassination attempt on the Duke of Wellington.
In a subway interval two people discuss a woman friend who died after nursing her niece through an infectious disease. She sacrificed her own life to save a child, a case described as a strange providence. The exchange reflects on fate and selfless care.
A woman proud of her mother’s family created a stir by saying her father held many positions and was a good man, but added with resolve that her mother was an Osgood. The remark left listeners pondering lineage and pride.
A reprint contrasts views on deception by gender and marriage. Good Words quotes Schehera zade and Terrell Transcript reflects on men liking deceit and marriage sobering a man, noting blame shifts with social tales.
A testimonial from Mrs. E J Moroney of Freeport Illinois promotes Dean's Kidney Pills as a fast relief for kidney distress. She describes years of back pain weak energy and dark cloudy urine before taking the pills at Emmetts drug store. After use her father improved steadily and eventually found complete relief. Supposedly sold by all dealers price fifty cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents for the United States Remember the name Doan and take no other.
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