Miss Lottie Reed Visits Toulon and Prairie Chickens Scarce
Local notes list Miss Lottie Reed visiting relatives in Toulon and Prairie chickens reported very scarce this year. Various residents travel to Peoria and Chicago for business, social visits, and family gatherings, with community events and entertainment noted in Mossville and Brimfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James McDonnell
Chicago
C. L. Doogan
Peoria
A. E. Chambers
Norris, Ill
West End
Eleanor Coolidge
Cottaga Hospital
John Rusk
Bill George
Wyoming Fair
Mossville
Notice to enter business for wood and iron pump repair
Having decided to enter business for myself I shall be pleased to receive orders for all kinds of wood and iron pump repairing windmill repairing tin work spouting etc and all kinds of work in my line.
Noisy Night at Mossville Ends in Fright and Fire
A fragment recounts a tumult at Mossville where a large crowd gathers at a river and bathes in waters. Mosquitoes bite Brimfieldites while ghost stories spread. Armed men encircle a Brimfieldite camp, trumpets sound, and a death is noted as the waves dash a drowned figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mossville
Tony
Tle
Massvillians
Johnson
Clyde
Johnsonite
John A Simons Takes Post at Central Telephone Co
John A. Simons accepts a position with Central Telephone Co while Monmouth hosts algegenatras events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Simons
The
Central Telephone Co
Tolis
Algegenatras
Monmouth
Baptist B Y P U leads study on Seek souls
Cora Martin will guide the B Y P U at the Baptist church next Sunday evening at 7 o clock. The topic is Seek souls from Luke 14 1 10. Pastor Cox returns from vacation and will preach Sunday morning in his pulpit and Sunday evening at the Congregational church for the union temperance meeting. Subject The power of conviction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cora Martin
Baptist Church
Cox
Union Temperance Meeting
Notice of business sale and account settlement request
J. W. Johnson thanks customers after selling harness business to W. A. Marshall. He requests patrons to continue support for the successor and asks all debtors to settle accounts promptly at the shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohaving
Marshall
J. W. Jouxsox
Electracters Proclaimed Cure For Female Ailments
Manchester Michigan resident George B Williams credits Electracters with restoring his wife after five years of illness. Two bottles reportedly relieved nervousness sleeplessness melancholy headaches back pain and fainting with a guaranteed cure at 40 cents from Williams Robinson & Co druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George B. Williams
Manchester
Mich
Herstero
Wmn
Robinson & Go, Draugists
Native runners collide with Yankee buyers after Rocky Mountain Tea
A brief regional notice declares Philippine natives racing in a pell mell scene as Yankee vendors react to the scene. The verse suggests a commercial pull from Rocky Mountain Tea and urges readers to ask their druggist.
Nebraska the Land of Plenty travel lure pitch
An appeal touts Nebraska as a bountiful land with cheap, easy terms for sale of farms and ample opportunities in grain fruit cattle and hogs. It pitches illustrated guides The Corn Belt and The West Nebraska Grazing Country and announces cheap excursion tickets on the first and third Tuesdays each month to inspect the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Corn Belt
West
Aristocratic Failures in America Highlighted by Vaudeville Decline
A New York Letter in the London Express cites numerous European nobles who failed to thrive in the United States. It notes princes, counts, and dukes who lost livelihoods as waiters, hotelkeepers, doormen, or porters, contrasting royal lineage with hardship and collapse in America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Earl of Yarmouth
New World
England
United States
House of Rohan
Second Avenue
Karoyli
Austria
Lord Drummond
Earl of Perth
Duke of Melfort
Count Bernstoff
Germany
London
Prince Blucher
Count Funfkirchen
Bowery
Count Finckenstein
Frederick the Great
Foot Guards
Baltimore
Lord Yarmouth
London Express
First British census officials appointed for 1901 task
London Mail reports the first of about 50 000 census officials appointed to count Great Britain’s population in 1901. The system divides GB into districts, subdistricts, and enumeration districts, with schedules to be filled March 31 1901.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Wales
Great Britain
Registrar-General
England
London Mail
Met Water for Indigestion and Sleep Aids
A physician endorses hot water as soothing for indigestion and sleep disturbances caused by nervous irritation. He notes patients initially resist but soon benefit, with hot water taken before bed often improving symptoms.
Brimfield Village Levies Taxes for 1900 Budget
An ordinance of the village of Brimfield Illinois levies and assesses 1200 dollars for the current fiscal year for streets and sidewalks police and street commissioner salaries fees and salaries and miscellaneous purposes. The village clerk is directed to file a certified copy with the Peoria County Clerk. Passed and approved August 6, 1900 by President W L Haywanxp and Village Clerk Appilson Pacey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brimfield
Illinois
Peoria
W. L. Haywanxp
Appilson Pacey
Photography Car Open Saturday Visit
The photography car will be open on Saturdays for a short time. Teaming with J. C. Cone & Son, the event offers a brief window to view or purchase photographs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.C. Cone & Son
Burlington Route Excursions This Summer and Fall
The Burlington Route advertises National encampment G A R travel Chicago from Aug 27 to Sept 1 with one fare round trip and tickets on sale Aug 26 to 30. Special summer excursions cover Colorado Utah and Black Hills at about one fare, with various sale dates and final limits. California Oregon Puget excursions at half fare plus two dollars on set dates. Salt Lake City and Ogden also offered. Colorado Utah tickets allow stopovers. ordinary round trip tickets available daily at higher summer rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Colorado
Utah
H Lls
California
Oregon
Puget Colorado
Salt Lake City
Ogden
Denver
Illinois State Fair Opens with Revised Premiums and 340000 Cash
The Illinois State Fair at Springfield runs September 24 to 29. The premium list, now distributed nationwide, features revised classifications and increased cash premiums totaling 340000. The State Board of Agriculture aims for continued excellence with liberal premiums, cooperative exhibitor support, and grounds beautification underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Llinois
Springfield
Ilinois
State Board of Agriculture
Mrs George Long's Cure by New Discovery Saves Two
Mrs George Long of New Straitsville Ohio credits Dr King s New Discovery with curing her cough that kept her awake nightly and with saving her husband from a severe pneumonia attack The letter notes the medicine heals throat chest and lung troubles and offers 50 cents to 1 dollar with a trial at Wm Robinson Co drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Long
New Straitsville
Ohio
Wm. Robinson & Co
De Witt's Little Early Risers Advertisement
An old product ad for De Witt's Little Early Risers touts the pills as prompt and pleasant. The short promotional blurb credits Wm. Robinson & Lo. as distributors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Witt
Wm. Robinson & Lo
Bargains in 160 acres to 400 acre farms across Nebraska and Iowa
Land listings offer 160 acres near Clearfield Iowa with home stable and granaries at 8000 dollars. 195 acres near Blockton Iowa for stock farming. 40 acres by Oakdale Nebraska for truck farming at 1200 dollars. 240 acres near Mimdon Nebraska at 2500 per acre. 160 acres near Ayer Nebraska at 4000. 140 acres cultivated. 400 acres six miles from Inavale Nebraska with house granaries and springs at 12 dollars per acre. 160 acres near Beaver City and Trenton Nebraska with favorable terms. Trade possible on several properties. listings from Winner Farmington Illinois land immigration agent for CB&Q.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clearfield
Iowa
Hine Grove
Blockton
Oakdale
Neb
Mimdon
Ayer
Inivale
Beaver City
Furnace Co
Trenton
Hitchcock Co
Peoria
Knox
Fulton County
Farmington, Ill
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Pinkerton Detective Agency
Will Harding
Harding
Minois
Anno Domini
Charter I
Land OF
Burlington
Iook
Ferang Pysers
Psit
Br Steery
Europe
Africa
Asia
Chicago Record
Associated Press
Mercator
Naaress
Missouri
Kansas
E. C Dewitt & CO
WM Robinson & CO
Weapai
Bats
Richardson Med, CO
ST. Louis
DeWitt
DeWitt’s
Wm. Robinson & Coz
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