Local items reflect wartime era and community notices
County bounties on flies were abandoned for fear of bankruptcy. Sanford Deal and Lawrence Latourrett join National Guards at Camp Lowden near Springfield and pass through the city en route to a southern camp. Charles Wood reports Brad ford band plans a Sunday picnic and concert at Undercliff. Princeville faces a 1917 deficit for Lincoln chautauqua. 650 season tickets fell short by 800. A water bowl freshens air in smoking rooms and sick rooms to remove odors. Horace Wood of Muskogee visits. his uncle Tim ships peaches to Missouri relatives. Guy Whitney drawn and accepted in the draft. his brother volunteers to run the business in wartime. Mexican lighthouse tenders La Azteca and La Falcista explode in St. Louis after a cigarette. 22 injured, losses $70,000. Lieutenant Clare Ireland marries Miss Marie Hudson of Saybrook at Congressman Clifford Ireland’s Peoria home. Ireland to serve as second lieutenant after Fort Madison camp with a brief honeymoon.
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Richard
Potter County
South Dakota
Sanford Deal
Lawrence Latourett
National Guards
Camp Lowden
Springfield
Charles Wood
Undercliff
Bradford
Princeville
Horace Wood
Tim
Muskogee
Oklahoma
Charles
Illinois
Squaw
Guy Whitney
Lestant
Guy
Whitney
Chicago
St. Louis
la Azteca
la Falcista
Clare T. Ireland
Marie Hudson
Saybrook
Lieutenant Ireland
Clifford Ireland
Peoria
Ireland
Find
Fort Madison
Leutenant
Fragmentary OCR Price List Remains Unclear
A garbled OCR entry lists various prices and dimensions such as six to seven dollars, item codes like B2x314 and 34x4, with multiple hyphenated ranges. No coherent item or context is discernible beyond scattered monetary figures and sizes.
Home Merchant Appeals to Mail Order Buyers for Local Support
The Henry Republican reprints a letter from The Whitefield Corners shopkeepers urging customers to buy locally. They argue mail order houses undercut communities, urge loyalty, cite a $28.72 sale as proof of local reliability, and call for using local mills and leather markets amid price concerns. The note ends with a somber obituary: Neal Vore, 55, of Rutland, hanged himself on August 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pan Fs
The
Henry Republican
John Wannamaker
Philadephia
Pearly Gate
Whitefield Corners
West Mail
Henry Lowenstein
Neal Vore
Rutland
Master's Sale Of Marshall County Real Estate Bid
Master in Chancery Homer Barney to auction Lots 3 through 7 in the Southwest Quarter of Section 3 Township 13 North Range 9 East in Marshall County Illinois. Sale at First National Bank of Henry on September 8 1917 at 2 PM with 20 percent cash deposit and balance on court confirmation. The notice also mentions Putnam county board of review meeting in Hennepin August 7 13 with 50 farmers summoned to discuss taxing horses cattle and hogs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of
Illinois
County of
Marshall
George M. Crossland
Cynthia L. Crossland
Circuit Court
Marshall County
Helen M. Broaddus
First National Bank of
Henry
Towit
Toluca, Marquette & Northern Railway
Toluca, Marquette, and Northern Railway
Township Thirty
Jennie EB. Flynn
William L. Flynn
Jennie E. Flynn
Mary D. Flynn
L. R. Phillips
John Wilson
First National Bank
State of Illinois
Lillian B. Austin
Susan H. Gregory
A. D
Ee Ee
Board of Review of
Putnam County
Hennepin
Philosophy of a Soldier and Havana Swim Record
A printed item repeats a humorous “philosophy of a soldier” about mobilization and front lines. The piece also notes an advertisement claiming Chamberlain's Tablets cure chronic constipation. Miss Helen Sloan of Havana recently swam from Liverpool to Havana, covering eleven miles in five hours and forty minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Helen Sloan
Havana
Liverpool
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Henry, Ill
A. C. Henkins
John L. Jones
Fred, W. Potter
Fred W. Potter
Sale
Homer Barney
Ilinois
Advt
Chesterfield
Lagat
Lgcstt & Myers Tobacco Co
Henry Opera House
Harvey D. Orr
Winter Garden
the Illustrated Runaway
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