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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1912
Page
5
A jumble of small ads and local items includes for sale posters for a good second-hand geyi and a Yale paracentric key No. 43. A watch wager offer, a horsefly note, and various community notices about teachers, birthdays, travel by boat, and local personalities fill the page.
J Wate rcott and Wimner family visit. ex governor Hanley to speak at Big Bend Reunion in Magnolia Illinois. Mrs Heath to New Mexico. Miss Goldie Hall hospitalized in Peoria. Illinois Brass Band to perform at Pavilion Park with dancing. Accident injures Hopewell Machine Co gear. police to investigate tampering. Harrison family buying Heath homestead. city citizenship noted. Odell editor C G A Stock visits. reunion music daily. Interurban mail service proposed between Bureau and Princeton. Numerous local visitors, road work to oil main streets. Buick official Bates in town. For sale: six acre home with extensive fencing, spring, and outbuildings. move to Texas planned for health reasons.
Henry Illinois social brief tracks undertaker A B Smith retouching hearses and Hutchins Downey buyer H F Andrews returning from Chicago with new fall clothing. It covers teens at Senachwine lake, a Big Bend Reunion address by Frank H Funk on Aug 27, Magnolia, and local movements of families visiting Starved Rock and Lake Senachwine. Also notes Boothbay Harbor launch Illini, death of Absolom H Green, Civil War veteran, age about 69, and a biographical sketch to follow.
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