Marsh State Bank Balance Sheet From September 28
The bank reports loans and discounts 142077.93 and overdrafts 189.63 totaling 142217.61. Bonds and securities 6824.07 and banking house 4600.00, furniture 1300.00. From national banks 1741.31 and state banks 11002.43 sum 82833.74. Cash on hand and equivalents total 10838.79 ending with capital stock 130000.00, undivided profits 5427.74 and demand deposits 10714.51. Cashier R H Brown attests the figures as true, sworn Sept 28 before notary public.
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Go Ec
Nat'l Bank
Treasury
The Same Old Bryan from the 1908 Campaign
The piece argues Bryan has not changed from his 1896 1900 positions and questions his silence on issues like government ownership of railroads free silver and initiative and referendum It challenges Democrats to seek clear answers on these points before supporting him.
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Bryan
St. Louis Globe Democrat
Denver
St. Louis
New York
Supreme Court
Snll
They Take the Kinks Out Pills Ad
N H Brown of Pittsfield Vermont touts Dr King s New Life Pills for years claiming they ease kinks in stomach liver and bowels without fuss. The ad guarantees satisfaction at Robt Prewett s drug store with a 25 cent price.
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Dr King
Sava N. H. Brown
Pittsfield
Prewett
Fine city building lot for sale near the square
A 66 by 181 foot building lot in a fine residence district is offered for sale six blocks from the square with a concrete walk to the square. Advertises Foley's Kidney Remedy and engraved calling cards through the Herald office and Kilborn listings.
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O. L. Kilborn
Herald Office
Administratrix Notice Estate of Wm F P Aydelott
Clark County probate notice to heirs and distributees of the estate of Wm F P Aydelott. The administratrix will present to the Clark County Court at Mayville in October 1908 her desire to be discharged from all further duties. Interested parties may appear and contest the application.
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Clark County
Aydelott
Vt Otober
County Court of
Clark
Priinois
Illinois Deep Waterway Plan Could Reach Mississippi
The Illinois internal improvement commission finalized a campaign for a Lake Michigan to Mississippi deep waterway. It plans 500000 circulars for a $20000000 project to be decided at the November election. Using river falls could generate 140000 horsepower and about 2500000 annual revenue, with a self paying canal in ten years. The proposal envisions about fourteen feet depth from Lockport to Utica.
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Chicago
Internal Improvement Commission of Illinois
Lake Michigan
Mississippi River
Lockport
Lil
Holiness River
Utlea
Sheriff Freeman Roughly Handled at Danville Station
In Danville Illinois on September 29 Sheriff Geo Freeman of Wabash Indiana, delivering a habeas corpus writ for a child in custody of J F Watts, was seized by a crowd at the rail station. He endured rough handling before the crowd calmed and he boarded the train with the child, accompanied by the mother and a local attorney.
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Danville, Ill
Geo. Freeman
Wabash
Ind
Danville
J F Watts
Freeman
Deserter Prefers Federal Prison to Fort Harrison
Floyd Mack, a deserter arrested in Danville Illinois, says Fort Leavenworth federal prison is preferable to Fort Benjamin Harrison and the petty officers he served under. He deserted recently due to alleged brutality at the Indianapolis army post and has fled twice before, each time fined twenty dollars, vowing to desert until dismissed or confined continuously.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
Ill
Floyd Mack
Fort Leavenworth
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Mack
Indianapolis
Little Wabash Survey Progress in Carmi
The preliminary Little Wabash river survey completed and minutes sent to Washington. Government probes navigability and potential channel straightening and deepening to reduce overflow of fertile southern Illinois land.
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Carmi
Little Wabash River
Agricultural Department
Washington
McKinley utilities test overheated homes in Decatur
In Decatur New Jersey on September 29 the steam heating system at McKinley public utilities was activated to test mains. About 100 homes became uncomfortably hot while occupants tracked the source. Utilities officials replied to complaints that the system was functioning and advised shutting the service pipe valve if heat intensified. In East St Louis on September 29 W W Burns House faced a three in peril incident as Reamer set fire to his residence endangering his in laws wife and three children and then attempted suicide.
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Decatur
Mercury
McKinley Public Utilities
East St Louis, Ll
W. Burns
Reamer
Civil War Veteran Michael Anderson Dies in Carmi
Carmi Illinois September 29 Michael Anderson aged seventy six a pioneer of Carmi died at his home after a brief illness Anderson was a Civil War veteran.
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Carmi
Ill
Michael Anderson
Mr. Anderson
Death of Aged Minister
Springfield Sept 29 Rev. Geo. Tink of the German Evangelical church died here at age seventy nine. He previously filled pastorates at Laporte Indiana and other places.
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Springfield
Geo. Tink
German Evangelical Church
Laporte
Ind
Returned to Nature Dayton Woman Fashions Nude Stunt
Dayton Ohio September 29. Mrs Lulu Kreitzer forty a widow declared disgust with modern fashions and appeared nude in the streets. She fired two bullets into her stomach set fire to her home and defied officers until eventually shot at police. She died in hospital after the standoff.
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Dayton
Ohio
Lulu Kreitzer
Ainiphalios Bidod
Charles S Deneen Republican Governor Candidate Biography
Charles S Deneen born May 4 1863 in Edwardsville Madison county is a longtime Illinois Republican figure. He taught school, served in the Illinois legislature and as Cook County state's attorney before winning the governorship in 1904 and securing renomination in 1908. He married Bina Maloney in 1891 and has four children.
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Charles S. Deneen
Edwardsville
Madison County
Lebanon
St. Clair County
McKendree College
McKendree
Union College of Law
Northwestern Law School
Chicago
Newton
Jasper County
Godfrey
Polk and
Halsted Streets
Deneen
Illinois
Sanitary Dis Ict Board
Cook County
McKinley
Bryan
Roosevelt
Mr. Deneen
Bina Maloney
Mt Carroll
Carroll County
Charles Ashley
Dorothy
Frances
Bina
Postal Savings Plan Promises Safe Government Deposits
A bill for postal savings banks was favorably reported by the Senate Committee and is expected to pass. It creates savings depositories at post offices with 2 percent interest, limits deposits to 1000 per account, and requires pass books and annual verification. Withdrawals, exemptions from taxation, and deposit rate rules are outlined alongside possible investments in banks or bonds. For Sale notice included: 80 acres in Dolson township with improvements and a four room house.
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United States
Senate Committee On Post Offices
Congress
Postmaster-Cieneral
Postmaster General
Postmaster-General
Postal
Secretary of the Treasury
Dolson Township
Martha J Hall
Marshall
Taft at Greensboro Attacks Democratic Inaction on Trusts
Hon. Wm. H. Taft contends Democratic leaders have long condemned corporations and railroads but offered no legislative measures. He says Republicans now implement the platform’s anti abuse principles, accusing Democrats of self deprecation.
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Republican Party
Wm. H. Taft
Greensboro
North Carolina
Society In Sound Calls for Integrity Amid Prosperity
A fragment notes a quickening public conscience and demand for remedies to abuses linked to prosperity. It urges higher business integrity and pride in the country, citing statements attributed to Hon. Wm. H. Tart in Columbus Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. H. Tart
Columbus
Ohio
Foley’s Kidney Remedy Claimed to Cure Backache
James Donahue of New Britain Connecticut reports kidney and diabetes ailments improving after using Foley's Kidney Remedy. He says two bottles brought progress and five bottles fully cured him. he later passed a life insurance exam. Also advertises John Deere sulky and gang plows as world standards.
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James Donahue
New Britain, Conn
Bess
Foley
J. L Keifer
C. A. Dixon
John Deere
Administrator's Sale of Real Estate in Clark County Illinois
By order of the County Court of Clark County Illinois administrator J W Adams of George W Cassel deceased offers sale of Lot 4 Block 9 McKeen Clark County on October 10 1908 at Marshall Courthouse east door between 10 am and 4 pm. Cash with approved security and mortgage on premises to secure purchase money. Hollenbeck Connelly attorneys. 37-4
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Clark County
Illinois
J. W. Adams
George W. Cassel
Marshall
McKeen
Public sale of Clark County school land in 1908
Public notice states that on October 19 1908 the Clark County superintendent of schools will sell at a public vendue the school land in township 9 range 11 including 16 acres of the east half of section 30 with Wagon Road on the north and east and railroad through the land. Cash or half cash with the rest secured by mortgage.
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Clark County
Trustees of Schools
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Marshall State Bank
State of Illinois
Serena
Gunny
R Brown
Marsh
State Bank
R.H Brown
Lr Cone
Nutury
D. L. Keifer & Son
Internal Improvement Commission
Modern Fashions
the “Herald
Herald
Grocerienyt (Lockhre
George W Cassel
Hollenbeck & Connelly
Attys
Iakorcs
Sonny
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