Dr. Reed Preaches on Purity and White Slave Trade
Dr. Reed of Decatur lectured in Geneseo on the Great Purity Awakening and the White Slave Trade. He urged home life reform, stricter marriage laws, civic righteousness, and public education including moral instruction in schools to combat trafficking and social vice.
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Apent
Geneaed
Fliat and
State Streets
Reed
Decatur
Illinois
Oime
Our
Dr. Reed
Edwin Sims
United States
Chicago
Geneseo
Rock Island
Peoria
P —Leland
Stanford
Ilinois
Eer
Rohweder Reappointed Fish Warden in Geneseo Area
Governor Deneen appointed nine fish wardens under the new law. George Rohweder of Geneseo is named for the district including Henry and Rock Island counties and areas south to Quincy. Citizens praise his zeal and painstaking work and welcome his retention on the board.
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Deneen
Geneseo
Henry County
George Rohweder
Henry
Rock Island
Quincy
Chicago Specialist Dr Carsoh Treats Old Stomach Troubles
F. M. Mates of Beenbo Thoor Canton Nl recommends Dr Carsoh known as the Chicago Specialist for relief of chronic stomach troubles after curing him and others.
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Carsoh
Chicago
F. M. Mates
Canton
Postal savings banks face slow start but seen as valuable
The article notes no rush to deposit at postal savings banks opened yesterday in Whee? with no long lines. It argues the banks offer 2 percent interest versus 2 percent elsewhere, earning cautious optimism about their role in shifting funds from stockings to circulation and appealing first to foreigners. It concludes postal banks will prove useful and endure despite initial unfamiliarity.
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Uncle Sam
Mica
Postal Savings
Postal
Law boosts Illinois common school fund for better district facilities
The Illinois legislature increases the common school fund by one million for distribution to districts. It aims to improve equipment and teacher wages without reducing levies, benefitting schools statewide and potentially introducing new subjects in country schools, with Knox County residents urged to see the gain.
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Ilinois
Knox County
Galesburg
Republican Register
Veterans of 112th Illinois to Meet at Toulon September 20
The 48th annual reunion of the survivors of the 112th Illinois Volunteers will be held in Toulon on Wednesday September 20. Attendees include Civil War and Spanish War veterans. the event will honor the memory of late Commander B F Thompson as a soldier and citizen.
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112Th Illinois
Toulon
Mystic River
B. F. Thompson
Association
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Leander A. Browning
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California
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Shelby
Nebr
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