This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Jobs and local developments across towns
A crowded bulletin of 1890s Midwest items covers varied happenings from an ongoing flower exhibition, population shifts by wild geese, a Chicago gas main explosion causing window loss, canal labor near Rock Island, university funding moves to Gaesburg, land sales in Peru and Lacon, a grain firm collapse, farming accidents, tax base value, sawmill moves, pension increases, political campaigns, court and public notices, and a notable bequest story in Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Hennepin Canal
Rock Island
Wai
Lumvard University
Gaesburg
W. W. Twist
John Lane
Bennington Township
James P Twist
Lacon
Chapman
Marion J French
John T Judd
Venona
Index
Pegram & Bro
Lincoln
Henry Schwab
Peru
Hartsock Brothers
Henry Road
Bruce Wilson
Brown County
Princeville
Internal Revenue Authorities
Rockford
Clara Emily Fort
Fort
The
Minonk Blade
Mary McWilliams
George Bennett
John McWilliams
Bennett
Dayton
McWilliams
Teachers Institute of
Putnam County
Marnotha
E W Ponser
Emma Braudo
Belle Worley
W. E. Coffman
Hatte Harbaugh
Louis Gallagher
Rochester
N. Y
Washington
Thomas Jefferson
United States
Evangelist J ) McCord
A F Marsh
Hennepin
J R. Smith
Recognition Council
James M Leighton
Lockport
Leighton
Mount Vernon
Stone & Boomer
Wells & French
Severa
Ottawa
Thomas
Amelia Cadding
Miller
Bureau Junction
Jefferson
Iowa
Dr. Miller
Bureau County
Dlinois
Nentlemen
Greene
Guthrie
Dallas
Adair
D .S. Miller