Local Items From Thur. Jan 24 1918 Flys Through Rails And News
Local notes report Mrs. John Monter visiting Camp Grove Champaign and Mrs. Barney Roth ill with little improvement. George Barker recovering from pneumonia. coal transport on passenger trains described. Shipping livestock to Chicago via Peoria schedule altered. Track repairs planned on Bureau Peoria line with 90 pound rail and steel gang headquartered Chillicothe for track elevation work. Public notices include railroad crew details and miscellaneous poems and jokes from the era.
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G. B. Fenwick
Spring Valley
Hunter Company
Chillicothe Enquirer
Chicago
Peoria
Bureau- Peoria
Rock Island
Chillicothe
Enquirer
The Boys Entertain Wee a Wednesday Evening
The Lotzapop girls entertained the visiting boys with card games dance and music. After supper at Hayes restaurant, newlyweds Mr and Mrs Lee Wright delivered a table top speech before guests departed to prepare for service.
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Hayes
Lee~Wright
Peoria
Lottapop Club
Pollandsworth Wright Tie Quiet Presbyterian Wedding
A quiet wedding united Sarah Hollandsworth and Lee Wright at the Presbyterian parsonage in Peoria on Tuesday January 22. They will live with the groom’s parents in Henry and come from Davenport and local roots. The bride is praised for domestic skill and friendliness. the groom works at Wright barber shop and family standing is noted.
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Presbyterian
Peoria
Sarah Hollandsworth
Lee Wright
Henry
Davenport
Elias Wright
Hood
Wright
Stanza Additions to National Hymn Spark School Singalongs
An added stanza to America appears in schools and public assemblies praying for safe passage and victory for men. A schoolboy narrator contemplates education before later joining in war. Congregationalists fail to merge Wyoming churches and seek a minister.
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America
Wyoming
Railroads Adopt 2 Cents Per Mile Fare Limits
The United States supreme court has established a maximum rate of 2 cents per mile for intrastate travel. Edward J. Brundage and Silas H. Strawn announced that excess fare coupons will be redeemed promptly, with tickets showing the coupon value. Instructions to rail offices will follow, but printing delays push effective tariff changes to February 1, 1918, with redemption continuing from January 28 for coupons issued.
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United States Supreme Court
Edward J. Brundage
Silas H. Strawn
Chicago
Brundage
Strawn
Henry Red Cross Chapter Sees Membership Surge and War Aid
Henry Red Cross reports members rising from 361 to 711 as letters from Ensign Jensen, George Hillabrand, Corporal Paul Jones and Ray Stringer are read. Volunteers knit wristlets and helmets, pack surgical dressings, and ship 1187 gauze dressings and 65 muslin bandages. A benefit play is planned February 1 at the Henry Opera House under Ann Custer Hall.
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Henry Red Cross
Henry
Eugene Jenness
George Hillabrand
Paul Jones
Ray Stringer
Grieves
Hunt
Will Melor
Red Cross
Ann Custer Hall
Henry Opera House
Mabel L. Stelmle
Junior Red Cross
Junior Red Cross of
Womans club meeting promotes thrift and charity
A ladies gathering at Mrs. H Maly Stickel’s home featured a talk by Mrs. R F Burt on the High Cost of Living and economical dishes, with recipes noted. Members discussed economizing on food and fuel to aid others, and a Salvation Army donation was made in Chicago.
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Maly Stickel
Frank Wood
Salvation Army of Chicago
R. F. Burt
Burt
Morgan
Bella Evans
Mrs Michael Barry of Wenona Remembered for Virtue and Family
The obituary recalls Margaret Brown born in Ireland in 1836 who immigrated to America at fourteen. She married Michael Barry in 1860 in St. Louis and decades later settled near Wenona. She died January 20 after long illness, leaving six children and a devoted family. Funeral at St. Joseph's church with a requiem high mass and eulogies by Rev. Father Brannan.
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Margaret Brown
Ireland
America
Michael Barry
St. Louis
Minois
Yea Jo
John E
John E. Barry & Co
James
Saratoga
Ella
James Wallace
Charles
Chicago
Anna
Mrs.Barry
St. Joseph's Church
Altar Society
St. Joseph’s League
Father Brannan
St. Joseph's Cemetery
Charles Barry
Michael Gorman
John Sullivan
Kate Kane
Wenona
Henry Bickerman
Peoria
Joseph Garrity
A. B. Smith
Notice to Registrants for Marshall County Medical Examinations
The Marshall County local board announces that the medical examiner will arrange examinations for registrants asserting physical defects or unfitness under the selective service act. Call the La con Illinois office between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. to set an appointment. Registrants should keep their FINAL classification cards with them at all times. Mrs Catherine Nickerson, formerly of Chillicothe, died January 14 at her Lawn Ridge home, aged 84.
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Marshall County
the Board
Lacon
Ill
Catherine Nickerson
Chillicothe
Lawn Ridge
Local Want Ads Include Sale Listings And Cemetery Markers
A fragmentary Lake County classified section lists sale notices for a six room cottage and a remodeled five room cottage with utilities. Triebel & Sons of Peoria advertise monuments and cemetery markers. A nurse and a physician are named with contact details. A ride advertiser seeks a reliable town representative with salary and commission.
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Triebel—& Sons of
Peoria
Triebel & Sons of
James L. Lombard Dies at 68 Founder of Two Kansas City Banks
James L. Lombard, 68, former Kansas City banker and founder of the First National and Corn Belt banks, died suddenly in Larchmont while visiting his daughter. He led Lombard Investment Co and helped start Lombard Bros. in Kansas City before bank consolidations in 1913. Survived by wife Eva, daughter Mrs. Harris, three sons Albert, James P., Norman, and a sister.
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California
James L. Lombard
Kansas City
G. M. Harris
Larchmont
Citizenk' Saving Trust Company
Lombard
Lombard Investment Company
Mr. Lombard
Henry
Ill
Bowdoin College
Brunswick
Phi Upsilon Fraternity
8. M. Lombard Jr
Lombard Bros
Ninth and Main Streets
First National Bank
Norman Lombard
Berkeley
Cal
Benjamin Lombard
Western Avenue
Grover Kirby
Morris Battle
Chicago
Lombard College
Galesburg
James Lombard
Mrs. Maria Greuner Obituary and Local Notices
Mrs. Maria Greuner aged 82 died after a fall in her home two to three weeks earlier. Funeral at Mrs. Thomas Clark’s residence Friday at 2 30 PM with Rev G E Tilton. interment at Henry cemetery. Speer Red Cross to hold a January 26 public sale of donated items including coal oats a rooster and a pig. The Henry high notes and activities follow with classes, visitors, sickness, and a winter schedule plus a box social tonight at the Henry high school.
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Maria Greuner
Thomas Clark
G. EB. Tilton
Henry Cemetery
Speer Red Cross
Kraus
Lofgren
Nicholson
Brown
Robert Williams
Bendis Ertle
Harry Seitz
Katherine Roesch
Elsie Carpenter Ceron Ertle
Roy May
Clifford Mercian
Scott
Letter from Mrs Merritt Davenport Nebraska January 15 1973
Minnie D Mérritt writes from Davenport Nebraska describing travel plans to Parsons Kansas and asking recipients to send The Republic. She notes cold weather and a blizzard with difficult mail delivery, Red Cross garment shipments, pneumonia in Lloyd Maxwell's wife, and family updates including Davenport boys in France and in Denbg.
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Davenport
Neb
Parsons
Kan
Republic
Belmet Avenue
Maxwell
Red Cross
Lloyd Maxwell
Katie Darby
Frank
Newton
Harley and All Nations
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Youngstown Telegram
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Schmitt & Williams
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van Camp
Kellogg's
Sene
Sas Ee
Ned Cross
The
Woman's Club
Henry Township
Vogelsang
Mrs
Rea
Nettle Jarman
Green
E. H. Bradley
New Lehman Eldg
Court House
Triebel.& Sons of
Adams
Henry and
First St
la Salle
Tih
Roger
Roger Merrit
Arnold’s Grocery and
J. M. Arnold
Wurst & Knoll
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