Train Lines Save Geneva as Follows
An OCR readable fragment lists several named trains and routes including Eastbound No 434 Stocky Mountain Limited and Omaha Express with schedules and stop notes. Mentions Des Moines Des Moines Local and Davenport lines, with Chicago and Kansas City connections and Sunday adjustments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caltix
Pan
Mailand Express
St. Pauli Xpress
Stocky Mountain Limited
Trr
Chicago
Des Moines
I'maha
Gaz
Denver Expressierce
Tris
West Gund
Omaha
Kansas City
Uexpress
Nnlay
Davenport
Hyomei Catarrh Remedy Offered by F A Peterson
Advertises Hyomei complete outfit for 1.00 with extra bottle 50c and money back if not curing catarrh coughs colds croup and sore throat. Instructions describe using inhaler and antiseptic gauze, breathing the vapor for rapid relief and claim of a pleasant treatment without stomach dosing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. A. Peterson
The Farmer’s Boy Inspiration From America’s Leaders
A New York gathering of twenty leading corporate presidents notes twelve were farmer’s boys. The piece cites Lincoln Jackson Fillmore Greeley Whitney Howe Edison and others, praising farm origins and urging modern farm youths to seek opportunity at the top through imagination and industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
Millard Fillmore
Garfield
Horace Greeley
Sir Isaac Newton
Carlyle
Eli Whitney
Coutton
United States
Elias Howe
Robert Fulton
Hudson
John Fitch
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Oliver Evans
Watt of
America
Cyrus McCormick
Massachusetts
Thomas Blanchard
Vermont
Thomas Harvey
Ohio
Charles F. Brush
Thomas A. Edison
Patrick B Delany
New England
Wisconsin
O. L. Sholes
Illinois Bans Public Drinking Cup Across State
The Rock Island Argus reports Illinois has outlawed common drinking cups in public and private institutions including schools, universities, hotels, theatres, factories, and trains. The move aims to curb disease by replacing shared cups with individual water fountains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Ilinois
Rock Island_Argus
A-SELLING DIFFERENCE IN TWO HARDWARE STORES
A customer compares stove feed pipe lengths at two hardware stores. The first clerk says extra pipe is not possible, prompting the customer to visit a rival shop. There the clerk offers extra pipe and the customer buys a stove and kitchenware totaling about $100.
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Vand
Illinois Good Roads Drive Promises Modern Highways
A long editorial praises Illinois road efforts from Chester limestone to crushed rock use and the Illinois Highway Commission. It notes bridges built under state direction, 291 bridges completed, 100 more under construction, and widespread leaf through counties. It details bituminous macadam as best hard finish and cites towns like O’Fallon Edwardsville East St. Louis Oblong Paxton Pekin Bushnell Dwight Morrison and Chicago. It discusses road drag adoption, county plans, and a proposed 27 inch highway system funded by license money. It compares with Minnesota and calls for higher state spending and broader public education on roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Sterling Standard
Tles
Chester
Asphalt
Souling Wimerica
Acadam
Llinois
Galena
Chicago
St. Louis
Golconda
Illinois Highway Commission
State Commission
Kaskaskia
Commonwealth
State Highway Commission
Commission
O'Fallon
Edwardsville
East St. Louis
Oblong
Mt. .Sterling
Beardstown
Paxton
Donavan
Pekin
Peoria
Bushnell
Flossmore
Dwight
Elburn
Morrison
Ilinois
Macon
Pope
Logan
Kankakee
Wil
Douglas
Illinois Central Railroad
Ray
General Assembly
Kaga
Mississippi River
St Louis
Missisissi
Indiana State Line
Tiiois
Minnesota
Prairie State
Highway Improvement Commission
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Weiler
Brown
James
Warnock
Sargent Blacksmith Shop
Center Street
Hams & Glave Incis
Fir
Nero
de Hornu
Neron de Hornn
Henry County
Henry Moon
Louis van. Voorde
Capt. Feap
John Batten
Annbwan
Saml. Pritchard, Jr
Henry Pritchard
John Wach
Atkinson
Annawan
Red Eggimann
Julius Olson
Flantap Sans
L. D. Anderson
First Street
Corr
LSAVE
Geneseo
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Edwin L. Hanson
Hillsdale
Rock Island County
Winois
Henry Schmidt
Henry
Cambridge
Towit
Johanna Schmidt
John. C. Fischer
L. H. Grant
Genenea
Fr. C. Withrow
Rton Hamilton
Thompson
Satesse
Geneseo_ Steam
Genesco
J. H. Smith, Sr
Samuel Ott
C.H. Coll
Calain Holsthrom
J. J. Morrisey
Reighard
The-Paxton-Toilet-Co
Becton
Masse
Matenrich
Peffer
Imicago
U.S.A
the Farmer's
Scott
Drorthe
Airoline
Iceland
Aynearbt Cits
Peterson
Moline, Ile
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