Illinois canal opens for navigation to La Salle area
Amid election chatter and corporate moves, reports note the Illinois and Michigan canal to open navigation April 15 from Bridgeport to La Salle. City politics feature Carter Harrison leading polls by 324, with election fraud concerns in several wards. Also discussed are a proposed Henry R R line with $1.5 million capitalization and dense local debate over outlawing urban cows roaming streets.
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Illinois & Michigan Canal
Bridgeport
la Balle
Chicago
Carter Harrison
City finances and town meeting actions in 1885 notes
The record reports balance figures, vouchers, and motions from an 1885 city finance committee. It records refunding an error in city tax, an order to pay various employees, and a town meeting with budgeted sums for town purposes. It also notes highway funding, grading work, station agent changes, and personnel shifts at Henry station and the grain office.
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John Vi Wiam
Henry
City Bridge Co
BS F Aewe
Sehuman
Western F
Hanter
AMD
Segee Ce Acons
Garin
Ieune
Otion Council
Cate Atin
Hike E. T. Digosway
Burt
F. A. Raymond
David McDonough
A. C. Weis
Potter
Commissioners of Highways
Western Avenue
Seminary
C. H. Moss
Seneca
W. Carroll
P. BR. R. Co
John Abrams
Carroll
Moss
Quack Cure Sparks Social Trend in Parker’s Tonic
A fashionable physician disparages Parker’s Tonic as quack medicine, but a wealthy patient credits it with neuralgia relief and a doctor-at-home trend spreads. The piece mentions John Flynn, a LaPrairie farmer turned locomotive worker on the Hudson River line, then westward settler with sizable holdings near Camp Brice.
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Parker
John Flynn
LaPrairie
Hudson River
R.B
Albany
New York
Camp Brice
Charm Medicine and Steamer Trips Highlight Local Notes
Mrs Mayer of Haronne street New Orleans praises Brown's Iron Diner as a quiet prompt effective charm for invalids with liver complaints weakness neuralgia and rheumatism. The steamer Anderson made a Sunday trip to Hennepin carrying passengers and freight with weekly Sundays sailings. round trip fare is 25 cents. At Henry auditor meeting last Tuesday accounts totaling 79.03 were approved for payment.
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Mayer
Haronne Street
New Orleans
Brown
Anderson
Hennepin
Wauge
Henry
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