Farm Telephones Tie Rural Trade To City Markets
A central Ohio farmer used a farm telephone to call the county town for cattle prices and, upon news of a Chicago decline, bought eighty head at the lowest rate. Nearby farmers formed their own lines, linking farms to towns and boosting rural commerce with independent, community telephones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago InterOcean
Ohio
Chicago
Kansas
Luther Wofe
Soho
Farne Ec
Arizona poem recalls Deval on scarce water and harsh land
A vivid, misreadable verse from a Phoenix health trip lampoons Deval choosing a land near Santa Cruz. It describes prickly pear, cacti, rattlesnakes, heat set to 111 degrees, rivers drying up, and a harsh vision of progress with scorched agriculture. It ends with a satire on credit and marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Winsor
Phenix
Arizona
Henry County
Deval
Santa Cruz
Reunion and anniversary of Illinois veterans in Alpha
The 192nd Illinois veterans held the sixteenth annual reunion and fortieth anniversary event with about seventy eight members registered. Nat Hamer of Orion served as president and E L Emmerson of New Windsor as secretary. The program featured bugle calls, music by the Alexis cornet band, speeches by Chaplains, and a ball game between Orion and Alpha.
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Jess
Alpha
108
Illinois Volunteer Infantry
102Nd Nlioos
Nat Hamer
Orion
E. L. Emmerson
New Windsor
Beautiful Grove
Alexis Cornet
Americas
Mr Hawley
J F Cox
R. K. Tullis
Henry
Genn Wilson
Profit
Quintac
Chaplain Tullis
Avex
Mort Ag Eiahty
Tyve
Thomas Staters
Bonnie Terespr
Mos Winniawshy
Fooa Frees
Tratt
Led Wook
Suez
Emerson
Alexis
Wendhall
Ita d Dispatch
Kodol and Electric Bitters Promised to Cure Digestive Ailments
An advertisement touts Kodol as a permanent cure for indigestion dyspepsia and stomach troubles with testimonials from Rev J H Holladay J E Wright and Rev C J Budloog praising its life saving effects. Electric Bitters are praised for curing jaundice liver kidney and stomach issues with a 50 cent price and guaranteed satisfaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J H Holladay
Holladay, Miss
Kodo
Kodol
J. E. Wright
C J. Budloog
Ashaway
E Wright
Lincoln speech marker to honor the site at Sterling
A commemorative marker will note the Lincoln speech site in Sterling near the present Stoddard residence or Central school yard. W R Sterne spearheads the project with a fundraising committee, and the school board has approved placing the tablet in the school yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Sterling
T ‘Sterne
Moses Dilton
WRC
Stoddard
Sixth Avenue
Central School
Quick Reach for Work Ends in Immediate Hire
A merchant hires an eager office boy who left school yesterday seeking any available job. The boy arrives early, asks for work, explains he will not wait if there is none, and offers to start immediately. The merchant, surprised by his resolve, asks when he can begin. the boy replies, I’m here now and would have started sooner if you said so.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armitien
U.ri
Atchison
Indianapolis Sentinel
Hopkins at Illinois Campaign Speech Hits Democratic Doom
A garbled report praises Congressman Hopkins and Senator Sherman, urging unity for Republicans in Illinois. The speaker claims a Republican recovery is linked to national pledges fulfilled, prosperity under GOP leadership, and warns against Democratic restoration, citing past hardships from 1893 era.
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Tetrol Ang
Hopkins
Canting
United States Senate
Minois
Sherman
Dilnvis
Tory
Bce
Weip
Ilinois
Itnois
Republican Party
Illinois
Philips
Remedial claims amid drug tale and local rail project
A fragmentary 19th century clipping recounts a patient praising a remedy after years of bronchitis and sleepless nights, and notes a druggist scampered to sell pills. It also mentions a railway project near Cambrien and a new corporation in Indianapolis planning rapid construction and a goods center at Kewanee.
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P.D. Beckwith
Dowagiac, Mich
H. Hoert
Saddlery
Horse Goods
Reza Scales
Loman Cusur
Wa Tr
Atase Cosa
Aes Pew
Aw Mse
Foot & Q
Burhington Crossing
Sk Tal
Stone Qreunies
Sem
Asc
Arthur Burrall Mer
Rock Inland
Colona
Hanna Center
Scovol Bouse
Hanne Township
Laro
Cortber
Laquire
D Brokray Boral Boate
Obon Fletcher
Geenenea, Tis ‘Land Agent
Wi Tee
Candy
Gre
Careg Ara
Poland
Dpr
Farro
Partes Sevier Farm
Utoson
Jobn Vette
Teagan
Gary
Bos
Cai Yv
Coes
GeWward
Rura
B.C
Borna
192ND
I. Taylor
New Albany
Bradford County
Ward
Laceyville
Chamberlain
J B. Wright
F A Patterson
Suryse
Cambrien
Woh
Indiopolis
Theodore Sin
Kewanee
Thic
Kewanee “Tar
Ayer
D. P. Jolly
Ayers
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