Millicent Learns Love in Frugal South Dakota Home
Millicent receives a five dollar message from feeble parents and endures a lifetime of thrift and mismatched gifts as John Abner buys tasteful comforts. She secretly plans a prettier home while managing a hard working farm and two young children. Her quiet endurance outlasts blizzards droughts and a stubborn husband.
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Julia Cook Coon
Millicent
John Abner Potter
Millicent Potter
John Abner
Indiana
South Dakota
Joey
Jessie
Nora
Pink shirt stuns Millicent as sale haul backfires
Millicent buys odd items at a sale including sheep shears and a bright pink shirt. John Abner laments the pink choice and jokes about wearing it to a picnic while Millicent shrugs off the buys and recalls past purchases.
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Millicent
John Abner
Parker's Animal Puzzle Answers Revealed
The Henry Republican recalls Mr Samuel Parker's 40 paragraph animal puzzle from Aug 17. Opal Board member Putnam aged 10 sends a complete correct list, Florence Trone Magnolia township submits near complete with two errors, and Lennis Condit Putnam under 12 matches except for one misprint.
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Henry Republican
Samuel Parker
Putnam
Magnolia
Opal Board of Putnam
Florence Trone
Magnolia Township
Lennis Condit
Parker
Meaning of Sun’s Eclipse Described in Homely Illustration
A plain explanation of solar eclipses using a lamp and shadow analogy. It notes the sun and moon appear similar in size, the umbra and penumbra, and how a total eclipse hides the sun for a few minutes while the shadow covers only a small earth portion. It concludes with the moonlit night-like light during total or near-total phases.
The Little Homestead at Opera House Tonight
A compact melodrama unfolds a man’s deep love, a woman’s faithlessness, and an outcast’s revenge as The Little Homestead plays at the Opera House tonight.
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Opera House
Quiet Title Suit in Marshall County Court
In the Marshall County Circuit Court Illinois a bill to quiet title was filed by Charles R. Jones against Elisha Greenfield and multiple unknown heirs and spouses. Non residence notices were issued for Annie Mateer William Mateer William N Hamaker Mrs Hamaker Elizabeth Garretson and Elisha Greenfield and their heirs. Defendants must appear October 1905 or risk a decree by default.
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State of Illinois
County of Marshall
A. D
Charles R. Jones
Elisha Greenfield
Elizabeth C. Garretson
Annie Mateer
William D. Mateer
William N. Hamaker
William N, Hamaker
Marshall County
Illinois
Lacon
Lacan
W. L. Wescott
Fred W. Potter
Local Advertisements and Property Listings
New ad listings include business startup information at Camp House with J Nelson, farm for rent on Western Avenue with Mrs Rebecca Scholes, and sale of 200 bushels of Canadian wheat by Henry Ebright. Also offered are five Norman mares and other horses, cord wood, and a ten room house with six acres in Henry Illinois by D D Brown.
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Camp House
J. Nelson
Western Avenue
Rebecca Scholes
Arlington Avenue
Des Moines
Lacon
Buffalo Exposition
Henry Ebright
Henry
Warren Street
D. D. Brown
Ill
Trespassing Forbidden on Farms Warned by Kapraun and Apfel
Notice from William J Kapraun and Anton Apfel of Henry Illinois warns against trespassing or hunting on their farms. Violations will be prosecuted. Published August 24. For employment an ad offers newspaper advertising training with pay of 12 to 25 dollars weekly at The Bible House Chicago Illinois.
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William J. Kapraun
Anton Apfel
Henry, Ill
the Bible House
Come Block
Chicago
Ill
National Magazine for September features Green and Clare contrasts
The September issue pairs Hetty Green with Ada Clare as contrasting types in lively profiles. It highlights Mayor Dunne’s street railway plan with Foote’s rebuttal, and includes Brawley’s Civil War analysis, Lane’s six papers on Man in Perspective, and the first half of a two part children’s story The Little Green Goblin of Goblinville by James Ball Naylor along with works by MacBrayne Whittaker and Albery.
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National
Hetty Green
America
Ada Clare
National Magazine
Dunne
Chicago
Allen Ripley Foote
William H. Brawley
South Carolina
Michael A. Lane
Green Goblin
Goblinville
James Ball Naylor
the Ditch-Crow
Barney Bylow
Lewis E. MacBrayne
Jessie M. Whittaker
F. F. D. Albery
Sick headache relief offered by stomach and liver tablets
Advertisement notes that headaches arise from a stomach disorder and can be quickly cured by Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. Product offered by J. E. & F. A. Powells City Drug Store in Henry, Illinois. Subscribe for The Republican.
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Republican
Chamberlain
J. E. & F. A. Powells City Drug Store
Henry
Ill
City urges property trimming overhanging branches
The notice urges property owners to prune tree limbs over sidewalks to improve safety after street weed cutting and crossing repairs. A local drug ad touts King’s New Discovery for coughs and Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, with brand names and outlets in Henry, Il1. The Henry Republican also promotes a four act stage production The Little Homestead at the Opera House tonight.
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Rock Island
G. Vale
Warren Cowles
S. Jefferson St
Peoria
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Charles Clifford Doran
Undertaker
Kline
Edward and
Second Streets
The
United States Burial League
Mr. Parker
Jesse Anderson
Santa Fe
Golden California
California
Doub
Kansas City
ST. Louis
le Berth
Phoenix
Prescott
Ariz
el Paso
Tex
San Joaquin Valley
North Pacific Coast
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Portland Exposition
West
Missouri River
Back
Portland
Railway Exchange
Topeka
Kan
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United States
the Fair Store
Peterman Bros
Northern Illinois Co-Operative Burial Association
G. W. Keller
Henvy
Ace
K. C. Barber
Sandy Level
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F. A. Powells City Drug Store
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F. A. Powells City
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