Spot Cash Local: wide variety of goods advertised
The notice catalogs low prices on cooking figs pepper flour syrup and candies, cigars, tobacco and lamps. It promotes Buckwheat and maple products from Vermont, sorghum, canned corn, and a sale of heating stoves, with local names and merchants referenced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Havana
Marshall
Vermont
Puge
Barker
Rutland
Pri
Blackwell's
Durham
Onle
J. F. Gates
City and Vicinity News Roundup
Squire Waterfall is very sick and Mrs Camenish was in Chicago recently. Clara Sleator is on the sick list. Otto Bchuster visited Saturday on business. Charley Spangler and wife returned from Hennepin Tuesday. See the Standard rotary shuttle sewing machine at Josh Perry's. Lane's Family Medicine is advertised daily. Nin and Inhania Annal visit Ford county to see brother Stephen. Mrs Townsend will attend the Hollie Bangs Skelton concert at Lacon. Kizzie Gook travels to Miaonk to care for her sick sister. Fred Sturts visited Peoria over Sunday. Hewan hosted a guest of Frank Smith. A baking powder ad from H Vogeleang appears amid a family notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Squire Waterfall
Ford County
Stephen
An Olen
A.G. Humphrey
J. ©. Townsend
Hollie Bangs-Skelton
Laconee Eacy
Kizzie Gook
Fred Sturts
Peoria
Hewan
Frank Smith
Great Bargains on Hosiery and Home Goods
We offer on this line of goods the best value in this country with summer hosiery underwear and on sale next week the best makes of overalls shirts flannelette shirts. Great bar gains in ladies and gent's fine shoes carpets wall paper and furniture.
Town and County Notes From A Prairie Ledger
Ill residents recoveries and illnesses update households in Greenville and Bradford. Temperance meetings are scheduled with a postponed Ladies Auxiliary election and a poultry show in Davenport featuring Ephra Vogelsang. Local businesses boast modern markets as Grace Grinwold, Fred Law, and others move between cities and schools.
Young men buy Winchester lumber yard in Scott County
Lewis and Fred Allen sons of Henry Allen of Milo, with Messrs Hunters of this city as copartners, purchased a Winchester Scott county lumber yard with possession to be given at once. Lewis joined his brother there to begin business. The Hunters also operate four yards in Heartland region and move to manage Chillicothe and Edelstein yards. Elmer Hunter will oversee all yards, moving from Henry in March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis
Fred Allen
Henry Allen
Milo
Messrs Huntera
Copartners
Winchester
Scott County
McClusky
J. Diehl
Bellville
Kansas
Emma Gurnea
Magnolia
Dickl
Miss Gurnea
Thomas Homes
Chicago
Grace Blood
Tuesaday
South Park Ave
Holmes
Aledo
Mercer County
Grace
Boro
Mary
Michael Horan
Haggerty
Ireland
Herkimer County
Marshall County
Keller
St Joseph’s Catholic Church
Father Lockney
St Patrick's Cemetery
M B
Rey Wolley
Joahhua
Bros Worthington
Bros Worthington, Disasway, and J H Jones
Woolley
Woolley Ho & E . Hunter
Heary
Sparland
Chillicothe
Edelstein
J Russell & Co
Mesgara
Russell
Galva
Hunter
Elmer Hunter
Henry
Elmer
Board of Education
Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption Ad
An advertisement promises a safe investment with guaranteed relief or refund of purchase price. It touts Dr Kings New Discovery for throat lung and chest ailments including consumption bronchitis asthma and whooping cough. Trial bottle offered by BE & F. A Fowus drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruggist
Dr Kings
BE & F
Additions to an Aphorism on Greatness and Conceit
The passage expands on the idea of greatness by noting some men are driven by conceit and that a class in every community believes nothing can be done without them. It satirically compares their influence to a harmless vacuum created by a finger removing itself from water.
Win Russes visit Nebraska after Tuesday departure
Mr and Mrs Win Russ left on Tuesday to visit relatives in Nebraska. When asked how long they would stay, Bill said he would stay as long as friends kept them, suggesting a lengthy visit for Humphry friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Win Russ
Nebraska
Bill
Humphry
Ice Harvest Underway With Thick Clear Ice
The ice harvest has commenced this morning with Frank Leavitt marking off areas and now a full force engaged. The ice is about 8 inches thick, clear as crystal and an excellent article, signaling steady activity in the season.
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Frank Leavitt
Pleasant season remembered in a Marysville letter
Serick Fox writes from Marysville Kansas on January 7 about a mild winter and a very pleasant season in 1891 with the family recovering from the grippe Mrs Fox has improved after four weeks of illness. The notice also reports Chas W. Prentiss’s eczema relief after twenty four years, with Chamberlains Eye and Skin Ointment recommended for sale by J W Niece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Serick Fox
Marysville
Kans
Chas W. Prentiss
Chamberlain
J. W. Niece
Uncalled Letters at Henry, Illinois Post Office
Listing shows letters remaining uncalled for at the Henry Illinois post office as of January 14 1892. Names include Freeman Mike Harney Hopkins O H Medan J Mrs Penl hard George Sanger A P Whitney Lizzie Winners. Will be sent to the Dead Letter Office January 28 1892. Brown P M
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P. O
Henry
Iil
Freeman
Mike Harney
Boy Saves Netherlands With Thumb, Disease Foe Adopted
A boy is said to have saved the Netherlands from inundation by using his thumb. The piece promotes Ayers Sarsaparilla as a remedy that guards against disease and strengthens the body, claiming it tones the system and fortifies every organ and fibre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Netherlands
Wallflowers Awake Chase Beaux For Leap Year Banquet
Poetic quatrain notes widens social chase as hopeful wallflowers seek favors and bread before the leap year ends, hinting at festive social rituals and courtship. The verse captures lighthearted seasonal mood and community bustle without specific names or dates.
Also Mentioned on This Page
N*” Opera House
Henry Yaeger
Henry, Illinois
Ao Jon
Acts Family Concert Company
Juvenile Brass Band and Orchestra
Powell’s Drug Store
J. & Balleweg
She Benny Republican
Mra
J C Townsend
Lacon
W. R . Grip
Sugar Grove
Gus Herder
Wisconsin
Robert Clark
Ida Clark
Kemp
Elia Hackett
Congregational Church
F. A Marsh
Henry D Watercott
Anna Watercott
John Jacobson
Bureau
Hood
Jon H. Perry
Clay, Robinson & Co
Commission Merchants of
Olden Times
Jeriah Bonham
Karl Koch
Zou Pleate
J W Fece
Karl
Koch
Mr Vail
WCTU
G@ C Griswold
St John's Church
The
Republican
William Allen
Hennepin
P. Dore
C. R. Jones
F A Powell
C C Slygh
George Burt
W Camery
Iowa
Christian Camery
Traer
James
Toledo
W O Seelye
Henry Seelye
H Mense
Sigel
Illinois
Ella Hutchings
Brooklyn
Katie Vogelsang
Gertrude Lytle
Ed White
Warrensburg
Mother
New York
J. Watercott & Co
Henry, Sr
H J Adams
Greenville
Aick
Mra Thomas Real
George Woodford
Bradford
Ladies Auxiliary Society
Crow Meadow Grange
Wedaoeaday
Jas Quinn
Edward Wigand
Davenport
Mississippi River
Wigand
Grace Grinwold
Ahe Ia
Fred
Nellie Law
St.Mary’s School
Knoxville
Anna d. Burt
Northwestern University
Misa Jeselo Root
la Prairie
Ephra Vogelsang
James Steele
Perrigo
Undertakers Association
Fincal
John Kline & Co
Bether
Steele
John Heim
Amarhia Ton
Heim
London Museum and Panorama
Avenport
Business
Coleg
Davenport Business College
J. €. Duncan
Davenport, Iowa
John Kline
Ried
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