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Peoria and Illinois Local News Highlights This Week
Reports show horse gate prices from 350 to 1075 in Peoria. Peoria forms a boat club with a new clubhouse planned for summer. Elgin saloons refuse the 31000 license. Delinquent lands sale in Marshall County set for Monday June 8 at Lacon. A Chillicothe charity ball May 19 benefits St Mary’s Church. Onarga school election yields two women to the board. Chillicothe mill remains under sheriff after innocuous desudeude report. Ex Treasurer Morrow of Greene County flagged $2700 short. Ascension Day observed by Masons across multiple Illinois towns. Burgess Bros buy a fine matched span of Shire mares at Streator sale for $600.
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Elgin
Marshall County
Lacon
St Mary's Catholic Church
Chillicothe
Onarga
Board of Education
Streator
Adam Mattern
Tonica News
John W. January
Andersonville
Mendota
Percy Swain
Swain
Bulick
Pekio
Hayooa
Chicago
Ottawa
Springfield
Guy John Hamilton
Europe
Wm Steimle
Princeton
William
Ed Green
Johann
Eureka
Gibara
Cuba
Hoyti
L Bigden
Rock Island & Peoria
Ion
Dunlap
Lafayette
Cambridge
Orion
David Robinson
Milo
Sidney Lyon
St Francis Hospital
Lawn Ridge
Illinois
Lenz
Charles Ford
Mackinaw
Kappa
Cyrus Reeser
Wenona
Broomington
Chenoa
Young
Gridley
Horne
Aurora
Thomrpson
George Ho
Board of Supervisors
Peoria County
the Good Shepherd
Presbyteriana
Presbyterian Home
Dowalones
Magnolia
Evans
Marual
Col Plumb
Copperas Creek
Étate Commissioners of Claims
Henry E Wier
E. Hammer
Daniel B Wier
Peter Thomas
Frank J Shafer
Henry Fisher
Nancy Myers
Mathias Hosher
H L Crane
Wilhelm Klein
Eliza A Babb
E. J Babb
Keira James Sowards
Warner Combs
Jacob Jones
C Kingsley
Ir H Tesmer
Kingsley
Teemer