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Henry Republican notes and local updates across Illinois
The Henry Republican reports a Florida trip of John O. Dent and wife, Jacksonville winning a state cup, army worm damage in Fayette county, and a Georgia-like string of local items including a Cambridge meeting of the Henry county soldiers, a St. Louis express heist, church dedications, elections, a train tragedy near Monmouth, and various civic notes from Wyoming, Pekin, Toulon, and Rockford.
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John O. Dent
Florida
Jacksonville
Fayette County
Henry County Soldiers Association
Cambridge
R. B. Fort
Benj. O. Luke
Elgin
Germany
Pekin
Charles Snyder
Wyoming
Peoria
Epworth
St Louis
Success
B. B. Lakin
Streator
Monmouth
Chicago
Hayes Pump and Planter Works
Galva
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Clevenger
Kankakee Insane Asylum
Gov Altgeld
Albert Myers
New Orleans Express
Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Forest Lawn
East St. Louis
St Jude's Epicopal Church
Tiskilwa
Burgess
Holst
Sinclair
Moline
James Cornell
Jamesville
Minn
DeKalb County
Sycamore
Nebraska
John Burns
Ottawa
W. H. Ford
C.N. Thompson
Lacon
Will Burns
Washburn
Rev J. Schultz
Venona
E. L. Monser
W. H. Jordan
Congregational Church of Wyoming
O. Quinby
Carthage
Quinby
Rockford Spectator
Rockford Republican
J.S. Thompson
George A. Bangs
Marshall County
Anglum
Toluca
la Rose
Nichols
Wyanet
C. B.&q. Railroad
Bloomington Eye
Ira M. Ong
Wonona
Lexington
Ung
Minoak
P. D. Winship
Mr Wheeler