Hazel Green Mining Center Promises Joplin North Prestige
The Hazel Green property near the town showcases a 100 ton mill, multiple ranges, and new roasting facilities. With 225 tons of ore ready for shipment, power from a 200 HP engine and dynamos, and a growing mill complex, the Joplin of the North earns praise for wealth and potential. Directors include R R Barrett and Calvert Spensley as the mine expands.
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Wilds
Africa
Hazel Green Company
Barrett Range
Kennedy Range
Spensley
Barrett
Kennedy Ranges
Harmon
Thomas
Pvll
Buncombe
Hazel Green
Joplin
Galena Iron Works Company
Wisconsin
James Gates Percival
Fred C. Avery
Sixteen Mining Company
New Rockford Mining Company
Fox River Company
King Bee Company
Fred Bremmerman
Hazel Green Mining Company
King Bee
Rockford
Galena
The
R. R Barrett
W. G. Barrett
Calvert Spensley
R. R. Barrett
Phillip Allen Jr
William Spensley
Reckless Driver Fined After Main Street Incident
A youth named Kahl from near Menominie was driving a horse at high speed on Main street Saturday evening. City Marshal Whippo arrested him. Justice Chirk fined him three dollars plus costs, hoping to deter similar violations of fast driving ordinances. The event drew sharp public condemnation from bystanders.
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Kahl
Menominie
Main Street
Whippo
Chirk
Kuhl
John Robinson's Ten Big Shows Arrive in DeKalb
The DeKalb Chronicle reports John Robinson's Ten Big Shows are honored guests in DeKalb. A two mile street parade dazzles with gold wagons, elephants, horsemen, bands, and Miss Florence Knapp driving six horses. The circus promises big, clean, honest entertainment with detectives to deter gamblers and pickpockets. Concurrently, the funeral of Adam Reitz proceeds at St Mary’s Church with interment at St Joseph's Cemetery.
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DeKalb Chronicle
John Robinson
DeKalb
Robinson
White City
America
Florence Knapp
Colwns
George Moats
Harry Green
Princeton
Ind
Joe
Robinson Circus
Adam Reitz
Blanding
St. Mary's Church
Father Bally
St. Joseph's
Sunday School Union Service and Sabbath Enforcement Meeting
A large attendance filled two sessions of the East and West Galena Sunday School Association meeting. Officers were elected: President Dr. I Styker, Vice President Prof. Fred Seubert, Secretary A L Burracker, Treasurer Daniel Stinstra. Evening talks urged strict enforcement of the Sunday closing law for saloons and discussed Sabbath desecration in Galena. A boy choir from South Presbyterian charmed attendees, while a street accident near LeBron's Jewelry Store left a twelve-year-old shaken but unharmed.
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I. Styker
Fred Seubert
A. L. Burracker
Daniel Stinstra
South Presbyterian Church
Vande Erve
Association
South Church
Threshing Record Set by Guilford Outfit
Vanderdrink and Wachter operating a steam threshing outfit in Guilford smashed records last week. They produced 1800 bushels of oats in six and a half hours and moved and set the machine twice. On Friday they threshed 417 bushels in one hour.
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Vanderdrink and Wachter
Guilford
Morrison Ball Club Record This Season
The Morrison baseball club played 53 games losing 17 and shut out 9 teams while being shut out twice. They scored 288 runs to opponents 176. At home they played 20 games winning 14, and away they won 14 of 24. A team is expected next year.
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Pecatonica Maroons
Maroons
Ilinois
Prairie Queen
Jowx
Morrison
Brakeman Skelly Killed By Freight Near Dubuque
John E Skelly a 33 year old Illinois Central brakeman was ground to death when his foot caught in a frog as a freight train backed toward him near the Illinois Central depot in Dubuque. The body was mangled with a limb severed and another pulled from its socket. An inquest was held and the remains were moved to Waterloo for burial. Skelly's death follows a family history of railroad fatalities and injuries.
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John E. Skelly
Ilinois Central
Dubuque
Skelly
Con. W.T. Bradford
D. B. Henderson
Lena
Waterloo
Freeport
Dubuque Clinches Pennant With Sunday Wins in Three-1 League
Dubuque swept Cedar Rapids Sunday, winning 4 to 3 and dropping the second 4 to 1 to clinch the Three-1 League pennant. Morrison beat Dixon 14 to 13 in a separate Sunday clash. A burlesque baseball exhibition at White Rock park between White Rocks of Chicago and Clinton, Iowa, drew fans but charged cheap entertainment. A lost terrier named Trixie is being sought with a reward. Amelia Hateh of Ower England notes 176 descendants in a genealogical update.
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Morrison
Dixon
Dubuque
Cedar Rapids
White Rocks
Chicago
Clinton
Iowa
the Tribune
White Rock Park
Oil King Warns Of Drink At Euclid Avenue Church
John D Rockefeller delivered a temperance sermon at Euclid Avenue Baptist Sunday school urging members to beware strong drink and the "good fellow" image. He cited a Harvard graduate ruined by one taste, stressing a drinkless life yields wit, charm, and social usefulness while liquor ruins friendships, prestige, and self respect.
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John D. Rockefeller
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church
Harvard University
Pair Ground Booths For Rent At Auction
Auction notice for Galena Pair Grounds offering booths to be sold to highest bidders on Saturday September 24 1908 at 4 PM Society reserves right to reject any or all bids Signed Citas Scueerer President and W Baker Secretary Galena Sept 18 1905
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Porter, Mann & WickKler
New Empire
Chuldren
Galena
Citas
Scueerer
W. Baker
Summer of 1772 Death Toll New York Streets
The 1772 New York summer proved dreadful with main thoroughfares likened to battlefields as sunshoke struck many, hundreds felled and nearly half of the affected died. The following year France saw a thermometer near 118 degrees Fahrenheit.
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New York
Pqny
France
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Pecatonica
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Sunday School Union Service
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