Fulton Illinois Legal and Medical Notices
Dr G H Thompson lists office hours from 8 a m to 6 p m at two doors south of Hansen’s Military coal City phone 1819 Fulton Illinois C C McMahon attorney at law special attention to contested cases conveyancing and abstracting collections promptly made to office over the Fulton Bank Fulton Illinois
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. H. Thompson
Dentit
Hansen's
Fulton
Illinois
C. C. M’mahon
Collecons
Fulton Bank
Probate and Estate Settlement Notices
Special notices regarding wills probate business settlement of estates of deceased persons and trial cases. Both phones listed. Located over First National Bank Morrison Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First National Bank
Morrison
Illinois
London Ruins and a Goose Line in New Jersey
A New England congressman recalls a London remark about ruins and streets. In Towaco New Jersey farmer Wesley Jacobs shoots geese, finds a Simpset line baited with hooks. Edward Potter, sculptor, aims to use a Kentucky horse as General Custer’s statue model.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley ‘Jacobs
Jacobs
Houtiot
Edward C. Potter
Fulton Journal 1854 issue notes and editorial snips
The Fulton Journal notes its 1854 establishment with weekly Tuesday and Friday issues. The clipped text offers poems, editorial opinions on journalism exchanges, views on perseverance in business, health screening by life insurers, and critiques of rapid wealth pursuit shaping American life.
Local notes from Fulton and nearby towns
Tuesday visitors include J Murray Eaton from our burg and Robert Clark from Fulton. Mrs. Elmer Cormany, Miss Emma Sweet, and Miss Margaret Parker visit Clinton and Morrison. Mrs. Fisk aids A Stewart’s ill daughter. The sermon May 4 in Presbyterian church is Taking Time. Smallpox quarantine affects the Davis and Gump households in Savanna. Judge Baume rules on Sunfish Lake drainage. possible supreme court appeal. Rev J H Millard in poor health. More preaches at M E church. W R C supper well attended despite bad weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J Murray Eaton
Burg
Elmer Cormany
Clinton
Robert Clark
Fulton
Presbyterian Church
A.4
Stewart
Emma Sweet
Fulton Friends
Margaret Parker
Margaret Vanden Berg
Morrison
Fisk
Viola
A. Stewart
R. G. Knapp
Chicago
Samuel Armstrong
Ladies’ Aid Society
D. S. Stone
Charles Guse
Mr. Burghardt
O. F
Rebekaha
C. Lamb
Pratt House
Earl Groharing
Lew Sears
Charlie Nason
Richard Graharing
Charles Nason
George Melendy
Will Davis
John Gump
Woodland Township
Davis
Savanna
Gump
Sunfish Lake
Carroll County
Baume
Supreme Court
J. H. Millard
More
M E
Reclining Habits and Posture Discussed by Berlin Doctors
A Berlin medical lecture cites Dr. Gelbke and Dr. Kruche noting ancient chairs were rare and reclining was common for meals and rest. They argue sitting harms health, praise evening exercise or rocking chairs, and reference historical shifts from reclining to sitting in medieval times. A separate anecdote recalls a recruit avoiding prison by joke. Lithographic stone and Bavaria quarries are also mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kruche
Munich
Darwin Centenary Celebrated in Cambridge Fourth Week of June
Report from the Youngs endorses a university commemorative event for the Charles Darwin centenary to be held in Cambridge England during the fourth week of June. Confirmation has been received by the ay te. a al.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Darwin
Cambridge
England
Local updates from Morrison and surrounding areas
Sunshine returns after showers as residents note travel to Amarillo for real estate, corn planting begins, and visiting relatives depart. Milkmilk cows arrive from western Iowa for local farms while Francis Hook recovers from appendicitis. Community groups meet and local carpenters work on a newly purchased farm home. April 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Smaltz
Amarillo
Texas
Body
Heotman Dykema
Albert Mathews
Morrison
Robert Arnold
Iowa
Rev. Zook
Clyde
Spring Valley
Arthur McKee
Fred Bristle
Dominck Hook
Clinton
Francis Hook
James Green
Albert Rhymers
Will Adams
N. G. Club
Ustick
Union Grove
Wilmot Fisk
James McCullagh
Charles Erickson
Fulton
Andrew Hook
Erie News Briefs Highlight Local Visits and Events
Mrs Elizabeth Seely of Prophetstown visits her brother R J Thompson and family. Several residents attend family gatherings including Mrs Calloway Orion and others from Trinidad De Kalb and Erie. A 1908 wedding M G Cady and Hattie Hansen noted with attendance. A child of Rob Dennis dies from whooping cough and pneumonia. Fr Timmerman buys Marz property now located there. Burridge Bros ship two carloads of fat cattle to stockyards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Seely
Prophetstown
R. J. Thompson
Harry Beardsworth
Clarence Eggleston
Wallace Turner
Frank Schmied
Winnie
Schmied
Sarah Bease
A Edmondson
Calloway
Orion
Davenport
Trinidad
Colo
Carrie
DeKalb
Grace
Herman Schryver
L. E. Mathews
Bert Thompson
Fenton
Lulu Young
Morrison
Arthur James
Glean Olinger
Rob Dennis
Timmerman
Marz
Burridge Bros
Local notes and social updates from Savanna and Clinton
The column notes weather reflections praising gentler rain, visits from Miss Purcell and Mrs Bieleama, and Saturday returns of Mrs Earl and Miss Orcott. It covers Decoration day planning with the M E church, W R C, and speaker Dr Stetson, plus health news about Mary Bart in Mt Vernon Iowa and Mrs H Sanburn attending the Savanna observance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Purcell
Savanna
Arthur Pape
Bieleama
Josie
Fulton
Earl
Orcott
Clinton
M. E
W. R C
Stetson
Alfred Schmaling
Baby
Falton
Almeron Bart
Mt. Vernon
Mary
H. Bsanburn
Estates Probate Filings and Creditors Notices Compiled
Probate docket lists numerous estate actions including petitions to sell real estate to pay debts for Lafayette Lee and Henry Morris, claims allowed for Elizabeth Gaffey and Charles Morris, and affidavits of posting for Maria Boynton. Admin letters ordered for Ebba Torrroth and Peter Mattson. probate hearings set for May 1908 and notices issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette Lee
M. Turner Lee
Henry Morris
Elizabeth Gaffey
Charles Morris
Francis McRae
Sarah Bulen
James Cunniff
John Cunniff
Ebba C. Torrroth
Malcolm Tornroth
Maria Boynton
Samuel Albertson
Alice H. Rickless
George W Burns
Peter Mattson
Michael Deter
Mark A Root
Steven Eckdahl
N D Hoffman
City of
Morrison
Deidrick Gerkens
Sarah Wells
Jennie A Geyer
Adam Smith
John Gloumley
Henry M Giles
Ann Barkholder
Andrew McFadden
Reuben C Williams
Real Estate Transfers Listed From Sterling and Surrounding Areas
A sequence of property transfers including William B Carolus to Ella F Carolus and to Alice C Williams in Sterling, various lots and lands in Fulton Rock Falls Jordan Albany Erie Morrison and more, with prices from $1 to $8,000 and multiple heirs and companies named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William B Carolus
Ella F. Carolus
Sterling
Alice C. Williams
Catherine Reagan
Margaret Baldwin
Fulton
D. L
J W. Martin
Charles Haas
Rock Falls
A. McDearmon Et al
Harry Laidig
Elvis Williams
Jordan
Nora E Williams
Elis Williams
Charles E Keisel
Phares H Landis
John Blaine
Charles Freebey
Margaret Steele
Charles Steele
Mary Yopst
Effie B. Yopast
Albany
George L. Hollinshead
Emma W. Hollinshead
J W Martin
H. W. Frye
Lovina Thompson
Wylie Richmond
Portland
Emanuel Betzbeira
D G Ackerman Et al
Clyde
Louis A. Lemke Et al
Patent Novelty Company
Belle Shoup
Samuel Bonner
A. C. Fulton
Albert Jones
Diedrick Gerken
Deer Grove
Thomas Ward
Chester H. Weiner
Erie
Louisa Taylor
Omke Voss
Fenton
A. P Pelham
Bessie Dean
Morrison
Dr King’s Pills Sold With Gold Worth Guarantee
Cedar View Mississippi merchant B G Stewart promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills claiming buyers get gold weight value per box for constipation malaria or biliousness. Sold under guarantee at A C Williams’s drug store for twenty five cents. A joke contrasts pessimism of Poor Brown with an optimist boasting a horseless carriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. G. Stewart
Cedar View
Miss
Dr King
A. C. Williamson
Father of Baseball Chadwick Remembered As National Game Pioneer
Henry Chadwick known as the father of baseball died recently in Brooklyn. He helped popularize baseball as a national sport and wrote key guides while opposing rule violations. He played early on in Hoboken and remained a staunch advocate for a blacklist to protect the game’s integrity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Chadwick
United States
Brooklyn
America
Chadwick
Hoboken
N. J
Gotham
Eagle
Staten Island
New York
New Jersey
Father Chadwick
Titania the Sea Dog Aboard the Algeria
Captain Peter McLean of the Anchor liner Algeria sails to the Mediterranean with Titania a crossbred pug fox terrier given by Ouida’s British consul executor. Titania joined the captain after Ouida’s dying wish and now keeps watch on the bridge, once seasick now at home at sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algeria
Peter McLean
New York
Mediterranean
Titania
Ouida
Via Reggio
Florence
McLean
Leghorn
A Big Wolf Chase in Blanchard Oklahoma
Oklahoma sportsmen stage one of the largest drives on record with a wolf hunt set for May 14 15 and 16 at Blanchard. The event mirrors English chases but on a larger scale and draws 185 trained dogs with expectations of many more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma Sportsmen
Blanchard
Okla
England
Natural thermometer found in sapphire crystal
A sapphire led Dr. Sorby to the nature of squid in crystals. A tube shaped cavity quarter inch diameter acted as a thermometer with liquid filling at 50 degrees F and 89 degrees. Rate of expansion suggested carbonic acid as the liquid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Sorby
Sorby
San Francisco Welcomes U S Fleet After Great Earthquake Recovery
San Francisco readies for the arrival of the fleet from Hampton Roads as it steams toward the Golden Gate after a coastwise tour. The city boasts rapid rebuilding since the 1906 earthquake with 10,000 new structures, new fire protection, and grand celebrations planned including a Salvation Army battleship Conqueror, a May 7 banquet, and a public welcome amid massive crowds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golden Gate
The
Salvation Army
Fo J
Hampton Roads
South America
California
San Diego
San Francisco
Pacific
Chinatown
Edward R. Taylor
United States
Victor H Metcalf
Navy Department
Robley D. Evans
Telegraph Hill
Taylor
Fairmount Hotel
General store owner praises Dr King’s New Discovery in Ohio
Omega Ohio businessman Mr. E. Humphry, president of Adams County Telephone and Home Telephone of Pike County, says the remedy saved his life. He claims it reached the cough spot and aided throat lung and chest. Sold at A. C. Williamson's drug store for fifty cents and one dollar, trial bottle free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. E. Humphry
Omega
Ohio
Adams County Telephone Company
Homeelephone Company
Pike County
Dr. King
A. C. Williamson’s
New Cook Demonstrates Ostensible Kitchen Ordering Board
Mrs Billings greets a Finnish maiden Ina who explains a perforated board listing butter eggs sugar coffee tea molasses. Pegs placed in holes would trigger orders but Ina finds the board seemingly faulty after days of failed uses.
The Voice and the Phonograph Vaudeville Bit
A vaudeville monologist explains to a friend that his clearer speech comes from recording on a phonograph. He says practicing with the device helped him correct slovenly speech and improve diction beyond his theater years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hale
Webster
New York Sun
Catfish Lung Ear Structure Described in Detail
The passage explains that catfish use their swim bladder as a hearing organ. The air sac, linked to the esophagus by a tube, sits near the spine and is reinforced by a vertebral chain. This natural tympanum extends an ear-like function, though with limited sound range.
Crusoe discovers human footprints and a billboard on the island
In a fragment from an old Chicago Tribune note, Robinson Crusoe finds footprints leading to a sea billboard reading Use Bank's Pills For All Liver Troubles. The publishers, driven by greed, refused to pay rates, so the incident was omitted from the book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe
Chicago Tribune
First Monotheists in Ancient Egypt
The New York American notes that Egypt housed early monotheists with two streams of teaching. The masses followed polytheism while a small elite embraced belief in a single god, with Osiris seen as only a weak reflection of that supreme deity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
Osiris
New York American
Stands For Mary Joke Underlines Family Quip
A London Express excerpt uses a pun where the phrase stands for Mary in a joke about a cow and milk. The Dallas News quips that some family trees seem to bear lemons, echoing a sentiment about stubborn or barren lineage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
London Express
Dallas News
Change of Opinion Across Time
A wry exchange ponders wisdom and time as the clever admit they cannot truly revise beliefs after death, contrasting the alive who can reconsider with the dead who cannot. The dialogue plays on intellectual humility and the limits of changing mindsets across eras.
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Sells on Strong Tracy Testimony
Charles F. Budahn of Tracy California credits Bucklen’s Arnica Salve with curing years of itching piles after two 25 cent boxes. The product is sold with a guarantee at A. C. Williamson’s drugstore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucklen
Charles F. Budahn
Tracy, Cali
A. C. Williamson
Sly Old Commodore and the obstinate directors
A New York Central official recalls Commodore Vanderbilt saying his board of directors were hard to persuade. He notes that plans were often submitted and promptly rejected, though they could still be used to gauge the directors’ reaction. The commodore claimed he tried his best and warned that his directors were an obstinate lot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commodore
Commodore Vanderbilt
New York Central
Board of Directors
Harolds Visiting Card Leads London Broker to Philadelphia Ledger
The tale follows Ephraim Newrich, a dust contractor who makes a fortune and seeks prestige by social climbing. He navigates cards and titles, using a card for an aristocrat and another for a reader in Philadelphia Ledger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newrlich
London
Hia
Harold de Vere
Iowa House
Portsmouth Square
de Vere
Galyer
Ephraim Newrich
Philadelphia Ledger
Kiss of Katherine of France Revealed at Henry VII’s Chapel
Pepys notes in 1669 he held the upper part of Katherine of France in his hand and kissed her mouth during visits to the abbey's Henry VII chapel when her body lay exposed as a sideshow for visitors. The account appears in London Weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pepys
Katherine
France
Henry V
Henry VII
London Weekly
A Little Matter Among Friends
Two boys quarrel in a bantam grip while a younger spectator sobs. One asks why the older hit the boy, and another replies that the friend is his too, signaling a neighborhood dispute among youths. Source: New York Globe.
Apples For Health Punches Up a Cautionary Note
A correspondent asks what to do when doctors visit too often. The column counters with the old adage An apple a day keeps the doctor away but notes the apple must be well armed in practice.
His Merit Card amusing school exchange
In a humorous exchange from the Hebrew Standard, Mother expresses surprise at Johnny’s merit card for good behavior this week. Johnny reveals Harry Jones won it and he threatened to punch him if he did not hand it over.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny
Harry Jones
Monterey Gossip and a Train Ticket Mischief
A fragment describes Reddy paying a gold piece for change at a Castroville train, with a backdrop of Monterey gossip. It references wealth via a dry roof, fuel, and meals, then shifts to health ads praising Burdock Blood Bitters for a pale complexion and weak blood, and ends with a jailyard joke about a life sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reddy
del Monte
Castroville
Monterey
Hmerson
Electric Bitters Promoted For Climate Ailments
An 19th century tonic cure is advertised to combat fever at high elevations and malaria at lower levels. Electric Bitters is pitched as a general remedy for lassitude jaundice biliousness fever and ague and nervous insomnia. Sold at A C Williamson's drug store with guarantee priced fifty cents. Also a light verse about flowers ends with a Lilac everything pun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Williamson’s
Doan's Kidney Pills Relieve Fulton Backache Claim
John C. Keil of Genesee street Fulton testifies Doan's Kidney Pills cured his backache after heavy labor. He bought at Williamson's drug store and says pain vanished with no return. The ad urges others in Fulton to try the product from Foster Milburn Co New York agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulton
Fulton Pool
John C. Keil
Genesee Street
Dean
Williamson's
Doan
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L. Barber
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Howes Block
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VNY Copyrights &c
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Cook
Best
Petraes
Nn * Co
Americatt
All Ark Taurn & Co
Seteresar
New England
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Sfone
Altroman
Zann
Fulton Journal
Eliser
Tribune
James Keeley
Garden Plain
London Mail
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Nuremberg
Thomson
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