Prominent Local Graduates and Notables Leave Footprints
T J Price of Bennington township ships household effects to Harper county Kansas as future home. Will Bailey buys Spring Valley Gazette and will run it. W D Meek retires from El Paso Journal to edit Streator Daily Times. Burgess Bros of Venona exhibit 23 horses winning 21 ribbons and top prizes. Samuel Parker to publish two labor articles from The Current in Harper's. National Soldiers Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers outlined with five branches. Thomas Wilson, ex Evans township farmer and longtime Iowa resident, arrives. recounts Lincoln discharge incident and Big Bend and Wilson family reunions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. J. Price
Bennington Township
Harper County
Kansas
Samuel Parker
Chicago
Current
Harper's
National Soldiers’ Home
Augusta
Hampton Roads
Wva
Milwaukee
Wis
Dayton
Leavenworth
Kan
Thomas Wilson
Evans Township
Iowa
Big Bend
la Salle
Wilson
Amos B. Wilson
Magnolia
Buzzard Roost
Lincoln
Washington
Powder Trick Deception Warned By Chicago Firm
A Chicago firm exposes a scam by women promoting baking powder adulteration. They describe mixing kitchen powder with water to show slower foaming, mimicking adulterated brands. The test uses flour and lime to exaggerate the difference, warning readers that such claims are misleading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Our Lady Missionaries
Veterans Attend B B Reunion at La Salle and Henry
A Lookout Mountain W R O paper describes veterans riding the train to La Salle for the B B Reunion. They parade to the fair grounds, enjoy meals, and mingle with comrades from Tonica Seneca and Ottawa as weather and decorations shape the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lookout Mountain
W. R
Henry
la Salle
B. B
Fair Grounds
Harrison House
Reynolda Post
Tonica
11Th Cav
Ingersoll
J. N. Smith
Seneca Post
C. W. Paget
Wisconsin
Georgia
Northwestern Light Guard
Com. Ensign
Galesburg
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Wood
Gary
Hamilton
C. A. Arnold
Arnoh
Mera
Saferatus
J.F Gates
Ill
Mie
Daly Mnah
Menasha
Pate
Sinton Rein
Melwage
Oshkosh and
Fond DU Lac
Leenah and
Ard
Stevens Point
Chippewa Falls
Eau -Claire
Hudson
Stillwater
ST. Pau
Junckson Orry
Usau.and Merrill
Audaily
Orake Superior
JM. Fimnay
Jas
Barker
Paes
IMILV
Auker
Scammell & CO
St Louie
Poland
Obing Borrs and Sons
Flepot N
Wanry
Benny Republican
Marshall County
Lexington Corner
Will Bailey
J. W. Bailey
Princeton Republican
Spring Valley
W. D. Meek
el Paso Journal
Streator Daily Times
H. H. Thorp Mfg Co
Cleveland Type Foundry
Burgess Bros. of
Venona
Burgess Bros
the, Veterans
Ensign
104Th
Proctor
Gibson City
Ludington
Farmer City
Wadleigh
Rutland
Howe
Collins
Quincy
Col McClanahan
Sparland
94Th
Howard
Jennie Kilmer
Marseilles
Capt Cogswell
Ottawa
Cogswell
Massachusetts
Oswego County
N. Y
Illinois
Ethan Allen
Ellsworth
Nichols and Woodruff
Black
Reid
A. Mateer
P. m
Logan
Samuel January
January
Minonk Blade
Henry — Ee
Gxo. Burt, JR
Alesmen
Ganvane
Hillaery
Malary
THANE
Atating
Roth
H. J. Gregory
Henry, Illinois
Frank Osbon
Henry, Ill
Stire & Gell, Lacon
Field's
Henry Milling Company
SWIFT
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta, GA
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