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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1913
Page
2
The Magnolia area reports varied social activity and travel notes from Henry and surrounding towns. Residents including Raymond Eddingfield, Frank Ahlstrom, and Margaret Lackland are listed in local postings with visits to Toluca, Peoria, Bloomington, and Chicago. A healing note mentions Rev Ludgate’s Magnolia revivals and a testimonial for Chamberlain's Tablets as a stomach remedy.
The Easter ball drew a large crowd despite bad roads. News notes report deaths in Henry, sickness in Mary Selbert, and Mrs. Frank Wolf's slow recovery. Local happenings include travel to Peoria and Chicago for medical visits, Easter dinner at the Kerns, and telephone service outages from a damaged pole. An advertisement touts Foley's Honey and Tar for la grippe coughs.
An advertisement urges parents to use Dr King's New Discovery for children with cold symptoms. It promotes quick relief from coughs and feverish awakenings, claims pureness and pleasant taste, and offers a money back guarantee if relief isn't provided. Endorsed by W H Knowles and W P Rinehart with testimonials. sold by T J Segraves.
Local residents report visits and Easter gatherings across Toluca Osco Decatur and Champaign. Notable items include WC TWU convention, a farmers elevator charter with 115 stockholders, and school events at Swaney and Mt Palatine with dances programs and corn show plans.
Fred Morrow LA ROSE received two car loads of clear cold ice from Pewaukee Wisconsin last week filling his ice house. Adolph Zilm and wife returned from Chicago after a February 27 marriage and plan housekeeping when a suitable home is found. John Retter bought C H Justis residence and post office property and will rent to a professional. Justis family to move to Kanopolis Kansas to build. The optimist and pessimist exchange hay fever quips.
Mrs Nan Clemens hosts Royal Neighbor sisters for a farewell gathering before her move to Minnesota. Elijah Pickerel family relocates to Willis Deininger’s small town. Three of Deininger’s horses suffer illness over two weeks. Art Christon family visit and Velma join. Blanche Allen visits her sister Wills Deininger. Pearl Hetrick returns home to help with housework. Helen Edwards returns from Tonica trip. Dave Clemens and Henry Hamam depart for Minnesota as families prepare to follow.
An advertisement promotes Dr King's New Life Pills claiming they purge poisons, stimulate the liver, and improve digestion. The copy urges regular use to quick recovery, and lists A J Ironmonger's and T J Segraves as sellers.
Connad Selpp is very low in the Streator hospital. Jim Donaher went to Ottawa. Milton Wilson and wife arrived from Salt Lake City. George Stonish returned from Chicago and Chicago Heights. Mrs. I P Wierman and her husband visited her brother A W Merritt and wife. G A Bberly and family move into Comisky house. Dr Williams will preside at the Mr quarterly conference March 29 at 10 am. Clarence Phillips’ barn was wrecked by the late storm. a new one will be built. Lucile Schoenneshoefer received Bloomington school friends. John P Theiss and wife of Sublette were guests of Agent T H Hehir and wife.
Lawrence Dugan and wife visit relatives in La Salle while others travel to see kin in hospitals. Hoopeston elects A B Wilson for mayor as E Merritt runs unopposed. community notices include illness, travel, church cooperation, a cyclone’s damage, and plans for fundraisers and school events.
A multistory notice describes a funeral in Tonica with kin including Mrs Dare and Ethel Kildon, amid an epidemic of coughing sweeping the town. An advertisement touts Honey and Tar Compound from A S Jones Pharmacy, Chico, Cal. The cartoonist’s wife laments work at the office “night,” unsure what to draw.
A Cadillac driven by A. E. Phillips overturned from a bridge near Cox schoolhouse south of La Salle. Miss Myrtie Hillabrand was drowned beneath the wreck, with several others injured but surviving after extraction. Coroner Donaghue impaneled a jury to investigate as rescuers freed occupants from the nearly two ton car.
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