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Broadmoor notes and local social updates
Various notices from Peoria area travellers and Broadmoor community. Local births, visits, and illnesses are reported among families like Phelps, Garret, Olson, Sparr, and Duncan, with weddings and church events noted and school plans for a district corn carnival.
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Robert
Cummings
Misso Glaypors
William Crank
Ahd
A. Trémpetér
Fred Bliss
Babe
Peoria
J. H. Riddell
Esther Fay
Denver
Cold
Willam O’leary
J. C. Duncan
Mary A. Marshall
T. . Gapen
Marjorie Blackmon
Harry Blackmon
Gapen
Paul
Asa Nighsanger
T. S. Lochren
Rock Falls
Wyo
William Marland
New York City
J. O Peintner
George Simpson
Fern Frank
Lacon
Myron Lester
T. van Antwerp
Roy Newel
William Aitchison
Miss Grace
St Louis
Halsey Monter
Deacon Dunlap
Riverside
Cal
Waugh Brothers
Aberdeen
Wash
Henry Olson
Elmer Olson
Magnus Olson
Rufus Bartow
Charles Collins
Louis Webster
de Pue
Bolender
Ladies Aid Society
ME Church
Minnie Tanquary
F. H Gebr
Tdna Thomas
A. L. McLaughlin
Nellie Thomas
Belle King
Edna
Clinton
Ill
Roy Tawin
Nellie
Hila McLaughlin Jenkins
Des Moines
Relief McLaughlin
Verna May
Harvey
Mia
Elmer J. McLaughlen
Watkins
Township
Florence Kanive
Burson School
Margaret Farraher
Pleasant Grove
Golda Ladd
Yankee Street
Urania Wheeler
Centers
Mabelle Ghapin
Hull
Blanche Bradford
Senachwine
Lorna Blackburn
Smith
Ida Dwyer
Edenham
Ethel Frishey
Bethel
Jane Rae
Drake
Leta Noret
Katfer
Varna
William Phelps
Irvin Coppertune
Knoxville
George Poff
Morse
Broadmoor
Harry Lee
Mary Sharer
Neponset
A. W. Shriver
Henry Churchill
John Charlton
L. E. Clifton
Rock Ls