Bargain Week at Hermsmeier & Son Store
S Hermsmeier & Son touts deep discounts with a wide range of staples and household items. Offers include sugar at 1.00 for 20 lbs, beans 8c per 8-lb can, flour at 90c per sack, coffee 20c lb, butterine 18c lb, and various canned goods and groceries. Store promises large displays, lower prices, and quality products to win customers.
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Havemeyer & Elder
Boston
Plymouth Rock
California
Golden Palace
Iowa
Kansas
Belmont
Golden Eagle
Opera Star De Pasquali Shines In Grand Evening
The press columns praise Signora De Pasquali for Santuzza and Marguerite in a Grand program with sustained tone and faultless intonation. Tim Murphy's Carpetbagger is highlighted as a major comedy success with Miss Dorothy Sherrod in the cast. Also noted is Prof John DeMotte’s lecture at the Y M C A and the cancellation of Hogan's Alley at the Grand.
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Scaichi
Signora de Pasquali
Santuzza
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Marguerite
Chicago Times Herald
The
Musical Courier
Tim Murphy
Texas
Opie Read
Frank S. Pixley
Dorothy Sherrod
Grand Opera House
Matrimony Contagious In Champaign School System
The Champaign board of education faces a staff shortage as many teachers, all young women, have married this year. About 25 percent of grade teachers have wed, reducing available faculty. The Gazette notes the issue and jokes about hiring more teachers while avoiding insinuations about the suitors.
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Champaign
Champaign Board of Education
Gazette
Quiet Wedding to Highlight Social Life Events
The holiday season features a quiet home wedding on Wednesday night January 2 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dexter A. Knowlton. Miss Marie Knowlton will wed Mr. Winthrop Coolidge of Chicago. Also noted are euchre and dance parties at Garrison hall and K of P events, a fifty fourth anniversary banquet at the Baptist church, a Fraternal Army of America program, and social receptions including Miss Alice Collman’s gathering on Prospect street.
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Dexter A. Knowlton
Marie Knowlton
Winthrop Coolidge
Chicago
The
Baptist Church
Miss Collman
Miss Alice Collman
Prospect Street
Illinois Central plans Sioux City to Omaha line
Illinois Central engineers survey a new Sioux City to Omaha route about ninety miles long to connect Sioux City with Omaha via Monona Harrison and Loveland with a junction to Fort Dodge and Omaha. The company leases Omaha bridges and terminals and has opened the Fort Dodge to Omaha segment. A porter in Dubuque, Robert Rust, shot himself in the head amid personal and family troubles.
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Sioux City
Great Northern
Omaha Northern Railway
Illinois Central
Omaha Bridge and Terminal Company
Terminal Company
Council Bluffs
Omaha
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Robert Rust
Ilinois Central
Chicago
Dubuque
The
Central
Unfair Play Sparks On Field Row Ends Game
A dispute over a quarter leads to a heated altercation in the amphitheatre where a man described as a hunchback demands repayment. The full-back instructs the half-back to ensure the man receives his money, ending the game in chaos.
Emmert and Burrell Market Natural Health Claim
A promotional claim urges skepticism of imitations and touts Emmert & Burrell’s Rocky Mountain Tea as a unique natural product. The message emphasizes originality and nature’s wonder.
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Nature
Emmert & Burrell
Market quotes close with varied gains and steady limelight
Following Board of Trade quotations for May wheat corn and oats plus January pork lard ribs show mixed closes. Union stock yards cattle and sheep receipts list 16 000 cattle and 16 000 sheep with steady to higher tendencies while Northwest receipts cover Minneapolis and Duluth figures and New York stocks follow.
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Curiaco
Board of Trade
C. W. Killen
Fry’s Block
Cxioaco
Northwestern
Minneapolis
Duluth
New Life Pills Promote Health And Energy
Advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as the busiest little health booster. Each sugar coated globule claims to turn weakness into strength and listlessness into energy, with mental power benefits. Sold by Emmert and Burrell for 25 cents per box.
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Dr. King
Emmert & Burrell
Court Delivers Verdicts in Local Cases
In a morning session Dr. Currier won full damages of 177 dollars against M H Wilcoxon. The Hughes will case near Lena saw a verdict to set aside the will on grounds of unsound mind. The People vs John Beverly for alleged theft from Alderman Burns's home proceeds. defense may urge kleptomania but likely fail.
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People
John Beverly
Beverly
Ald. Burns
Kettenhoffen
Shaw
Weather forecast for Cutcaco and Northeast
The forecast calls for fair conditions tonight and colder temperatures in the northeast region with cloudy skies on Thursday.
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Cutcaco
Illinois
Costly Graphaphone For Palmer’s Business Acquired
T. B. Hollister delivers a $150 graphaphone to L. H. Palmer's place of business. The instrument is described as among the best on the market with volume capable of filling the grand opera house.
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T. B. Hollister
L. H. Palmer
Bought a Lot Edward Grant Purchases Mayer-Seeley Addition
Edward Grant bought a lot in the Mayer Seeley addition from A C Knorr. The transfer records show the sale between the parties with designations of property and ownership change. No further details on price or terms are included in the accessible text.
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Edward Grant
Mayer-Seeley
A. C. Knorr
Gund Heads to Chicago on Business
F. M. Gund departed this afternoon for Chicago to attend to business matters.
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F. M. Gund
Chicago
Opie Read Cured by Osteopathy Says Government Should Support Schools
The author of The Carpetbagger, once invalid for years, credits osteopathy with recovery after consulting top American specialists. He recalls learning of osteopathy from a friend cured of paralysis and urges government support for osteopathic schools at major health resorts. Dr White and Mrs Barrett report success in Freeport curing chronic cases.
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Opera House
America
White
Barrett
Freeport
From Our Own Correspondent Rock Grove Notes
Mrs Sarah Kniss and daughter Katie of Freeport visited town last week. Dr Saucerman was in Monroe Wisconsin last Friday. Geo Wunchel has a very sore hand. Christmas services will be held in Brick church Saturday evening and Evan gelical church Christmas night. Senator Aspinwall lecture was well received. Solomon Wise lost two horses last week. Deputy Sheriff McCool was on streets last week. Mrs Benton offers millinery goods at cost as she closes out.
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Rock Grove
Sarah Kniss
Katie
Freeport
Saucerman
Monroe
Wis
Geo. Wunchel
Evangelical Church
Senator Aspinwall
Solomon Wise
Damascus School News and Local Happenings
Frank Phillips and Lee Madden attend Warren academy. Our Sunday school plans a Christmas program. Mrs A Martin left for St Louis and will travel to Denver. J H Stout, 81, returns to Kansas. W J Madden installs a furnace. S M Malnix visited Warren last week. John Harnish visits Elgin. Some locals attend Lena fair.
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Damascus
Frank Phillips
Lee Madden
Warren Academy
A. Martin
St. Louis
Denver
J. H. Stout
Kansas
W. J. Madden
S. M. Malnix
Warren
John Harnish
Elgin
Lena
Electric Bitters Promote New Strength For Run-Down Men
Victims to stomach liver and kidney troubles and general run down feeling find relief with Electric Bitters. J W Gardner of Idaville Ind testifies it restored appetite and vigor. He states the tonic gave him strength and a new lease on life. Only 50 cents at Emmert Burrell drug store, bottles guaranteed.
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J. W. Gardner
Idaville
Ind
Emmert & Burrell’s
Closing out sale for Ferry pianos and organs
Only two days remain in Ferry stock liquidation at 658 Stephenson Street with six pianos left and bargains saving $100 to $125. Store stays open nights under W B Brixkeruorr Special Agent. display of rich Out Glass near C H Little & Co.
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Ferry
Stephenson Street
W. B. Brixkeruorr
C. H. Little & Co
Men Only Suitings Bargain Sale This Week
Tam offers rare bargains on suitings with a stock overrun. A $33 suit is cut to $25 for this week only. Quantities limited and will move quickly. Down S. Harpstrer, the up to date merchant tailor, Aidtw.
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Tam
S. Harpstrer
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Galena
Galena ST
Telephone
Chase & Sanborn’s
Seal Brand
Chase & San
Born’s
Chase
Sanborn’s
Huenkemeier & Schwarze
Stephenson ST
DeMotte
John B. DeMotte
C. &. Dunn
Franceschetti
Abraham Lincoln Garrison
K. of G
Thimble Club Entertainment
Marth Washington Garrison Thimble Club
W.O. N. Club
W.O O.n.club
Mrs. Stewart Babcock
Union Street
Kellar & Fifer
Gibler
the Great Northern
Ayer
Addrass
J. C. Ayer
Lowell, Mass
New York
Fry’s
Atcchinson
Brooklyn
C. AN
Ches
Ohio
Bohg Perteeee Woven
Dared Steel
Federal Bteet
Eid Ig 1846
Veeweenase
Manhattan
Alyep Cenvened
Rene
Pacific
Sembagh Res
Ode Alta N. Pacific
U. Pacific
Norf
Veste
M. Odses
South
Prd
Dr. Currier
M. H. Wilcoxon
Opie
eeaKie Seabie
Bea, Y ‘Os
E. Bengston
M. V. B. Elson
A. L. Newton
Jennie Newton
Galena Avenue
Freeport, Ill
Callat Oblondort & Poder
Charac Street
State Bank
J. Burrell
Pioneer Cash Grocer
Rio
Java
Jenks Bros
Waltene Ohdky
Jd. W. Saidaaleang
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