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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1908
Page
8
Train schedule notes daily and Sunday services for freight and passenger trains. It lists departures, arrivals, and connections at Rockford Belvidere Belvidere for Beloit Janesville Milwaukee Madison and other points, plus coach and parlor car services and staff references.
Clipped timetable notes show passenger arrivals and departures at Rock Island with connections to Milwaukee Janesville Madison Kansas City Omaha Cedar Rapids and North and South Dakota. Freight and passenger movements include westbound trains and connections to Freeport Racine and Mt Car. Agent J B Bweratt signs the timetable fragment.
Interurban timetable details routes and stops for East Bound No 4 Chicago Express No 6 for Dubuque St Paul Minneapolis and more with passenger limits for Chicago and Sycamore, daily Pearl City Dubuque passenger, and baggage through to destination. WM. NEERSE and J.P. MERG provide agency information.
Daily railway service from Forreston with departures at 10:00 am and arrivals at 1:20 pm. Service operates east toward Forreston and notes indicate a 4:40 pm or 10:10 pm reference. period details incomplete but show daily operation except Sunday.
Railway timetable outlines Rockford to Freeport and back with departures starting 6 00 am and every 80 minutes until 11 00 pm. Sunday service begins later with first car at around 6 85 am and Rockford at 7 08 am. Direct connections listed to Beloit Janesville Belvider Elgin Aurora Chicago and others.
The Daily Journal announces delivery to every city area for five days starting soon, expanding access beyond previous routes. Residents will receive the paper at homes or designated boxes during the limited period.
Massachusetts takes the lead as six New England governors plan a September conference at the Algonquin club in Boston to discuss forest preservation. Governor Guild urges uniform state action and a possible post election business conference to align policy and mobilize public opinion for forest conservation.
The article traces Raleigh Drake and Formby claims as early adopters in Britain and Ireland. It notes Yonghal in Ireland as an early cultivation site and discusses European adoption from Virginia, though Virginia natives did not know potatoes. It mentions Apios tuberosa, and cites Chenville’s voyage bringing potatoes from Virginia, later captured. Plymouth as landing point with cargo from the Spanish ship.
Sunflower seeds are said to give an extra fine flavor to eggs and are used by the French people for that purpose. Plant seeds around garden edges and in corners. A few near the sink drain will help to keep away miasma and yield mammoth seed heads.
Judge Levine rules a wife may enjoy ice cream occasionally. John Duncan of the Manchester fire department found a copper cat dated 1706 on the riverbank. Israel Tuttle’s grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier. his father fought in the second war with Great Britain. Mr. Tuttle is ninety-one. Warren B. Russell, a skilled pianist in Sunderland, MA, has taught for fifty years and still performs in church. Daniel Peters of Grafton, MS, just turned ninety-three and remains active after fifty years in Grafton. Mrs. S. Van Rensselaer Cruger announces her marriage to Wade Chances, formerly of Canton, Ohio. Sergeant Alexander Goodall of Dunbar, England, learns his Crimea gallantry pension rises and he gains a $50 annuity. Professor F E D Campbell of Michigan lost sight eighteen years ago yet advances in chemistry and education.
The Thunderbolt by Vinero failed in London. Hall Caine and Louis Parker plan a collaboration on a new play titled Pete. Edgar Selwyn’s star will be Elsie Ferguson in Pierre of the Plains. Mme Melba is to sing in New York next season per Oscar Hammerstein. Maxim Gorky finishes a graft drama titled The Lowest of the Low.
A meditation on despair as a funeral of hope and the soul’s night without a star. Prostrated energy and dangerous resignation mark a struggle against an unattainable future, with sorrow weighing heavily on purpose. Each line frames a stark, somber inner battle.
The New York Post notes Serge not ideal for fall suits while fancy coats stay in demand as cooler days arrive. Autumn fabrics reuse old materials under new names with old fabrics still outselling novelties. Nussah blue appears in broadcloth and smooth finish fabrics, lighter than navy and brighter when made up.
In a reflective passage from the Aitchison Globe, the author notes that facing adversity tests action over talk and warns against condescending others. The text contrasts performers, audience variety, and the daily self insight that keeps people humble.
New York City details show savings banks paying about L40 per dollar pail out, 70 009 acres of floor space on Manhattan Island, and a high rate of women club members in the city. The piece mentions a beggar asking for Mickel to reach a hospital and compares New York’s death rate to the previous year.
Becond Student notes Hirst’s ambition to become a college president as discussed in Lippincott's Magazine. The item frames the pursuit among student figures and reflects period tone and interest in academic leadership.
An article explains an improved home method for washing madras curtains using warm suds and revolving washing-bag machines. It notes no need for salt or vinegar to set colors and details steps for rinsing and drying. Emphasis on madras yarns and the sundour line as durable, affordable options.
William Ingligs explains in Harper’s Weekly the plague spreads via rat fleas that carry bacilli in their blood. Fleas leap from infested rats to humans and discharge infected material onto skin, enabling infection sans direct bite. Frequent bathing lowers risk, while India China and parts of Europe see faster spread where bathing is rare.
Household notes offer advice on folding handkerchiefs to meet creases, boiling ham with vinegar and cloves for flavor, cooling dam in boiling water to stay moist, cleaning nickel with water and whiting or alcohol, using gasoline for heavy nickel cleaning with caution, and removing ink stains with chloride of time or ammonia and hyposulphate of soda.
Quote reflects on wealth changing character and empathy. The line notes money’s power to steady or harden a person’s conscience, implying social critique of fortune at others’ expense. Burla macehl attribution appears doubtful or misspelled.
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