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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1916
Page
14
Dr B A Hall physician and surgeon of Henry III advertises a fully equipped practice with electrical diagnostic and treatment apparatus. He will answer calls day and night. Office on Edward Street.
Doctor Carrie Weatherly, osteopathic physician, treats acute and chronic diseases with special attention to women and children. Office at residence on the east side of Main Street, one block north of Central Park. Calls answered day or night. Phone 261.
An old classified item shows F H Hunt offering private phone service with toll reimbursement and contact at phone 294. The note implies a small business or personal ad promoting telephone toll coverage.
Magnolia notes in a social column with visits to and from Lacon Peru and Streator. Local gatherings include church events, theater in Henry, and a Nutting trip by the high school faculty. The piece also mentions marriages, health, travel to Eureka and Springfield, and multiple family visitors over the week.
The circuit clerk asks past clients to consider their satisfactory service and expresses appreciation for support on Election Day.
Local notes report election day on Tuesday November 7 1916. A string of community items lists residents visitors health news and small incidents including Mrs Edith Defenbaugh and daughter shopping Mrs Mary Piper bronchitis and Mrs Burl Roberts injury after a fall. Names include Arch Turner Simon Haugher Amel Roeski Robert Downey and Br Simmons with Magnolia Lone Tree callers and Pittsburg friends noted.
Mrs Nettie McClary president of the Granville W C T U reads a paper at a garden temperance meeting urging teacher led school based temperance instruction. She highlights illiterate immigrant families, child influence on homes, and the need for books charts and literature in schools and libraries to spread scientific temperance education.
A teacher's essay contest titled The Best Methods of Teaching the Nature and Effects of Narcotics offered a $3 prize. The author calls for public school lectures, a Chautauqua afternoon lecture on Scientific Temperance, and asks if readers care enough to destroy the liquor traffic and aid humanity.
Miss Alice Barber attends Normal university while Mrs. H Barton dies in Chicago. Town hosts visitors from Peoria to Missouri and Indiana as residents attend the State Fair in Springfield. New hotel proprietors J A Crew take over Hotel Waugh. road work promises a Chicago connection.
The document lists grand and petit jurors by district for Putnam Magnolia Granville and Senachwine. Names include August Moews Jr Joe Edwards H B Allen Richard Hansen Reinhardt Stehl John Bonges W M Studgvin Alvin Holly Howard Sucher R K Stetson Jr James Newburn Baulzer Hoffman Kenneth Smith Turner Mills John Ramage O P Mills George Wolf Frank Glover Fred Kubkne Vernon Mathis R W Spencer Henry Hailey Henry Kessler Frank Funk Charles Kuhne Henry Gunn Samuel Stehl Frank Kotoski Louis Kessler George Dively Sr Charles Meng Michael Faletti Jacob Johnson Andrew Holm Frank Happold John Bird and others.
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