Magnolia News Briefs Highlight Local News and Events
Local notes show R A Ward of Magnolia acting as local representative for the Henry Republican. Thanksgiving visits span Eureka Chicago Normal and Peoria while school events promise an upcoming entertainment and an oyster supper at Masonic hall. Community reports include visitors, illness, and a Little Red Schoolhouse program with a long list of residents attending and participating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Griffin
Eureka
Ed Mathis
Georgie
Chicago
H. S Eddingfield
Granville
Magnolia
Daniel
Laurie Badgley
Peoria
Hecht Boys
Burl Simonton
Harry Wilson
W H Weathers
Br. W
Weathers
Masonic Hall
Hazel Glover
Magnolia School
Beek
The Passing of the Lamp
The piece extols acetylene lighting as brighter, safer, and cleaner than kerosene lamps. It claims daylight like color, healthier plant growth, and less maintenance. It also notes acetylene costs about a third less and requires far less monthly attendance for lighting fifty lamps.
Acetylene Lighting Advocates Comfort for Homes
A writer argues that adopting acetylene lighting would save time for households, reduce daily chores, and bring leisure to housewives. He urges unbiased, experienced freinds from Missouri to share guidance on low cost installation and benefits. He emphasizes modern, practical benefits over kerosene lamps.
Sickness and gatherings mark Florid notices
Mrs Mary Alen is very sick Dr and Mrs Watson returned home after a week in Witet Edna Clem ens in Chicago remains very low hopes for improvement Jedd Glass and wife visited Hennepin Mrs Sarah Chance held a Thanksgiving reunion for her children Mrs Sarah Cassell hosted Eliza Beck Eliza Basehore and H B Allen Rev Snyder and family shared Thanksgiving at J B Alberts Harvey Lorens returned from Depue to visit Charles Allen’s ill child Diptheria illness noted for Mollie Allen Mr Reichwine celebrated his visited by daughter Mrs Harvey Allen and others Yeomen of Florid council 167 plan a chicken pie social at M W At hall next Saturday evening all invited
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rambo
Champaign
Moultern
Venona
Laura Smith
Lois Wilson
Peoria
John McNabb
Chicago
Miss Ratekin
Swan Creek
Louise Beck
Howard Wilson
Verna Stansell
Birdie Barr
Hennepin
Max Whitney
Kansas City
McFall
Amos-Wilson-of
Wwe
Nona
Clear Creek
Sarah Cassell
Eliza Beck
Eliza Basehore
H. B. Allen
Helen Bruer
Henry
George Hetrick
Snyder
J. B. Albert
Harvey Lorens
Depue
Charles Allen
Mollie Allen
Reichwine
Harvey Allen
Yeomen of
Hall
Helen Wolfe
Wenona
S Bumgarner
Abel Mills
McNab
T S Williamson
S Ll Kelso
P E Howard
Aurora
Richard Boshell
Amboy
John Boshell
Harold Phillips
Jon Petit
Charles Hunter
McNabb
Eberly
Margaret Shea
Mary Ryan
Margaret Lawless
Rutland
Joseph Hannum
Ira Brenauer
la Salle
Charles Miller
Piper City
George J.echner
Carrie Harth
Wm. Ziegler
T W. Gillespie
Gillespie
Gould
Bessie Krantz
Miss Johnson
Nebraska
Wm Groat
Beardsley
Tonica
P. B. Hang
Father Hackett
A T Osgood
Bloomington
Clara Hay
Ottawa
Regina Appel
Nick
M. J. Toemmes
Miss Parks
Herald P Oj Senninger
Toluca
Marshall County Farmers’ Institute
Klinger
Rosa Breen
Breen Brothers
Lacon
T. C Colehower
San Antonio
Texas
Wenona and surrounds social notes from Thanksgiving week
Mrs Helen Wolfe visits Wenona while locals Os Bumgarner and Abel Mills of McNab travel to town. Williamson and S L Kelso ride to Wenona. P E Howard attends a funeral in Aurora. Boshells return to Am boy after Thanksgiving with relatives. Many small visits and family news from Wenona area.
Hennepin area notes misfortunes losses and local notices
News from Hennepin and surrounding towns reports a Glenwood Springs man dead after a fall from a train, a brother of local Tomassons among the deceased, and Harry Peters seriously injured in Idaho. Also noted are a feeble aging Mrs Purviance, stockholders meeting for McNabb Mutual Telephone, and calls for canal ice skating as winter nears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hennepin Canal
Hennepin
Clinois
Sheffield
Hess Stock Food Promises Health for Hogs and Livestock
A sales notice touts Hess stock food as preventive for hogs and cattle and horses. It claims one third less fat gain with reduced feed and prices at half of competitors. The message emphasizes company guarantee and personal endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Hess
Public urged to teach checks and bank accounts
Advocates teach the use of checks and individual bank accounts for wage earners to draw on deposits, arguing it would promote thrift, ease exchange, and extend credit. The piece also references a reader contest and a health testimonial for Dr King’s New Discovery.
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the Republican
R. A. Ward
Henry Reublican
Magnolia Ladies
James McNabb
Princeton
Alexander of
Massie
Harold
Sfathar
Ike
Missouri
Abe
Cay
Acetylene Jones
Adams
Lostant
Tomasson
John Tomasson
W. R. Tomasson
Glenwood Springs
Col
Tomassons
John Peters
Seelyville
Idn
Harry
A T Purviance
McNabb Mutual Telephone Company
D& B Turner
Winfield
Chillicothe
Pettett
Braham Brown
Winterton
AJ Shonmonger
Illinois
Oln
Rae
Yee
Putnam County
R. W. Spenger
Magnolia, Illinois
THE
Magnolia Bank
Magnolia, Ill
Northern Illinois Go-Operative Burial Association
G. W. Keller
Undertaker
P. S
Pittsburg Press
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Mound City
DL Clapp
A. J. Ironmonger
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J. M. Downey
Tee
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Dow
W. A. Simmons
Olive Street Bank
Barnes’ In Medico, Chirurogical Society
Louis
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Ina, Ill
Robert G. Dakin
Mi Dee Phvaihan
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J. H. Massie
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China
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