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The Joliet Daily Republican

Location

Joliet, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jun 16, 1908

Page

3

West Park A Future Beauty Spot Attracts City Notice

The park is praised as a delightful and growing beauty with trees hills and flowers. Chicago and Joliet Street Car Company plans a 100 foot cement landing at park entrance and future cemented track improvements along the grounds.

Mandam West Park Chicago & Joliet Street Car Company Mea Car Company Ion

Striking Resemblance in Taft's Cincinnati Office

Taft the wealthy Cincinnati publisher snapped this week in his office. The Rockdale road has been converted, with enough space in places for two rigs to pass.

Taft Cincinnati Rockdale

Boulevard Improvements Transform Local Park Drives

Park undertakes macadam boulevard construction with brick gutters and cement coatings. Workers, horses, and cinders from a park cave form the base as trees, ferns, and rare cacti enhance the landscape while driveways expand and improve access.

Joliet Ad Promises Spoons for Soap Wrappers

A Joliet newspaper promo offers 23 Big Black Letters spelled across 90 days. Readers must collect 160 wrappers from American Family Soap to get a set of spoons, with the letters forming Kirk's American Family Soap and Vance FitzGibbons Furniture Co. names.

Joliet Kirk’s American Family Soap Vance-FitzGibbons Furniture Co Kirk

The Greatest Premium Offer of Spoons Ever Made

A historical item promotes a premium spoons offer with bold claims and strong marketing language. The notice showcases valued spoons, a limited-time deal, and the promise of exclusive rewards for buyers.

Fainting Bertha Libbecke Escapes Bartonville Asylum

Bertha Libbecke known as Fainting Bertha again escapes from the Bartonville hospital for the insane using a tent colony bed swap with a feeble accomplice. She evaded guards, traveled to Peoria, flirted on the streets, and spent a night at a South Adams street rooming house before being recaptured.

Bertha Libbecke Bertha Bartonville Damm Pedria Illinois Joliet Hertha Peoria South Adams Street Liberty and South Adams

Harmless Cooling Drinks Guide At Home

Alice Whitaker offers practical instructions for preparing safe fruit based beverages. She covers lemonade punches iced teas and fruit punches with details on equipment glassware garnishes ice handling syrups and dilution for crowd serving.

Electric Bitters Praised as Grand Family Medicine

Mr. Frank Conlan of New York commends Electric Bitters as a grand family medicine for dyspepsia liver problems and weak kidneys. The tonic regulates digestion purifies the blood and restores vigor to the weak.

Frank Conlan Houston

The Great Printery Lights Public Knowledge

The piece extols government printing as a vital public institution. It highlights presses and typesetting in the nation’s presses, noting the flow of pages and the enduring role of printed matter in illuminating government work.

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Cuticura Effected a Wonderful Cure

A mother recounts a six week old infant with a facial eruption failing to improve with doctor visits and salves. After using Cuticura Ointment the child calmed and slept better, with noticeable relief after the first application.

Cuticura

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TFL West AK Certainly Charles William H. Taft Pew Park Commissioners Frst Parkcom Taft Headquarters Ailius Burrows Albert J. Hopkins Chai Sanem SEN Henry Cabot Lodge Rogers Wm. A. Rogers All Joliet Grocere Vance Fitz Gibbons van Buren St Hpicures Alice Whitaker Electric Bitters
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