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Illinois News Roundup From Pekin Henry and Beyond
A long reading list from local columns notes a Pekin Henry excursion on July 22 with the Columbia steamship handling crowds, plus Illinois troops led by Governor Dunne and Mayor Thompson in a San Francisco exposition parade on July 24. Other items report a fatal car collision injury, an opera House film on a morphine drama, bridge upgrades at Henry city, local marriage and census notes, and an Illinois cemetery record law requiring certificates of service and grave locations for all veterans.
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Pekin
Henry
Thursayy
Columbia
Dunne
Whompson
Chicago
Illinois Day
Emmetsburg
Wilbur McAtee
Everton
Arnold’s Grocery
Advt
White Sox
S. F Baldridge
Kewanee
W H Edminster
Milo
Bureau County
N S Edminster
H. R. Durant
Mutual Film Corporation
Opera House
Republican
Watagh
Victoria
Illinois River
Post-Herald of
Wyoming
L. C Winn
Harms
General Assembly
Legislative Halle
Sivell & Staap
Cappertune & Deyo
Bradford
Illinois
Martin Carmon
McDonough County
Geneva Reform School For Girls
St. Charles Reform
David M Jackson
Chicago & Alton
Citizens’ Prospecting Association
Wiliam L. Thompson
Robert Thompson
William Leet
Lfe
Rosa L Leet Thompson
Leet
Bradford Exchange Bank
Wesleyan University
Bloomington
Luella Courtney
Eureka Journal
Gov. Dunne
Womanist Relief Corps of Illinois
House of Representatives
Thomas Campbell
Rock Island
United States
Hesshull
Pata Tliba
Nin Sbi
Ottawa
Speer
Dean of
Lacon
Fogg
Patterson
Bunch
Perry
Albert True
Abram Snarte
Los Angeles
Henry Wenon
Granville
Oberlin
College
Nan Gleason
Batavia
Clara
Jones
Geneseo Republic
John Applen
Nicholay & Shepard
Red River
Arc Broadmaer
PBS Mmenime
Broadmoors
Chicagon& Northwestern’ Railroad.'Co
The
Christian Church
Flora Sauer
Rutland
Lake Senachwine
Catholic Church
Fr Dickman
Wilson Circle
G. A
Peoria
Verne Swain
Bruce Spangler
Scott County
Kansas
Brice
Great American Desert
Scino
Am Exchange
Avid
Mya
Spade