Rain cools Saratoga nights and local notes
In Saratoga the community notes a welcome rain and cooler nights. Jennie Clark and Lester Lewis attended the Chautauqua in Henry last week. Edith Coulter of Iowa visited nearby. Kendall Smart is on the sick list. The O’Brien family welcomes a new girl, making four daughters and three sons. Mrs. Thumma travels to Chicago for her brother’s death and funeral in Pennsylvania. Ed Bogner and Jack Betts share family time. a Starved Rock trip ends with Herbert Doyle’s brief illness. Taft reforms cited. Foley medicines praised for coughs and kidney health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga
Jennie Clark
Lester Lewis
Henry
Edith Coulter
Iowa
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
Rain uplifts South Milo social notes and travels
The South Milo column records good rainfall and local activities. Attendees joined a show in Peoria on Tuesday while Amroé Longman and her husband visited Henry Mattison's family for a Chautauqua in Henry. Earl Stucker toured with relatives in Garfield, Tiskilwa, and Osceola. The Saturday Evening club enjoyed a lakeside day, and Uncle Thomas McClane plans a few weeks in Henry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Amroé Longman
Henry Mattison
Henry
William Bentley
Rufus Warner
Saturday
Thomas McClane
Illness Strikes Mrs Hutchins Casts Gloom on Lacon
Lacon Journal reports Mrs John Hutchins suffered a paralytic stroke Sunday with a serious initial outlook. Residents expressed anxiety and later relief as her condition improved. Also notes social visit to Henry Thursday evening and sale items including promissory note and legal blanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lacon Journal
John “Hutchins
Hutchins
Lacon
Wm. Bellows
Charles Reil
Jessie Ramsey
John
Roberts
Henry
Buchanan
Community notes highlight Sunday school picnic plans
Myrtle Erskine visits, local families host and attend gatherings. A union Sunday school picnic is planned for Stark Speer La Prairie Lawn Ridge Blue Ridge West Hallock and Edelstein at Root's grave on Aug 16 with committees and events arranged. Local graduates join Lawn Ridge Telegraph staff and others attend church activities while residents report crops harvest and improving conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Awn Ridge
Myrtle Erskine
Peoria
Alms, Wilson
C. Williams
Rock Island
Newell
Princeville
L. A. Chapins
Foley
Hawkins
Roy Foster
A. B. Curtis
Fannie Wilcox
Lawn Ridge Telephone Co
Edelstein
Alma Wilson
Charley Gaumer
Brother Henry
Henry Gaumer
R W Foley
Ross
Toledo
Fred Cornell
Colorado
Hazel
Moffitt Road
Dixon autoists plan county license fund for roads
A Dixon group proposes a new auto license reform to keep license money in the county where paid and spend it on hard roads. They aim to organize all motorists in Lee county and eventually reach every automobile owner in the state, seeking state support and taxpayer approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dixon
Dixon Dutcomobilists
Theicense
Lee County
Parson's Poem a Gem praising Dr Kings Pills
Rev H Stubenwoll from Allison Louisiana extols Dr Kings New Life Pills as a health necessity. He claims in every home these pills are essential and that other kinds fail. Sold at A J Ironmonger's and T J Segraves drug stores for 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parson
George R Snyder Dies After Appendicitis Operation
George R Snyder born January 1 1875 died July 13 1911 in a Chicago hospital under ether after an appendicitis operation. He was the youngest of eight children from Newport Perry County Pennsylvania. Funeral Monday at 9 am with his four brothers as pallbearers. He leaves an aged mother four brothers and three sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George R. Snyder
George R Snyder
Chicago
Newport
Perry County
Pennsylvania
S H Thumma
Sparland
Saratoga Township
S. H Thumma
Kelley
Summer diarrhoea remedy offered by local druggists
For summer diarrhoea in children always give Chamberlain's Colle Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and castor oil, and a speedy cures certain For sale by A. J. Ironmonger and T J Segraves, druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Ironmonger
T J Segraves
Princeton Trials Oil Dust Control On Streets
A Princeton civic push for street oiling to cut dust gains momentum after residents on Elm and East South streets express support. A 6 600 gallon car load will cover 13 000 square yards of macadam gravel and dirt roads, with costs around 3 dollars per frontage across a typical store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Elm Street
East South Street
Ahape
Linotype Invention Transforms Printing in 19th Century
The linotype by Ottmar Mergenthaler, born in Württemberg, grew from 1883 ideas to a perfected 1890 machine that set type line by line. It replaced laborious hand setting, boosted newspaper production, and spurred court disputes and rapid adoption led by major publishers.
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Mergenthaler Linotype
Sinotype
Mergenthaler
Linotype
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
Washington Post
Brooklyn Standard Uniton
New Orleans Times
Ottmiar Mergenthaler
Wurtemberg
United States
Als Faa
Besa
Mergen
Jinotype Golden Age of Printing Transforms Journalism
Thaler died at his Baltimore home in 1899. The Jinotype has revolutionized printing and created a new era in journalism. Without it, large newspapers with varied content for many readers would be impossible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thaler
Baltimorea
Jinotype
East Peoria appoints Prof Robertson school chief
Prof Robertson of Chillicothe is named superintendent of public schools at East Peoria. Mary Whorrall widow of Rev Charles Whorrall dies at Proctor hospital Peoria and is interred at Washburn. Her husband a Presbyterian minister died in 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robertson
Chillicothe
East Peoria
Mary Whorrall
Charles Whorrall
Proctor Hospital
Peoria
Washburn
Lane
Charles Fehring
Minoak
George W. Perry
Joliet
Reciproc ity Measure Passed Senate With Narrow Margin
The reciprocity bill cleared the Senate 53 to 27 and will be signed by the president. Republicans split 18 to 14 with progressives 10 against and 3 for. Cullom voted for while Lorimer opposed. Democratic senators largely supported it, save three. Taft said supporters will let actual operation test fears, hoping long term benefits for the United States and Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Cullom
Lorimer
Taft
United States
Canada
Control of Public Utilities in Illinois Exposes Policy Gaps
The piece criticizes Illinois public utility policy, condemning rate regulation for gas as partisan and ineffective. It details failed attempts to regulate electricity, the 1906 consolidation plans of Chicago Edison and Commonwealth Electric, and the lack of a public service commission. It warns of a W Edison trust extending from Waukegan to Mankakee and calls on Governor Denene to reintroduce the issue this fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Chicago Edison and Commonwealth Electric Companies
Public Service Commission
Jackpot
Wdison Company
Waukegan
Mankakee
Public Service Corporation
Trenth
Denéen
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Woman
Ottumwa Iowa resident Mrs Harner Wampler credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing long standing female troubles. The letter urges women to try the remedy before surgical operations and notes Mrs Pinkham offers free confidential advice from its Massachusetts origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Ottumwa
Iowa
United
Mrs. Harner
Wampler
Ransom Street
Lydia EF. Pinkham
United States
Lydia
Pinkham
Court House News Probate and Real Estate Transfers
Estate of Henry C Crooks probate hearing and letters testamentary to Cordelia C Crooks with 3000 bond. Conservatorship removal for Theodore Bickerman continued to July 24. Estate of Maria L Orr letters to Ellis J Orr with 10000 bond. Final settlement notice for John Kraus to be mailed to heirs before July 31. Sheriff transfers Islijah D Richmond deed to lots 2 and 3 block 4. Several Henning family deeds and quit claim transfers in Toluca and Toluca Santa Fe additions. Monser to Rose Babic warranty for part lot 13 block 10 Wenona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry C. Crooks
Cordelia C. Crooks
Theodore Bickerman
Maria L. Orr
Ellis J. Orr
John Kraus
Robert McCullough
Marshall County
Islijah
Richmond
Lacon H. W. Ferdinand Henning
Arthur H. Henning
Santa Fe
Toluca
Louis Henning
Christian Henning
Arthur H Henning
Santa Pe
George S. Monser
Rose Babic
Wenona
Kidney Remedy Praised By Texas Man In Ad
Mr Perry A Pitman of Dale Texas says he was bedridden four months with kidney bladder trouble and gall stones before Foley's Kidney Remedy cured him. He urges others to ask for it and credits the medicine with his recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry A. Pitman
Dale
Texas
Foley
A. J. Tronmonger
All things may come to a man who waits
A wry proverb notes that patience yields rewards only if one avoids stepping into traffic. The saying underscores caution around busy streets and the risks of inaction in dangerous crossings.
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McLaughlin
J. I. Case
Milwaukee
Keystone
International “Dairy Mad
Henry, III
South Milo
Gale
Virgie Martin
Watseka
Mary Calder
Lucy Bradford
Sadie Collins
Mollie Smith
Walter Burnett
Rose Herridge
Alice Scoon
Lena Scoon
Violet Burnett
Tom Grieves
Will Grieves
Elmira
Davidson
Robert Turnbull
Scott
Herman Webber
Dryden
John T. Burnett
Anna McCullough
Mossville
Alma
Edna Calder
Hester Collins
Alvin Calder
Rev. Buchanan
Monmouth
U. P Church
U. P
C. A. Hepler
Brooks
Mary Hepler
Belle
Streator
Hanes
Dwinell
M. B
Frank Calder
Jogypt
L. G. Calder
Frank Simmons
Marsden Calder
Missionary Society of the
M. B. Church
Artim Tt
Court House News
Probate Court
Peoria Musical
Middle West
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