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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1908
Page
1
A Tipton Iowa man aged fifty five suffers severe eczema with boils and itching. After eight months using Cuticura Soap Ointment Resolvent and Pills under Nelson R Burnett guidance he is cured and urges others to follow directions. Burnett also endorses the testimony.
Gentle anointings with Cuticura, the main skin cure, preceded by warm ths with Cuticura Soap, followed by mild doses of Cuticura Resolvent Pills for instant relief and rest. Recommends Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Resolvent or Chorolate Go pills to purify the blood. Potter & Brabham Co. Boston Mass. Free book on skin diseases.
Washington dispatch notes Roosevelt hopes for a House loyal to him and a presidential victory for Bryan or Taft. It details electoral math, counting 120 southern Democratic votes, 46 border votes, totaling 166, and outlines battlegrounds New Jersey Ohio New York Indiana Delaware West Virginia as pivotal to reach 242.
A home treatment by Mia Summers of Notre Dame Indiana promises to cure bed wetting in children and adults without cost. She offers free instructions by mail to any mother and notes the method may help those troubled by daytime or nighttime urinary difficulties.
An advertisement notes sale of interest in the Quilting Factory at Sterling Plain offering extra large sanitary comforts and material coats at reduced prices. Bargains advertised with a location at 288 Union Street and a contact line for L. D. Wet.
Tomorrow afternoon Y M C A members will recount Springfield convention experiences with talks by C S Barrett E Bengtson W E Kautenberg J G Oyler R C Smedley A R Buffin J Littlefield Harry Hineline and Arvin De Voe. The 2:30 pm meeting continues convention echoes.
A reader reports delivery to their city area costs 1 cent weekly for the Daily Journal. The item notes the rate and regional distribution details.
The coming week centers on the quadrennial presidential election with seven national tickets and numerous state races. Governors, supreme court justices, and representatives will be chosen across most states, with Oregon Vermont and Maine voting already. News also notes Newfoundland politics, Roosevelt’s Oyster Bay trip, and naval developments including Britain’s Collingwood launching.
William Gibbs McAdoo born October 31 1863 near Marietta Georgia. He studied law and practiced in Chattanooga before moving to New York in 1892. He organized firms to build the Hudson tunnels and led the New York & New Jersey Railroad Co and Hudson & Manhattan railroad, shaping trans Hudson transit projects.
Harriet Mc Purbank is listed as a piano teacher at Studio 36 Grove Street with a date reference 9 22. The notice notes her teaching services and location, indicating private instruction available.
Misa Caroline M. McIlvaine librarian at the Chicago Historical Society writes Edward L. Burchard of Freeport on October 24 praising the Lincoln Douglas celebration and requesting an additional copy of the Freeport Journal for August 27 to complete a scrapbook with both sides of the sheet.
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