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Newspaper
The Joliet Weekly News
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1908
Page
10
The Feagans Store highlights a vast array of silverware and kitchenware with discounts for Christmas shopping. Tables feature 26 piece chests, carving sets, spoons, forks, trays, and more with prices ranging from 50 cents to several dollars. The note touts value, quality and a broad display space as a center for practical gifts.
Feagan's Store presents an extensive men gifts display featuring jewelry and practical items. Prices are moderate with watches from $1.50 to $400 and charms, rings, eye glasses, brushes, case sets, cuff links, and writing accessories listed in varied metals and styles.
A catalog of silver novelties with prices from $0.50 to $23.00 covering vanity boxes, sewing sets, book marks, handbags, hat brushes, combs, pin holders, sterling pieces, desk sets, frames, albums, jewel cases, ink stands, fern dishes, platters, mirrors, candle sticks, vases, chocolate sets, souvenir spoons, scissors, vinegarettes, tooth brushes, button hooks, seals, soap boxes, folding cups, letter openers, paper knives, nail polishers, shoe horns, and nail files. Various pricing tiers indicate broad silverware and accessory offerings.
A catalog of cut glass items with prices for tumblers bowls dessert sets salts and peppers celery trays vinegars and more. Prices range from 60 cents to 27.00 with sets of six glasses bowls and compotes listed alongside individual pieces.
The Feagans jewelry store advertises solid gold watches from 18 to 272 dollars and gold filled watches from 8 to 18 dollars. Silver, chatelaine, lockets, neck chains and long watch chains are listed with prices from 3.50 to 30 dollars and beyond, including 14 karat options and Lavillier chains.
A dense jewelry price list lists items from gold filled beads and cuff buttons to automatic eye glass holders and barrettes with prices ranging from 50 cents to several dollars. It covers pearl beads cuff buttons heart motifs belts and various pins and brooches with varied finishes and sizes.
Every dollar spent is the offer of Feagans Store to men gift buyers, promising full value on purchases. The messaging emphasizes fair trade for gift buyers without extra details.
The Weekly News lists staff including editor H. E. Baldwin and advertising manager Geo F. Seely. It shows subscription rates: postpaid one year 1.25 in advance 1.00. outside U S territory 1.55. It notes Joliet Illinois postal filing as second class matter.
The Postoffice Department orders that subscribers in arrears beyond set periods are not counted as actual subscribers for second class mailing. The News Company Joliet Illinois will discontinue after ample notice, with two reminders sent before stopping the paper.
President Roosevelt places 15000 fourth class postmasters under civil service, a move unlikely to win favor with Congress and critics of patronage. The policy could shift power away from current incumbents and test political support for federal appointments.
An executive order shifts about 15 000 fourth class postmasters from political appointees to civil service. The move threatens party grip on local machines, drawing ire from congressmen while hailed by the public. In Ohio and beyond, prohibition and brewery interests shape local politics as debates over city progress, beer law, and municipal service intensify.
In a clash over governance the allies of good government seek minimal backing from brewery interests, highlighting a partisan divide on alcohol influence in public affairs.
The Sunday Tribune critiques W H McKee In for arguing about honesty of farmers and liquor’s link to crime. He cites Fort Leavenworth federal prisoners, noting men from desertion and army causes distort comparisons with state penitentiaries.
A historical note argues against labeling farmers as criminals, contending laborer criminals are far fewer in number. It suggests Mr McKee misses that many farmer boys enter the army, nearly ten times more than laborers, shifting the view of occupation risk and virtue.
Dr. R W Corwin of Missouri Pacific argues wrecks stem from dissipation rather than overwork. He cites an engineer who gambled away his pay and says off duty recreation habits harm fitness, urging reorganized railway medical departments and counter attractions to gambling.
From Rockford November figures in the Harvard Independent report fewer arrests for drunkenness this year than during the same months in 1907. The article notes a decline since the city went dry and compares monthly totals across the period, highlighting a notable drop in offenses.
The chief compiled offenses figures 1246 to 859 to send to police heads in other cities. He says local option has been the best thing Rockford has seen for years.
After a 12 year delay the Will County case Plagge v Treim is set for hearing December 28 before Judge Dibell. The suit arises from Philip Treim's will and involves foreclosure and will construction with disputed liens on trust land. Attorney Campbell of Kankakee is involved though not a defendant.
December dates list individuals and towns including Wm Allott Wilmington Dec 10 Henry Shrader Peotone Dec 15 J A Baker Custer Park Dec 16 John Cann WAH Dec 17 Laurence Leslie Manhattan Dec 19 Joel Lawlor Manhattan Dec 30. Names and places appear in a sequence of year end notices.
Mrs. Wendling, wife of a farmer near Rockdale, was struck by a detached trolley pole at Chicago and Clinton streets at 2:30 pm. The pole fractured her collarbone and knocked her to the pavement. bystanders aided her as she was carried to Stillman’s drug store for treatment. her nine year old son accompanied her.
Mrs. Annie Richardson of 762 Washington Street attempted to take her life three times late Saturday night by chloroform after a quarrel with her husband. Dr. J. B. Shaw arrived early and saved her.
A fragmented sentence mentions temptation to commit, displeasure toward a husband, a plan with chloroform, and a rescue of conductor Mr Richardson. The readable text is disjointed with no clear event, date, place, or names beyond those few terms.
A chaotic Aurora fire ends with Mrs. Senft fatally burned after an explosion. Passerby L A Trainor rescues her from flames as neighbors try to douse the blaze. Firefighters battle the blaze and a nearby barn sustains damage.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a 7 coming event and a 4 ton item titled basiaion with unclear context. Names and places are unreadable. The readable segment hints at a numeric pairing but lacks coherent facts for precise summary.
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