Henry Henry Henry Henry 1912 local notes and notices
Mrs J H Williams visits Peoria. Many local people transact business in Peoria. Farm for sale a four year old horse. Town counts include church events, Sunday school reports, and local social scenes. A burglary at George Warren's house noted. Taft signs pension bill. farm and livestock updates from Putnam and nearby counties.
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J. H. Williams
Peoria
Lester Brown
George Bickerman
L. B. Elliston
Magnolia
Henry
Hartley
Migg Elsie Carpenter
Miss Lundeen
Tiskilwa
Motter
St. Mary's Guild
Dille
C .E. Rolley
Fwain Peekétne
Wright & Green
John Hartley
Theodore Kaifer
Chicago
WCTU
Sampson Rowe
Carroll Street
Marie L. Davis
Ladies’ Aid of
The
Presbyterian Church
Clifford Haws
Rosa Herr
Whitefield
John Schurr
Samuel Garland
Leech
Deck
Nanna Averill
Sarah Deck
Hennepin
Henry Feltes
Oscar Olson
Fred Sutclife
S L Clift
Paul Hughes
Babe
Frank Clift
Hazel
Logan
Post Office Department
RS. Bayne
Springfield
State Dental Society
George Warren
Segraves
Paris
Madison Street
Joliet
E E Hartley
Christian Sunday School
Albert Stickel
Toluca
William McAteer
Thomas Reily
Camp Grove
Proctor Hospital
McAleer
Bridget Fa- Ban
la Prairie
Electric lights planned for Starved Rock park at river inlet
Starved Rock plans an electric pole line crossing the river by the island and looping to the entrance so visitors won t notice it. Heavy rain last weekend flooded the river and overflowed the park lake causing the dam to fail and release fish downstream as workmen pursued them. The lake will be cleaned and refilled with pure water after the flood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Starved Rock
Starved Rock Park
Marseilles
Ister-Chronicle
Happy Women Happy With Doan’s Kidney Pills Remedy
Mrs Anna Kleiber of S Washington Street Lacon Illinois testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills relieved her backache and urinary distress after years of suffering. She recommends Doan's Kidney Pills and notes the product is sold at all stores, Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Kleiber
S. Washington Street
Lacon
Doan
Dean
Dredging Plan for Illinois and Michigan Canal Progresses
After years of effort an Illinois and Michigan canal dredge project moves forward from La Salle to Lockport. Junior Engineer J R Fuller will meet Lockport Supt Leon MacDonald and canal board attorney Wm A Meese to review plans as dredges from Peoria may begin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeport
Illinois and Michigan Canal
la Salle
Lockport
J. R. Fuller
War Department
Leon MacDonald
Wm A. Meese
Canal Board
Peoria
Chicago
Ilinois River
Lake Michigan
New Lakes and Rivers Commission
Burlington
Starved Rock
New State Park
Buffalo Rock Abolished for Commercial Sand Rush
Ancient fort site Buffalo Rock, famed since the seventeenth century for Fort Miami and Indian buffalo trapping, is to be torn down and shipped away by sand operators. A beauty spot once used by the National Guard, its varied ownership ended with foreclosure and a failed sanitarium project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo Rock
Fort Miami
National Guard
Buffalo Rock Tent Villa Co
Duke M. Faraon
Rock on the Rock demolition plan announced
Attorney Hopkins transfers farm land and Rock drive to Robert O Meara after La Salle supervisors refuse to purchase. Carolinas poplars along the road are cut, the road plowed, and contracts drawn to move the Rock to a land company. A switch-track strip is reserved. top building to be removed and the Rock demolished for molding in Chicago and Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farson
Hopkins
Chicago
County of la Salle
Robert O'Meara
Carolinas
Indiana
Various Classified Ads Offer Used Cars and Services
A collage of old classified notices lists used car ads from Cadillac Automobile Co of Peoria and James McAleer inquiries, with sale items including a Percheron mare and a Rosa Arabian, plus cleaning services by Columbian Dye Works and W P Bush hair and garment work. An executor's notice for Eva Wunder's estate appears, with court appointment details and payment instructions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cadillac Automobile Co
Peoria
Main St
Columbian Dye Works
Eva Wunder
Willy
Marshall
State of Illinois
Marshall County
Illinois
Lacon
Mary B. Weis
Fred W. Potter
A Morning Resolution for Better Work Life
A Rocky Island road bulletin urges daily personal resolutions to be cheerful, courteous, neat, honest, industrious and progressive. It argues recurring mornings of discipline raise prosperity and happiness, reduce folly and strikes, and curb tempers by focusing on duty and propriety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocky Island Road
Lfe
Seeing America See America First by Automobile Tours
The touring bureau of the American Automobile Association estimates 500 cars with four people each will cross the United States this year on pleasure tours. Tourists will spend about 7.025 million dollars in hotels, fares, freight, and other expenses, keeping money in the U S. rather than Europe. The automobile is noted as both educational and pleasurable, expanding mobility from coast to coast aided by better roads and ongoing construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
American Automobile Association
United States
Europe
Atlantic Seaboard
Maine
Pacific Coast
Touring autos to boost sightseeing tours in Chicago
A Chicago Herald note suggests many touring automobiles could be used to establish popular sightseeing tours. The plan aims to be educational and provide healthful recreation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
ord-Herald. Ie
Make It Yourself Three in One Lice Exterminator Promoted
An advertisement touts a do it yourself 3 in 1 lice exterminator claiming it kills lice on poultry horses cattle hogs dogs fleas ticks bed bugs and more. It promises to drive away rats and mice from barns and homes and offers a recipe to make eight times as much for household use. The ad requests readers send name and address for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyrelf
Moses and Gopher
Titus
Magnolia
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Miss Humphrey
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Peru
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Robert H .Greene
Greene & Griffin Home Builders and Insurance Association
Phoenix
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John Kine
Greene
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Maggie Henderson
Moses Perdew
Albert Perdew
Magnolia Township
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Thomas C Leech
American Sunday School Union
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Stark
Putnam
Bro. Leech
P. O
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C. D. Maulfair
McNabb
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Chauncey
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J H Prost
Washington
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James McAleer
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T J Segraves
Hartley & Flynn
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