City finances under local option and saloon licenses
The article argues that city revenue relies on liquor licenses and outlines the $1.20 per $100 assessable tax, past receipts of $6591.77, and fixed charges such as street lighting and water, plus staff costs. It warns that removing saloon money would cripple services unless a practical replacement plan is presented.
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Be Careful In Marking Your Ballot Text
Vague ballot instruction urges voters to mark as shown and questions prepayment. It appears as a fragment prompting a yes or no about licensing balloons and city funding. The OCR text is garbled and lacks clear entities or a coherent event.
Julia Belle Swain to Open Illinois River Season
The Republicent Henry Wk Reports the new steamship Julia Belle Swain will start excursion service as the season opens on the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. Built for safety speed and passenger comfort it features steel upper structure, large dancing floor, direct water works, and expansion engines for smooth operation. The vessel marks a long lineage of river steamers dating to 1860 with the firm among the oldest operating on the Illinois.
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Belle Swain
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Mississippi Sound
Freeport
Santa Rosa
Pensacola
Fla
Mobile
Ala
Julia Belle Swain
Ordin
U. S
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Mississippi
Pilot House
Texas
Cabina
Avestern
Peoria
Poems and notices stir Old New York readers at St. John’s
A religious verse piece by Father Prout at St. John’s Catholic Church urges readers who left their homeland to remain loyal to the adopted country and its opportunities. The second item reports harnessmaker George Sprague of Toluca injuring his right hand, hindering his work.
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St. John’s Catholic Church
East 72d Street
New York
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Toluca
Illinois hard roads plan aims for 60 million bond issue
Prairie Farmer outlines a proposal to issue 60 million dollars in state bonds to fund a statewide system of hard roads within five years. The plan calls for federal funds, increased auto fees, and a cross-state network from Galena to Cairo and St. Louis to Chicago, with 400 miles of permanent roads and county gravel works.
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Improveament Association
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S.E. Brandt
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Cairo
Vincennes
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Metropolis
Chicago
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Pops County
Champaign
McLean
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Eastern men buy worn horses for New York meat trade
In Stockford buyers advertise for old fat horses or mares to ship to New York where horse meat is now legally sold for food. Officials loosened restrictions after comparisons with European cities, claiming fat aged horses provide good meat when properly cooked.
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New Yor
New York City
Poris
New York
Boy Scouts of America
Germany
James E. West
Chicago
Boy Scouts
England
Dubuque
Items of Wrenrist Payment Notice to Woodman Order
The late Charles L. Peck of Viola paid 319.5 dollars into the Woodman order and his beneficiary is named Anat. The fragment notes a monetary entry linked to a Woodman order and a listed beneficiary.
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Charles L. Peck
Viola
Woodman
Travis Alderman Candidacy Draws City Clerk Notice
George K Travis and Dennis L Hartley listed as residents and officials in Illinois municipal election matter. City Clerk Hartley signs notice concerning candidates for alderman and voting eligibility.
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Warry W. Adams
Henry E. Jacobs
G. Wilde
John EB. Parker
City of
Henry
County of Marshall
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Travis
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Illinois
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Charles Dille
Dennis S Hartley
Harry W. Adams
Henry LE. Jacobs
Ss. G. Wilde
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Clyde Bauter
Addie Brown
Tlinoiis
Leave It to Him and Growth in Grace
A devotional poem describes trusting God to care and provide, with lines about growth in rain and light. An editorial snippet from Greenville jokes about postal charges misapplied to a brickbat, and mention of Calumet Baking Powder offering a cook book by mail.
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Chicago
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