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West Halleck note and Illinois news roundup
The report covers diverse regional items from Bradford speculators and Parlin & Orendorff founder’s death to Chicago World’s Fair labor shifts, a divorce alimony case, drainage channel plans, and an 1818 land grant document. It notes a Phoenix relocation of a lawyer, a L J Hodge monument arrival, crime rumor debunking, and local price shifts in central Illinois farms.
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West Halleck
Bradford
Chicago Board of Trade
William Parlin
Parlin & Orendorff Agricultural Works
Canton
Walter Bennett
el Paso
Phoenix
Arizona
Chicago
Phenix
Hancock County
Stark County
Drainage Board
Summit
Joliet
O. F Thomas
Chillicothe
James Monroe
United States
Rey Ayling
Undercliff
L J. Hodge
Vermont
Geo H Harlow
Cottage Grove Avenue
Cherryvale
Lod
King
Spring Valley
Illinois
Utica
Daily Graphic
Little Rock
Arkansas
National Medical Association
Mra H. K Morris
Houghton's Lake
Bloomington
Guy St John
Mary T Laterop
Col John Sobleaki
Clara C Hoffman
R. F Trevellick
Julia Ames
J. G. Evans
D D
Rey W H Boles
Evans Grange No 85
Mra
Sarah Martin
Evans Township
Crandall
Peoria
Illnois
C H Tisdale
Varoa
Benjamin Shipley
Central Illinois
Central Agricultural Society
Wyoming Fair
Rochelle
Ogle County
Supreme Court
Ross