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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1911
Page
2
Local column items record Magnolia and Lostant residents making visits to Peoria, Wenona, Varna and surrounding towns. People like Florence Wells, Hazel Glover, Burl Simonton, Ed Mathis, and many others are named among callers, shoppers, and social visits during a recent week.
The article extols the Bergner store for its three C principles courtesy carefulness and confidence as the foundation of customer satisfaction and store growth. It argues confidence follows from consistent courteous service and careful transactions, citing the store as a model of principle and success.
The Bergner stores credit rapid sales growth in five years at the Woolner Building to the three Cs and full stock of top quality goods. They condemn shoddy merchandise and shady dealings.
The article lists three essential piano qualities a good instrument should have a sweet sustained tone a responsive action and durability. It adds that an artistically designed and properly finished case is a desirable feature.
Twenty-two expert plowmen turned the soil on a 160 acre Nunols farm six miles east of Aurora as 6000 spectators cheered. The 34th annual Wheatland plowing match was the most successful yet, held on Mrs. Anna Hafenrichter’s farm.
James McNabb serves on a federal petit jury in Peoria. Residents W. W. Johnston and John Travis attended an Implement show in Peoria last week. Mrs. Harry Hull visits Chicago. W. W. Johnston recently recovered enough from illness to be out. Mrs. George Ziegler visiting. George is noted as chief cook. Ruth Morgensen visiting her brother near Lostant. A Kings entertain guests from Tonica Sunday. Mrs. Ernest Mills and children visited Pa Koehler Tuesday. Al Plessie Stearns visiting Tin Granville Sunday. Nora Koehler spent Sunday with Mrs. F. S. Kerns. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Miller welcomed a four-pound baby boy. McNabb Ladies Aid to host a Halloween social and oyster supper at Zieglems Hall Friday, October 27. Fortune teller and chicken dinner advertised for Strawn Cadles Ald on Saturday night October 21.
A man believed dead visited Granville, Bret L. A. Thomas, a schoolteacher in 1881-2, later led La Salle schools and Pittsburg, now en route from Maine to California to visit old acquaintances. A vivid squirrel intelligence incident and local news follow, including a public sale at James Barnard’s gate and local business updates.
An urgent health toning ad offers natural aid to strikers claiming to compel proper action. It promotes pills for 25 cents and mentions druggists Te Te and A. J. Tronmonger with reference to Chicago Daily Record Herald and Henry Republican combination club rate.
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