Mendota Defeats Henry In Tumultuous Baseball Clash
Mendota beat Henry 8 to 5 in a rough game marked by costly errors and rowdy rooters. Munson led Mendota with two homers as Henry’s lineup shuffled, while Coss pitched for Mendota and Wood and Buchele split fielding duties for Henry. The crowd disturbance and a late lightning strike added drama to the hot day at the diamond.
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Mendota
Henry
Wood
Buchele
Thompson
Newsam
Gust
Munson
Waldorf
Lofgren
Whitmore
Flyer
Haines
Henrys
Coss
Jack
Majorkirk
Eckson
Cornell
Coe
McLinden
Heininger
Io Whitmore
Heroic rescue at Lake Senachwine saves boy from drowning
Ralph Brown and two companions swam at Undercliff Beach when he plunged into a deep hole. Edward Fisher of Peoria leaped in fully dressed to pull the boy from the water as Drs Corcoran and Henderson treated him. The rescue, described as miraculous, led to calls for a Carnegie medal for Fisher.
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Ralph Brown
George Brown
Leland Vale
Everett McBride
Lake Senachwine
Hotel Undercliff
Ralph
Edward Fisher
Peoria
Drs. Corcoran
Henderson
Kansas City
Fisher
Swedenborg exhibit at Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition
Rev L G Landenberger writes from Seattle July 30 1909 about the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. He leads the Swedenborg exhibit in the Manufactures building with Swedenborg week July 18–25 and Swedenborg Day July 24. He notes the city’s growth and his plans to stay until late September while holding Sunday services in Rainer Hall. He mentions travel on the Canadian Pacific and the beauty of Seattle.
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L. G. Landenberger
Burt
Seattle
Canadian Pacific
D.D
Washington D. C
Sewall
Swedenborg
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
New Church
Rainer Hall
Wash
Brown In The Toils As Two Youths Face Trial For Burglary
Norton Brown turned state’s evidence in the Smiths farm burglary two weeks ago and testified to planning and committing the break in. Harry Hurt and Brown were jailed in Lacon after hearings, with Brown later placed in sheriff Howard’s custody for safekeeping. The youthfully ambitious pair, both just past 21, face court action and possible punishment for stealing money and valuables, while moral reflections on right and wrong accompany the case.
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Lacon
Supervisor Smiths Farm
Norton Brown
Justice Chambers’ Court
Brown
Smith
States
Seattle
Justice Chambers
Courts of Justice
Hart
Delaware
Economic proof for keeping sheep on farms from Maxcy flock
University expert W. Coffey outlines practical results with 38 ewes. Charles Maxcy of Sangamon county kept 33 ewes producing 47 lambs, 40 reaching market age, wool 380 pounds at 29.5 cents, totaling 112.10 dollars. He kept 17 best ewes for 55 next year, 23 lambs contracted at 6.5 cents per pound, 1 480 pounds sold, average 64 13 pounds each at 4.18 dollars per head, total 96.20 dollars. Retaining 17 lambs would add 71.06 dollars. Total income 279.36 dollars. Lambs weighed 1,480 pounds and were sold at home. costs not precisely stated but profits implied. Rev Fr. Gensler is in Peoria again this week.
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W. ©. Coffey
Charles Maxcy
Sangamon County
Maxcy
Former Milo Lady Drowned at Adel Iowa
Friends of Clark Dawson of Milo township learned of the drowning of his wife while camping along the Baccoo river near Adel Iowa on Thursday evening July 22. Mrs Dawson, daughter of the late R M Keerns, was born on the Milo homestead.
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Clark Dawson
Milo Township
Bureau County
Baccoo River
Adel
Miss Dawson
Mr. Macy
Mrs. Dawson
Macy's
Miss Thomson
Rock Island Tests Gasoline-Electric Passenger Car
A Rock Island test run from Chicago to Bureau and return covered 228 miles with a gasoline electric passenger car built by General Electric. Executives and motive power experts from five western railroads attended. The eight cylinder 125 hp engine drives an electric generator to wheels. the 45 foot, 37 ton car carries 48 passengers in regular and smoking compartments. Entry is through side doors with no platforms.
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Rock Island
Chicago
Bureau
General Electric Company
Rock Island ‘Station
Joliet
Peoria party tours 116 miles to Princeton and back
An auto containing Dick Towns end proprietor of the National Hotel Thomas Webb president of Webb's bank Mrs Webb and E B Soules one of the editors of the Star all Peorians went from Peoria Sunday to Princeton where they dined and on their way home passed through Henry tarrying here a half hour They traveled in Mr Webb's touring car and made long distances with ease reaching home in dusk.
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Dick Townsend
National Hotel
Thomas Webb
Webb's
A Unique Pet Rose Breasted Grosbeak Tamed by care
Mrs. Frank Coe found a downy rose breasted Grosbeak after a storm and nursed it at home. The bird named Jack adapted to pie feeding and natural foods, sang softly, and learned to call for attention. Grosbeaks are shy songbirds of the finch family, arriving in May and nesting in early June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Coe
Mr. Harney
Jack
Coe
Pearl finds lure big pearl fishers near Peoria
A white pearl weighing 220 dollars was recovered from the Illinois River near Peoria by Henry Klausen and sold to H. E. Strohmeyer. About a hundred shell diggers work the Peoria area, where mussel beds feed a growing industry shipping shells to button factories. Digging gear uses a flat boat and chains to pull mussels, with pearls found inside the shells.
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Iliinois
Peoria
Kingman
Averyville
Henry Klausen
H. E. Strohmeyer
Hardin, Ill
Peoria-Herald Transcript
Beardstown
Psoria
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Ecison
Hekgen
Wal- More
Aid‘vanced
Gregory
Edison
McLiniden
Cass
Loag
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Toal Henry
R. H. PO
Velie
Satan
Panzer
Undercliff Beach
Seattle and Exposition
Fr. Gensler
Milo
Bradford
Rock Island Railroad
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