Local notices and society events around Henry county May 1920
Community notices recount visits from Paul Burkhart and travels of residents to Missouri and Colorado. Henry county families attend dances, church services, and meetings. Scouts, D. A. R., and Masonic groups plan events. Local road and farming updates include tractor plowing shifts and lakefront development near Toulon.
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Ebay Ees
St Mary’s Church
Ethel Zenor
Jacksonville
Homie
van’ Leer
Amanda, Mills
Quaker Lane
Lenora
Ellis
Spain
D. ‘Draper
Camp Grove
Tark
Lila
George Kirkpatrick
Tiskilwa
Kenneth Helper
M.B
Henry Chapter
O. BH. S
Lacon
Methodist Sunday School
Willam Wheeler
Griffin
Daniel Vail Place
Frank Koehler
Omene Nabb
Harry Miller
Rennick
Toulon
Baldwin
Stark County
Senachwine
G. EB. Sparling
Toulon Avenue
Valley of Peoria
Peoria
Henry
Vern Ketchum
C. A. Phillips
Gus Johnson
Charles Dewey
Horatio Hartley
Theodore Kaiser
A. A
Ambiguous OCR Item Sparks Fragmented Total
Fragmentary OCR text shows a garbled financial string with numbers such as 85 and 768 and references to ITO 642 and 190, lacking clear context or readable structure. The readable facts are minimal, suggesting a corrupted financial figure or ledger fragment without identifiable entities or dates.
Farmers Facing Higher Costs and Looming Income Question
A report questions the claim that U S farmers earned an average 4000 last year. W F Handschin of the University of Illinois notes total crop value around 25 billion and six million farmers, urging recognition of higher costs and taxes while stressing farmers push to raise output amid postwar strains. He cites evidence of profitability but warns against overestimating real income for farm families.
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Rock Island
Geneseo
Green River
Farmad
Bill-Crane
United States
Post Office Department
Pantagraph
W. F. Handschin
University of Tllinois
Associated Farm Papers
Ilinois
Putnam Town Hall Event Promises Old Time Variety
A town hall gathering in Putnam next Saturday May 15 offers a comic Dixie minstrel show with Mrs. James Case and Barton Allifison impersonating Bert Williams, plus a Moonshine song, lively jokes, and a side-splitting ordeal for 25 and 15 cents. Also notes plant germination testing by Ola Nafziger in Bloomington with seed quality concerns. 2000 ears tested show 25 percent unfit for planting.
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Putnam
Barton
Allifison
Bert Williams
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Paul Burkhart
Tase
University of Ilinois
Mae Burkhart
James’ Hartley
Marshall
Springfield
Rozella Herry
Opera House
Ladies’ Aid Society
The
Presbyterian Church
W. J. Kough
Fort Morgan
Colo
Merritt
Barbara Haws
Lombard College
Galesburg
M. B. van Leer
Swaney School
Bradford
Clifford Haws
Haws
Calvin Starliper
Phillip Thomas
Shas
Rey Wood
Hennepin
Barber
Granville
W.5m
Drake
Spencer
Magnolia
Edwin Gunn
McNabb
Asw.hopkins
Verrand
Iet
Walt -Mason Ose
First National Bank
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Illinois
Federal Reserve Bank
Government
Uap
Federal
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Atock
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Total
Tinos
Ot “Marshall
Toniltas
Jones
Hanks
Cashier
Peforas
Ene. Mary
BH. Schick
Wm, Duke
Segraves
Ats, Lewe
Elihu Root
New York
Republican Party
Supreme Court
Public- Utilities-Commission
Timeis
Maderon
Utilities Commission
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War Department
France
Department
Johnson's
Arnold
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Arnold's
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Opera
House
Marian Davis Ina
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John’ A. Hull
Republic
SS. the. ‘Dixie Minstr
Bloomington
Pantaga
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