Doans Kidney Pills Prove Public Testimony Strong
Henry resident E L Carrier, ship builder at River 81 Henry, reports backache and kidney pain from weak kidneys for years. He says Doan's Kidney Pills helped in every way, with renewed faith from 1915. Price 50 cents at dealers, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry
Doan
Dean
E. L. Carrier
River 81
Carrier
Foster-Milburn Co
Props
Buffalo
N. Y
House For Sale in Chester Bidwell Homestead
HOUSED FOR SALE The Chester Bidwell homestead on Thomas street with seven rooms, heat, furnace, electric lights, tele phones, city and cistern water, a barn and garden. Perfect title. Also two vacant sites in the north part of the city. Apply to Fred Raymond for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester Bidwell
Thomas Street
City
Fred Raymond
Magnolia News Briefs From The Republican January 11 1917
Community health notes report several residents ill with colds grippe bronchial pneumonia and recovery hopes. Local visits include Dr Davis and Mr Bray from Chicago. Church lectures over four Sundays discuss Peace with topics on desirability possibility now and in the future. G A Morphew and family traveled to Iowa for relatives and weddings where Morphew matriarch Mrs Morphew Sr. died. Rentals open for a seven room nearly new house in Magnolia with inquiries to R D McCulloch Varna Illinois or J G Clemens Peoria Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward
George Ramsey
Fred Defenbaugh
Ora Mathis
H. R. Morris
Charles Griffin House
Samuel Defenbaugh
Hattie Reymer
Henry McGahey
Davis
Bray
Chicago
Magnolia
Young
G. A. Morphew
Iowa
Nedirly Nevy
R. D. McCulloch
Varna
J G. Clemens
First Avenue
Peorie
Ill
R. D .McCullough
J. G. Clemens
Peoria
Local Notes From McNabb and Granville Families
McNabb community notes record visits and errands among residents Henry and Granville. Listings include Mary Noll shopping January 3 and Charles Baker with Lucile Noll in Henry, along with several visits between McNabb and Granville households. A Teachers’ Reading Circle meet is scheduled January 13 at 2 p.m. and sickness affects attendance. Dr Bell Pine Tar Honey ad promotes winter cough remedy. rent or sale ad for a seven room Magnolia house appears with contact details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Mercian
Frank Wolf
Andrew Cofoid
M. P. Johnson
Granville
Mr. Ponzer
Dagmar Cofoid
Harry Koehler
Lawrence Noll
Daniel Ryan
Leona Wolf
Viola Kuhne
Pearl Johnston
McNabb
Reading Circle
Dr. Bell
30th Wedding Anniversary Dinner At Varna
Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Hager Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Merritt and Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Merritt hosted a dinner in Varna Saturday January 6 marking the trio of couples 30 years since their 1930 marriage. Guests included Mrs. Louise Sweet and Mr. and Mrs. I. P. Wierman with some regrets from Mrs. Kate McGruder and Mrs. Hannah Getchell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate McGruder
Hannah Getchell
Kankakee
Agnes Schumacher
Lacon
Ed Adams
Ed Arndt
Custer
Josephine Haws
Peoria
Ernest Swason
Dwight
Varna
Ozell Stateler
Janet Myers
Ardis
Chatten
Lloyd
Dorothy Myera
Ozell
Janet
School Notes and Local Happenings in Varna Area
Local students prepare for semester exams January 25 and 26 at Varna High School while new pupils join the sixth grade Edna Carlson Delta Sutcliff and Melba Hall. Mrs M S McCuskey attends aunt Sophia Murch’s funeral in Belvidere. Extra notes include social visits and college returns, plus a classified ad for a seven room Magnolia residence.
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Alma Schumacher
Peoria
M. S. McCuskey
Sophia Murch
Belvidere
Verna Louise Haws
Knox College
Galesburg
Sparland High School
Varna High School
Bryant
Gleaser
Miss Carter
Heithar
Linnea Lofgren
Mary Leta’ Morrell
Merle Munson
Lois Wright
George Meireis
Anna Grill
Helga Holmstrom
Edna Carlson
Delta Sutcliff
Melba Hall
Lostant Bride Weds in Peoria on New Year's Day
Miss Frances Henning of Lostant wed Mr. Fred Phillips of Deer Creek in Peoria at noon on January 1 1917. After a wedding trip to Chicago the couple will live on a Deer Creek farm near Peoria. The report notes relatives present and plans to settle in Illinois.
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John Howard Williams
Marshall County
Illinois
Lacon
Frances Henning
Lostant
Fred Phillips
Deer Creek
Peoria
White
Chicago
Woman's Literary Club
Mary Gould
Curtis
Margaret Shea
H. Hehir
G .W. Barr
Bloomington
C. W. Curtis
Noel
Oglesby
Henry Comisky
William Horback
Florida
Myrtle Brown
la Salle
Ethel Comisky
Katherine Hart
Ottawa
Margaret Hart
Lou Quaintance
California
Will
Los Angeles
Victor Baker
Britt
H. H. Hehir
Joe Kelso
J. E. Conlin
Myrtle Hillabrand
Tonica
C. E. Gould
McCormack
Streator
Frank Byron
Clinton
E. W. Phillips
Ada Wilson
Henry Phillips
Harold Phillips
Margaret
St. Petersburg
Fla
Lestant Musical Association
Association
Matt. Gerloch
Ambia
Ind
Peutz
Anna
Ida Dose
Wakonda
Wm. Kreis
Victor Matern
Tacoma
Wash
Charles Hartenbower
Lola Davis
Normal
Neal Odell
Decatur
Christmas Passages and Local News From Lostant
Mrs. Will M. McDaniel is fondly remembered at Christmas with gifts and warm notes from friends in Lostant praising her readiness to help in sickness or death. Visitors include George F. Bell and wife in Ottawa. Other items mention visits between Streator and Streator, university trips, and local outings by A. H. Bell and Boy Scouts at Deer Park and Starved Rock. Turkeys arrive from M Reynolds and Clara Hay for holiday feasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will M. McDaniel
Lostant
Auntie McDaniel
Charles Fowler
George F. Bell
Ottawa
Foster
German
Streator
Alice Barber
John Dunn
Normal University Tuesay
Maurine Bowdin
Elsie Zilm
Floyd Lundgren
Champaign
Alvera
Decatur
A. H. Bell
Deer Park
Starved Rock
Moon
Burdette
M. Reynolds
Clara Hay
Deer Park Farmers Encumbered by Stolen Auto Purchases
Two Deer Park farmers each paid 600 dollars to strangers for autos later found stolen. John M. Nichols longtime Metamora Herald publisher and printer died at Deer Creek aged 49. Fulton county plans Walkonda Drainage and Levee district to reclaim 6500 to 8000 acres in Liverpool and Banner townships. A box car robber Tony LaFote was shot and killed by a detective at Ladd after a struggle for the revolver. Sheffield post office robbed recent days, 20 dollars cash and stamps taken, lock opened without dynamite.
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Deer Park
John M. Nichols
Metamora Herald
Deer Creek
Fulton County
Walkonda
Liverpool
Banner
Ladd
Tony LaFote
LaFote
Legal Aid leader Charles Hughes and broader reforms noted
President Hughes of the Legal Aid Society emphasizes aiding the poor to secure legal rights. The society aims to provide gratuitous legal help to those worthy and unable to procure it. The news item also lists crop values by state for 1916 and notes a record silk shipment from Seattle to New York. President Wilson turned 60 on December 28 1916.
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Charles B. Hughes
The
Legal Aid Society
Hughes
Texas
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Georgia
Kansas
Pennsylvania
New York
Indiana
Ohio
North Dakota
Alabama
United States
Seattle
Wilson
Rurar
Panufacturing
Registered Jersey Cows For Sale By Mark Kays
Want ads offer a few head of registered Jersey cows either fresh or due soon from Mark Kays. Ad dated January 4, 1921. Also note advertising for Henry Republican printing services and a cottage for sale priced at $1925 with 6 rooms bath city water electricity three blocks from business district, inquire at Republican office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Kays
First Class Team of Brown Mares for Sale
One matched team of brown mares aged seven and eight, sound and in good shape, weight 2600, described as a first class team. Advertisement by F. M. Billings Henry II inviting buyers to inspect. Also note Our School Tablets offered at two for a nickel at The Henry Republican office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. M. Billings
Henry
Henry Republican
Advertising and the Early Store Boom on a Dollar
An old man starts a business with 1.80, adds stock and an ad, earns three dollars a day, expands to a two by four storefront, then a plate glass corner shop with a half page ad. Public praise for advertising as the driver of business, amid talk of luck versus skill. Also a note on sun exposure at high altitudes claimed to kill tuberculosis germs and a report of $100 million in mine dividends across several western states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
En Minee
Arizona
Utah
Montana
Nevada
Idaho
Lane
Also Mentioned on This Page
Thebel & Bons of
Bradley
Goiter
Woolner
Til
Bureau County
Broadmoor
G. M. Clark
Cinsult
Thompson Farm Loans
WM. H. Gerard
Bradford
W. J. Thomas
Western Live Stock Insurance Co
Live Stock Insurance Co
Green
H. W. May
Notich
Naomi R. Williams
Henry BH .Jacobs
Magnolia Department
Knox
L. W. McBride
Mary Jane
H. H. Thierry
Venona
Staff of Life
Hubert
Henry, Illinois
Northern Illinois Co-Operative Burial Association
Allen
Smith
Henry Illinois
First National Bank
C. M. Jones
W. S. Harrison
J. L. Jones
Casailer
C. H. Scholes
C. M. Jones, B. G. Cromwell
George McGillick
William Duke
J. L. Jones, T. J. Segravee
Merchant Prince
Prince
Hearthstone
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