Annual financial statement for Township No.11 Peoria County Ill
Township treasurer presents receipts and expenditures for the year ending April 29 1901. Items detail cash on hand and distributions for township funds and school districts with notes on land sales notes taxes and railroad distributions. Includes balance carried to April 1 1901 and expenditures across trustees treasurer and district operations. Also contains a long Nebraskan farming promotion excerpt.
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Range 5
Peoria County
Jubilee letters and town notices from Peoria to Winterset
A jumble of local items reports residents visiting relatives in Peoria and Hastings Nebraska, a good feed mill for sale due to ill health, and civic moves. Prof Geo M Palmer departs for the Philippines to teach education for $2400 yearly. Local appointments include Paul Hall as private secretary to Chicago Postmaster Coyne. Rev Thompson to preach at St Paul’s Jubilee and discussions on a boys school. A Whedon of Winterset cites a carpenter’s diarrhoea remedy experience and praises Chamberlain’s Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
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H. Mosley
Low Point
Jubilee
Mra. B. R. Ryan
Mra. R. B. Riaks
Peoria
Clark Brown
Brimfield
Illinois
Frank Hayward
Hastings
Nebraska
Mr. Hayward
C. E.waters
Kewanee
Geo. M. Palmer
Averyville
Phillipines
J. J. Pursell
Blanche
Gertrude Bowman
Geo Mashaney
Marsville
Paul Hall
Postmaster Coyne
Chicago
Thompson
Tiskilwa
St. Paul’s Church
College
Iti
St Alban’s School
Knoxville
Kickapoo Cor
Peona Herald
Whedon
Winterset
Iowa
Heapya
Chamberlain
Wm. Robinson & Co
A Poor Millionaire Lately Starved in London
A Poor Millionaire Lately starved in London because he could not digest bio food. Early use of Dr Kings New Life Pills would have saved him. They strengthen the stomach aid digestion promote assimilation improve appetite. Price 25¢. Money back if not satisfied. Sold by Wm Robinson Co druggists.
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London
Dr. King
Wm. Robinson & Co
Cure dyspepsia by dieting and Kodol Dyspepsia Core
An advertisement asserts that proper dieting and plenty of well digested food cure dyspepsia. It promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Core as containing all natural digestants to digest every food class, aiding digestion, nourishing the body, restoring tissues, and improving health and appetite. The claim is attributed to Wm. Robinson & Co.
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Dew
Wm. Robinson & Co
Leprosy in the United States Found in Immigrants
A Washington directed scientific inquiry reports about 275 leprosy cases in the United States with potential underreporting. Most cases are foreigners, concentrated in New Orleans and upper Midwest rural Scandinavian communities, with rapid spread noted in Louisiana and calls for stronger supervision and control.
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United States
Washington
New Orleans
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Chicago
New York
America
Dakotas
Louisiana
Beestung Deaths End Mill Lem Fields Team Hazards
Frank O Neill an Mille Lux employee near Los Banos Mexico drove a bee attacked derrick wagon team. Bees swarmed alfalfa fields in Millem and Tenant areas causing stings fatal to two horses while O Neill narrowly escaped with numerous stings but survived. The team was large and gentle on the Millem firm.
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Bera
Frank O'Neil
Mille & Lux
Los Banos
Mexico
O'Neill
Millem & Tenant
The Elevator Cure Captivates New York Ladies
The Montreal Star notes a new cure dubbed the elevator cure. It suggests moving elevators aid blood circulation. Elevator operators in tall district areas report rising interest among residents seeking the cure.
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New York
Saya
Montreal Star
Bismarck Portraits and Morley’s Gladstone Biography
A German officer asks who Bismarck was and receives varied guesses from nine to seven views. some see him as founder of the German empire or an emperor while others call him a key general. John Morley’s Life of Gladstone progresses slowly as he uncovers Gladstone’s Hawarden papers, explaining the task of shaping a near ninety year life.
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Bismarck
Vnsistent
John Morley
Gladstone
Typewriter Gaelic and Nation's Rebel Husband
The Dublin Gaelic movement yields a new Irish language typewriter while Irish is heard in government offices. Carrie Nation’s husband, Captain David Nation, living in Marion Indiana, vows to remain away for life, preferring his daughter and grandchildren over his wife who he says annoys him. He is 78.
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Gaelic League
Dublin
Dubln
Mra. Nation
David Nation
Carrie Nation
Marion
Ind
Mr. Nation
Mrs. Nation
Piers Rental Revenues Attract Major Shipping Lines
The article notes New York earns about a million dollars yearly from pier rentals to lines such as Cunard, White Star, American, Atlantic Transport, French, Leyland, and National. White Star leads with 217000 dollars, Cunard at 120000, American at 88131, highlighting the city’s advantageous harbor leases.
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New York
Cunarosillo
White Star
American
Atlantic Transport
Leyland
National
Cunard
Ainsiee
Jay Goulds First Trade at Roxbury School
Two boys, Jay Gould and John Burroughs, shared a Roxbury New York school. Gould traded books for Burroughs 80 cents in copper pennies, yielding a small fortune for a child and a memory of thrift. Burroughs later recalled the barter fondly as a happy beginning.
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Jay Gould
John Burroughs
Roxbury
N. Y
John
Jason
Gould
Burroughs
Rights of Children and a Cambridge Tablet Tale
Article discusses Arthur MacDonald's test on children's sense of rights with a tale of Jamie and a dog, showing mixed views on rightful ownership. It notes Cambridge city council placing a stone tablet on Brattle Street and references a tree fallen years earlier, a birthday chair gift, and Longfellow's poetic response.
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Chilicren
Arthur MacDonald
Everybody's Magazine
Jamie
City ‘Council
Cambridge
Mass
Brattle Street
Brory
Longfellow
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