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Rock Island train lamped by electricity and local notices
Henry Republican notes an electrically lit Rock Island fast passenger train. Reports on missing G W Willey of Wenona, two La Prairie deaths, a new bell for Lacon Congregational church, and Wenona to southern Kansas moves. Town updates include fires, sales, drownings, burials, and local officials. various local incidents and people are named.
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Rock Island
G. W. Willey
Wenona
la Prairie
J.J. Calder
James King
Congregational Church
Lacon
Kansas
Clint G. Ford
J. W.chamberlain
Sparland
J. M. Tawney
Chillicothe
Mary Blackstone
G. F Blackstone
Brocton
Mass
Philo Barker
Lostant
James Hunt
Bright
Peter Held
Stire & Gell
Thomas Martin
Steuben
Bishop Spaulding
Grand Army of the Republic
Oliver Milling
Arispe
Bureau County
Norman McLaughlin
Turbitt
Lacon Journal
A. H. Statelee
Ottawa
Robert M. Hanna
Transcript
Hanna
Peoria
Bro. Dill
Lawn Ridge Lodge
Ihru
Henrietta Storris
Bradford
Chicago
Woman's Christian Temperance Society
Kankakee Asylum
George Parker
George
Byard Wright
Venona
Starved ,Rock
Ewart
Lawn Ridge
Shane
W. D. Ham
Pontiac
Rutledge
The
Central
Clinton
Hudson
Filer
Gazette
J. W. Bailey
Princeton Republican
Bailey
Hennepin
Peoria Journal
Clark
Evelyn Halsey
Pinsuiti
Journalisys
Halsey
Chicago Journal
Rock Island Company
Kaneas City
Metamors
Henry
Jonas D Woodward
Baldwin
BE. W. Houghton Lumber Co
J. H Whitbeck
E.w.houghton
F. W. Stephenson
Wyoming
R. O O. Bellow
Altona
John Russell
W.O. Houghton
KE. W. Houghton
Galva News