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Henry Republican reports Eureka man sold Mackinaw pearls
Frank Daniels of Eureka claims to have retrieved pearls from the Mackinaw in fifteen days and sold them for 871. Howard Owen of Lawn Ridge is laid up with a broken leg after a runaway. Tracy Calvin, drowned at Lacon, was taken for burial at Chilicothe, where the family once lived. O W Downey, ex-editor of the Lacon Democrat, now publishes in Indiana. The Illinois State troops in Chicago cost 10,000 dollars per day. Uncle Sam’s troops cost nothing but transport. County and county-wide notices detail fires near Princeton, losses to farmers, and major incidents in La Salle and Bureau counties. Containing local figures, political notes, and upcoming public notices from several towns.
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Frank Daniels
Eureka
Mackinaw
Howard Owen
Lawn Ridge
Tracy Calvin
Lacon
Chillicothe
O. W. Downey
Chicago
Uncle Sam
Cb.& Q
Hartley
Rochester
New York
Adirondacks
Princeton
Arlington
Peoria
Sylvan Park Theatre
Hester
Fyureka
Pattonsburg
Marshall County
Old Marshall
Judge McCulloch
Henry Gardner
Putnam
Lock
Marshall
C & McStravick
Paoria
John Hoops
Fullon
T. W. Puterbaugh
Tazewell
Ben L. McFadden
Board of Supervisors
la Salle County
Seaton
Ladd
Spring Valley
Bureau County
Princeton Tribune
Fred McGulpin
McGulpin
Kankakee Gazette
Kankakee Times
Adam Clay
Minnesota
Mr. Clay