Anawan and Surrounding Town Report Card of 20th Century
Annawan area notes outline village features including population about 460, churches, schools, stores, bank, elevator, lumber yard, hotel and crafts. Local business, farm activity, travel to Geneseo, Le Roy and Princeton, plus social events, sales, and notices about hunting, property, and upcoming installations and sales. Communities mention residents, arrivals, illnesses, and household updates with transient names and local addresses.
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Chicago
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Illinois
Geneseo School Notes Include Absences and Activities
Students and staff entries from Geneseo describe missed days due to cold classrooms and illness, Christmas visits with family, and social calls. The senior class begins solid geometry and Caesar, while class meetings and subject selections proceed despite several absences.
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Hazel
Robert “Pont
Farmer's Institute
Geneseo
Corinna Frank
Lowell Byer
Cambridge
O'Connell
Iva van Scoyoc
Vesta Browning
Naomi Riel
Champaign
Murday
Blan¢ghe Slater
Mary Croegaert
Hattie White
Ruth Ferguson
Blanche McBoughlin
Cora Felske
Dutro
Miiss Kenney
Services at Congress Henal church Sunday morning and notices
On next Lord's day morning the pastor will speak at the Congress t Henal church at 10 30 am. Evening services at 717. subject to be announced at morning service. Sunday school meets at ten. Superintendent Mrs A E Quaife. Election of officers next Sunday. Y P S C E meets 6 30 pm with topic How to Win Young People to Christ. Leader Ennis Keen. Ladies Aid meets Thursday Jan 11 at 2 00 pm. Also sale of stock and livestock at residence. Deaths at Soldier's Home Quincy December 1911 listed with names and units.
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Congresst Henal
A E Quaife
Y P Sce
Ennis
The
Ladies Aid Society
Second annual Annawan Alba farmers institute set for Jan 30 31 1912
Arrangement for the second annual farmers institute in Annawan and Alba Township includes premiums for corn and grain, baking sewing spelling and oratorical contests, a horse show, and addresses by invited officials. Death of Mrs Tous Kuhn in Bloomington noted. funeral held with local attendance.
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Farmers’ Institute
Annawan
Vari
Ein-of
Aresent
A—B.quaife
J W. Keener
Mathew O'Connell
George Heath
Republic
Alba
Excursions for Seekers of Better Life in the Southwest
An offer encourages readers to relocate from dissatisfied areas to the Southwest. It promotes low fares and opportunities across Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Texas, and surrounding regions. The note promises affordable land near thriving communities and urges ambition and hard work to succeed.
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Bourmiana
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Texas
Kansas
Pital
Eine Hay
Local notes and personal items from Hooppole area
Regular notices from Hooppole and Geneseo region record farm sales and moves. Frank Wilson ships hogs to Chicago. A H Steele plans to move to Kansas after selling his farm. Ernest Salzman and wife visit relatives. Devenney and Davenney families noted. seed corn for sale. readers renew subscriptions. several locals ill or visiting.
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Frank Wilson
Chicago
A H. Steele
Kansas
Ernest Salzman
Moline
Devenney
Prophetstown
John Deverney
Wm. HarrKers
Annawan
Boone County
Johnson
The
Republic
Bile
Marjorie—Devenney
Canada
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le Roy
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Flora Guthrie
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M McEwen
California
Neema Reel
Bradford
T Machesnes
Davenport
Lager & Co
An- Rawan Imp Co
Furgene Baker
A T Machesney
Oklahoma City
Tolman Everett
Chas. Doubler
James McLaughlin
Geneséo
Peter Verbeck
Henry Sand
Willie Shaw, Jr
James Guthrie
A. T Machesney
Kewanee
Ed Doubler
Jesse McCullough
Atkinson
Ida van Scoyoc
Joseph Frankenreider
Mraz Annette-Ferguson
Annawan Implement Co
Henry Stevens
C Stevens
East Luella
Frank
D F Barker
Florathinsen
Ottawa
Stex
Albert Weitz
Mle Woull
Verne Stevens
C Frutiger
JDC
Palmey School of Chiropractic
W RR Ogden
James“Dynes
Lager & Cos
W Macafee
Alice Harris
W. O. McNeill
Lizzie de Rue
Samuel W
O- McNeill
Brice
Hattie N. "Waite
Géneseo
D. F. Barker
Newell Brothers
Annnawean
Andar Et Sav
Poland
China
F G Lindner
Quincy
Francis
G H
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Harvey
Kh -A. Co
Potter
Robt J. Co
Penn lInf
Rhoades
Hn-Co
Casserly
J. U. S. Navy
Emmet
WitHam Co
Y. Lear
Pottinger
Lemuel. Co
J O. Anderson
J.M. Eldex
Adjt
Annawan Anand
Alba Farmers’ Institute
PP Ee
Tous Kuhn
Brokaw Hospital
Bloomington
Helen
Everetta Roe Kuhn
Salk
Newburg
N. Y
Amirs Kuhn
Ward
Illneis Wesleyan University
Louis S. Kuhn
B M Kuhn
Normal
Here
F Roe
William Baker
St Matthews Episcopal Church
R. T. White
Anna- Wah
Homeseekers
Hooppole
Bomeday
Ella Devenneya
Sonmre
New York
Rochester—Democrat_and Chronicle
le Island
Brown, Agt
Ill
S. F
Boyd Davenport
Lee
Wilson
Annawan Hardware
King Bee
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