Our Sister Towns in Lacon and Nearby News
Local items report visits from Peoria and Bloomington residents, arrivals from Lincoln Nebraska, and family gatherings. A graduate’s funeral is set at the M E church, and the town celebrates commencement with a stormy but successful Friday program. The Lacon Blues boast fine baseball grounds and a new pitcher Walter.
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Lacon
Chas
Peoria
Chas Thomas
Rev Johnson
Bloomington
Mra Rulon
Anna
Reeder
Minnie Wright
Varna
John ‘W
John Strawn
West
G. C. Reddan
Fred Thomas
Lincoln Neb
Tra Norris
M. E
Thomas
Moreland
Dolnin
Lacon Blues
Sparland
Walter Finat
Luella
Grain hauling rises as beer protests, town notes grow
Local letters report farm laborers hauling grain as hogs and beer supply tensions spark complaints and threats. The column cites a court appeal over selling a keg, a calf dispute ruled for Barton, and various community happenings from funerals to census work and street improvements.
Catarrh Cure Claim Reaches Readers of Henry Republican
The Henry Republican reports Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh. It claims the medicine treats it as a constitutional disease by acting on blood and mucous surfaces, building the body to aid nature, with a $100 offer for any failure to cure. Sold by druggists for 75 cents.
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Henry Republican
Hall
F. J. Cuexny & Co
Toledo
Local Socials and Farming Notes from Crow Meadow Area
Mr and Mrs Robinson Bell visited Robbie Bell. Laura Heinrich resumes work with Jenkina slaters. Irving Dennis works for Jesse Harrison this spring. Clara Locke of Henry visited Fannie Wall recently. A Knapp, Rush Medical College student, at home on vacation. Bennie Vail visits friends on high prairie. Aero Windmill Co to erect a new mill for Jesse Harrison this week. Mr and Mrs Seane Camery join Crow Meadow Grange. Susie McManus closes school June 10 with exercises. Farmers replant corn due to cold wet weather. Dora Jackson cuts finger badly and is sidelined. Many farmers host corn shellers. D. W. Horrom Geo Moore Henry Bell. Worley of Henry handles work. Mrs James Harrison hosted George Smith and family of Peoria. traveling salesman for Hart agricultural firm. Mr Weitle, traveling photographer, albums school children and farm views locally. satisfied with work.
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Robinson Bell
Robbie Bell
Laura Heinrich
Jenkina Slaters
Irving Dennis
Jesse Harrison
Clara Locke
Henry
Fannie Wall
A Knapp
Rush Medical College
Bennie Vail
High Praitrie
Aero Windmill Co
Seane Camery
Crow Meadow
D. W. Horrom
Geo Moore
Henry Bell
Worley
James Harrison
George Smith
Peoria
Hart
Weitle
Kemp's Balsam Promises Cough Cure for All
Distressing coughs claim cure from Kemp's Balsam as a trusted remedy in the community. Advertisement touts wide sale and genuine merit with large bottles priced at 500 and 1 dollars. sample bottles offered.
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Kemp
Magnolia Veterans Honor Ceremony and Flower-Maying
The Woman's Relief Corps No 382 in Magnolia sent 100 flags for veterans' graves in Vicksburg and the South. G I A R Post No 83 joined memorial services at Varna Memorial Church with Rev Mc Meen, plus moving music by a notable organist. Next Friday the 20th, Post 83 meets at Magnolia Grand Army Hall at 1 pm then proceeds to the cemetery to lay flowers and hear speakers. Everyone is invited.
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Woman’s Relief Corps No 382
Magnolia
Vicksburg
G.I A. R. Post
Varna
M E
McMeen
20Th Post Post
Grand Army Hall
Magnolia Stone P. m
The Great American Chorus: Ely’s Cream Balm Promised Cure
An ad style excerpt touts Ely's Cream Balm as a cure for catarrh and colds with dramatic claims. It emphasizes rapid relief from sneezing snuffling and coughing and contrasts it with liquids, presenting the product as pleasant and radical.
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Ely
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Sparianna
A. J. Baughman
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Wm Riddell
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P. Delhauser
Tarbill
Jeriah Bonham
Springfield
Ezra Teagarden
Goodland
Kansas
Jkc
Ada Whitmer
Rev Marsh
Presbyterian Church
Mra
Joseph Martin
Jacob Emter
Simeon Walker
Congregational Church
Rey Marsh
Town of Sparland
George Houck
Houck
Lacon Brewery
Circuit Court
Esquire
H. Barr
Amos Barton
Baldwin
Amos
S. M. Barnes
Barton
J. J. Sands
G. E. Onne
Whitefield
Geo Snell
Alice Bell
Streator
BE. N. Spellman
Chicago Business College
John Blackburn
Federal Republic
Mra Dunlap
Lola
Ned Town
Lookout Mt
J L Downey
Benachwine
George Sparling
Potter
Barnes, Edwards
Evans
Putnam
Christian Church
Clyde
Aréeitor
Drew Meade
Magnosia
Pitcher’s Castoria
Castoria
Rey C. W. Ayling
Galva
Dr Headland
Venard
Brother Ayling
Deering Junior
Akill and
Ekaries
Tan Fiat
Cai
Deering
Atradi
Ottawa
Duke Bros
Macon
Baltimore
T. D. Kirk
Lacon, IH
Harry B. Walters
Wanamaker & Brown
America
3D St
Edwards and
Main
H. B. Walters
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