30 May 1907
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1907
Page
1
A veteran narrator recalls fear in early battles from Civil War eras. WALTER JAMES JANES discusses Grant, Sheridan, and others, noting fear, humor, and growth after near-engagements, with references to Bloody Hill, Missouri, and Florida, Missouri.
Memory of General Lawton is observed with the unveiling of a bronze statue in Indianapolis. President Roosevelt attends as the nation remembers Lawton, killed in December 1899 at San Mateo near Manila during the Philippine campaign. Sculptors Daniel Chester French and Andrew O'Connor created the statue costing between 25 000 and 30 000 dollars, raised by Indiana admirers.
A historical overview cites the Civil War as the largest and deadliest conflict, with 2,800,000 Union soldiers, 700,000 Confederate enlistments, and battle death tallies including 7,058 in battle and 224,586 from disease. It notes executions and notable actions such as Mumford hanged under Butler after New Orleans fell.
General John F. Weston, later commissary of subsistence, led a small squad along the Tallapoosa in Alabama to seize a Confederate transport captain. With six followers, each armed, Weston swam the stream and captured the captain by a clever raise, though the episode remains debated in historical notes.
Pain from boils burns cuts and skin diseases is supposedly relieved by DeWitt's Carbonized Witch Hagel Salve. Advertises relief for piles sold by Wim EL Jungkunz druggist at Stephenson Street for five dollars.
Mrs E Van Vranken of Detroit Michigan announces to Freeport ladies that she has opened massage parlors shampooing hair dressing facial and scalp treatment including electrical and plain instantaneous face bleach at Room 80 Rice Bldg 27dlw
A veteran who lent a whetstone to young Abraham Lincoln recalled that Lincoln admitted placing the whetstone atop a gatepost during his youth while wandering Illinois. During the war, Lincoln described the anecdote in Washington. The veteran said the stone was finally found on the gatepost where it had been placed years earlier and told President Lincoln.
In a brief comic exchange from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Bleeker notices Meeker is anxious. Meeker reveals his worry is domestic: his wife threatens to stay home unless he accompanies her to the seashore this summer.
The quote argues that celibacy does not pay and that a good marriage is humanity’s supreme happiness while a tolerable marriage is the portion most deserve. It adds even a bad marriage is better than no marriage at all.
A fragment from the Atlantic Constitution discusses a joke about immigrants and a character named Charley, highlighting a confusion between being Sindad and immigrant. The exchange notes poetic phrasing and a sense of entering a new world.
The Dentley scene records playful mispronunciations about mingling couples at seven, while Prouston Chronicle notes Welsh fathers guarding children with tongs on a cradle knife. It also traces the word buniper to a Roman Catholic wine toast and the phrase bon pere leading to bumper.
Advertisement claims IK Kodol for indigestion and dyspepsia not only digests food but tones the stomach and strengthens the whole body. It asserts blood purity and conformity to the National Pure Food and Drug Law, selling through Wm. F. Jung Kuz, druggist, at 5 Stephenson Street.
The onion, a globally grown staple with ancient roots in Greece Egypt and biblical tales, is praised for its ubiquity and flavor. Its cultural reach spans Asia Europe Africa and the Americas, even as anecdotes from Nashville and New York Times fire hose lines hint at dramatic uses in civil unrest discourse.
A police inspector praises rawhide whips and water from a fire hose as effective riot dispersal tools. He notes crowds fear the crack of a whip and compares methods to Russian practices while acknowledging risks of injury, urging careful use around children.
The piece cites events and legends where fear or anger triggers hair to stand on end. Examples include Job's comforter Ephraim, an 1825 horse stealer execution where the tied man's hair rose, Cardinal Paccia before Pius VII, and Ecclesiasticus noting hair rising from sharp oaths.
An actor expressed delight at being filmed while performing, telling a leading dramatic critic it felt extraordinary to see himself act. The critic replied that this reflects what critics endure in their work.
A fragmentary exchange from Meggendorfer Blatter shows a resigned wife addressing her husband in terse, emotional terms. The terse dialogue hints at mounting tension as spring arrives and one partner faces an anticipated worst outcome.
The snippet notes no laws in Germany restricting the checkrein except for Berlin peace ordinances. It highlights that only Berlin's peace rules address the practice, implying broader legality elsewhere.
A Chicago prescription drug store manager claims a simple mix of Copound Tincture of Cinchona Prosene Compound and Sherry Wine is the best stomach remedy ever filled. The preparation allegedly supplies pancreatic juice to digest food with vegetable tonics, and any druggist can fill the prescription.
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