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Rock Island engines lead parade of regional events
From Dixon to Bloomington and Sparland this week, a string of local notes cover railroading feats, church revivals, a new store for colored shoppers in Bloomington, fragile tree pests at Copperas Creek, a monkish healer in Chicago, field day plans for Streator High School, and a Baptists revival in Galesburg with Evangelist Van Auken.
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Starved Rock
Canyons
Debr Park
Diocese of
Quincy
Burgess
Rock Island
Rock River
Bloomington
Copperas Creek
Duck Island Club
W. O. Hewitts
Sparlanders
Chicago
Immanuel Pfeiffer
Michigan
Rock Island Railroad
J. M. Cox
Harrison
W. G. Snyder
W.g.snyder
Brockway
Coakley Sisters
Snyder
G. G. Davis
Oppee
Wyoming Tribune
Streator High School
Knox Street “Congregational Church
Galesburg
Arthur Miles
Messrs van Auken
Burak
Evangelist van Auken
Messia van Auken
Bursk
Mr van Auken
Messrs
van Auken
Pana