26 Oct 1907
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1907
Page
1
Mrs Hattie Currier of Thomaston Maine reports rapid improvement in her nine month old baby's facial and foot rash using Cuticura Ointment. She notes cradle cap cleared, scalp healed, and keeps the product on hand for future irritation. Dated June 9 1906.
Complete external and internal treatment for skin and scalp. Includes Cuticura Soap to cleanse, Ointment to heal, and Resolvent to purify blood. Promotes cure from infancy to adulthood with guaranteed purity. Mailed free details from Drug & Chemical Syndicate Boston.
The article traces the historic rise and decline of hardwood timber in Ohio Indiana and Illinois noting current low forest cover twenty nine per cent in Indiana twenty two per cent in Ohio and twenty per cent in Illinois The piece argues land better used for agriculture should be planted with trees to bolster long term supply and highlights tree planting efforts in Ohio and the need for forestry based growth as demand rises.
A lively newspaper correspondent in Gordon and Bennett's A Royal Slave helps his readers by getting the right people out of trouble and the dancing girl into safety. The Grand presents the play with matinee and night shows on October 30.
Sunday to Tuesday at the Majestic will screen You Are an Elk and Willie's Dream, comedies famed for their humor and a memorable morning after twist. Illinois Theatre in Chicago to host William Collier in Caught in the Rain for a three week engagement starting Sunday October 27, with a strong company and nightly performances plus Sunday Wednesday and Saturday matinees.
1768 Guy Carleton appointed governor of Canada. 1774 Massachusetts Provincial Congress organized minute men. 1775 Americans defeated Carleton at Longueuil. 1825 Erie Canal completed. 1859 Royal Charter steamer wrecked with 459 lives lost. 1867 Garibaldi volunteers defeated Pontifical troops at Monte Rotondo. 1898 Manila sailors released by Admiral Dewey. 1905 New Orleans welcomed President Roosevelt.
200 acre stock and grain farm in Hardin County Iowa two miles from Alden on Illinois Central and Chicago and North Western lines four miles from Wilke on IC six miles from F Popejoy on CRI&P eight miles from Buckeye on Des Moines Town Falls and Northern. 120 acres cultivated 80 acres pasture fenced cross fenced 12 room house 48 by 64 barn windmill two wells grove orchard near school R F D route and telephone line contact H Rh Edgington Eldora Hardin Co Iowa 10 22d1w
A short, garbled historical note lists terms related to diseases and ailments such as colds influenza internal diseases lungs and pleuropneumonia, appearing among references to bots and grubs. The fragment suggests medical or veterinary terminology without full context or coherent sentence structure.
Washington reports the Pettibone trial set to begin Monday in Boise Idaho for suspected involvement in the Steunenberg murder. Michigan Day will draw Governor Warner and officials to Jamestown exposition. Santo Domingo’s constitutional assembly meets to adopt the US treaty. National Purity Congress gathers in Battle Creek with delegates from US Canada and Europe. Prohibition drives impact Birmingham Tennessee with Monday vote and Pendleton law effects feared beyond Memphis Nashville and Chattanooga. The New York motor car show at Grand Central Palace runs through Thursday into Saturday.
The opening of the big annual automobile show is set to begin at Madison Square Garden, drawing enthusiasts and industry representatives to preview new models and innovations.
Thomas Powell Fowler born in Newburgh New York October 26 1851. He studied at Columbia Law School graduating 1874 and became counsel to major railroads and corporations. In 1886 he was elected president of the New York Ontario & Western railway and remains in that post. He also chairs the Ontario Carbondale and Scranton railway and is connected with western railroads and large banking and industrial interests in New York and Pennsylvania. Our baby was so thin and cross mother gave her Case a sweet now she’s well again sold by William F Jungkunz at 865 Stephenson Street.
Local advertisement promotes DeWitts Little Early Riser Pills for sale by Wm. F. Jungkunz at address 85. Brand emphasizes health benefits and daily use. Product appears in small print as a generic patent medicine listing.
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