Widespread talk at West Point and United States issues
Items note War Department remarks at West Point on military education and the rise of states to 48, with New Mexico and Arizona statehood on the horizon. Jack Eldredge completes a 4000 mile continental walk in 77 days for a $2000 prize, and New York City orders keep off the grass signs removed. The piece also discusses tariffs, rebates, and the 1816 year without a summer with a harsh sequence of frosts and snow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Point Military Academy
Dickinson
Washington
Jackson
Mexico
Taylor
States Grant
Spain Roosevelt
United States
New Mexico
Arizona
Congress
Republic
Jack Eldredge
San Francisco
Eldredge
Boston Athletic Club
Edward Payson Weston
Boston
New York
Massachusetts
Pagan
Pennsylvania
Illinois counties cannot share mine inspector salary
The attorney general's opinion to State's Attorney Orman Ridgley states that Woodford Marshall and Putnam counties cannot employ a common county mine inspector and pro-rate the salary. Boards of supervisors may hire the same inspector at different times but not share pay. The Rutland coal mine lease and management plan is stalled by labor troubles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tri-Union
Illinois
Stead
Orman Ridgley
Eureka
Woodford
Marshall
Putnam
Boards of Supervisors
No Cure No Pay Sanitarium Ad Promises Quick Drug Habit Cure
An advertisement promotes a sanitarium offering guaranteed cures for whisky morphine opium cocaine and all drug habits within ten days to three weeks. It claims painless treatment with no charge if not cured and appeals to both men and women with a lady nurse and references to bank and professional endorsements. Letters are invited for information and assurances.
Transplanted Rose Bush on Captain Worrell’s Grave
The Larned Chronicle notes a rose bush grown from a slip carried south by Captain James P Worrell during the Civil War now marks his grave in Larned Kansas. The plant, transplanted from Henry Illinois and cared for by owners in Henry and later in Kansas, continues to bloom 45 years after the soldier’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larned
Kansas
James P Worrell
Worrell
Henry
47Th
South
Whorrell
Green Street
Holmes Morrison
Morrison
Main Street
Gardon
Robert Shields
Albert Tyler
Larned Eas
N ‘Tyler Amison
J. P. Worrell
Tyler
Ill
Worrells
Captain Worrell
Peter Etscheid
Golden Medical Discovery Endorsed by Leading Medical Teachers
A promotional notice claims Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is recommended by eminent medical writers for chronic stomach and catarrhal diseases and related bronchial and lung conditions. It lists ingredients, stresses safety and lack of alcohol, and offers a free booklet of extracts from authorities upon request to Dr B. V. Pierce in Buffalo New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Bartholow
Jefferson Med. College
Hare
The
Univ. En
Finle Ellingwood
Bennett Med. College
Chicago
John King
Cincinnati
John Joe Fis
Cincinatti
Edwin M. Hale
Hahnemann Med
Cuileza
Lscovery
Son Moquey
B.v.pierce
Buffalo, Nuy
Bennett Typewriter Sales Pitch in Henry Area
Sales manager from WS deck will visit Henry and nearby towns early next week to present a liberal proposition for the Bennett Typewriter priced at eighteen dollars. The ad targets Putnam Magnolia and surrounding communities seeking the greatest writer’s tool offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennett
Henry
Putnam
Magnolia
WS Deck
Marinet
Atvence Carer
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First National Bank
Pital
Jones
L. Jones
W. W. Dewey & Sons
New City
John Hartley, Jr
Henry, DL
Kirby Bros
J. A. Swhm
Henry, Ill
C. Elsie Smith
Cromwell & Coggshall
Physicians and Surgeons
Cromwall
Coggpan
A. Hall
B. F. Forrest
Maulfair & Wolma
Veterinary Physicians and Surgeons
McNabb, IL
Ford Central
BF. C. Willett
Whitefield
McKillip Veterinary Core
Icago
Fred W. Potter
Henry, III
Henry EH. Jacobs
M. Barnes
J H. Magoon
Barnes & Magoon
Attorneys-At-Law
Lacon, Ill
Lephone
H. W. Adams
R. S. Bayne
Ea Herry
H. A
Gebhardt
M. D. Gc
Chicago Veter
Inary College
Motter's Livery
Thompson
aAwine
MO. I. Thompson
Lacon
Sannot
Sagar
Rutland
Duncan
Edill Wae
Hord Sanitarium
Shelbyville, Ind
California
Wyoming Post-Herald
State Journal
Kotows
Princeton Tribune
Theodore Roosevelt
Minnesota
Roosevelt
Taft
Great Middle West
Taftzalao
White House
Fairbury Blade
Neustadts
Golden Eagle
LA Salle, Ill
Neustadt
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