Open market plan eyed to cut Rockford living costs
Rockford manufacturers discuss buying a property to fit as a public market where farmers can sell directly to housewives. The plan aims to lower living costs, expand stalls like large city markets, and ease worker recruitment, though no definite action has been taken yet. Rockford merchants back local trade but warn against harming existing jobs and municipal tax support. The outcome remains uncertain as talks continue.
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Rockford
Sterling Wavers Move in Market Idea for Rockford
A Sterling paper argues Rockford should host a public market to supply table supplies at lower prices, reducing grocers losses on stale stock. It cites eastern markets that stay popular for a century, with Philadelphia and Chicago haymarket given as examples of direct supplier access and ongoing patronage.
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Sterling
Rockford
Philadelphia
Reading
Lancaster City
Baltimore
Harrisburg
Chicago
Senator Bailey's Father Dead in New Orleans
New Orleans March 21 Sen Bailey's father died early this morning while Bailey was en route. Born in New York in 1884, the elder Bailey was the father of Senator Bailey.
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Senator Bailey
New Orleans
Dw. Bailey
Bailey
New York
Well Worth Trying New Life Pills Endorsement from Pittsfield
W H Brown a pension attorney of Pittsfield Vermont says Dr King's New Life Pills are best next to a pension. He notes they keep his family in splendid health and recommends quick relief for headache constipation and biliousness. 250 guaranteed at Joseph Emmert's drug store.
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W. H. Brown
Pittsfield
Dr. King
Joseph Emmert
Northwestern college fundraiser at Naperville event
A program of musical selections and recitations with refreshments will be held this evening to raise money for a new dolls hall at Northwestern College in Naperville. Capers Shrine will hold a dance and search party at the Masonic Temple on Tuesday evening April 3 with cards at 8:30.
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Oak Street
Capérbaum
Capernau’ Shrine
Masonic Temple of Huesday
Crabs Helped in Rabbit Hunt
A boy on a southern England property used crabs and a candle to flush rabbits from burrows. He placed a lit candle on a crab and waited as a rabbit emerged, then pursued it with a coat and clothing used as makeshift blinds. The outcome: the boy captured the rabbit after a chase.
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Édast
England
Korea News
Priceless air and its vital role in health
Quote from Professor S L Woodbridge in Good Housekeeping extols pure air as the most priceless yet costless necessity for life. It asserts that clean air sustains vitality, prevents disease, and that investing in pure air yields immense returns, framing air as the essential atmospheric energy source for the body.
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S. IL. ‘Woodbridge
Good Housekeeping
Arabs and Portraits in Algiers
Morocco writes of an artist who struggled to sketch Arabs in Algiers. A Moor, friendly through barter, warns that making their pictures risks the artist’s afterlife penalties for taking souls, saying Allah will question who gave souls to those images.
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Morocco
Algiers
Allah
March events listed for Lexington and area halls
Several social dances lectures and card parties are scheduled between March and April at Lexington hall Blust's hall Masonic temple Masonic hall Y M C A and First Presbyterian church. Notable items include Joe Fifers dancing school March 21 and multiple lectures on religious topics by Dr Willett and F A Strough with dates March 9 21 22 25 26 and April 3 16 20.
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Joe Fifer
Lexington Hall
Willett
Christ
First Presbyterian Church
Prof
Dawson
Blust's Hall
Prof. Dawson
Blust
Masonic Hall
L. B
L. F
Amity Society
Masonicemple
Y.M.C. A
YMA
F. A. Strough
The Tie That Binds at the Grand Opera House
At the Grand Opera House the schedule lists March 21 for The Tie That Binds and March 23 for When We Were. Two events on March 21 include The Tie That Binds and When We Were. Later showings feature Buster Brown and The Wayward Daughter with dates through April 20 for Lyman Howe's Moving Pictures and His Father's Bin.
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Grand Opera House
al H. Wilson
Buster Brown
Chas.'e. Grapevn
Aprius
Lyman Howe
Moving Pictures
Postprandial Spoonfuls and Prayers Tasteful Meal
A fragmentary snippet hints at postprandial moments and shared prayers after a meal. The garbled line references feasting and devotion, suggesting a quiet cultural or religious custom around dining. Names, places, or dates are not discernible.
Freeport Building and Loan Fifty-Second Series Stock Offer
Freeport Building and Loan Association announces fifty first series stock now available with monthly payments of fifty cents per share and no membership fee. Demand for loans is unusually strong as the building season begins, assuring profitable investment of the association’s funds. CG. F. Hildreth.
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Freeport Building and Loan Association
CG. F. Hildreth
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