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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1906
Page
4
Daily timetables show east bound from Freeport and west bound from Ohtengo with departures around 6:15 pm and 4:30 pm respectively. Services run daily except Sundays, with trains listed for morning and evening routes and connecting details in the local schedule.
A public notice outlines a temporary shuttle service from White School House to Oakland Cemetery with trips on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. Tickets cost 10 cents and are available from Owen IT Smith secretary at Freeport Water Company office. The service replaces car travel. patrons may ride streetcars to town and then use the White School House bus to the cemetery, with half hourly departures on the specified days. Special Nickel Plate tourist rates to Canada and New England are advertised with specific fare details and reservation info at City Ticket Office 107 Adams Street Chicago.
One fare for round trip from Chicago plus 2 dollars for a fifteen day limit and one fare for round trip plus 4 dollars for a thirty day limit to Canadian and New England points. Tickets on sale via Nickel Plate road from Chicago September 6 and 19. Attention given on application to John Y. Calahan, General Agent, No. 107 Adams Street, Chicago La Salle Street Station, the only depot on the elevated loop.
A neat cash register advertised for sale by Brown and Dollm ever. The notice urges interested buyers to call and inspect the unit for a first class cash register offered at a prep price.
Jos. Hummert, Druggist of Freeport, Illinois, promotes PAXTINE Toilet Antiseptic as the most successful mouth hygiene product sold. It claims to destroy bad taste and odor and leave white teeth, perfect mouth cleanliness, and sweet breath, with a guarantee.
A Creole storyteller in Louisiana spins a colorful tale of Mam selle Lucille and her quest for vengeance after her brother Adolphe is murdered. The sunlit porch scene features a drummer interrupting with wry commentary as Lucille pursues the killer to a plantation, confronts misidentified targets, and ultimately marries the wounded man. The humor and stereotypes reflect 19th century Southern storytelling with lively dialogue and playful banter.
A vintage ad extols DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as pleasant laxative pills that do not gripe or sicken. It promotes baths for cleansing skin and mentions using laxatives to clear the bowels, sold by all druggists.
The Acne Mf' Co. at 67 Chicago Street advertises sheet metal services including furnace cleaning and tin roof installation or repair. Prompt attention promised to all orders.
A survey of high altitude breathing limits and experiments. It notes past failed ascents at extreme elevations, the role of oxygen and carbonic acid in respiration, and Mosso's theory. Agazarotti’s bell experiments show oxygen enriched with carbonic acid extends survivable rarefaction, describing steps up to fourteen and a half kilometers.
Henry C. Nicholas in Moody's Magazine notes a chemical revolution 30 years of progress turning waste from promnet and other materials into valuable products. He cites annual values around $600,000,000, transforming disposal costs into profitable output and reshaping manufacturing economics.
Veterinary pioneers report dogs and cats receiving artificial teeth and eyes and even limb replacements. A dog was fitted with false teeth, a missing eye was replaced, and a cat with a swallowed bolt was retrieved by skilled surgery, reflecting rapid progress in humane animal treatment.
Delattre reports a two month campaign with Prince Liaster prel atire and Pastor Sainton using a car to preach in markets from fair to fair across Rhone Saone et Loire and surrounding departments within about ninety miles. They distributed thousands of tracts and sold under 2,600 copies of the New Testament.
Chicago Great Western Railway offers round trip tickets at nearly half tariff to Minnesota North Dakota Wisconsin Colorado Utah Southern Wyoming and Lower Michigan resorts. Tickets on sale daily to Sept. 30 with final return by October 1. Pedimer G. St. Paul Minn. Agent section applies to may gent.
The Daily Journal announces citywide delivery at a rate of one cent per week. The plan promises ubiquitous access for residents and emphasizes affordable newspaper distribution across all neighborhoods.
A fogbound voyage near Weymouth leads a man to rescue a woman from a murderous husband. He drifts the two boats together, pulls the woman from danger, and escorts them to shore at Bridport, then Weymouth, while the husband faces punishment and the woman never acknowledged the act.
The ad notes that sails must be reefable to avoid danger in gusty weather. It argues a prudent buyer keeps Kodol Dyspepsia remedy on hand, claiming it helps the stomach digest food and restore proper function. Sold by all druggists.
F. J. Burdett, a piano tuner, advertises taking orders at Brown & Dollemeyer’s store and on the telephone, inviting customers to place service requests.
The Laundry Blue Co of Chicago offers free Wiggle-Stick Waxer for flatirons and free Wonder-Wax for washing clothes to every grocer stocking the goods. Grocers not carrying them can send their names to receive free packages for customers.
An advertising block argues health of plants mirrors hair care, claiming canker and germ roots harm growth. It promotes Newbro's Herpicide as a product that destroys the germ at the roots to prevent hair loss. The copy notes sample request details and agent contact.
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