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Grasshoppers arrive. sums of local notes in Marshall County
The Mascoutah Herald reports grasshoppers appearing by March 19. In Lacon twenty three Baptist converts were baptized in the Illinois River. A coroner rules G W Moffit’s death a melancholia after a six week marriage. Armoured cattle buys and notes on wheat trade are recorded. A drainage accident and a Joliet pronunciation petition make the rounds.
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John Steele
Bradford
Altgeld
Wm St. Ryan
Peoria
Mascoutah Herald
Ilinois
Lacon
G. W. Moffit
Castleton
Nebee Armour
Fulton County
Gore Ross
Earnest Ladd
Q.H.S Ladd
Kewanee
Board of Supervisors
Lewistown
Joliet
Livingston County
Bloomington
Illinois Central Railroad
Herscher
Marshall County
Jane Foster
Beardstown
Abner Foster
Board of Education
Co. Supt
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
Streator
M.eb
DeClark
Sparland
Knox College
Galesburg
Walter E. Fuller
James Twist
Simon—Cor
Cox
Wyoming Post-Herald