The Country Telephone and Its Broadening Reach
Long discussion on the rise of country telephone systems in Putnam County and Illinois. It covers construction costs, pole depth, wire, insulators, and exchange needs, praising quick communication for farmers, merchants, and towns while noting practical limits and costs.
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Hennepin
Atlantic
Pacific
Golden Gate
Putnam County
Illnois Bo
Chicago
Inaugural Address Incident Draws Debate
Clamor arises over an alleged insult to Gov Altgeld for not being allowed to speak at Gov Tanner’s inaugural ceremonies. Speaker Curtis defends adjourning the joint convention, saying the motion was out of order and he followed the prepared program. The piece notes the change in traditional practice of retiring governors giving addresses at successors’ inaugurations.
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Altgeld
Tanner
Curtis
Mahoney
Vm s Pills Purportedly Vegetable and Laxative
An OCR fragment notes Vm s Pills are described as purely vegetable and claim to purge and relieve pain or griping. The text appears as a brief product description with no clear date or full context.
Seelye Medicine Co awards three gold watches to top salesmen
A year ago Dr A B Seelye head of Seelye Medicine Co in Abilene Kansas notified 18 or 20 salesmen that on December 31 1896 he would award three prizes to the three salesmen with the largest yearly ale. The men gathered at the office to review sales records and three gold watches were awarded. Seelye is a son of Mazon Beelye and is engaged in a prosperous enterprise.
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A.b.seelye
Seelye Medicine Co
Seelye
Mazon Beelye
Marshall County
Life Portraits of Great Americans on Washington
McClure's Magazine will continue the Life Portraits series with 30 portraits of Washington. Original portraits now in existence will be examined with notes by Charles Henry Hart. A brief Washington life study will be supplied by Professor W P Trent of the University of the South.
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McClure
Washington
Charles Henry Hart
W. P. ‘Trent
University of the South
Digestive issues and the Shaker Digestive Cordial remedy
The text argues excess in eating harms health and suggests using the Shaker Digestive Cordial for prompt relief. It claims appetite returns, flesh and vigor recover, and advises a trial bottle for 10 cents. It also recommends Laxol for children as a Castor Oil substitute.
State Charities Board urges new colony for epileptics
The biennial report calls for expanded care of feeble minded and epileptic persons and proposes a new state institution in the form of a colony for epileptics with dedicated medical facilities. It notes overcrowding in many hospitals for the insane, and says the Western Hospital for the insane at Rock Island and the Asylum for the chronic insane at Peoria will relieve pressure.
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State Board of Charities
Rock Island
Peoria
Quite a Difference in a Society Editor’s Thanksgiving Line
The Geavribi society editor praised a Thanksgiving ball noting dainty feet in fairy shoe images. The next morning a printer’s error altered the phrase to dirty feet encased in shoes resembling ferry boats, eliciting horror at the misprint.
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Geavribi
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