Christmas items and notices across Peoria area
A roundup of local Christmas ads and notices lists shopping deals at Johnson-Arbor Inc and The News office including wrappings, glassware, and kitchenware. Social notes mention visits from Mrs. Frances Rogers and Mrs. Wyman, travel to Chicago, and a diphtheria quarantine for a Peoria family son Quentin Yerby. Community events cover church meetings, cantatas, and school Christmas programs with local civic notes on convention sites and upcoming celebrations.
Era Reckoning Began in Italy in Sixth Century
The practice of counting years from Christ's birth started in Italy during the sixth century and spread to France and England about two centuries later.
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Italy
France
England
Community Help Wanted and Goods for Sale ads
A misc section lists items for sale including a Poland China boar and a Majestic range with eight heating stores. Also offers for rent six rooms with furnace and bath and a yearling boar for sale. Local trucking service invites patronage and notices warn hunters to stay off Finnegan Brothers lands.
Public sale at Mart farm near Brimfield auction
Cliff Claypool holds a cash sale at his residence on the Mart farm two and a half miles northeast of Brimfield. The catalog lists two cows four horses about one hundred chickens a cream separator harnesses and farm implements. Auct M R Clark.
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Cliff Claypool
Mart
Brimfield
Vaccination Discovery Traced to Jenner in 1796
In 1796 the British physician Edward Jenner introduced vaccination testing a method to protect against smallpox. The finding marked a turning point in medical science and public health with vaccines becoming a standard preventive measure worldwide.
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Tricycles
Johnson-Arber, Inc
Christian Science Monitor
Daly
Christian Science Publishing Society
Norway Street
Boston
Massachusetts
The
Genet
Overen
Zern Pharmagy
Brimfield, Illinois
Bill Harding
Sweney
Elizabeth Notzke
Peoria
Memler’s
Eva Clark
Frances Rogers of
Sparland
Florence Wyman
John Zern
Chicago
John A. Neal
Sleepy Eye, Minn
W. J. McCowan
Raymond W. Newell
Quentin
Mrs. Talbert Yerby
E. L. Coberley
Bob
Springfield
Johnson -Arbor Inc
Johnson-Arber Inc
Altar and Rosary Society
John Schelkopf
Neikirk’s
Mr. Brown
Pearson
American Weekly
Chicago Herald and Examiner
Horace Braun
Union Church Schoool
All Men’s Church Club
Elmwood
H A Blundy
R W Blundy
Joe
Washington
Iowa
Mr. Blundy
George Reed
California
Arthur Hartley
Proctor Hospital
Union Church School
Cleveland
Kansas City
Frank Knox
Landon
Kansas
Ohio
Pyrex Gift Seta
Johnson&Archer Inc
Auto Sales Co
Membra
Johnson Arbor, Inc
Frances Kingdon
Roger L. Pacey
Casey
Milwaukee Journal
Johnson-Arcor Inc
Malin Street
Eagle Lake
Johnson Gravel Pit
Herb McGuire
Albert Thompson
Farm Bureau
Millbrook
Eldon McKown
Tom Maher
Andy Jakson
N. Miller
Bay City
Texas
John G. Oglesby
Decatur
Oglesby
Logan County
Yates
General Assembly
Chicago Post
Knox
Theodore Roosevelt
Strageda
Hampshire
Hog
A. Welch
Poland
Chichester
Inquire News Office
Majestic
A. T. Babcock
S. A. Kellogg
Martin McDonough
Cusack Coal Company
Edwards
Finnegan Brothers
M. R. Clark
Jenner
Tur Bambeco News
Grumfield Illinois
Addison Pacey
Mildred Pacey
Franklin Upland Brake Service Co
E.F Lottman
Peta
Mr. and
Mrs. H. O. Cady
Cady Grocery
Mcdonough
Rome
Cecil Hardware CO
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