Fire at Bhattuck house and related local notes
Fires and rescues ripple through Kewanee area with a house blaze on Friday near 9 o clock nine o clock origin unknown suspected spontaneous combustion. Rev Shattuck injured but improving. A new parochial school building rises on First Street, contract price six thousand dollars. White Caps confession clears Kingston murder case. fourteen men implicated. Bradshaw killed by a revolver shot. Prisoners held at Quincy jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ira Blake
Tremont Street
Winn Eddy
Kewanee Star
Clover Chapel
Woodhull Dispatch
John Bhattuck
A. F. Shattuck
Church of the Visitation
Kewanee
Sohnell
Rock Island
Joseph McKeon
First Street
St. Bradshaw
Bradshaw
Breckenridge
Quincy
Dysentery Epidemic Prompts Patent Remedy Endorsement
In September 1892 James town reports a severe dysentery outbreak. Merchant F. J. Walter Willard endorses Chamberlain Collee Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as highly effective. It is sold by J. E. Wright. The piece also notes currency issues tied to failed banks and political tax policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamestown
F. J. Walter Willard
Chamberlain, Collee
J. E. Wright
Electric Bitters Promises Strength and Health
If you feel weak from La Grippe use Electric Bitters. The remedy acts on liver stomach and kidneys aiding their function. For sick headache it offers speedy relief and one trial convinces you. Large bottles only 50 cents at J E Wright's drugstore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Wright
Financial turmoil and curious anecdotes across states
A review notes southern states repudiated bonds totaling 150 million over fifty years, while New York finances show large losses after Cleveland's inauguration. It cites a St Louis controversy over the last Revolutionary War veteran, a Georgia justice of the peace wedding quip, an Irish cashier’s hot coin prank in San Diego, and a San Diego bank that halted runs by melting dollars before customers.
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New York
Cleveland
St. Louis
John Gray
Hiramsburg
Ohio
Sandersville
Georgia
Georgis
Empire State
South
San Diego
Cal
Burlington Route Service Links Omaha and Kansas City
A Springfield U.S. District Court case convicts Dan Benton and Ilias Newby of pension fraud. Benton, a Kentucky man, and Newby, an Illinois veteran thought dead at Shiloh, were suspected to be the same person wandering for 25 years before return. Witnesses number over 60 with mixed verdicts on identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Kansas
Issouri
U. S. District Court
Springfield
Dan Benton
Ilias Newby
Kentucky
Wm. Newby
Shiloh
Andersonville
Wm.Newby
David
Chicago, Hock Ieland & Pacific Railway
Chicago
Hock
Hock Island
Rocky Mountains
Chicago, Rock Inland & Pacific Railway
Denver
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
Rock Island
Colorado Line
United States
Canada
Mexico
JNO
Sebastian
Ill
John
Early Risers and Tariff Fears Halt Mills
The note warns against using De Witt's Little Early Risers for headaches and constipation while reporting Wright's Eastern mills closing due to tariff uncertainty. The piece predicts hardship for eastern workers if Democratic policy persists, stating mills will stay shut until the issue is resolved and deliveries resume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Witt
J. KE
Wright
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North
South Dakota
GTON
Poon
Adams and
Franklin Streets
Chica
Eustis
C.B
Q.B.B
Caroaao Ii
Grover Reynolds, Watson
Daniel W. Reynolds
Dr. Fenner
D. Hehwin & CO
Geneseo, Ii
Stark Bros
Louisiana
F. L. Winsor
Geneseo
Doremus & Becker
Jsfore
NO. Goss & CO
Nwalora
Tamhbarr
Aldeen & Linn
Merchant Tailors
Waterworka
Geweseo, Ill
S.N. Barber
Annawan, Illinois
Treble
Papa
Pipa
Sage
Strength and Health
Omaha
Kansas City
St Louis
Pitcher’s Castoria
Castoria
Scott
Bspcott & Bowne
Scott's
Clarke
Cluke
Clarke’s. Colburn
Birks & Co
Peoria
W. L. Douglas
W. L. Douglas, Brockton
M Vnsa
Henry
Willis F Evans
Thomas Evans
Alta M. Evans
Thomas Ios Evans
Thomas Lauderbaugh
Thomas M Evans
Willia F. Evans
Dixon and Rock Island
Rock Island Road
Dixon and
Tllinois
Wald
Willis F. Evans
F. H. McArtaur
R. Busenbark
Ripley
Reservoir
Davenport
Iowa
Busenbark
N.C. Gilbert
Geneseo, Henry Co
Kuhn & GO
Moline
Ilane
Great Rock
Scientific American Agency For
Miciiva
Elise
Eee
Scientific American Worl Spienadig
Turner & Brown
Rinhium
OTICE
N.C Howard & Co
N C Howard
We.howard
N.C. Howard
WE Howard
Geneseo, Ill
Howard & Bills
N. Howard & Co
C.m.bills
Richard Marley
H’s
Atkinson
Richard Narley
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