State Conference on Country Life Opens in Illinois
A statewide conference convenes September 1 to 6 in Springfield, gathering representatives from farm organizations to discuss rural issues and farm policy. Notable speakers include county and state officials, with sessions on soil and agricultural improvement. Governor Dunne warns Illinois Board of Equalization to tax corporations fairly and serve the people.
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Asf&co
Board of Equalization
Edward F Dunne
State Board of Equalization
Illinois
Dunne
Great Corporation
Illinois Third Regiment Encamped At Camp Lincoln
In Springfield Illinois the Third Regiment at Camp Lincoln continued routine drills range work and dress parades despite heavy downpour. The First Battalion practised shooting, officers’ schools resumed, and a band concert followed the evening parade. In Salem and Joliet reports mention a laborer found dead near railroad tracks and political notices including candidates withdrawing from judicial races.
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Camp Lincoln
Springfield
Illinois News Terse Summary From Bloomington and Surrounds
Bloomington reports Rev Milo Atkinson will leave Centennial Christian church to lead McLemore Avenue church in Memphis starting September 1. A man used brickbats to break into a home, attacking Josephine Gregory. Chicago area notes include a police officer disturbed by a self-walkthrough in his garden and a court case involving state officials and horse racing funds. various local notices and political events appear from New Lenox to Peoria.
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Bloomington
Milo Atkinson
Centennial Christian Church
McLemore Avenue Christian Church of
Memphis
Fort Stevens memory and Sixth Corps campaig n reminiscence
George A. Farrington of Vermont describes the July 1864 move to Washington by the Sixth Corps, the battle near Fort Stevens, and the presence of President Lincoln and cabinet observers. He recalls marching at night from the Wilderness to City Point, the city’s welcome on Seventh Street, and the broader Civil War context from the Wilderness to Petersburg.
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Fort Stevens
Calla
Vermont
Wilderness
Petersburg
City Point
Sixth Corps
Washington
Llth
George A. Farrington
Company A
Elgin
National Tribune
Early
Maryland
Grant
Iite
Seventh Street
Gordon
Monocacy
Oetersea
Warahington
Whch
Union Rose
Stanton
Oier
Lancoln
Ot Ancoir
Two Artists in Philadelphia Face Hard Times
Two young artists sharing a studio in Philadelphia described their financial strain and improvised meals. The younger artist laments their living conditions while a friend notes others are worse off, recalling a recluse who cooked his own breakfast for 19 years.
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Philadelphia
Lodge
Harper’s Magazine
Castoria and cheap talk in a casual chat
A fragment mentions Fletcher's Castoria marketed as a trusted remedy for infants and children and notes a social visit where Mrs Naybor dropped in and spent a half hour on the telephone engaging in cheap talk. The passage mixes product promotion with a casual social remark.
Why have you cut that lady who has just passed
Two men pursue fame with different outcomes. One succeeds, the other survives. Louis Horo wits features a moral about sacrifice and ambition, hinted in a dialogue about a dressmaker and a paid bill.
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Louis Horo
Wits
Woman Treated By Pinkham Remedy in Windom Kansas
A Windom Kansas woman recounts relief from bladder troubles bearing down pains and female weakness after trying Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the remedy for her cure and urges others to seek its use while noting confidential correspondence with Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co.
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Kansas
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mary A. Horner
Box
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lymn
Mass
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