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Peoria Looks at Beet Sugar Plant and Local News
Peoria pursues a beet sugar factory with a bonus request around 270000. Other items note DeLand donor Ereign Eureka college pledge, a Chicago club game in Minonk, a 4th of July picnic near Lawn Ridge, a five and a half foot snake exhibit, Geneseo soldier’s wife ad, missing Heyworth grain dealer Pumphrey, a Belleflower doctor suit, Bradford church confirmations, University of Illinois flag law case, Chicago river pollution concerns, Mendota editor Mark Ruggles identified, Day Bros store debts at Lacon, and hogs eating army worms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Bondurant
DeLand
Eureka College
Chicago
Minonks
Reds
Calvin Stowell
Lawn Ridge
Songer
Spainand Hills
Democrat
Geneseo News
Geneseo
J. L. Pumphrey
Heyworth
Belleflower
Bradford
Spalding
J. A. Cornelison
Pennsylvania
Danville
J. W. Yoemane
University of Illinois
Wright
McKinley Man
la Salle County
Mark Ruggles
Mendota
the Sun
Mark
Day Bros
Lacon
John M. Locke & Co
Nationa
M. W. Kahn & Co
Taylor & Parrote
Alexander Ryan
Indiana
Wyoming
John V. Farewell & Co
Jobst, Bethard &Co
Clark & Co
Marshall Field & Co
J. T. Day
Fulton County
S Meadow
Chicago Daily Inter Osean
Cook County
Colamp
Robert Burgess
Charles
Galesburg
Wenona
Weill
Michigan Avenue
Elsie Graham
Collis
Miss Graham
Fred
Auditorium