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Local notes show varied events across towns and deaths
A roundup of regional items reports a Princeville resident with numerous Dets swarms, a bank in El Paso starting business, Toulon Baptist church repairs, Canton Cambridge electric plant, and a 17 member suffrage group in Geneseo. Deaths include Ralph Cotrall of Joshua township and Mrs. Marie Von Elsner in Bloomington. Other items note a Peoria windstorm, Ottawa licensing, and a theater project in Kankakee to gift an opera house.
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Princeville
el Paso Netlocal Bank
Baptist
Toulon
Tannybillcar
Canton
Cambridge
Woman’s Suffrage Association
Geneseo
Northwestern Normal
Wm. Redick
Ottawa
Galesburg
Ralph Cotrall
Joshua Township
Fulton County
Mendota
Btreator Free Press
Ottawa Glass Factory
el Paso Journal
Emory Cobb
Kankakée
Henry A. Taylor
Peoria
St. Louis
Godfrey
la Balle
Dimmick
Pontiac
Lutheran Theological Seminary
Town
Michigan
Kane Bayard
Kentucky
Chicago Railway
William Leet
Bradford
G.A.R
le Salle County
Grand Reunion
Commissioners of Highways
Evans
Mc Hill
U. S. Military’ Academy
Weat Point
State Board of Agriculture
Livingston County
Henry
Eureka
Thos. Harrison
Decatur
Avaré Cohvarta