Local General Store Ad Promises Bargains On Salt Pepper and Cigar
An old time price list from J. F. Gates advertises salt at low per barrel costs and pepper by the pound, cigars at 75 cents a box, sorghum at 42 cents, and various canned fruits and oils. It touts furniture and tableware, tobacco prices, matches at 15 cents per package, and peaches and evaporated fruit at reduced rates with emphasis on value and bulk buying.
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Michigan
Reyford
Choice New
California
New Orleans
Sperr
Blackwell
Durham
Local items and notices from a 1892 town page
July 7 1892 city notes report street repairs weeds removal and several residents travelers and events. Mentions T L Jones out west on business Joan Heim and others, Jessie Mae Hall at New Opera House July 7 8. Supervisors meet June 11. Harvesters sales and farm machinery activity. Races at Lacon staged with Charle Motter winning third. Race track nearing completion with upcoming events anticipated.
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T L. Jones
Joan Heim
Joseph Hartley
J Specht
T.J Cooney
Jessie Mae Hall
New Opera House
Sparland
Kemp
John
Gregory
Clara Sleater
Anna Burt
Miss Wiley
Peoria
Hood
Charles Erwin
Quincy
WCTU
W. W. Heath
Wirt Street
Board of Supervisors of
Marshalley
Con
Frank Fiedler
Allia Granburg
Andrew Helm
Indianapolis
Duke Bros
Deering
Prof Cross
McCormick Harvesters
Ken McNeal
A. A. Knapp
Baker
L. M. Lincoln
Imsley
M. L. Hildebrant
Lacon
Charle Motter
Albert Nay
St. Louis
Dr Swem
Florid
Wilbur Orr
Hawkeye
Wilbur
Fair Ground
Local notices and arrivals in Peoria area society pages
Community updates from Peoria and nearby towns including travel plans to Peoria on July 14, social events at Crow Meadow Grange and Tel eph Grange, church sermons by Rev Wm Wooley, and business moves such as John Kraus building a new brick store and John Wherry Jr store closure with sale. Orr format includes family visits, harness shop ads, and local entertainments.
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Jessie Mae Hull
New Opera
Fred Werner
Chicago
Henry
Lake Senachwine
Fred Schafer
Dr Forrest
Ringling Bros Ehcus
Presbyterian Sunday School
Presbyterian Church
J C Moodey
Ladies Grange Aid Society
Teleph Grange
Whitefield Corners
Grange
M. A. Sharta
Wm Wooley
E. Church
John Wherry, Jr
Philip Kane
Northwestern Io
Iowa
Local notices and sales sweep through Henry area
Robert Clark returns from the west with his family stopping at Colfax Springs Ottumwa and Rock Island. D H Anderson sells property to move to Peoria with sale of personal effects July 23. Mrs Loomis injured in fall. Salma Morganstein to Cullom. G R Post fire salute at Chillicothe. Henry store advertises bargain clothing from Chicago sale. Church fund drive for Putnam Co church nears 1000. local lawyers settle futures. Undertaker Keller heads to Florida for Mrs Seibert funeral. Entertainment program for Old Folks at Cong church July 2. fares cut for many routes via Webb's Ticket Office.
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Robert Clark
Colfax Springs
Ottumwa
Rock Island
George
Ayer
Henvy
Edward and
Third Streets
Wies Building
Chicago
Lyman Loomis
Whitefield
Salma Morganstein
Bahlesbach
Margaret Schroder
Cullom
Lirvingston County
Bablesbach
G . R. Post
Chillicothe
Goodrich
DH Anderson
Hd A Mathis
Oxbow
Mathis
Henry
J C
Melicck
Wm Woolley
Putnam
Putnam Co
Tod) Brady
Job King
Sheffield
Hitlard
J. F Gates
EP Harney, Esq
Ann Arbor Law School
West
Harney
Keller
William Seibert
Peter Clemons
Kev Miller
Maud Bacon
Lawrence Lippert
Liverpool
Louis Stertzer
John Heim
Mr Heim
Aaron Bartlett
Vas
Stetzer
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. F. Gates
Hutchins
Lincoln
EK. H. van Ingen & Co
New York
The
Benry
George Bert, Ephor
Grand Rapids
J. Watercott & Co
Peori
Pompeii
Silver Cloud
Pillsbury’s Best
Perfection Lst
D R Howe
Lydia Raymond
M Locke Mualo
Reading
Dojia Culver
Moses Hartley Bong
Mary Fish
TA Brantae
J MM Kirkpatrick
Monic
Q Goading
P Hil
Ann Die Shsedlhen Heim-Waerta Zichon
Frances Haaser
L A Melor
Ohio
Pennlvania
New England
England
Webb
Adams &T
Comstock
Avery Furniture Co
Adame St
Peoria, Ill
Flilts & Smith
Henry, Ill
Stever
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W.H Stever, Jeweler
Henry, Illinois
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