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Illini town notes mix politics business and odd tales
A patchwork of local items covers elections at Lacon and Peoria florists daily use of toothpicks, canal appropriations, Hood's Sarsaparilla claims, job moves in labor statistics, rail and farm business, horse and cattle sales, school bills, and curious anecdotes from Colfax to Aurora.
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Congress
Illinois and Michigan Canal
Hood
W. E. Hawthorne
Toluna
Dave Ross
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Illinoia Central Railroad
Fred Snyder
Saybrook
Egan
Arrowsmith
O. H. Griswold
Milohan
Henry G
Harry Marshall
Sparland
Mutual Free Neurance
A. L. Small
Kankakee
Chicago
Marshall County
Roanoke
Andrew Berge
Bureau County
Fred Reeder
Hollis Township
Peoria County
Supreme Court of Illinois
Justice Baker
Justice Phillips
Wilkin
Cartwright
Magruder
Washington, Ill
W. A. Jones
Mineral Point
Wis
George
Board of Supervisors
Psopers
Mre-Rose-Marshall
Cur Sanctum Sanctorum
Johnnie Bull
Mra Marshall
Eureka Journal
Lacon
Péoria
Pettett
J. R
Tweddale W