Subscriptions Offer and Early Newspapers Update
The Republican and the Moline Plowman appeal to new subscribers with a two-paper offer at 1.50. Surveyors for the Chicago Peoria and Southwestern Railroad move from Henry toward Lacon, seeking right of way while locals demand protections against losses. A funeral notice for Mrs Tesmer Campbell recalls a family loss, and Ed J Strauss and Ora York wed on the steamboat City of Peoria with best wishes for their future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican
Moline Plowman
Chicago, Peoria & Southwestern R. R
Clear Creek
Henry
Tuoday
Lacon Road
Henry Bridge Pike
Lacon
Peoria
Paskoll
J R. Paskoll
Tesmer Campbell
Tesmer
Lacon Home Journal
Campbell
Tesmeer Campbell
Eden
Luther Ray
Capapilly
John Irving
Sparland
Tesmor
Ed. J. Stauss
Ora
Sol. York
Jeffersonville
Ind
Strauss
Bradford
A A Post
Jeorge § Lutes
Fannie T Fulkerson
City of
Jutauss
Jefersonville
Oba
York
Miles Nerve and Liver Pills Promote Health
An advertisement proclaims Dr Miles’s Pills cure biliousness bad taste torpid liver piles and constipation for all ages. It notes 60 doses 25 cents and samples free at Powell Drug Store. Also lists marriage licenses issued by County Clerk Hartley including Maubach to Clara Smith Hopewell and others in Monmouth and Lacon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
E & F A. Powell
Henry III
Hartley
Em. Maubach
Clara Smith
Hopewell
Thomas Folsy
Mary E. Wier
Lacon
Fred
G Anthony
Monmouth
Mingte M. Mckinney
Miley
United States
Chicago
Electric light systems arc and incandescent explained
JTM presents a compact review of arc and incandescent lighting. He discusses how heat and incandescence create light, the role of carbon points in arc lamps, and how static electricity affects brilliancy. He notes improvements like globes to stabilize light distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gillett
Sterrett
Harper's Weekly to Feature Umbria Voyage Illustrations
The Umbria voyage tale by a passenger will be a main feature with on board sketches in Harper's Weekly for January 11. A thorough piece on Iron in Decorative Do algo by Charles de Kay with Fenn illustrations will also appear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Umbria
Harper's Weekly
Charles de Kay
Harry Fenn
The Orange Judd Farmer Names James Strong Judd His Heir
The Orange Judd Farmer will operate under James Strong Judd as manager with an editorial staff of about 12 writers. The journal boasts strong agricultural coverage and the largest circulation in its class. Germany joins the international copyright system, with Robert Bonner’s son securing the first German copyright for the novel Mies Mischief by Heimann, serialized in the New York Ledger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orange Judd Farmer
James Strong Judd
German Empire
United States
Great Britaan
France
Belgium
Switzerland
Robert Bonner
Heim Are
Till
New Yor Ledger
Calif. traveler reports vivid winter in Los Angeles gardens
In Sarena California on January 3, M W Woops writes from California describing a December cross country trip through Kansas City Arizona New Mexico and into Los Angeles. He notes mild weather earlier then a sudden snowy fringe and praises Los Angeles landscaping fruit trees irrigation and abundant citrus and vine growth with measurements of a giant grapevine and a two year old orange tree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Sarena
Cal
George
America
Jackson Park
Iss
Queen City
West
Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Turkey
Kris Kringle
Illinois
Kansas City
Pacific
Kansas
Colorado
Arizona
New Mexico
Los Angeles
Nature
Varanda
Jane
M. W. Woops
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F Forrest
Henry, Illinois
Atory Gresser
Richard Street
F Clover
Attorney AT Law
Greser
Henry Republican
George Burt, Ephor
Marlon Harland
Harper’s Bazar
ST. Jacobs Oil
Fe Charles A. Vogeler CO
Baltimose, Md
Whitefield Township
Abraham Tanquary
Undercliff
George E Sparling
Janiz
J A Jones & Son
David Coan
Whitefeld
C.C
Baines
Mondasa
Thompson
Mathie
Tn Henry
Lom Bell
Whiteford Township
R. G. Miller
Ceutist
Auriat
Ottawa
G Miller
Wethesay
Moerh
DR. Wiley Flos Preston
Ks. H. Hutchins
ER. H. Hutchins
Henry, Tul
the Plowman
Walter Besant
Alexander Dumas
M. E. Braddon
Mulock
Mrs. Forrester
A. Conan Doyle
Captain Marryat
Mary Cecil Hay
Syear Address Publishers of
Western Plowman
Moline IL NB
Hills & Smith
Japan
Lings
Non
Smith
Henry, Ill
Henry Township
Nicholson & Gon
Front Street
A. Worley
Putnam
Henry Acres
Iowa
Nebraska
Vohn Whelry
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