Varna notes and obituaries from a Illinois week
Local Varna notes list visitors and residents from Peoria Chicago Joliet Haswell and La Rose plus a death: Lawrence Everett Traver of Varna died at 17 after typhoid pneumonia. Funeral held at My Church with Rev Morgan and schoolmates in attendance. The piece also recounts community events and social visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C., Shields
Colorado
Mr. Shields
Kenneth Smith
Haswell
Col
Varna Colony
Charlie Willey
Magnolia
D.M. Justice
A. G. Clemens
F. R. Lord
Washington
Ralph McCulloch
Harry Stroup
Peoria
Myers Kohler
Chicago
Alvin Henry
Martin
Ira Bickingham
Little McClary
la Rose
McCoy
Joliet
Varna
Helen Foster
A. W. Miller
Rev. Dudman
Roanoke
M. E
Alton Flyer
Lacon
Bergman
Rockford
Rec
Zion Church
Louts Palm
Anna Extram
Hopewell
John Austin
Freda Hylin
Della
Mabel Gustafson
Venona
Joan Crane
Rutland
Frank Peterson
Allan Hultgren
Fred Lundgren
Minnie Carlson
Louis, Palm
Richland
Lawrence E. Traver
Lawrence Everett Traver
Varna High School
Morgan
Christian Church of
Tulya
Store Promises Style Quality and Low Prices for Clothes
A promotional note invites shoppers to visit for unusual style and quality at low prices. It highlights fine suits from 12.50 to 22.50 and business suits from 6.50 to 15, men’s hats at 2 to 3 and a large selection from 1 to 1.50. The ad emphasizes smart style and good fabrics at value prices.
Millinery and Linen Goods at New Season Prices
The store invites shoppers to new trimmed hats priced 2.75 to 5.00, with wash goods lace waists jackets skirts muslinwear and summer undergarments offered at attractive prices. Lace curtains feature thirty eight patterns 50c to 6.00 per pair and yard goods in nets curtain Swisses muslin at 8c to 10c per yard.
Busy Days in Mammoth FUR NITURE and Opera House Annex
It will pay you to come many miles to inspect this great stock of furniture carpets rugs in all sizes mattings linoleums cloths and rug fillers with our usual bargain prices prevailing.
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Mammoth Furniture
Big
Opera House
Local Hopewell notes and obituaries from Lostant region
Long list of residents and visitors around Hopewell Henry and Lostant. Includes social calls, shopping trips, family visits, and church events. Obituary notes for William H. Robinson born 1846 in Pennsylvania, died near Lostant aged 63. Funeral at Baptist church. other health updates and local happenings across multiple small towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Robinson
Pennsylvania
Lostant
Clara Giles
Clarence
Dwight
Johanna
Jessie
Leonora
Norman
Baptist Church
Lockett
A. O. Jones
H-G. Barton
Clinton
Harrison Boyle
Chicago
Schoenneshoefer
B. H. Graves
la Salle
Anna
Mary Toemmes
Bloomington
Mary
Minnie Nelfing
Henry Phillips
Iowa
Sarah Barnhart
Oglesby
Lizzie McDermott
Streator
Margaret Dean
Nelson
Harles Keley
Dana
Hys Brother
John
Mary Prindeville
Mt. Holyoke
Mass
P. BE. Hand
J.W Malone
Huzabeth Weber
Community Notes and Social Roundup From Henry Illinois
Local items recall social events church gatherings and visits in Henry Illinois May 9. Gertrude Winship plans a summer in Park Rapids Minn with sister Mrs. George Hughes. Several residents attend church events while others farewelled a horse after an accident and saw a school year end with Retta Downey closing her school. Fellow residents attend meetings at the Christian church and plan a shower for Miss Ethel Bumgarner. Multiple visits from nearby towns and a state prohibition convention in Springfield are noted along with a Roosevelt tribute from Governor Buechtel of Colorado and editorial reflections on Roosevelt’s influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopewell
Gust Carlson
Ed Holstrom
Charley
Allan Okerberg
Henry
Anna Adolphson
Roberts
Charley Okerberg
Eddie Carlson
North Hopewell
Otto Gustafson
August Hall
Richard Antrim
Lacon
Antrim
Hd Coleson
Herman Scheifelbein
Andrew Linder
Charley Donelson
August Extrem
Duke Bros
August Bjork
Bjork
Johnson
Bloomington
Marie Tidmarsh
Lindér
Allan Hultgren
Fred Lundgren
Varna
Rankin Forbes
John Austin
Charles Wheeler’s
Read
The
Christian Church
James Wherry’s
Josephine Colehower
Toluca
HBE Beck
John Swaney
Abel Mills
A. B. Wilson
Springfield
McNabb Professionals
McNabb
M. Wilson
Plorence Given
Miss Given
Ethel Bumgarner
Ralph Millis
Decatur
Oscar Bumgarner
Robinson
Lostant
Prof. James
Miss Ratekin
James
Louisa Bumegarner
Consolidated
Walter Tomlinson
Chicago
Mary A. Tomlinson
B. B. Mills
J. M. Bumgarner
Marie Calahan
Irving
Illinois Delegates and Two-Thirds Rule in Democratic Nominations
The article debates the Illinois delegation stance on abolishing the two-thirds rule at the national convention. It recalls 1860 Charleston when Douglas led amid a split and notes how preserving the rule could affect Bryan’s nomination and party unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Bryan
Denver
Thexf
theiNeébenkan
Tota
Johns
Charleston
S. C
Stephen A.dolas
I Bel
Douglas
Oiner
Credentials Committee
Baltimore
Jona Ec Breckenridge
Breckenridger
Lane
Fitorick
Slave States
Free States
Pers
Ovel Celta
O Pebebis
Democratic
Tonabouat
Wilco
Uibne
Speern
JaMcUan da
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Theisser
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Goodman
Verona
Putnam
Winship
Zuliat
Hobeck
ip2Granville
Ethel Kildow
Retta Henkins
Tean
Ethel” Kildow
Amy
Marshall
Age Anderson
Near
Seyane
Henry, Illinois
Ing
Lee Stickel
la Grippe
Ida Dawson
Lone Tree
High Prairie
Margaret Campbell
Rosa
Beulah Cumming
Margaret Bracken
Agnes Finley
Amy Wherry
Sparland
Delbert Marshall
Charles Ander
Will 'Ball
James Wherry
William Johnson
John Carlson
Arispe
Louises
Tss
David. Dwyer
John Dwyer
Mis
Gardner
Williams
Rat
Ae Bell
Héryyoung
Iria
Quaker Lane
Roosevelt
Buechtel
Sioux City
Benown
Theodore Roosevelt
Berlin
London
Edward VII
anaTheodore
Roosévélt
Henry Pe
Timois Geike
Rhea “Drewss Jackson
Lfanys
Ivpelay
Abou Ueley Takig Foley
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