Hunting Season Opens Across Regions With Plentiful Game
Reports from South Dakota Wisconsin and Nebraska indicate abundant game for the coming season as prairie chickens and ducks surge in numbers. Licenses proliferate at county clerks offices while rules tighten on bird deer season dates and prohibited periods.
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South Dakota
Nebraska
Freeport Nimrods
Milwaukee and
St. Paul
Mitchell
Missouri River
Wisconsin
Miny
Mbhe
Need Men on New Road Delays in Electric Line Work
A contractor overseeing the Elgin and Belvidere electric line reports difficulty securing workers and tents during harvest, hindering progress. The company hopes to complete enough trading to lay steel this fall with aim to finish the line by spring. A prominent electric railroad figure notes that this season is unfavorable to starting a new road.
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Elgin
Belvidere
Rockford and Interurban Railway Push Freeport Branch
The Rockford and Interurban Railway company reports difficulty securing workers for the Freeport branch as farmers hire labor during harvest. Contractors plan one third of teams and hire the rest. several teams are needed for the Belvidere Brigin line. The road survey is complete, grading begun, steel purchased and part delivered with some expected to be laid this Fall.
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Rockford & Interurban Railway Company
Freeport
Belvidere- Brigin
Jane Addams May Lead Chicago School Board Committee
Chicago Chronicle reports the possible appointment of Jane Addams of Hull House as chairman of the school management committee of the Chicago board of education. President Edward Tilden and Mayor Dunne are cited as favoring her, with talk of radical committee changes before next Wednesday's meeting.
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Jane Addams
Cedarville
Chieago
Edward Tilden
Board of Education
Hull House
Dunne
Miss Addams
Tilden
Gov Denies Illinois Cities May Face Local Lid
Springfield Aug 26 Governor Denene n follows Attorney General Steads view that local officials enforce laws not the governor The AG letter to Edwin A Wilson cites constitutional history and notes local self government remains for municipalities counties and towns The piece also includes an advertisement for Golden Hagle trousers with peg top styles 8 28dwlw.
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Springfeld
Deneen
Stead
Folk
Hanly
Ditnois
Edwin A. Wilson
USTU
Polly Primrose and The Royal Chef at Grand Opera House
Amusements section notes Polly Primrose a witty student navigates secessionist tensions and a guest who is a Union sympathizer, ending in engagement. Also previews The Royal Chef at the Grand Opera House with top Chicago run, plus Digby Bell in The Education of Mr Pipp touring the middle west.
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Polly Primrose
Colonel Primrose
Washington
Lee
Capitol
Polly
Grand Opera House
Chicago
Messrs. Shubbert
Digby Bell
Middle West
Augustus Thomas
Mr. Pipp
Gibson
Daniel V. Arthur
Liberty Theater
Arthur
Digby Beil
Clinacis Theatre
Indiana
Illinois
St. Louis
Lexington
Cincinnati
Sylvester Maguire
W. S. St. Clair
Sam Coit
Robert Warwick
Frank Powell
Fred Courtnay
William Evans
Harry L. Lang
C. Jay Wilams
Frederick Reynolds
Charles Devlin
William Metzler
Eugene Goodrich
Helen Tracy
Janet Beecher
Adele Luehrman
Bessie Baldwin
Ellenore Carroll
Grace Thorne
Edytha Johnston
Band Contest in Chicago at White City
A championship band contest will be held at White City Chicago's new amusement enterprise during the week beginning July 1. Prizes totaling 2400 will be awarded at the end of the contest. Heaney and Globe bands of this city have been invited to participate.
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New York
Gotham
Stanislaus Stange
Powers
Chicago
F. C. Whitney
Alice Fisher
Sus
Lady Manners
White City
New Amusement Enterprise
Ie Heaney
Globe
Do you suffer indigestion and constipation Hoallister's Tea ad
Advertises Hoallister's Rocky Mountain Tea to relieve indigestion constipation and low energy. Claims promise improved appetite strength and mood. Mentions 36 cents and product packaging labeled Yea or Tablets. Also notes clothing for children and a Golden Eagle store.
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Hoallister
Joseph Kimmert
Eclipse Visible in Freeport at Dawn on Wednesday
Early risers in Freeport may witness a total sun eclipse next Wednesday with sunrise at 6 12 am and greatest shadow around 6 33 am. The spectacle, lasting about one hour sixteen minutes, depends on favorable weather and will be observed with smoked glass.
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Freeport
Spain
United States Navy
Scotty Tracked to Lair in Goldfield Nevada
Goldfield Nevada August 27 report says Walter Scott alias Scotty is hidden in Bull Frog mining district about 100 miles southeast of Lady Mountain near Furnace Creek. Stampede to reach the area follows Miles discovery of a chasm with walls and a satchel identifying Scott plus recent camp gear and champagne bottles.
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W.T. Miles
Bull Frog
Furnace Creek Ranch
Scotty
Scott
Miles
Lodge Emblem Back to Civil War Sword
George Woods of Elk City returns a sword captured from Colonel A F Rodgers of Alton NL during the Rome Georgia battle of May 28 1863. The weapon, a Civil War relic with a Masonic emblem, was worn daily by Woods as a Confederate cavalryman under Forester until he recovered it and arranged its return after discovering Rodgers.
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Guthrie
George Woods
Elk City
A. F. Rodgers
Alton
Woods
Rome
Forester
Rodgers
Lincoln's Birthplace Farm Sold in Kentucky Auction
Abraham Lincoln's birthplace, a 10 acre farm in Hodgenville Kentucky, sold today under court order in the A W Dennette bankruptcy case to BR J Collier of New York, via J J McDarmott, for 3600 dollars as an investment. Fraud warnings follow about counterfeit King’s New Discovery remedies.
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Hodgenville
Abraham ‘Lincoln
BR. J. Collier
New York
J. J. McDarmott
Louisville
A. W. Dennette
Dr. King
Buckten
H.W. Buckten & Co
Chicago
Notice to Dairymen from Wisconsin Goudensea Milk Co
Notice to dairymen in Peontonica IL that Wisconsin Goudensea Milk Co will pay $1.15 per hundred pounds for August milk at their factory, not by test. Payments monthly on the 28th. Shipping tickets via interurban line available at Freeport station for $1 each, delivering one can to the factory and returning it to the shipper.
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Wisconsin Goudensea Milk Co
Peentonica
Freeport
Siddew
High School Patrons and Pupils Consult About Studies
On Thursday and Friday this week the high school principal invites all parents and pupils to visit his office in the high school building to discuss courses of study elective subjects irregular work college requirements and any other business related to the department.
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Princirpan Hian Sopoor
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