The Guileless Boy and the Mysterious Pair at Sea
A colonial era stage voice laments lowly labor and dreams of boyhood days while a seaside tale unfolds of Mr Gregory and a pair named Mr and Mrs Grice. Their scheme to claim forged checks is exposed by lips reading and swift detective work, ending with justice served and a postponed return.
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Mr. Gregory
Lily
Thorns
Mr. Briggs
Hiad
Sean
Gregory
Her Majesty
Briggs
Suleme Diegister
Doubtful Acquaintances at the Seaside Boarding House
The narrator and family befriend Mr. Gregory after a comic key incident. Lily, an elderly boarder, and others discuss second sight and spiritualism while the young man proves agreeable, intelligent, and well liked despite hints of danger.
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Lily
Mr. Gregory
The Gorillace Language of Indictments
A humorous excerpt from the Journal of Education describes a child and a Michigander debating the Indictment of Guiteau. It portrays a mock ancient tongue called Gorillace that confounds witnesses and jurymen and keeps murderers from the gallows.
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Guiteau
Michivander
Journal of Education
Agricultural yield estimates for straw per acre
A Country Gentleman correspondent notes that 10 bushels per acre yield roughly half a ton of straw, 20 bushels about 1500 pounds, and 30 bushels about a ton. He adds that higher yields require less straw per bushel.
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The
Country Gentleman
Supreme Court rules on County and Probate Courts in Illinois
Abstract of a Supreme Court decision from Mt Vernon 1982 holds County Courts retain original probate jurisdiction, Probate Courts may exist but not exclude County Courts, and laws creating mixed or local probate authority are unconstitutional. It outlines census notice, constitutional interpretation, and county classification limits.
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Supreme Court
Chicago
H—E
General Assembly
Cook
la Salle
Illinois News In Brief From Supreme Court To Rail Accidents
The Illinois Supreme Court reversed a note interest ruling affecting principal collection. Morgan County reports 16 137 under 21 and 10 388 aged 6 to 21. Insane Morgan County citizen Thomas Price sent to Dr McFarland’s Jacksonville asylum. Newcomb locates treasure east of Pana but conceals exact spot. An assassination attempt on Canton Register editor C B Snively failed. bullet hit stove urn. Fireman Louis Quandt killed on the Indianapolis & St. Louis Road at Pana. Charles Ferguson killed by train near Chicago. his pocket contained 32 000 grand lodge certificate, two watches, money and whisky. Fire at M Augustine’s Normal residence caused 2 0 0 loss. Robert Flore declared insane, to Jacksonville, malarial fever. Spring ferry between Rock Island and Davenport to be retired for a new craft built at Jeffersonville, Indiana. Secretary of State fees for year to Jan 10 total 8608 25, all to Treasury. Tobin’s Rochester store safe blown. 125 stolen. A farm hand who eloped and married Iowa farmer’s daughter in Moline freed from perjury charge over age claim on license. Seventy feet of Cairo–Mound City railway trestle destroyed by vandals.
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Supreme Court of
Pana
C. BK. Sniveley
Canton Register
Louis Quandt
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Charles Ferguson
Chicago
Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen
M. Augustine
Normal
Treasury
John Tobin
Rochester
Iowa
Moline
Cairo
Mound City
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W. M. Kennedy, Poslisher
Guileless
Tam
Anna
Manhattan Beach
Theocritus
Nell
Durham
AR. K. Minncatrick
Puck
Smith
Great Vlce
Josephus
Mrs. Grice
Grices
Powers of
Unele
Enoch Arden
Enoch
Mr Smith
Mr. Grice
Lim
Illinois State News
Probate
Illinois
Robert Flore
Macon County
Jacksonville
Rock Island
Davenport
Jeffersonville, du
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