Teachers Seek Uniform Textbooks for Illinois Schools
At Varna the Teachers Institute endorses uniform state textbook laws and a minimum price for purchase by school patrons. A Marshall county meeting on March 31, 1891 approved resolutions urging the 47th General Assembly to enact a uniform system and provide textbooks at a standardized price across districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teachers' Institute
Varna
General Assembly
Ichnois
Teachers Association
Marshall County
Illinois
Yatok
Southern California Orange Carnival to be shown in Chicago
A letter from J R Veach requests The Republican to publicize the Southern California Orange Carnival to be held at the Exposition building in Chicago. Pasadena will showcase its fruit and will ship plants and flowers. editors in nearby counties are urged to attend and promote citrus products to eastern readers.
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Chicaxe
Pasapina
Cal
Southern California
Exposition Building
Chicago
Pasadena
Republican
Henry and
Putnam
Calfornia
J. R. Veach
Hall's Catarrh Cure Article Claims Constitutional Remedy
An old promotional notice asserts catarrh is a constitutional disease and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo. It claims the medicine cures by acting on blood and mucous surfaces and offers $100 for any failure, urging readers to send for circulars and testimonials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Experimental Tents in Ohio and Indiana Agricultural Yields
Ohio experiment station reports that five to eight pecks of oats seed give higher yields than larger amounts and drilling outperforms broadcasting. Indiana station tracks corn and potatoes showing varied yields across 80 varieties with large tubers reaching 240 bushels per acre and smaller tubers 100 bushels. Trench planting yielded better results than hill planting over two years.
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Ohio
Indiana
Cahe Trench Alantlin
Our Sister Towns and Local Happenings
Visiting relatives and locals chatter about guests from Peoria Chillicothe Fairbury Henry and Milwaukee. A C and A depot moves to Fifth street while a dynamite demolition brings down a brick stack near the packing house. Temperance lectures draw crowds and a mayoral race dilemma arises amid calls for city improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry
Wm Gapen
Fifth Street
Bea
Chicago
Jerry Feazel
Thiedohr
Imayor
Geo Bangs
Puroae
L C McMurtrie
Whitefield Corners Retains Local Pace Amid News and Weather
In Whitefield Corners Jennie Thompson recovers from la grippe as Mrs George Snell stays confined indoors for a second bout. Wheatland township votes quiet with Corbin Wright clerk and other offices filled. A heavy Thursday rain turns ground into a lake. rag-rag sewing at the parsonage, Koch lymph trial for lupus patient William Fountain, and a lively community entertainment with singing, dancing, and a German song.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitefield Corners
Jennie Thompson
la Grippe
George Snell
Flora Runnella
Mra Snell
Wheatland Township
Bureau County
Corbin Wright
J L. Dawson
H O Barber
D. W. Runnella
Jesse Anderson
Zeller
Peoria
W. H. Willis
William Fountain
Dreller
Germany
A Cure for Twenty Cents Alleged Rheumatism Cure
An advertisement denounces cheap rheumatism remedies as impositions while promoting Dr Drummond's Lightning Remedy at five dollars a bottle. It claims universal cures and offers prepaid rent to any address on receipt of price, listing Summond Medicine Co. in New York.
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Drummond
Summond Medicine Co
Aiden Lane
New York
Local Notes From Varna and Nearby Towns
Grandma Roberta visited her country home this week. A temperance lecture by Rey A W Lowther at the M BA church last Sunday drew a large audience. Dr J W Evans received a Harvard chair from Canton Cato for patient care in Affos. Ada Kreider, once at Eureka College, returned to Varna before traveling with her parents to Quincy to resume schooling.
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Varna
Roberta
Rey A W Lowther
M. BA
J. W. Evans
Harvard
Canton Cato
Ada Kreider
Eureka
Quincy
J H Jones & Son dress goods sales claim big value
The store promotes a new line of Black and Colored Dress Goods with prices stated as 90c all wool Henrietta, Silk Warp Cloth at 1 15, Sebastopol Cloth at 50c, and claims better value than competitors. They report large clothing and carpet sales to Varna and Sparland parties yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry
Varna
Sparland
School Election To Elect Two Directors At Next Saturday
At the school election to be held next Saturday two directors are to be elected one for two years to fill a Kreidar vacancy and one for three years as Kelsey’s term expires. Cora Winger and Mrs Ed Norton attended a visit, Norton departing for Quincy with Leah Norton who will visit grandparents two or three weeks. The Sunday school was reorganized at the M E church last Sunday forenoon with officers elected: Superintendent G T Stevenson assistant superintendent Henry DeLong secretary Ora Hickman treasurer Fannie Wiley organist Birdie Ong chorister A Stateler librarian Emma Tribbey.
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Kreidar
Kelsey
Cora Winger
Slater
Norton
Quincy
Leah Norton
M. E. Church
G. T. Stevenson
Henry DeLong
Ora Hickman
Fannie Wiley
Birdie Ong
A. Stateler
Emma Tribbey
Herald
Bullard's Bnow Liniment Promises Quick Relief
A block advertises Bullard's Bnow Liniment as a universal remedy for backache headaches neuralgia burns inflammations rheumatism and sciatica. It claims rapid relief for croup throat and chest issues and urges families to buy at 60 cents from J E. & F. A. Powell, 8.
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Bullard
J E
F. A. Powell
Le Prairie Center News Highlights And Local Notes
Local notices report Harry Stowell and Grandma Calder in ill health while John Turnbull profits from horse sales. John Davidson buys a horse from L Root and plans breaking it. Olive Athay Harrison visits Mr Gell who lingers. Bridges damaged by heavy rain prompt county renewal work. Maud Webber visits Mrs L T Wood in Sparland. Mrs Crawford and Mrs McCtelland from Pennsylvania visit. Farmers hear of a calf dehorning service. Bonnet contest with two prizes planned for Friday. Tom Collins ill, others sick. John Reynolds' children out of school two months with scarlet fever. Elijah Browell's will leaves wife all estate except $1 to M E church of Le Prairie Center.
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Maud Webber
L. T. Wood
Sparland
Maud
Crawford
E. Stowell
McCtelland
Pennsylvania
Tom Collins
John Reynolds
Elijah Browell
M. E. -Church
le Prairie Center
Easter Service Aids Missions Collection At Local Church
After a wife's death the estate goes to nephew Joseph Stowell who cares for the elderly. The League held a Sunday meeting with Bruce Holmes and visitors welcomed. Easter services filled the church as children raised 38.80 for missions and Earnest Simmons nearly matched. The day yielded over 45 for missions.
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Ber
Joseph Stowell
Aj Son
Bruce Holmes
Earnest Simmons
Spring Confidence in Hood's Sarsaparilla Across New England
A beat housewife notes the need to purify blood with Hood's Sarsaparilla in early spring. She reports improved appetite, strength, cheerfulness, and absence of headaches and fatigue, crediting the medicine for supporting daily work. Her husband agrees it boosts vitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Hood
Magnolia community notices and upcoming events
Local items report on sick residents Mra Rachel Dent and John U Kidd, a Demarcat medal contest at Ma saonio hall with free admission, and a Magnolia celebration. It notes farmers’ incomes, public opinion on the McKinley bill, social observations about whatnots, whisky bottle hiding, and a joke about cemetery visits. An advertisement touts Myotia Cure for rheumatism with claims of rapid relief and daily dosing details.
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Magnolia
Rachel Dent
John U Kidd
Masaonio
Demarcat
Dillman
Koto
Weathered West Oxbow notes and family sickness list
Rainy days and poor goods headline a west Oxbow update detailing illnesses in multiple families including Aravella Margelon Mattie Evans and Ed Phillips Sr. plus social visits and a new Methodist Sunday school. It notes oat sowing and corn ground work as farmers press on despite illness.
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West
Aravella Margelon
Babe
Willie Kline
Willie Ransom
Mattie Evans
Grandma Roath
Ed Phillips Sr
Asa Perdew
Edna
Ida Perdew
Ina Ransom
Birdie
Pluma Hailey
Claude Buber
Maynard Hunt
H. C. Hailey
Peoria
C. A. Norris
Lua
la Grippe
Bow
Spring oats sown. honeymoon in Putnam and local notes
Spring oats have all been sown with some summer oats planned this week. Alfred Pitt of Chicago and his bride Lee Murphy are spending their honeymoon in Putnam. William Wheeler taps an artesian well at 200 gallons per minute from 100 feet. Olive Wheeler is ill with rheumatism. Dr Stipp attends. Ladies Aid Society to dedicate a new church room on Wednesday April 22 with entertainment and supper. Local politics note Democrats win captain's end of the plum pudding and urge focus on local elections as key to presidential outcomes.
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Ladies Ald Society of the
Christian Church
MOM
Bold offer for rheumatism cure by Drummond’s Remedy
The advertisement promises $8500 for any rheumatism case not cured by Dr Drummond’s Lightning Remedy. It claims one bottle cures most cases and says druggists can order it or have it sent prepaid from Drummond Medicine Co., 48-50 Maiden Lane, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drummond
Drummond Medicine ,Co
Maiden Lane
New York
Second Demorest medal contest at this place
The second Demorest medal contest under the W C T U auspices was held Saturday April 11. Eight reciters aged 12 to 14 performed with good music. Cordie Wilson won for "Moral suasion or Prohibition" and Jesse Wilson earned first honor with "The Infamous Liquor Traffic" receiving second. Judges were E Boyer, H A Mitchell, and Carrie Hiltbrand.
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Quaker Lane
Herday Price
O. Wilson
la Grippe
Barry Milla
Chicago
Perry Mills
Sarah Pierce
Nee Fell
Tescott
Kansas
Wilson
Joahua Milla
Sarah Swaney
Nebraska
Ars Mills
Mra
David Swaney
H. EK Smiths
Oliver Wilson
Lostant
Cordie Wilson
Jesse Wilson
Philanthropic
Committee of Friends’ Yearly Meeting
Whittier
Frank Mills
E . Boyer
Granville
H A. Mitchell
Magnolia
Carrie Hiltbrand
Oxbow
Consumption Bullard Horehound Syrup Advert 1891
No single disease has wrecked the human race like consumption. Bullard Horehound Syrup can permanently cure if taken in time and provides relief in advanced cases. Agent J. E. & F. A. Powell advertise its soothing virtues and urge prompt use. Also a Henry post office list of uncalled letters dated April 11 lists several names and notes some will be sent to dead letter.
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Bullard
J. E
F. A. Powell
Henry
Ben Jackson
John P. Jones
Laura Kline
Will Nabry
G. W. Nicholas
Sarah Poff
A. B. Street
Alice L. Smith
W. J. Winker
B. Weisman
Lois Wood
C. H. Yellarton
C. Brown
P. M
Syrup of Figs Praised as Gentle Laxative Remedy
In a progressive age a remedy should taste good be easy to take and healthy. Syrup of Figs is hailed as the perfect laxative and gentle diuretic. The winter wheat is reported to look fine and Isaac M Forbes notes the crop never looked better for this time of year.
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Isaac M. Forbes
Beware of Opiates in Medical Cures
Cautionary note warns of opiate use and addiction in remedies. It claims opiates cause dependence, wreck lives, and notes a supposed cough medicine cure sold by Sylvan Remedy at 107 Main St Peoria and advertised by J. H. Atkinson Heath.
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Peoria. Ill
The
Benry
F. J. Chaney & Co
Toledo, O
Granger and Society
Tumbortas Grill
Miles Elsie Bently
Gretchen
J. H Jones & Son
J.H. Jones & Son
Henry, Illinois
Itos
Powell
Dily
South Adams
New Orleans
Nation
Bell
Ives Family
Harney
Kirk
Sfor
Hyson
Japan
Horseshoe Tobacco
Bard. Nes
Fanny
Gale Haljsins
Val
J. F. Gates
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