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Newspaper

Freeport Daily Journal

Location

Freeport, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Sep 04, 1908

Page

8

Valuations of Churches in New York City Real Estate Range

The New York Sun lists church properties with land and structures valued at high sums. Trinity Church appears at 12.6 million dollars, St Paul’s at 35.5 million, Grace Church at 9490000, and major others include Marble Collegiate 1 million and St Patrick’s Cathedral 6 million. Temple Emanu El 1.53 million and Temple Beth Israel 1.5 million are noted among numerous ecclesiastical holdings in Manhattan.

Trinity Church New York St. Paul's Church Grace Church Broadway First Presbyterian Church Fifth Avenue Eleventh Twelfth Streets S J. Mark's Church Second Avenue Twenty-ninth Street Fifty-ninth Street Columbus Avenue West Presbyterian Church West Forty-second Street Seventy-sixth Street Broadway Tabernacle Fifty-sixth Street Christian Scientist Church Central Park West Sixty-eighth Street New York Sun

Westbound and Eastbound Rail Schedules and Connections

Train times list arrivals and departures between Freeport Chicago Rock Island and surrounding connections. Notes specify buffet parlor car service on eastbound No. 200 and No. 204, cafe parlor service, and Sunday-only trains. Connections include Beloit Janesville Milwaukee and Dakotas with several transfer points. Information attributed to JOHN F. DALY, Agent, and J.B. SWEATT, Agent.

Rockford Beloit Janesville Milwaukee Madison Belvidere Sycamore Dekalb Harvard Belyvidere Spring Valley Pacific Coast John F. Daly

Departs East Arrives with Timetable Notes

Train schedule fragment shows departures and arrivals with times 10 00 am 1 20 pm and 4 40 pu 10 10 put. no clear context or entities available.

Transportation schedule links Freeport Rockford and more

Weekday cars depart Freeport at 6 36 am and every five minutes to 9 35 pm with last car at 11 pm. From Rockford first car 6 00 am on even hours to 11 pm. Travel time between Freeport and Rockford 1 hour 2 minutes. Sunday service same times except Freeport 6 36 am and Rockford 7 00 am. Connections in Rockford to Beloit Janesville Belvidere Elgin Aurora Chicago. WM NEESE Agent.

Freeport Rockford Unday Beloit Janesville Belvidere Elgin Aurora Chicago WM. Neese

Daily Journal Delivers to Every City Part

The Daily Journal announces delivery to all city sectors, offering comprehensive home and business access. Readers in any district can receive the paper, ensuring wide circulation and timely news availability.

the Daily Journal

Life on the Line A Soldier’s Narrow Escape

In a western post during Indian fighting a reckless private, Egbert Carrol, mutinied and was sentenced to death. A reprieve order was lost, but a courier’s delay and a race to deliver the paper saved him just before execution. Carrol later became famed as a fearless Union cavalry daredevil in the Civil War.

Egbert Carrol Carrol Cavanagh Trish Vivad Trish Tile Robert Carrol Washington Yetuen Phen Neb Low Feuphela Carrols Gira Lie Tie

Practical Pictures and Bank Note Art Enthusiast

A practical minded millionaire invents a substitute for valuable pictures by framing bank notes. A £100,000 note hangs in his drawing room as proof he may buy a future work. He hosts a dinner with sovereigns in soup plates and five pound notes for fish, game, and sweets, entertaining guests with wealth symbolism.

London

Swift Attacks Abbreviating Poetic Spelling Methods

Dean Swift denounces poets for shrinking words to fit verse with forms like drudg'd and disturb'd. He warns the trend will overrun prose and traces blame to clipping culture and a belief we should spell words as we speak, risking language etymology.

Dean Swift Swift

Risks In Railway Journeys

A Loudon Court Journal assessment argues that rail travel is far safer than feared. It notes the odds against a passenger dying on a journey stand at 36,000,000 to 1 and credits railway companies, engine drivers, and signalmen for passenger safety.

Loudon Court Journal

Reason versus feeling in a poet's life

A reflection on how reason and emotion clash in guiding a poet or warrior, noting that reason alone cannot answer everything. Feeling and passion often drive action more than cool logic in shaping choices and meaning.

Remark by De Riter and Pepprey Exchange

The fragment records a brief exchange where De Riter praises a play as possessing rare realism. Pepprey confirms, adding that it has even stronger merit and stands above any that might be inferior.

Crittick Young de Riter Pepprey

Pleasing yet Puzzling Headlines Echo Daily Gripes

A whispered snippet shows Gladys fearing a daughter over a son as she rests with a newborn upstairs. The quip notes disappointment turning into illness and a sharp New York News barb about men with chips on their shoulders missing the right man.

New York News

Cheer up my bos You are bound to get the girl

A casual exchange hints at romantic optimism and a contrasting doubt about life resembling a drama. The dialogue underscores hopeful intent versus realist restraint in relationships.

Bos

Night Robes of Silk and Velvet in Tudor Times

Medieval night robes were rare except among royalty. Anne Boleyn wore a black satin night robe. Queen Elizabeth I owned fur lined velvet gowns with lace borders. In 1568 she ordered sable skins for a night gown and later purple velvet and damask fabrics for others. Night walls and silk veiled caps followed in later periods as fashionable signs of status.

Anne Boleyn Bess George Bradigman

Marine Turtles and Shell Trade in Caribbean Coasts

A historical account describes how turtles from Colon district shores near Lagarto and San Bias are captured during May to August for shell. Turtles are killed or butchered, shells heated on the San Blas coast to remove plates, then shells shipped for use. Sizes range from one to four and a half feet, with shells weighing six to seven pounds on average. The value hinges on plate thickness and size rather than color.

Colon District Lagarto San Bias Caribbean Sea San Blas

Baltimore audience hears Professor Sylvester read Rosalind poem

A large Baltimore audience gathered to hear Professor Sylvester recite a 400 line original poem all rhyming with the name. He paused to read extensive footnotes first, delaying the reading by an hour and a half before finally presenting the Rosalind poem to the crowd.

Baltimore Sylvester Rosalind Ele

No Mistake in Press Correction Over Telephone

The Chicago Tribune quotes an editor apologizing for a typographical error in a meeting report. The caller argues the mistake was not a simple misstep but a derailment of the intended details.

Pollowing Will Tia Clicago Tribune

Smoking laws and punishments across history

The article notes historic efforts to curb smoking. It cites an English school rule from 1629 demanding grave behavior from masters and condemns tobacco. It recalls Turkey’s pipe ban with nose punishment and Russia’s edict ordering smokers’ noses cut off.

Turkey Russia

The Real Glutton Benevolent Old Lady Cartoon Exchange

A street scene shows a boy with a black eye explaining he was struck during a schoolyard fight over an apple. He tells the benevolent lady the teacher was the attacker.

Avil Sammy Jones

Talent's Triumph

Detroit Free Press notes a debate on talent versus genius with talent described as money makers and genius earning less, highlighting a provocative take on creativity and value.

Detroit Free Press

Epitch of Ehonduras housing cost contrast

In the epitch of Ehonduras all the houses in the poorer quarter are made of mahogany, which costs less than Dine there.

Ehonduras

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