Curious crowds at depot as Sheriff Whitmore arrives with prisoner
About four hundred curiosity seekers gathered at the I. C. depot to watch Sheriff Whitmore and his prisoner Wynne Avery. Bonds set at 2000 dollars for Avery to appear in November circuit court after an indictment for obtaining money under false pretenses. Community sympathy rests with Major Avery’s family amid rumors of a more brilliant mind behind the scheme. Percy Soloday and brother John E. Soloday visit father John Soloday after narrowly escaping a factory accident at Freeport Arcade. Percy’s clothes were shredded yet he finished his shift.
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Sheriffqgwhitmore
Phiagner
Avery
Bond
Galena
I. C
Sheriff Whitmore
Commerce Street
Wynne Avery
John Fiddick
United States
Mexico
Major Avery
Percy Soloday
John E. Soloday
John Soloday
Freeport
Percy
Rocky Mountain Tea at Sinigers Drug Store
A poetic fragment references crossing storms and plains for Rocky Mountain Tea, noting Sinigers Drug Store as the destination for the product. The lines evoke travel hardship and the value of the tea to the speaker.
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Chilkoot Pass
Rocky Mountain
Sinigers Drug Store
Excursion to Devils Lake from Galena Madison
Devils Lake excursion details a round trip starting July 20 from Galena at 6 AM arriving Madison 10 30 AM then Devils Lake 11 30 AM returning at 6 PM to Madison 7 PM Tickets and information via C N W Ry agents includes a price of 1 50 for round tip request. Also notes Mystic Flour quality and recent boat passages at Dubuque with water stage 11 38 stationary.
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Galena
Madison
Devils Lake
C&n. W.ry
Dubuque
Kit Carson
Scotia
St.Paul
Routledge
EB. Kendall
Lancaster man impaled on meat hook in shop incident
Bert Angus of Lancaster Wisconsin was accidentally impaled on a meat hook while preparing a quarter of beef last Thursday evening. He sustained a severe arm wound and was dying as medical help arrived.
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Bert Angus
Lancaster
Wis
Talked in His Sleep in Breach of Promise Case
Simon Brandt, a Cherokee Indiana bachelor, defends a breach of promise suit by Miss Catherine Crippen by claiming he talked in his sleep and acted without volition. Crippen alleges he proposed, she accepted, and prepared for marriage before Brandt recanted. Brandt argues his sleep talk caused no liability and cites solitary living as cause for talking in sleep while noting Crippen’s beauty and his status as a wealthy bachelor.
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Simon Brandt
Cherokee
Catherine Crippen
Miss Crippen
Brandt
Rooster Flour and Nerve Tablets Advertsate
Wise and witty flour claim the best bread in the city. Nerve tablets advertised as Great Nerve and Blood and Brain Food for sale at Siinger's Drug Store. Girls from Warren, aged 15 and 16, taken into custody by Officer Keagle after visiting Freeport, stating strict police in Warren, then returning home. They said they would have a good time and planned to ride the 11 o'clock train to Jo Daviess town.
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Siinger’s
Freeport
Keagle
Warren
Oficer
Jo Daviess Town
Nora
Denver
Colo
Varia
Chicago&North- Western It
Reorganization of Equitable Life Faces Public Doubt
The Outlook defends the Equitable Life reorgan ization plan devised by Thomas F. Ryan amid doubts about motives and sensational attacks. It argues the plan serves public good, notes the bank ing system’s stability hinges on it, and asserts Ryan’s reform aims to avert a potential disaster for policyholders and the wider economy.
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Equitable Life Assurance Society
Jowett
Oxford
Wall Street
Frick
Equitable
Thomas F. Ryan
Ryan
Equitable * Y
Morton Trust Company
New York
New York City
Prairie Queen in Lead Then Sleeper Sale Ad
Fragmentary copy notes Prairie Queen still in the lead with sacks promised and sold by all grocers. A Monday contract letting in Moline for a $38,000 opera house was awarded to Civarge LW Jolson of St. Louis.
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Moline
Opera House
Civarge LW
Jolson
St. Louis
Board of Education Reports Census Rise in Galena
The Galena Board of Education met Tuesday evening at the Council Chamber. John Eckstein submitted the 1905 school census showing 2001 pupils, an increase of about fourteen from last year, with details by ward and age. The meeting adjourned after noting no further business and announcing related notices and recruitment efforts.
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Board of Education
Conneil
J.A. Nack
O. C. Kraeemer
Panther K
Tiesman
W.E. Stahl
A. Reynolds
William Rippin
J.L. Smattery
Milton Vincent
Louis Homrich
John Eckstein
City of
Galena
War in the air and early aerial navigation talk
A fragment mentions Rilaking Her Winter Hat and a note about Galena Assembly No 23. It references a woman seeking tips from the stock market via the plana tuner and comments on battles to be fought in the air. The piece notes that armed nations may include flying machines as aerial navigation develops.
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Plana Tuner
New York Press
Nationa
Local items and visitors crowded Galena news
Alexander Hume of Apple River was in Galena Tuesday. Misses Katharine and Irene Leader visit grandparents, while Herman Leifker and Matt Beaton family are in town. Several locals travel for family visits, church events, and social gatherings including a Knights of Columbus picnic in Cuba City and a Galena ball game at Macknetts Grove.
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Alexander Hume
Apple River
Galena
Main St
Katharine
Irene Leader
Matt Beaton
Herman
Bernard Leifker
Menominee
Mattie Singer
Chicago
Simon Singer
Herman Rottler
Cordova
Clinton
John Meusel
Franklin Street
Anna Coveny
Elizabeth
David Coveny
Jackson Street
W.F. Biesman
Stockton
Biesman
Paulist
J.b.harney
Harney
Thomas Barry
Miss Sophia
Cuba City
Knights of Columbus
Frank Tresidder
Dubique
Pearl
Flora Pohl
East Dubuque
John Weinschenk
Spring Street
Fred C. Robinson
Dubuquel
Grand Lodge of Elks At
Buffalo
Moline
Court of Honor No
Roseleal Camp
M. W. A. Hall Beach Street
George Kuempe
L'Essa
Tena
Schappville
Freeport
Camp Runner
Freeport Y. Mlc
Alma Phillips
Savanna
Ed. Phillips
Mt. Carroll
Edward Gunn
Henry Angers
George Me Carty
Donald Me Carty
Will Kelly
Dla
Calladin
Order of Knights of Coluubus
Macknetts Grove
Ko Oot O's
Y M C A Of Galena Incorporation Charter Issued
The Young Men’s Christian Association of Galena received a charter issued on Tuesday by Secretary of State Rose. Incorporators listed are 1.5 Helm, RA Bratton, and M Spensley.
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Young Mens Christian Association of
Galena
Helm
Bratton
Spensley
Eminent Ladies Install Officers in Globe Lodge
Installation Tuesday evening by Ladies of the Globe elected and installed officers led by Supreme Judge Katharine Grimm. New officers include James Gringer as Vice Prof, Mamie Sanders as Commander, Pauline Alexander as Lieutenant Commander, Christina Hales as Quarter Master, Jessie Lawrence Noble as Adjutant, Catharine Norton as Ensign, Mamie Norton as Provost Marshal, Lizzie Frazer as Sentinel, Emma Biesman as Organist, with trustees Mary Lawrence, Henrietta Knell, Catharine Norton. Blood and Brain Food, For Sale at Siniger's Drag Store.
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Ladies of the Globe
Katharine Grimm
James Gringer
Mamie Sanders
Pauline Alexander Lient
Christina Hales
Anna Biesman
Jessie Lawrence Noble
Catharine Norton
Mamie Norton
Lizzie Frazer
Mary Hurst
Emma Biesman
Mary Lawrence
Henrietta Knell
Katharine Cummings Rites Held at St Michaels Church
Miss Katharine Cummings funeral occurred Wednesday morning at nine with a Requiem Mass led by Father Shannahan at St Michaels Catholic Church. Pallbearers included George McCarty Cleve Collins Henry Gonnouzhy Michael Gavigan Cal Baxter Edw Gunn. Burial followed at East Side cemetery.
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Katharine Cummings
St Michaels Catholic Church
Father Shannahan
George McCarty
Cleve Collins Henry Gonnouzhy
Michael Gavigan
Cal Baxter
Edw
Gunn
East Side
Mis
Louis Marcue
Seales Mound
Dix
Death of Henry Mulfinger in Galena
Henry Mulfinger longtime Galena resident died at his home on upper Franklin street Wednesday at 11:30 AM. He was born in Germany and was sixty six years old. Survived by six daughters and three sons. one daughter Mary still at home. He was uncle to Mrs William Siniger and Henry Mulfinger.
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Samuel J. Yundt
James
Renie
New Orleans
Grace Shurch
Frank Meller
Webster City
Edward
Joseph Strohmeyer
Marshalltown
Savanna
George W. Millhouse
Galena
Herman Rottler
Cordova
Freeport
Green Bay
A.E. Harter
Altoona
Mitchelville
Henry Mulfinger
Upper Franklin Street
Germany
Ife
Mary
Decedent
William Siniger
Death of Gustaf Franks Pioneer Resident of Blanding
Gustaf Franks, longtime resident of Blanding, died at his home Tuesday afternoon at 4 o clock from general debility. He was seventy nine and survived by several sons. The funeral is set for Thursday afternoon at one o'clock.
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Gustaf
Blanding
Colored Preacher Speaks at First Presbyterian Church
Rev. G. TL Me Daniel of the Ambidexter Institute in Springfield will speak this evening at the First Presbyterian Church. A Chicago physician argues against beards on hygienic and aesthetic grounds, citing disease fears and facial disfigurement. A child reportedly rebuked Dr. Adolf Lorenz’s beard after a successful treatment, saying she saw no place for it.
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Daniel
the Ambidexter Institute of
Springfield
First Presbyterian Church
Chicago
Adolf Lorenz
Japanese Beans Fight Myth In War Doctrine
A biased historical claim argues that Japanese soldiers endure long combat on minimal rations of beans and tea. It describes the bean as a large, garden variety vegetable capable of filling a quart, noting a single bean could feed a hungry plowman.
Why Not Buy Here Why Not Buy Here
Opinion piece from Galena urging local merchants to stop criticizing mail order houses and to fix their own practices. It argues city traders patronize bigger towns, damage hometown commerce, and suggests merchants should reform before blaming outsiders. Contains a sales pitch for Lollister's Rocky Mountain Tea at Siniger Drug Store.
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Galena
Dubnane
Chicago
Lollister
Rocky Mountain
Siniger Drug Store
Gossip of the Diamond: La Crosse Defeated by Wausau 3–0
Wausau beat La Crosse 3 to 0 in yesterday’s game reported by the Clinton Herald. Reed of Clinton leaves for Galena to join the Independent team, signaling a shift as Wisconsin League tensions grow over Freeport’s possible withdrawal, fanning a La Crosse Freeport rivalry that could decide the pennant race.
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Wausau
la Crosse
Clinton Herald
Clinton
Reed
Galena
Illinois City
Wisconsin
Freeport
Adjourning the Supreme Court for the 4 oclock train
Wayne MacVeagh twice adjourned the Supreme Court to catch the 4 o'clock train home. He halted argument at 3 45 and told the court he wished to adjourn so he could reach Philadelphia in time. The chief Justice granted the order and he departed for the station.
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Supreme Court
Wayne MacVeagh
MacVeagh
Washington
Philadelphia
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the Board of Education
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Dewey Ave
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Hanover
Bell Telephone Co
American Stars of Equity
Stall
W.S. Hansing
Maquoketa
St. Michaels
Cleran Homestead
Siniger’s
Gustaf Franks
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