New Year Store Brims With Goods Invite
A bustling store opens the year inviting customers to inspect a full stock of goods and shop the new offerings. Staff emphasize a welcoming atmosphere and ready help as shoppers browse.
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05 Jan 1899
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Blue Mound Leader in Blue Mound, Illinois
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Newspaper
Blue Mound Leader
Location
Blue Mound, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1899
Page
1
Hardware Department Promises Wide Knife and Gun Range
A hardware department advertises over 500 pocket knife styles plus razors manicure sets watches clocks wagons sleds air guns shot guns rifles revolvers and more in a broad catalog aimed at home and sporting needs.
Farmers urged to take value-packed paper bundle offer
An advertising notice promotes a five-title farm reader bundle including The Iowa Homestead and The Poultry Farmer at $1.45, far less than combined price. urges uptake for humane education and practical farming insights, then reports on the Mosquito Township Mutual Fire Insurance annual meeting, director re-elections, and a death notice for Dr. G F Waldron of Blue Mound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Homestead
Ms Special Farmers’ Institute
Poultry Farmer
Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Journal
Humane Alliance
West
Humane
Mosquito Township
Doctor Alverson fatally struck by freight train near Stonington
Dr E M Alverson leading Stonington physician killed when his buggy was hit by a Wabash west bound freight near the depot. The team was wrecked, his body recovered among debris. He leaves a wife and five daughters. Funeral set for morning with services at the Christian church and burial in Taylorville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Waldron
New Berlin
Union Church
Brimfield
Stonington
KE. M. Alverson
Seatons
Dennis Stapleton
John Dwyer
Coe
Alverson
Taylorville
Unclear fragment on local trade notice or call for items
Partial text references a shoe store and names Jos Miller and other unclear terms. No identifiable event, date, or persons beyond scattered names. Unable to determine a coherent news item or summary from the readable text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jos, Miller's Shoe Store
Gut
Constable
Mayor Rawlings Sails on World Sales Tour for Hamilton-Brown
Chanute Blade reports Joseph Miller says Mayor Rawlings leaves Vancouver January 12 1899 for a world business trip. First stop Honolulu then Sidney Melbourne Colombo Bombay Aden Suez Brindisi Paris London with return expected by May 1 and the trip billed as a business honor by Hamilton Brown Shoe Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rawlings
Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co
Kansas
Mediterranean Sea
Brindiea
Italy
Germany
France
Paris
London
Chanute
Kan
Farm for Rent Near Blue Mound Illinois
Property details 534 acres with house and improvements two miles west and fourteen miles south of Blue Mound Illinois annual rent 250 dollars. Contact Win Doyle 559 North Witt Street Decatur Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue Mound
Win. Doyle
Old Year Wut Basket Ball Club Social News
The Basket Ball Club welcomed the new year with games and refreshment served by ladies assistants. The event featured three conclusions about basketball and the Blue Mound club. The report notes the death of H C Montgomery in Chicago and announces his burial plans and estate administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue Mound Club
Death of Lester Weatherford at seven in Boody Salem drive
The seven year old Lester Weatherford son of Mr and Mrs Frank Weatherford died Sunday morning of lung fever 44 miles north of here Funeral services were held Tuesday at 11 o elect at Boody conducted by Rev W L Bankson Interment followed at Salem Cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester
Frank Weatherford
Boody
W. L. Bankson
Salem Cemetery
Beating the Klondike and a Miracle Cure
A. C. Thomas of Marysville Texas credits Dr King s New Discovery for consumption with curing his long battle with tuberculosis and bleeding. He says gold is worthless next to the cure and would pay a hundred dollars a bottle. The ad notes asthma bronchitis and throat lung ailments are cured and offers trial bottles free at J A Gleeson s drug store with 50 cent and one dollar sizes guaranteed to cure or money back. Mrs Melvina Blackburn of Bedford Indiana visits sister Mrs John Langdon with Perry in tow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Thomas
Marysville
Tex
Klondike
Dr. King
Hood's Pills and Sarsaparilla Promote Cleanse and Purify
An ad extols Hood's Pills as a perfect cathartic replacing harsh old remedies and boosting Hood's Sarsaparilla in cleansing. It notes Wa. Coyner of Galesburg visiting locally over New Year and mentions Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for grippe and cold treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
Chamberlain
T. J. Up
Church
Dr E P Windsor Visits Omaha Based Host Then Plans Move
Dr E P Windsor formerly of Omaha Nebraska was hosted by L A McGee and wife on Wednesday and Thursday. He will move to Mavon to establish permanent residence there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Christian Church
Eld
W. W. Sniff
Gibson City
H. H. Caldwell
E. P. Windsor
Omaha, Neb
L. A. McGee and
Mavon
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bradley & House
P. S
Yola A. Gleeson
Br. G. F. Waldron
G. F. Waldron
Ohio
Canton
E. K. Alverson
Athe
JOS. Miller
Around
Ren
Chicago
H. C. Montgomery
Montgomery and
Melvina Blackburn
Perry
Bedford
Ind
John Langdon
Blackburn
Wa. Coyner
Galesburg
Apd
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