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Illinois news notes small town items and observations
A jumble of local notices and anecdotes covers mining plans, court decisions, weather lore, public works, and social questions. Topics include a proposed coal mine, Il river dam changes, nurse registration efforts, farm seed concerns, stray weather signs, and a plan to monetize canal land to fund maintenance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illnois Valley Traction Company
Princeton
Chicago
Galva
Frank Frey
Depue
Bureau
Marshal Smith
Marseilles
Thomas McDermott
Ottawa
Au Club
Lawrence Hodgkinson
Illlinois River
Lagrange
Kampsville
House Committee On Interstate Commerce
Sanitary District of
LaMoille (Ill) Gazette
Kansas
Oklahoma
National Live Stock Bank of Chicago
Illinois
United States
Hennepin
Maron
Indiana
Mississippi River
Father Hennepin
Percy Swain
Peru
Stillwater
Minn
LaSalle
Peoria
St Louis
Fred Swain
England
Bradford Republican
Illinois State Association of Graduate Nurses
Ignatius Feeny
The
Mercy Hospital
Vermillion
W.H. Smith
Eureka
Bloomington
M. E. Church Missionary Convention
D.S. McCown
Henry
Illinois Canal Commissioners
Supreme Court