Bargain grocery items from an old ad listing various goods
A cluttered vintage advertisement lists Good Sauer Kraut six for 39¢, kidney beans 6 for 39¢, fancy eating potatoes by the bushel, laundry soap 100 bars per box, corn flakes 4 for 26¢, Calumet baking powder, regular tea and coffee prices, sweet corn and tomatoes by can, hominy, early June peas, shoe polish, matches, bars of toilet soap, ketchup, peanut butter, candles, preserves, lamp chimneys, and washboards with assorted prices and bundle deals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cruecerreesee
Henry County Land Deals Highlight Local Investor
The Star Courier reports Henry County reports of land purchases by Dickey interests. Henry County soil values around 200 to 300 dollars per acre. Purchases include 603 acres and 20 additional acres from the Dickey farm with total value around $76,000. The purchaser is named as Van Ferre or similar, described as avoiding speculation and building holdings through steady buying rather than selling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ind
Henry
Finn Dickey
Hugh
Jutchinson
Henry County
Republican notes on January 4 1914 and local items
The page clips a Democratic notice for Go to Church Sunday in Aurora with 41 churches filled and 25 000 attendees. It reports John Sebastian Rock Island Lines executive to retire January 1 after 36 years. Also covered are Carnegie bridge talk at Clinton Iowa, a US postage table 1860 figures, Rochelle St Paul Railway transfer, Coltonville monument plan, Indian chief Kapas burial mound, and Western Life Indemnity company claim praise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount
Kuss- Clear
Aurora
Navy
Republican
A. V. Goltra
Little Rock
Ark
Mississippi River
Carnegie
Mississippi
Clinton
United States
Lewistown Journal
W. B. McMahon
Lee County
Rochelle
Steward
Seatonville
Ladd
Cherry
Granville
Putnam County
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Illinois Central
Coltonville
DeKalb
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Zachary Taylor
DeKalb County
Kapas
Adam
Clitte
Othe
FOR SALE ADS FROM VARNA AND HENRY AREA
A collection of farm and livestock ads lists items for sale including seven Durochersey boars spring pigs and Jersey bulls. Oak wood cords priced at 1.50 per cord comedy notes and notices about no hunting on a leased Robert Davis farm. Advertisers include E R Fairbanks Varna Ill Stephen Appel Henry Ill and J B Stansell Magnolia Ill.
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King
Stephen Appel
Henry
Ill
Varna
E. i. ,Pairbanks
Robert Davis
aAlvin Barry
Ivan Barry
Telephone investments and bank meeting notice
An advertisement offers 6 to 8 percent income from telephone bonds and stocks via C A Camp. Also listings include seasoned white oak posts and dry white oak wood for sale near Putnam and Varna. The First National Bank of Henry announces its stockholders meeting January 13, 1914 to discuss by law amendments.
Pure Bred Stallion For Sale in Illinois
An advertisement for a Percuron stallion imported from France in 1901 by Robert Burgess & Son of Weona Illinois. The horse is black grey and known in Marshall County. The seller J N Betts of Sparland Illinois offers the stallion cheap or trade for a young stock. Also notes a Henry City Bridge Company annual meeting for Jan 3, 1914 at 10 a.m. to elect nine directors with secretary JOSEPH N KRENZ.
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Gardais
France
Robert Burgess & Son
Wenona
Ill
Marshall County
Stouck
J. N. Betts
Sparland
Henry City Bridge Company
Bridge Company
City of
Henry
Joseph N Krenz
Henry Cityridge Co
Henry, Ill
Public Auction in Magnolia Varna Area to Sell Farm Stock
Public sale announced by a farmer near Magnolia and Varna Illinois on January 14 1914 at 10 a m. Items include seventeen head of horses and foals thirty three head of Hereford cattle nineteen brood sows and a Poland China boar farm implements household goods and a DeLaval cream separator Terms require cash or credit with notes and security and 4 percent interest if paid later.
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Magnolia
Varna
Poland
Endgate
Goode
DeLaval
Jersey
Avery
U.S
Carl Sendelbach
R. K. McColl
Elmer Quinn
Auction notices list horses cattle and gear in Illinois sale
Two separate notices describe auctions near Henry and Holmes Morrison farms. The first lists many horses including mares and geldings with weights and ages, five mules with ages and weights, and terms of credit nine months with 6 percent discount for cash. The second lists nine head of horses, seventeen cattle, twenty three fall shoats, hay, machinery, and fencing with detailed payment terms and auctioneers A A Rouse and Idle Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holmes Morrison
Henry, Ill
A. A. Rouse
Idsle Smith
Wlmer Quinn
Lester Brown
Horse breaking and sale notices from Henry Illinois
Local notices advertise horse breaking services by J N Newell of Henry Illinois with home barn calls and large groups, plus sales of an eight horsepower L H C gasoline engine, ten acres of cleared land in Roberts township, and the Duffield farm of 112 acres in Whitefield township with inquiries to G Metzger and H J Gregory.
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H. C
Roberts Township
G. Metzger
Varna
Ill
Duffield
Whitefield Township
H. ‘J. Gregory
Henry
O.s
Public auction of farm stock and tools in Illinois and Iowa
Public sale notices list two auctions near Henry Illinois and Broadmoor Iowa with multiple horses cattle shoats and farm equipment. Both describe terms cash or 10 months credit on bankable paper and 5 percent cash discounts for sums over ten dollars. Auctioneers R K McColl and others supervise with Elmer Lunch served on site.
Stockholders to vote on lease of railway line extension
The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway announces a meeting in Chicago on January 31, 1914 at 10 a.m. for stockholders to vote on accepting a lease by the Rock Island Stuttgart Southern Railway Company. The lease covers a 22 mile railway extension from Mesa Prairie County Arkansas to Stuttgart Arkansas County Arkansas, for 9992 years beginning February 1.
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Chicago, Rock Island ,& ‘Pacific Railway
Chicago
Illinois
Dany
Rock ‘Asland
Stuttgart
Southern Railwaye Company
Mesa
Prairie County
Arkansas
Atles
Cand
Anid
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T. J. Segraves
Gheer
C. F. Hallfarth
D- Baker Vibes 'S
Athursday
Gan ‘Be-yohneon
Clyde
Polley
Putnam
E. R
Fair- Banks
John. Hartley
Stockwell
Gilidge
Cupid
Golden Lad
J. B. Stansell
Advt
Telephone Investments
C. A. Camp
E. R. Fairbanks
Tll
First National Bank of
Henry, al
First National Bank
Col. Carver
Col. Brewer
R. D. McCulloch
O Lee A. Broaddus
J. N. Newell
Henry Telephone Central
Earl Osborne
Bonry, Tll
Broadmoor
Camp Grove
Marseilles
Fairbanks & Morse
Sutton
John Ziegler
Penate
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