Saddest funeral in Shannon for Misses Mary and Anna Bohen
The community mourns Mary and Anna Bohen age 20 and 22 who suffocated in Chicago. Funeral held Friday at Bethel Church with Rev Anangst citing 1 Cor 15 55. They were members of the K L C E and leave an aging father three brothers and a sister. Local notices mention Dr W H Miller leaving for Chadwick and visitors from Savanna Rock Island and Alta Iowa amid ongoing illnesses and choir singing in Arkansas Plantation event.
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City
Mary
Anna Bohen
Ogden Ave
Chicago
Bethel Church
Anangst
Anna
Shannon
Rockford
Marriage Licenses for February List of Couples
February marriage licenses listed with names and hometowns including John Franklin Smith Freedom Illinois and Gertie Hartman Mt Carroll Illinois. other couples from Ames Iowa Shannon Illinois El Paso Texas Fair Haven Illinois Clyde Illinois Meadville Illinois Wysox Illinois Savanna Illinois and Malvern Illinois The ad promotes four remedies Dr Kings New Discovery Electric Bitters Bucklen Amica Salve and Dr Kings New Life Pills with a guarantee and Corner Drug Store sales note.
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John Franklin Smith
Freedom
Ill
Gertie Hartman
Mt. Carroll
Dr. King
Bucklen
High School Notes Highlights Club Formed and Play Success
The High School formed an athletic club with officers and a constitution committee. They will meet in the school hall, and the group is seen as a potential help to the school’s standing. A recent entertainment by students, featuring Mary Lester and Jack Ralston, with music by the Lanark Musical Club, raised about 25 in net proceeds.
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Mary Lester
Jack Ralston
Lanark Musical Club
Gazette
Obituary notices of Noah Frazey and Joshua Shaffer from Lanark area
Obituary details Noah Frazey born 1812 in Bedford County Pennsylvania died in Lanark Illinois March 10 155 aged 82 years 5 months 21 days married Eliza Maiken in 1838 nine children seven living five present at death funeral at home quoted scripture and spiritual reflections Another obituary mentions Joshua Shaffer of German township died after three months illness near fifty four years born in Maryland settled in Illinois later moved to Grundy and Kossuth counties member of M E K church left a wife and one son funeral conducted by Rev Haun laid to rest in Buffalo cemetery Also note about Mobile and Ohio Railroad adding fast daily service between St Louis and the South with Pullman Sleepers and coachs and an advertisement for land for sale and exchange near Lanark Illinois with terms through Commercial House or 51w3 G. W. Sowers
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Bean
Allemony
Earth
W. Forbet
Joshua Shaffer
German Township
Mr. Shaffer
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Sarah Isenberger
Henry Isenberger
Grundy
Iowa
Kossuth
Shaffer
M. EK
Wm. Shaffer
Haun
Burt
Buffalo
Algona
No Taste for Literature in Shoteville Histories
In a New York World piece, Rev Abram Primrose and Uncle Silas Bartley clash over American taste for literature. Bartley boasts a satirical town history packed with local lore, hogs, snakes, and woodchucks, all aimed to satirize public appetite and a failed sale to readers.
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Shoteville
Abraham Primrose
Sartley
Silas Bartley
Shoreville
Azariah Smith
Pete Burlan
Eph Parker
Ted Plaisted
Pete Burlap
N. Y
The River Chicago A humorous learned river tale
A witty piece claiming the Chicago river is alive and famous for oddities. It jokes about ducks sliding on the water, a man breaking his leg when he fell from Clark Street bridge, bricks from river cut and baked, and residents boiling or frying water. It notes odor, alleged uphill flow, and a coast survey engineer who vanished with his apparatus.
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Chicago
Clark Street
Samson
Sandow
United States Coast Survey
First National
Merchant Marine
New European Cure Sparks Urgency in Wry Exchange
In a wry exchange, a patient hurries for a new European cure, while a friend notes the cure may not be dangerous but warns that cures often end after a few weeks. The dialogue reflects skepticism about medical breakthroughs reported in papers.
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N. Y
Education and farm hands mix with holiday humor
A trove of quick quips contrasts educated city life with a failing rural labor scene. A boy jokes about his sister’s mistletoe placement while a punchline about American women and foreign titles closes with wit.
Total report of the condition Illinois bank March 5 1895
Report details assets and liabilities including loans, overdrafts, bonds, reserves, and deposits. Notes legal tender and redemption funds listed. Capital stock, surplus, and undivided profits shown. National bank notes outstanding and demand deposits itemized.
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Eeerpeseeaaeses Lodogd
Soadaysideens
Wealth and old families in polite society and urban shifts
Dr Lyman Abbott argues polite society is unlikely to endure as wealth replaces birth as the social basis, noting Chicago Lofton New York and Philadelphia struggle to sustain old family prestige though true in fact. He claims only Philadelphia shows any link to old families, else lineage matters little beyond the grandfather’s occupation.
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Lyman Abbott
Chicago
Lofton
New York
Philadelphia
Newport
Lanark Markets Corrected Weekly by C Rowland
Lanark grain and stock markets receive weekly corrections each Wednesday morning, performed by C Rowland.
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C. Rowland
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Lanark Gazette
W. G. Witp
Gazette Building
Broad St
Lanark, Ill
W. H. Miller
Chadwick
Belle Telfer
Savanna
Emily Dugard
Charles
Rock Island
Wm. Willfong
Alta
Arkansas
M. E
Dilla Mattis
French
Norman
Thomson
Trro
Thomas J. Loughran
Ames
Katie E. Sherwood
Shannon, Ill
William Edwin Guard
el Paso
Elizabeth Hendren
Henry Sharman
Fair Haven
Barbara Shultz
Clyde, Ill
Frank Robb
Stockton, Ill
Mae le Baron
Franklin C. Fritz
Freedom, Ill
Lillian G. Mader
George W. Bowers
Meadville
Mary J. Shore
Wysox
Ransom
Harris
Salem
Margaret Calder
Michael O’laughlen
Emma Hennenhofer
J. Warren Grater
Malvern
Elizabeth Zollars
Phillips
Anna Iser
Mr. Carroll
Lou ‘Tallman
Mae Willis
Herman Diehl
Prof
Lillian Risley
Minnie
John Shaffer
Lanark
Mobile & Ohio Railroad
St. Louis
South
Mobile and Ohio
Memphis
New Orleans
Mobile
Birmingham
Florida
Corn Palace
G. W. Sowers
Perfesha
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Detroit Free Press
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County OF Carroll
W. L. Franck
J. M. Glotfelty
Roperick Chisholm
Cornelius Hegeman
Snively
Nort Caro A
Delaware
Cedar Pole
Monroe, Mich
Buenos Ayres
South America
United States
Republican Caucus
Rock Creek
A. Brooke
Gaff
J. B. Sheller
G. R. Morsis
Lanark Markets
Timothy Seene
KS Ae
Carroll County
Shanef
A. ES
Peu
Lanark House
Fse
Bank of Commerce
Express Companies
Kiar Fakler
Columbia Theatre
Monroe Street
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