Parcel post and rural life notes in Illinois column
A collection of practical notes on parcel post use for small towns, rural carriers, and the USPS savings system. It covers live shipments restrictions, bee shipments, eggs and produce zones, and the value of telephones and rail for rural commerce. Also includes safety reminders about fly poison, lawn upkeep, and community notices from a leading Illinois daily.
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Parcel. Post
Visits in Kansas
Mr and Mrs J W Crookshanks recently visited Mr and Mrs Henry Fuller at Liberal Kansas. Crookshanks, posing as a visitor, went to the dry country to buy cattle but found prices higher there. He instead secured a horned load he plans to exhibit if it does not get away.
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J. W. Crookshanks
Henry Fuller
Liberal
Kan
Crookshanks
Leases Opera House For Stock Company Circuit
J E Hunter of Brookfield spent the week in our city and leased the opera house for a fall and winter stock company tour. He has managed the Brookfield airdome and promises only clean shows. The opera house will be papered and made presentable as paper hangers can work.
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J. E. Hunter
Brookfield
Hunter
Airdome
Lost and Won on the Local Diamond
Milan’s eleven beat our team six to two on errors at home. Monday we traveled to Linneus and won eight to two, proving good players push through errors and give their best every game.
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Milan
Linneus
Potter Heads to Annual Conference in St Charles
Rev W O G Potter and his family travel to Hannibal where his relatives will host them while he attends the annual conference at St Charles. Potter has served as pastor of the M Y C S church for four years and during that period about one hundred seventy members have joined the church.
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Potter
Als
W. O. G. Potter
Hannibal
St. Charles
Milan Woman Hosts Mother During Visit
Mrs. Ed Slack of Milan visited Monday with her mother Mrs. F. M. Haymaker. The Brookfield couple's infant died Monday at the Cotter home. Funeral services led by Rev. M. R. F. Nickell were held Tuesday at 2 o'clock, with burial in Hooker cemetery. Readers urged to support local advertisers this week.
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Ed Slack
Milan
F. M. Haymaker
Nat Eldredge
Brookfield
George Cotter
M. R. F. Nickell
Hooker
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