Local Notes From Henry Illinois Hears Chautauqua News
Reports from Henry Illinois include attendance at a Chautauqua in Henry and a nearby event. Jennie Clark and Lester Lewis joined the Henry gathering, with others traveling from the area. Family news mentions a new baby girl for Mr. and Mrs. Betts, a death in the Thumma family linked to Chicago and Pennsylvan ia, and a medical incident when John Clayton suffered pain from a fly in his car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga
Jennie Clark
Lester Lewis
Henry
Heith Coulter
Lowa
Kendall Smart
James O’brien
Samuel Thumma
Chicago
George Snyder
Pennsylvania
Ed Bogner
Jack Betts
Bob Kelley
Herbert Doyle
Starved Rock
Bob
Herbert
Thomas Gubbins
Brimfield
John Clayton
Blough
Honest Medicines Versus Fakes
A letter from A. J. Ironmonger praises Foley's Honey and Tar Compound and Foley Kidney Pills as standard remedies. He notes Taft’s Pure Food and Drugs amendment proposal does not apply to these established medicines recognized by the medical profession for coughs, throat and lung issues, applicable to both children and adults.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Foley
A. J. Ironmonger
South Milo Community News Highlights Local Visits and Rain
The town celebrates rain and a local show in Peoria with residents attending. Amree Longman and wife visited her parents. Henry Mattison attended Henry Chautauqua. William Bentley and family visited Rufus Warner. Earl Stucker toured Garfield visiting John Reid's family and relatives in Tiskilwa and Osceola. Saturday Evening club youths enjoyed a lake day. Uncle Thomas McClane stays a few weeks in Henry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Amree Longman
Henry Mattison
Henry
William Bentley
Rufus Warner
Earl Stucker
Garfield
John Reid
Tiskilwa
Osceola
Thomas McClane
Mrs Hutchins Stricken By Sudden Paralytic Stroke
Mrs John Hutchins suffered a sudden paralytic stroke Sunday with serious concerns then improved. the town of Lacon expressed gloom and relief as her condition changed. A group including Mr and Mrs Wm Bellows and others took a Buchanan launch trip to Henry Thursday evening, returning later. Legal blanks and notes were for sale at the office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lacon Journal
John Hutchins
Charles Reil
Jessie Ramsey
John Roberts
Henry
Buchanan Launch
Community Notes From Lawn Ridge Area
Myrtle Erskine of Peoria vacationing with aunt Alma Wilson. Local visits from Mrs. F. C. Williams and three children of Rock Island and Mrs. Newell of Princeville. Club organized from Mrs. Hawkins and Mrs. Roy Foster classes at the parsonage. Ten cent tea at Mrs. Goodrichs drew Speer Edelstein parishioners. Union Sunday school picnic plans for Stark Speer La Prairie Lawn Ridge Blue Ridge West Haldock and Edelstein set for Root's grave Aug 16. Progress reports include Fannie Wilcox earning a diploma and starting as a hello girl for Lawn Ridge Telephone Co. at Edelstein. Fred Cornell visited Hazel in Colorado and reports her improving health and fine surroundings at altitude near Moffitt road.
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Henry Crady
Charles Gaumer, Jr
Goodrich
Sumner Perkins
Stark
Speer
la Prairie
Lawn Ridge
Blue Ridge
West Hallock
Hdelstein
A. B. Curtis
Fannie Wilcox
Lawn Ridge Telephone Co
Edelstein
Myrtle Diskine
Peoria
Alma Wilson
Charley Gaumer
Henry
Henry Gaumer
R. W. Foley
Foley
Ross
Toledo
Fred Cornell
Colorado
Hazel
Moffitt Road
Local social notes from La Prairie and nearby towns
La Prairie residents host visitors from Watseka Lacon Elmira Peoria and Massville with several church events and a missionary social planned. Attendees include Virgie Martin Rose Herridge Alice Scoon Violet Burnett Alma Calder Edna Calder Hester Collins and others with preacher Rev. Buchanan and Dr Dwinell noted.
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Virgie Martin
Watseka
Mary Calder
Lucy Bradford
Lacon
Sadie Collins
Mollie Smith
Walter Burnett
Rose Herridge
Alice Scoon
Lena Scoon
Violet Burnett
Starved Rock
Tom Grieves
Will Grieves
Elmira
Davidson
Robert Turnbull
Scott
Herman Webber
Chicago
Dryden
Peoria
John T. Burnett
Anna McCullough
Massville
Alma
Edna Calder
Hester Collins
Princeton
Alvin Calder
Buchanan
Monmouth
U. P
C. A. Hepler
Brooks
Mary Hepler
Belle
Streator
Hanes
Dwinell
M. BH
Frank Calder
Egypt
L. G. Calder
Frank Simmons
Marsden Calder
Missionary Society of the M
Autoists to Boost Plan in Lee County
Dixon motorists plan to form a statewide auto owners organization to push keeping license money in the county for hard roads. They argue current funds go to the state treasury with no local benefit and propose a small license increase directed to local road improvements. A countywide meeting of drivers in Lee County is planned to start the movement.
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Dixon
Dixon Automobilists
Lee County
Linotype celebrates 21st birthday and genius of Mergenthaler
A tribute to the linotype on its 21st anniversary highlights Ottmar Mergenthaler’s invention history from 1883 to 1899. The text traces early models, the 1890 perfected machine, industry impact, and the shift from manual setting to line casting, noting key figures and publishers involved in bringing the device to widespread use.
Parson's Poem a Gem Praises Dr Kings Pills
A religious figure Rev H Stubenyoil from Allison Ja extols Dr Kings New Life Pills as a health necessity. He claims every home should have them and urges use of Dr Kings if other remedies fail. Price is 25 cents at A J Tronmonger's and T J Segraves drug stores.
Obituary of George R Snyder of Newport Pa
George R Snyder born January 1, 1875 died July 13 1911 in a Chicago hospital after an appendicitis operation. He was the youngest of eight children from Perry County Pennsylvania. His body lay in Newport with funeral arrangements noted and pallbearers were his four brothers. He leaves his mother four brothers and three sisters. Sister Mrs S H Thumma of Sparland Ill accompanied the remains from Chicago. The article also adds an advertisement for Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and castor oil sold by local druggists.
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George R. Snyder
Chicago
Newport
Perry County
Pennsylvania
S. H. Thumma
Sparland
Ill
Saratoga Township
Kelley Brothers
Oiling Princeton Streets Promoted by Local Record
Princeton residents embrace street oiling to curb dust. A 6600 gallon carload will treat 13000 square yards of macadam gravel and dirt roads, with costs around 3 dollars per 50 foot frontage. City promises to prepare streets. trial to rates and results to guide future paving decisions.
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Princeton
Elm Street
East South Street
North End
Thaler's Death Marks End of an Era in Baltimore
Thaler died at his home in Baltimore in 1899. The linotype has revolutionised the printing trade and created a new era in journalism. Without this machine the large newspapers of today with varied content for many readers would be impossible.
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Thaler
Baltimore
Linotype
East Peoria to get new public schools chief
Prof. Robertson of Chillicothe has been named superintendent of public schools at East Peoria. In Peoria, Mrs. Mary Whorrall widow of Rev. Charles Whorrall died at Proctor hospital and was buried at Washburn. Her husband died in 1909. She was a Freer and her death marks the sixth family loss in three years. Farmers report grasshoppers widespread across the state. Charles Fehring east of Minonk cites unprecedented hopper numbers, scraping oats to free the mower, and corn tassels being eaten. Joliet Civil War veteran George W. Perry predicts a harsh winter with heavy snow, noting weed-seed correlation and unusually tall sunflowers in his garden.
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Robertson
Chillicothe
East Peoria
Mary Whorrall
Charles Whorrall
Proctor Hospital
Peoria
Washburn
Charles Fehring
Minonk
George W. Perry
Joliet
Mr. Perry
Reciprocity measure passes senate and awaits presidential signature
The reciprocity bill clears the senate by 58 to 21 and will be signed into law by the president. Republicans split 1 to 14, progressives 10 to 4 against, with Senator Cullom for and Lorimer against. Democratic senators largely support it, and Taft predicts the test of its actual operation will prove its value over time.
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Senate
Cullom
Lorimer
Taft
United States
Canada
Public Utilities Policy Lapses Highlight Illinois Corruption
The Chicago Tribune criticizes Illinois public utilities regulation, noting weak state oversight in gas and electricity. It cites a partisan gas rate ordinance, lack of public interest protection, and a 1906 Edison Commonwealth consolidation plan aimed at monopolizing electricity. It urges Governor Deneen to push new legislation this fall.
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Illinois
Chicago Edison and Commonwealth Electric Companies
Public Service Commission
Jackpot
Desplaines
Edison Company
Waukegan
Kankakee
Public Service Corporation
Deneen
Chicago Tribune
Ottumwa Woman Cured by Lydia E Pinkham Ads
Ottumwa Iowa woman recounts near lifelong female troubles including headaches dizziness and weakness. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with her cure and urges others to try it before surgical operations. The notice promotes Mrs Pinkham's free confidential advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
United States
Lydia Brinkham
Harriet E, Vampler
Ransom Street
Ottumwa, Iowa
Dea
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia J. Pinkham
Court House News Probate and Real Estate Transfers
Probate Court notes estate of Henry C Crooks letters testamentary to Cordelia B Crooks bond 3000. Theodore Bickerman conservatorship removal hearing July 24. Estate of Maria L Orr letters administration to Ellis J Orr bond 10000. Notice for final settlement in estate of John Kraus due July 31. Robert McCullough estate report approved. Sheriff conveyances Elijah D Richmond lots 2 and 38 block 4 Lacon. Henning to Henning transfers in Toluca and Wenona real estate deeds recorded.
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Henry C. Crooks
Cordelia BE
Crooks
Theodore Bickerman
Maria L. Orr
Marshall County
Elijah D. Richmond
Lacon
H. W. Ferdinand Henning
Arthur H. Henning
Santa Fe
Toluca
Louis Henning
Christian Henning
George
Monser
Rose Babic
Wenona
Kidney Disease Claim From Texas Man
Mr Perry A Pitman of Dale Texas says kidney and bladder trouble and gall stones kept him bedridden four months until Foley's Kidney Remedy cured him with one bottle. He urges others to ask for it. A J Ironmon ger.
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Perry A. Pitman
Dale
Texas
Foley
A. J
All Things May Come to a Man Who Waits
A cautious reminder warns that patience serves only if one does not stand in the way of oncoming traffic.
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Mergenthaler Linotype
Ottmar Mergenthaler
Mergenthaler
Whitelaw Reid
New York Tribune
Walter N. Halderman
Louisville Courier-Journal
Victor Lawson
M. E. Stone
Chicago Inter Ocean
W. H. Rand
Rand-McNally Co
Stillson Hutchins
Brooklyn Standard-Union
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Brooklyn Stanard-Union
Wurtemberg
Mr Mergen
T. J. Segraves
Drugeasts
Republican
Court House News
Peoria Musical College
Middle West
F. L. Stead
N. Madison Ave
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