Submarine flotilla exhibit to tour Illinois River region
The navy plans a flotilla exhibit of anti submarine gear on the Mississippi River with ships including Isabel and two destroyers. Lt Commander Thomas G Mien will command the expedition which will visit LaSalle Spring Valley and other river towns on a May start before ending in St Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
West
Navy Department
Mississippi
LaSalle
Spring Valley
Middle West
U.abel
Thomas G. Mien
U.S. Navy
Key West
Isabel
T. N. Vinson
Navy
Philadelphia
Newns
St. Louis
Poentroyer
Oyer
Ills Hawks
Mississippi Valley
Navy Deiment
Notice on Up-to-Date Rendering and Hides Trade
We solicit patronage and remind readers we pay the highest cash price for hides tallow and wool. In advance we are ready to serve you for business and rendering needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maring
Tal
Private Henry Be My All Telephone Once
Private Henry of Illinois is mentioned in a terse note referencing a phone contact and a singular phrase. The fragment lacks clear context or events to establish a fuller report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Che
Henry
Transfers and Deeds in Toluca and LaPrairie Area
Collation of quitclaim and warranty deeds in Toluca and LaPrairie townships includes transfers to Henry Truitt and others, with properties in sections 26 and 33 and various blocks in Santa Fe additions. Discharges recorded for multiple estates and guardianship actions, followed by notices on probate, final settlements, and administrator discharges. Fire escape bill advances in the state legislature, plus a separate fire investigation proposal from Kane County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diantha Schultz
Henry Truitt
LaPrairie
Ellen Riddell
Henry Truitt Veton Ab
Toluca Coal Co
Chauncey P. Ball
Santa Fe
Toluca
Antonio Rachki
Colla “‘Paui
Lucy May Landers Lentz
John
William Herberger
Camp Grave
Tracy Q. Hall
Carroll H. Ramsey
Davis
Henry
Luigi Salvagni
Leslie J. Montonge
Samuel L. Hawks
James B. Herridge
Louis F. Klein
Clarence O. Duke
Harry H. Talmage
John Isaac Nye
Cedric V. Thompson
Luigi Zanvie
Clifford C. Gibbs
Blas Parish
Alfred E. Hoffert
E. D. Richmond
Grace
M. LaBarge
Milton Boyd Hoffert
Lewis Baggs
Emma M Grinn
Lottie A Noll
William T H Ford
Community Notes from Noerth-Saratoga Area
Local notices list frequent visits and gatherings among residents from Conover to Sparland. Families like the Yargers, Barrys, Schlossers, and Henrys share calls, dinners, and unsolicited visits. Mrs Mary Stock marks eighty first birthday with cards and I C O F centennial events noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lacan
Mary Stock
L. C MacMurtrie
For Sale Cottage and Seed Corn Ad Notices
Want ads announce a six room cottage for sale inquire at the office and seed corn offerings. Rieds Yellow Dent seed corn from Putnam county grown stock offered by Irving E Broaddus and J O Winship plus Fog Ompo Farm Seeds listing Marquis spring wheat Iowa 103 oats Oderbrucker barley Reid’s Fellow Dent Griffith early dent and Western Plowman corn with price requests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Putnam County
Irving E. Broaddus
McNabb
Telephone
Henry, Ill
Reid
J. O. Winship
Putnam, Ill
Advt
Iowa
Reids
Dent
Griffith
W. G. Griffith
Metieh
Executrix Notice in Estate of Lydia Bassett
Carrie A. Wabel executrix of Lydia Bassett deceased Marshall county Illinois gives notice she will appear at the Marshall county court in Lacon for the July term on July 7 A D 1919 to adjust claims. All creditors must attend and all debts are to be paid promptly to the executrix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia Bassett
Tate
Marshall
State of
Illinois
Marshall County
Lacon
Washington Farmer Proves Mental Math Wizardry
A Washington Indiana farmer, William Strong, astonishes bankers and accountants by mentally solving 100 complex arithmetic problems without pencil or paper, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and roots. He answers each challenge instantly and correctly, confirming mastery up to cube roots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tazewell County
William Strong
Washington, IN
Illinois
Bankers
Strong
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
God
Shifting Returns of Civil War Veterans and Nation Building
Samuel Parker surveys how after the war veterans returned home without fanfare and found new paths. He contrasts 1864 disbandment with postwar mobility, noting better military dress and lack of welcome committees, as railroads expand and emigrants flood westward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Parker
Franklin
Roads Improve Rural School Attendance High in Some States
The article notes that states with a higher share of improved roads see a larger percentage of rural students regularly attending schools than states with fewer road improvements.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Henry Kndering
Maas Bros., Proprietors
Courr House
General Assembly
Department of Trade and ‘Commerce
Edward Curtis
Grant Park
Kankakee County
Fire Department
Board of Trustees
Department of Trade and Commerce
Noerth-Saratoga
William Schiesser
Edith
Henry Hank
William Hank
Conover
James Omanson
Isaac
Harold Barry
Williiam Rabenau
Bureeka
Will Yarger
Charles Anderson
Ethel Bornsheuer
Chillico
Anna Schlosser
Lou Lenz
Lewis
Michael
Lucy
Joseph Reismeyer
Frank Balensiefen
WiLlam Yarger’s
Floyd Holmes
Longman
Wilbur Bornshever
Ambrose Scaggs
Stella Virginia
Selma Verdla Barnes
Mary Schubert
James Barry
Harold
Frank Kennedy
Nellie Marie
Edith Yarger
John Burton
Anna Barry
Smith
Loomis
Genevieve Fogerty
Putnam
Joe Cook
Wilbur
Yarger
Elmer Martell
Addie Barker
Ambrose Scages
W C. Young
Raea
G. E. Fenwick
Mu Puka
Carrie A. Wabel
Barnes, Magoon & Black
Attys
Worley
Ever E Wenry
Boston Ferns
Lyon & Healy
Jackson Blvd
Chicago
Washington
Man
Bill
Eevee
Atrida
Pishanding
Rockies
Congress
Sparland Lacon
Bixs
C. E. Griffin
Agent Perfection
Harney Building
Big Sporting Goods Store
Peoria
G. N. Portman
North Adams Street
Court House
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