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Illinois and Iowa notices mix of politics and progress
A crowded curation of 1899 local items covers church pastor appointments, bank liquidation, rail service changes, legislative battles over education, weather notes, a fires at Chicago bookseller A McClurg, river ice dangers, and a sugar industry debate with Nebraska’s bounty repeal as context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sayers
W B Mills
Hatnodm Oo Farmer's Institute
Parmer’s Institute
Fairbury
Ray George Lloyd
Henry
First Congregational Church of
Te First National Bank of
Wenona
LJ Hoge & Sons
Peoria
Laka
Illinois
Burlington
Rock Island
Northwestern
Omaha
Klever
Springfield
Evane Grange
C F Vandervoort
Ma Leas
Bloomington
Arthur Benjamin
Clear Creek
Benjamin
Timothy Benjamin
Hoder
Nebraska
Funois
L. H. Pratt
Pootnam County
Yates
Revenue Service
Pratt
Oy Pesaina
Pekin
Putnam County
Ben Tomlinson
Henry Kinney
Pursam_sannty
Kinney
James Wray
Hennepin
la Moile
J. West