Fuller Pension Bill Becomes Law
President Wilson signed the Fuller pension bill. it provides $50 monthly for disabled veterans and $72 with personal care. Civil war widows rise to $80, and widows of the war of 1812 and Mexican war receive the same. Civil war maimed soldiers gain a maximum of $90 per month in severe cases. the act passed the Senate unanimously and is hailed as a major measure.
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Fuller
Wilson
House
Thelvidere
Senate
Editor Back in Action At Ball Game Break
In Earlville Leader column editor L. L. LeBram notes his return after a week away and shares light Q A about farming, cooking, and daily life. The piece references May farming tasks, April weather delays, and Rock River Assembly sessions opening July 31 with many artists and speakers.
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Mike F
Mike
L. L. LeBram
Rock River Assembly
Adlerika claims relief for gas and stomach issues
An advertisement touts Adlerika for gas and sour stomach with glycerine buckthorn bark as a remedy. It claims relief for upper and lower bowels and may cure constipation, with a strong testimonial of a man freed from years of indigestion after one dose. Also includes executor notice for Mabel May Vogeler estate in Lee County Illinois.
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F. C. Smith
Mabel
Vogeler
Deccasi
Mabel May Vogeler
Peiamathiets
Lee
Os Nois
Lee County
Dixon
Bert Otto*vogeler
Robert L. Warner
Fordson tractors hit high production records at Dearborn plant
On February 19 Fordson tractor No 100000 rolled off the Dearborn line marking a new production milestone. Fordson tractors are produced at Dearborn 350 daily with additional plants in St Louis Des Moines and Cork Ireland. A curious note mentions political conjecture and wheat crops interwoven with the tractor milestone and a Dixon Friday caller Mrs Kathryn Yenerich.
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Rrdson
Fordson
Dearborn
Michigan
Henry Ford
Ford
Cork
Ireland
Franklin Grove pair and Rochelle visitors noted
Mr and Mrs August Reinhart of Franklin Grove were Ashton visitors Monday. Mrs Jacob Aschenbrenner and Miss Mabel were visitors in Rochelle Monday evening.
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August Reinhart
Franklin Grove
Ashton
Jacob Aschenbrenner
Miss Mabel
Rochelle
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Offers 500 Dollar Reward
An old printed advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh through the blood and mucous surfaces and offers a five hundred dollar reward for any case it cannot cure. It touts thirty five years of use and urges immediate purchase from F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
Union Picnic Draws Large Crowd From Fisher and Yorty Schools
Patrons and friends of Fisher and Yorty schools held a union picnic last Saturday in the grove near the Fisher school. Miss Helen Linscott teaches Fisher and Miss Ethyle Knapp teaches Yorty.
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Fisher and Yorty
Fisher
Helen Linscott
Yorty
Ethyle Knapp
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