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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1906
Page
2
The Galena Tribune lists subscription prices with weekly carrier delivery and monthly yearly rates. It offers prompt attention for missed issues and notes entry at the Galena Illinois post office as second class matter.
Norfolk details reveal naval pageantry for the Jamestown Ter Centennial next year with extensive use of search lights. Explains light intensity, ranges, and drills to locate lost or overboard sailors, plus signaling and navigation uses aboard battleships and cruisers.
A Sunday storm in Dane County and surrounding areas brought rain hail and wind. Hail damaged corn and small grain while wind lodged crops. Lightning struck and killed several cattle including a Willow Springs pair and burned Jonas Doring’s Riverside barn with hay grain farm machinery and a span of mules.
The Sporting World outlines a week of matches: Independence at Galena July 29 30 and August 1 2 with Wausau at Galena August 3 4 5 against Maquoketa Oelwein plays Sunday Monday August 19 20. Indigenous notes mention recent Waterloo loss 4 to 1 and roster changes including Moriarity Duffy Wasson Koll and early arrivals feared.
The Moline-Muscatine team nears disbanding after Sundays game due to poor patronage and debt risk. Several players have moved to Clinton in the Iowa league while others jump contracts for Galena. Independence games feature three new faces Duffy Wasson Kell as the lineup shifts to bolster hitting. Peoria defeats Rock Island 20 to 8 after thirty seven hits, with Rock Island using three pitchers.
James Brewer, a Wisconsin dairy operator, reports in the Democrat a run on 500 boxes of cheese at above the New York ruling price. The piece praises Wisconsin as the world’s best dairy region and notes local cheese winning favor over New York. Also advertised are three complete drill outfits for sale by Joplin Machinery & Renting Co with display by O. C. Kraehmer.
The Chicago Great Western offers weekly discount fares on Tuesdays to Minnesota North Dakota and Canadian northwest via agents or J F Elmer G P A St Paul Minn. Also ads promote bargains on suspenders underwear and other merchandise plus political announcements and mining notices.
We carry a full line of base ball gear including bats gloves mitts masks and body protectors with prices from 10 cents to 7.50. Agents for Spalding and Reach goods and special low prices on full outfits and uniforms.
Local advertisement fragment advertises clearing sale of parlor lamps to make room for new goods at Coatsworth’s. It promotes Cough and Cold Tablet No 4 from Modern Pharmacal Co. sold by H N Hollander, with extended hours on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday for trade-ins. Also features Dr Shoop’s Restorative and Tablet No 15 from Modern Pharmacal Co sold by Siniger & Siniger, and Rocky Mountain Tea offered by Siniger & Siniger in a separate note.
The notice advertises mining lands and leases in the Illinois Wisconsin lead and zinc fields through Nelson J. Russell of Rockford. It also promotes Coatsworth's clearing sale in Galena and Chicago Great Western railway town openings, plus Life Insurance rate offers, Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea, and various local merchandise and remedies sold by H N Hollander and W K Kittoe.
A promotional listing highlights discounted groceries and pantry staples including sugars, baking powder, cereals, solvents, and canned goods from brands like Dr Price Libby McNeil Libby and Mason jars. Items include white granulated sugar 19 pounds at 1.00, brown sugar 21 pounds at 1.00, Dr Price baking powder, Presto, Malt Cereals, shoe dressings, blueing, salmon, sardines, veal loaf, chicken tamale, ham, lunch tongue, hamburger steak, and corned beef with Mason fruit jars offered per dozen.
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