Towanda Couple Wed In Quiet Pennsylvania Ceremony
Walter L. Wiley of Peoria Illinois and Miss Rachel Kirby Read were married at the home on Chestnut Street Towanda by Rev Edwin A Gernant in a small ceremony attended by relatives and a few friends. The couple left by Black Diamond for the West. The bride is a daughter of F W Read of Alameda California and the groom is an assistant cashier at Merchants National Bank in Peoria.
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Towanda
Pennsylvania
Walter L. Wiley
Rachel Read
Rachel Kirby Read
John P. Kirby
Walter, L. Wiley
Peoria
F. W. Read
Alameda
Cal
Zylka Lodge installs officers at Pythian meeting
Zylka lodge of the Knights of Pythias held a regular convention last Friday night installing officers. Deputy Grand Chancellor Todd of Peoria conducted the ceremony as twelve new members joined in six months. Officers installed include Chancellor Commander A. Pacey and Vice Chancellor Henry Memler, with George Pursell as O. G. and other posts filled.
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Zylka Lodge
K. of P
Todd
Peoria
H. B.cox
Ilinois
A. Pacey
Henry Memler
W.L. Hayward
John Mehan
A. A. Knapp
George Pursell
Mean Trick Destroys Shirts and Letters at Skedunk News
An editor laments a theft at Skedunk Weekly News as a vandal stole every ethet in the establishment. The missing stock forces printing with a thinner schedule and counterfeit letters, but the paper vows rapid recovery and vows to pursue the culprit, whom they describe as a cowardly skunk.
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Skedunk Weekly News
Theoundrel
Boston Transcript
Appetite of a Goat Squeezed by New Life Pills Ad
An old style drugstore advertisement touts Dr King s New Life-Pills for improving appetite digestion and bodily health. It claims energy and regular habit with a 25 cent price at Wm Robinson Co’s drug store.
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Dr. King
Wm. Robinson & Co
Death notices Mrs Sarah Eaton Dies at Corvallis Ranch
Friends report the death of Mrs. Sarah J. Eaton at her daughter Mrs. S. H. Moore’s Moore ranch near Corvallis Oregon on Saturday June 30 1900 after a weeklong illness She had planned a coastal trip and was reportedly content The bereaved family receives sympathy from friends at Brimfield An autopsy certified acute general peritonitis from perforation of an old chronic ulcer at the pyloric stomach end confirming death by natural causes in Corvallis Oregon July 3 1900 Medical certificates by Carnsy A and Prxor M D
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Sarah J. Eaton
S. H. Moore
Moore Ranch
Brimfield
Eaton
Corvallis, Or
Epworth League delegates head to Peoria convention
Rev J E Meccer and H O Cady travel to Galesbury on church business. Epworth League meets at MBE church next Sunday at 6 45 PM with a quarterly missionary program. Delegates elected include Floy Sart Ollie Herrdtt Nettie Hibbe Nettie Brown Birdie Brown Lewis Hamilton Earl Hibbe H O Cady Rev J E Mercer. Two thousand delegates are expected at the Peoria gathering with bishops Gatoway Ninde and Dr Wilson among speakers. Prof E O Excell leads the choir. An excursion on the river is planned for Thursday.
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J. E. Meccer
H. O. ‘Cady
Galesbury
New Church
Epworth League
M. BE
Peoria
Vis
Floy Sart
Ollie Herrdtt
Nettie Hibbe
Nettie Brown
Birdie Brown
Lewis’ Hamilton
Earl Hibbe
H. O. Cady
J. E. Mercer
Gatoway and
Ninde
Wilson
Canada
Berry
The
Epworth Herald
Robert McIntyre
E. O. Excell
Baptist Notes Highlights from Sunday services
Attendance was strong for Pastor Cox's sermon on the immutability of Christ. Miss Nettie Johnson returns from a visit with Rev. W. H. Dickman of Somonauk. Misses Janie and Cora Marshall plan to attend the B Y P U convention in Cincinnati July 12 to 15. Grandma Gill remains poorly at Thomas Johnson's home, and Mamie Longden will lead B Y P U next Sunday. The morning sermon will be Christ the Hope of the World and the evening topic Fruitful or unfruitful, Which.
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Pastor Cox
Nettie Johnson
W. H. Dickman
Somonauk
Janie
Cora Marshall
Cincinnati
Ohio
Grandma Gill
Thomas Johnson
Mamie Longden
Burlington Route Excursions Biennial Convention Ills
The Burlington Route advertises summer and Colorado excursions with various sale dates and round trip fares. Tickets go on sale June 20 and July 9, 10, 17, and August 1 for trips to Colorado Utah Black Hills and California Oregon Puget Sound with return limits through October. Utah and Colorado stops over permitted. Salt Lake City and Ogden also offered.
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Epworth League
Wearia
Colorado
Utalla
Black Hills
California
Oregon
Puget Sound
BR. R. Murphy
Salt Lake City
Ogden
Denver
Utah
Farmer regrets ducks and water ruined his flock
A rural tale recounts a farmer who cannot keep pekin and muscovy ducks due to a nearby stream. He explains the water washes the birds downstream, despite having water nearby. He jokes about building a barn shower bath for them if ducks must have water.
Wireless telegraphy range may reach a thousand miles
Wireless telegraphy faces skepticism from many business leaders and engineers who cling to short range limits. Professor Fessenden argues Marconi’s law, linking range to the heights of sending and receiving wires, is sound, suggesting with tall towers, strong sparks, and modest tech gains, signals could traverse a thousand miles or more per the Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers as cited by the London Globe.
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Zas
Wera
Marcon
R. A. Fessenden
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Marconi
London Globe
Mammoth watch centerpiece for 1903 St. Louis Exposition
The 1903 exposition features a giant flat back watch with a polished metal case. It will be 75 feet in diameter and 40 feet tall, with a 2 ton balance wheel and a hair spring as thick as a wrist. The main spring will stretch 300 feet, and visitors can walk inside among the moving wheels.
Two Montana Men Patent Handy Knife Sharpener
Two Montana men patent a compact knife sharpener with twin grindstones in movable jaws driven by a gears within a casing. A crank rotates the train to power the stones as they glide over the blade to sharpen it.
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Montana
Clothes Brushes in Cars by South Chicago Street Railway
The South Chicago Street Railway Company has added whisk brooms and clothes brushes to its city cars. A mall cabinet in the forward end holds the brushes for traveler use, with an announcement noting they are available to passengers.
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South Chicago Street Railway Company
Leipsic compositor Kruger nears completion of Grimm dictionary
Kruger a Leipsic compositor marked his fiftieth year of service and has spent most of that time on one book. He has prepared nearly all of Grimms dictionary since 1851. Though 32,000 pages printed, the Worterbuch remains far from finished, and he may live to 100 before completion.
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Kruger
Jakob Grimm
Herr Kruger
Tristan o Acunda receives first outside news in years
The Penguin expedition will bring mails and luxury goods to Tristan o Acunda, ending a long isolation between Africa and South America. Census-like notes recount the tiny population’s growth from a few families in 1817 to around sixty-four inhabitants in 1886, highlighting scarce resources and the island’s reliance on supplies and disease control.
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Tristan O Acunda
Penguin
Tristan
Africa
South America
England
Glass
Philadelphia Times
Oysters and Public Health Alarm in Italy and Britain
A passage notes fears that oyster beds spread infectious diseases like typhoid and diphtheria in Italy and Britain. It cites Taranto’s alarm and the creation of a commissione sanitaria to study bed conditions, highlighting risks near populous seaports and sewage outlets.
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Italy
British Isles
Taranto
Executors Notice of Mary Tully Estate Peoria IL
Franz J. Foxx executor announces a Peoria County Probate Court hearing on August 20 to adjust all claims against the Mary Tully estate. The notice, dated July 5 1900, is filed in Peoria Illinois and named attorney WEIBERG Co A.
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Mary Tully
Peoria County
State of Illinois
Court House
Peoria
Franz J. Foxx
Co. A. Weiberg
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