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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1908
Page
7
Readable parts show arrival and departure stamps with times like 6:80 am 9:06 am and 1:00 pm 1:10 pm, plus scattered identifiers such as Decatur EX and Southern Ex. A Sunday passenger note appears amid garbled letters and symbols, suggesting a damaged timetable page with incomplete entries and nonsensical codes.
Railroad timetable details from Freeport to Chicago, with East and West bound trains, daily and Sunday services, parlor and buffet car notes, and connections at Rockford Belvidere Beloit Janesville Harvard Madison Sycamore DeKalb Spring Valley to the Pacific coast, agent John F Daly.
An OCR fragment lists train numbers and times for passenger services from Rock Island to Milwaukee and westward connections. It notes No 86 10 Passenger for Rock Island and Davenport, freight cuts, connections to Janesville Madison Kansas City Omaha Cedar Rapids and North South Dakota, agent J B Swhatt.
Interurban service details voice schedules for trains to Chicago and westbound points. Lists Dubuque and Des Moines connections, daily runs, through baggage, and through tickets to destination without extra charge.
Passenger service on the B and Q R R runs to Forreston with daily departures except Sunday. Times listed as afternoon and evening with quick connections noted.
Cars depart Freeport on weekdays at 8 38 a m and every Sunday hour. Buses leave Freeport at unspecified times. Cars depart Rockford on weekdays on the even hour until night. Service between Freeport and Stockford runs through Thursday. Sunday service is exempt. Direct connection in Rockford to Beloit and several cities listed. WM. NEESE, Agent.
In Konisberg Germany 1883 Albert Richter vanished after quarrelling with a girl. A reward was posted and five years passed before a man claimed to be Richter returned home. yet his mother and many villagers believed him, while officials doubted. A series of impostors followed, each failing to prove true identity under cross checks and local inquiry. After two years the last claimant was found not to be Richter, and the search continued.
Melville laughs it off stating many are not happy unless they feel sorry for someone. The exchange turns to a lighthearted, self-deprecating moment amid a casual dialogue reflecting social embarrassment.
Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup is advertised as mild and pleasant tasting, preferred for women and children over harsher purge products. Readers can obtain a booklet and a sample at H. J. Moogk and Wm. F. Jungkunz.
A traveler from Jalfa tele to Jerusalem hires a driver to sightsee through Jaffa on the way to the station. The driver speeds fiercely, leaving the passenger to save his bones as the town rushes by. At the train, two hours remain and the driver explains Americans like speed.
In a table full of guests a male joker jokes about pepper being half peas. The landlady rebukes him, saying she uses no adulterated goods. The joker mutters about P s in pepper, prompting a sharp dig about the dessert. The London Standard notes the witty exchange.
A hasty Mr Biles, famed for keeping promises, is coached by Mrs Biles to count twenty before speaking when anger rises. On a rainy Sunday he erupts in the back drawing room, but she quiets him and pries with a gentle prompt. He admits a trivial grievance about a new hat and rain rather than rage.
The Argonaut notes Ruskin’s habit of lengthy sentences in modern English prose and cites Frederic Harrison’s measurements. It highlights Wordsworth’s Character of the Happy Warrior as a standout with two long, adjectival-clause heavy sentences, the longer stretching fifty seven decasyllabic lines, a likely record in English verse.
A street railway superintendent declares the conductor can no longer be used due to infrequent takings. The conductor cites rheumatic illness and inability to reach the register. The judge suggests a long vacation while thanking him for operating the car and returning it.
A fragment from a dialogue features a fair maid and her lover in a playful exchange about sounds and a fatherly warning. The Atlanta Jones figure is cited as a source, with a humorous mishearing of a line and a quip about timing.
A New York Press fragment quotes a man describing his wife’s mischaracterization of his actions. He says he cannot correct her because he told her he did not attend the event the night he was working. The snippet hints at tension and confusion in domestic relations.
A garbled pair of quotes from Louisville Courier-Journal and Chicago News show a gun threat and cautionary legal wisdom. The Courier-Journal fragment mentions a man at a boat’s stern and a pistol in jeans. The Chicago piece notes a proverb about moral weighing.
The Daily Journal announces home delivery to any part of the city for 10 cents a week.
A mother despaired over a persistent itchy rash on her baby seeking help. The skin illness spread to different places but could not be treated by common remedies. The condition soon vanished without leaving a scar and did not return.
A mother credits Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment with curing her two and a half year old son’s persistent skin sores after other treatments failed. She reports healing after three applications, no scarring, and praises the products as the best she has tried, vowing to keep them in her home. Attica Indiana testimonial dated July 22, 1907.
Relief and cure for eczema tetter milk crust psoriasis on skin scalp or hands. Warm baths with Cuticura Soap and gentle use of Cuticura Ointment speed healing, aided by mild Cuticura Resolvent. Guaranteed pure. available as pills or soaps. Potter Drug & Chem Corp Boston. Mailed free Cuticura Book.
A collage of short items mentions Rose Bebb as Washingtons state bacteriologist, Ida Moulton enjoying dances at eighty seven, Langtry learning silver was struck on a Nevada tract she owns for a dollar per acre, Mrs Roosevelt rumored weary of a presidential second term, Middletown Conn high school valedictorian Agatha Herbert with 97.15 average, Helen Cannon elected honorary president of Daughters of Senators and Representatives, Mme Zola's open letter regretting possession of Emile Zolas body, plus a quip about gunpowder in a joke caption.
A brief, humorous line from the Boston Post about someone groaning at soapy eyes and searching for a towel, expressing exasperation with common bath time mishaps. The quip captures a daily domestic moment with period voice.
A reflected debate on how the press portrays mob bosses and their supposed secret aims. The speaker asserts distrust of the papers and suggests hidden methods used to achieve their ends, addressing the judge with skeptical tones.
In a Detroit Tribune item a man whispers affectionate lines to a woman in a chapel. She blushes and responds with a quirky pun about a pineapple. The exchange blends romance with light humor in a church setting.
A cryptic line from a Woman's Home Comnation piece shows a Flipper Fraction leaning to speak to the Whole Number about a Duberator of Straights, hinting at a coded term or inside joke within the periodical.
A passage cites Max Eastman on disease and pain being largely mental. It argues that many ailments arise from auto or family suggestion, not organic infirmity, and that vigorous counter suggestion can restore health. The piece notes real suffering but emphasizes psychological factors and the dangers of belief in persistent disease.
A vivid description portrays a mother butterfly crafting a down lined nest for eggs. She sacrifices her own body to form the bedclothes and covering, arranging spirals or fur like tips, and dies after completing the nest to nourish the next generation.
The German law requires all workers under a threshold income to provide for old age. Post office stamps must be dated and affixed weekly. Employers may pay or share costs. housemaids stamp Mondays. Marrying may end coverage, while continuing insurance offers 15 to 20 marks monthly after seventy.
A quoted anecdote attributed to Wu Ting Fang contrasts a selfish politician with a Shanghai physician. A mandarin seeks sleep and appetite aid but grows fat, and the doctor prescribes vigorous exercise, humorously offering to clean the doctor’s larger floors to help.
Short, sharp whistle from truth can stop a rabbit. Molly Cottontail steps in tracks when hearing a whistle. An antelope may react similarly. An African hunter called the nephiant the most tingidhat and quasimints, frightened into a cold sweat by a mysterious nuit.
A fragmented line suggests doctors discussing consultation practices and the possibility that one physician can consider a treatment not yet proposed by another. The text hints at collaborative reasoning and the value of multiple medical opinions.
A fragmented line from a Princeton Tiger piece cites Weil remarking on bravest and tender hearts as followers bring in the jean, reflecting a cryptic, literary tone in the era’s campus press. The garbled OCR leaves unclear context or event.
A fortune telling note states a man will marry within the year. The writer asks about attire and mentions a client, though details are unclear. The short, cryptic message hints at marriage plans without specifics.
Orphan Earl of Elton and his sister Gladys, raised together as siblings, flee to marry after learning they were not blood related. A clergyman weds them for all their money. police arrest them in a park. Sir Michael Frane, former friend of the Earl, intervenes as their solicitor and exposes the plan.
A fractured OCR fragment describes an openstatt duppdter of water moving away from a Tadest stone and people waiting around for it to release heat, with distant reference to Chileano Ree ard Emerard.
Mrs Joyce of 180 Sullivan Street Claremont New Hampshire says she bought two bottles about a year ago and it cured a severe kidney condition of many years and she highly recommends Foley's Kidney Cure. Names H. J. Moogh and Wm F Jungkungz appear in the note.
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