Local Ad Overload Signals Circus Day Hustle
A bustling page of shop notices and circus day promotions from Henry Illinois and surrounding areas. Advertisers tout sample rooms, ready seed, shoes, canning supplies, livestock, and meat markets alongside bargain sandwiches and clubbing rates. Falls of names include J H Jones & Sons Henry Vogelsang The Republican office H Yaeger Casper Woods.
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Ball
H. Yaeger
J. F. Gates’s
Henry Vogelsang’s
Chicago
J. H. Jones & Sons
L. A. Meier & Son
Henry
L. A. Meter & Son
H.yaeger
Burt
Main Street
Ill
D. Peterson
Putnam
Metropolitan Journal
Woolford
J.E
F. A. Powell
Henry Yaeger
Yaeger
Republican Office
J. C. Moodey
Casper Woods
Booth
John Heim
H. J. Adams
East Park Row
Life of Ben Harrison by the Author of Ben Hur
Gen Lew Wallace, famed for Ben Hur, has moved to Indianapolis to write a biography of Gen Ben Harrison. Wallace, a trusted friend and statesman, will produce an authentic work for Hubbard Brothers of Philadelphia, due early August. A separate item notes a Nye family near Tiskilwa becoming insane after tea, taken to Princeton, with two girls committed to an asylum.
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Ben Hur
Lew Wallace
Indianapolis
Ben Harrison
Harrison
Wallace
Hubbard Brothers
Philadelphia
Nye
Tiskilwa
Edward Kramer
Streator
Kramer
Park College
Parkville
Col. Park
Magnolia
Ill
Boquet
Col Park
Goodyear
Park College Record
J. Watercott & Co
Manmoth
Lincoln
Elmer Hoyt
Graes
Local notices and updates from a small town paper
The column lists a mix of town happenings including visits by Miss Caddie Miller and Miss Mosler, a circus next Tuesday, and various residents traveling or returning. It notes assessments and reduced valuations, local births, promotions, and farm matters, with brief society items and church notices. A photographer visits, Hood’s Sarsaparilla advertised, and local officials discuss finances and livestock incidents.
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Board of Education
Caddie Miller
Lawyer Potter
Henoepin
Emily Bonham
Mosler
Rock Island
Norma
Frank E. Duncan
H. D. Bonham
T Falls
Powell
Maude Ellis
Peoria High School
J. OC. Townsend
Missouri
Ulster
Amel Manski
Mra Helm
Indianapolis
Louisville
F. A. Raymond, Jr
Ed Hite
Warrensburg
C. Eby
New Church
Henry county notes many July 4 events and local moves
July happenings include theft of a double car team, life policy proceeds to the Vogelsang children, a new brass band, various visits and picnics, a restaurant venture, repairs from a fire, a steamboat excursion, and a church bid with $365 still needed to finish the ME church. The community reports marriages, travels, and local appointments in Henry and Magnolia areas.
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Joe Freeliger
Joe
Andrew Stulter
Tiskilwa
Henry Vogelsing
Guardian
P. W. Wikoff
Masonic Mutual Association of Chicago
Reliable Hartford Insurance Company
A. M. Poole
Prank
Charles Vogelsang
Charles Watercott
Kirk Booth
Lawrance
Willie Petermans
Walnut Grove
C. Brown
W. E. Nevitt
Albany
Rebecca Richards
Lewiston
Jenale Bridges
Kewanee
Richard
Jennie Scott
Seneca
Kan
Charlies Eyerstt
Cheltenham
Cook County
Robert Thompson
Rob
Ken McNeul
George Harris
Harry Stevenson
Clover
Braceville
James Harris
Omaha
Hattie Mateer
Calvin Runnells
Englewood
Runnells
C. B Farwell & Co
William
Arch Bracken
Wichita
Henry
Sol York
Willie
Mao
Sol
Lookout Mountain Post
James A Garfield
Magnolia
WRC No 2
Royal Olmsted
J C. Townsend
Willis and Kinnear
Ahe
Capt Lynch
Ingram Smith
Main Street
Adams
Peoria
Presbyterian Church
Eveniog
Win Weeks
Bradford
Andrew Stibgen
Milo
Clarence L Hay Istedder
Clarence Foster
Charles Foster
Your Mouse on Fire and Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ad
Health warning about impure blood and bodily danger from smoke. Promotes Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a purifier tonic made from vegetables to strengthen kidneys liver and blood and guard against disease.
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Hood
Grange Picnic At Senachwine Lake Draws State Leaders
Illinois farmers plan an after harvest Grange jubilee at Senachwine Lake August 28 29 and 30 with all four gubernatorial candidates and Labor party nominee A J Streeter in attendance. Speakers include J M Thompson Capt A B Proctor B A Giles and Oliver Wilson. Hotel Undercliff will feed and lodge attendees at reduced rates.
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Grange
Senachwine Lake
A. J. Streeter
Labor Party
J. M. Thompson
Will County
Proctor
Peoria County
B.A. Giles
Greer
Oliver Wilson
Putnam
W. 8. Ashley
la Salle County
Lydia E. Wilson
Illinois
Undercliff
Gronp Panaps Dragon Attractions Arrive Next Tuesday
John Robinson presents a rare circus event in town, after years in the making. The procession began after 10 o clock from Tenth and Cherry streets with a brass band and a long line of pageantry. Spectators crowded the streets to view tigers lions wolves bears panthers and a diverse cavalcade including riders and tiny ponies. A female bugler led the parade eliciting cheers as crowds awaited the afternoon show.
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Tenth
Cherry
Bucklen Arnica Salve Featured As World’s Best for Skin
An advertisement touts Bucklen s Arnica Salve as the best for cats bruises sores ulcers and all skin eruptions promising piles cure and money back if not satisfied. It notes price 25 cents per box and lists Morsal and Punwell s drug store. Asher Norton named the only new member of the board of supervisors with others as returning members.
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Bucklen
Morsal and
Punwell
Asher Norton
Board of Supervisors
Mr Norton
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