News of the Town Austin Arrivals Departures and Local Moves
In Austin many residents announce moves and updates. Howard Robertson becomes postmaster. Monroe family relocates to Wheaton. W Filson moves to Elmhurst. Mrs. A A Strom returns from Florida with daughters Lizzie and Ester. Mrs. M M Merrick leaves for the East to close her boarding house at 116 S Park Ave. Fred Adams joins Traill & Co. Dr Stringway visits from Flint Michigan to oversee Masonic Hall property on North Park Ave. May Oaks party marks the season’s best yet. Walter Hoagland receives a 21st birthday surprise with friends in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Monroe
Wheaton
H. K. Stratford
W. Filson
Elmhurst
A. A. Strom
Lizzie
Ester
Florida
M. M. Merrick
S. Park Ave
Fred Adams
Kate Benjamin
United States
Mary Kerr
Park Avenue Hotel
Austin
Windemere Club
R. H. Traill
Fred R. Schock
S. J. Crafts
T. C. Parsons
Walter P. Hoagland
Harry J. Gardiner
Hoagland
Brer Dickey Philosophizes On Life And Rivers
Brer Dickey offers a folksy, humorous philosophy about life with images of crossing rivers and a sleeping ferryman. He urges care for growth like tending a garden with ample sunshine and rain to nurture flowers.
Woman Saved by Electric Bitters After Gall Stone Crisis
Mrs. I. B. Hunt of Lime Ridge Wisconsin faced a dire stomach trouble and yellow jaundice due to gall stones. After failing to cure with other means a doctor urged one operation, but Electric Bitters cured her completely. The remedy treats stomach liver and kidney issues and is sold by Traill and Cooling and Chas. P. Miller at 50 cents with a guarantee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. B. Hunt
Lime Ridge
Wia
Traill & Cooling
Chas
P. Miller
Austin area notices and class acts in business personals
Mrs Rena S Tuthill orders coal and wood from Austin Coal Company Don Rosado newsdealer recovers from illness first time in forty years Miss Hoggins offers art studio and outdoor sketching classes at 105 South Central Avenue Furniture repairs at Kampp upholsterer 310 North Park Avenue Annewalt newspaper circulator moves office to Electric Light Co building Bicycle repair shop opened by Peter Finnegan at 5645 Lake Street C H Post optician tests eyes at 532 North Pine Avenue graduate of Northern Illinois University College of Ophthalmology promises satisfaction
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss. Hoggins
Art Studio
South Central Avenue
W. E. Annewalt
The
Electric Light Co
South Boulevard
Central Avenue
Annewalt
Lake Street
Peter H. Finnegan
C. H. Post
Mr. Post
North Pine Avenue
Northern Illinois Nine
Thorughly
Miller’s Drug Store Ad Highlights Chocolates Perfumes and Cigars
Miller’s drug store advertises Choice candies by Oak Park and Tazell’s perfumes, Allegretti chocolates, prescription filling, and Choice perfumery in plain and fancy bottles. It notes cigars in Key West and domestic varieties, Regula viands, all offered at popular prices by Charles P. Miller, druggist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller's
Tazell’s
Miller’s Drug Store
Miller's Drug Store
Key West
Charles P. Miller
Bucklen’s Amica Salve Promises Quick Pain Relief
A vintage ad touts Bucklen's Amica Salve for painful cuts sprains and bruises claiming fast pain killing and healing. It promotes use for chafing chapped hands sore lips burns ulcers and piles with a 25 cent price and mentions Traill & Cooling and Chas P Miller druggists as sellers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucklen
Amica
Traill & Cooling
Chas
P. Miller
OAK PARK NOTES OF PERSONAL NOTICES AND TRAVEL
Mr Harry Pebbles returns from California greatly benefited by the trip. Mr Jesse Smith of Forest avenue 84 with serious internal injuries from a fall and left rib splintering hope for recovery. Dr Thomas E Roberts and family depart for New York and Europe aboard Cunard liner Eturia May 12. Paris and Vienna two months of study follow. Miss May Whittlesey leaves Friday for a three week trip to the South and Louisville guest of Geo Woodard. Invitations issued for the wedding of Miss Whythe Devona Waterman and James Closson Reifsneider at First Baptist Church May 17 with luncheon for the bride’s party by Mrs F H Lombard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Smith
Forest Avenue
Smith
Thomas E. Roberts
New York
Cunard
Europe
Paris
John P. Lennox
Vienna
May Whittlesey
Louisville
Geo. Woodard
Heins
Hemingway
Illnois
Amelia Anderson
Ella Block
Thos. Cook
Roy R. Corlett
E. Cullen
A. S. Devereux
Gardner
Greenwood
Miss Groves
H. Guearts
Ellen Hillings
Joe Klamp
W. L. Ma Jone
A. J. Mann
Anna Miller
John Peterson
G. N. Robinson
Amelia Schmidt
C. Timmer
W. H. Vastine
Edith Ward
John J. Walter
S. W. Walter
W. A. Williams
H.°. Wilson
L. Wyssen
Whythe Devona
Henry B. Waterman
Clinton Avenue
James Closson Reifsneider
North Boulevard
First Baptist Church
J. W. Conley
F. H. Lombard
S. Kenilworth Avenue
Mrs. Waterman
Mrs. Yerkes
Local notices from Ridgeland and nearby communities
Health updates and marriages fill Ridgeland news. E H Pitkin shows health gains from travel while Mrs W E Morse of Kenton remains critically ill. Samuel S Carmen marries Elizabeth Maude Hatfield at Bedford Indiana. they plan to reside at 27 Pearson Street after May 15. East End Euchre Club closes season with Turner and Miller winning first prizes. Georgiella Lay delivers an Eclectic club lecture on English Music of the Nineteenth Century with Isabelle Bratnaber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel S. Carmen
Elizabeth Maude Hatfield
Bedford
Ind
Carmen
Pearson Street
East End
Euchre Club
Newbury
S. Humphrey Avenue
Turner
Miller
Galgher
Georgiella Lay
N. Taylor Avenue
Eclectic Club of
Chicago
Miss Lay
Isabelle Bratnaber
Oak Park
Harlem Notes: Sickness, saloon move, and funeral reports
Charles Meseke is very ill with pneumonia. The village board meets Saturday evening. Geo Schadde and John Barrett represented Harlem and River Forest at the Peoria state convention. Lewis Schaws moved his saloon to the corner of Twelfth street and Harlem avenue near the race tracks. David Hermann of Hermann & Co. died suddenly of apoplexy at home Tuesday night. he was 40, leaving a wife and two children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Schadde
John Barrett
Harlem
River Forest
Peoria
Lewis Schaws
Washington Boulevard
Harlem Avenue
Twelfth Street
David Hermann
Hermann & Co
Worldmer's Steere One Dollar Hypnosis Teachings
An ad promoting R. Francis offering complete courses in hypnotherapy personal magnetism magnetic healing and self control for a dollar. It states a successful profession can be learned and provides the Chicago address 223 Reaper Block.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weltmer
Steere
R. Francis
Reaper Block
Chicago
River Forest Notes on Society and Local updates
Forty five ladies of the G A R were entertained at the home of Mrs D Thompson on Gale avenue. Hunt Humphreyville added a market to their grocery offering native beef. Mrs Gould travels to Elkhart Indiana for summer. Prof Gould joins later. Bishop Walden and Rev Robert W Karqinah to preach. Mrs Hemingway to sing. Citizens faced a mad dog scare on South Franklin avenue. several dogs bitten and shot. Woman's Club planning an entertainment with Gertrude Merrick and Louise Whitehead titled Miniatures in Music of Olden Time at Mrs C C Collins residence on Keystone avenue. New village board with Henry Struble president. Reichmann installed as trustee. Page and Quick holdovers. Six library trustees sworn in. Wilmeroth continued as police, Micklist as engineer, Moore as fire marshal. Struble received roses at ceremony. Woman's Club met May 8 last, Cook County League report, Mosaic of Our American Nationality addressed by Rose Lewis, music by Jessie Warner and Carl Everett Woodruff. Mrs Broughton to Milwaukee as club delegate. Helen N Jackson appointed delegate, Titus alternate. Sesame Circle membership increased to purchase a schoolroom picture entitled Shaw's Memorial presented to the school with Mrs McMurphy’s address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Club
Gertrude Merrick
Louise Whitehead
C. C. Collins
Keystone Avenue
Henry Struble
Reichmann
Messrs. Page and Quick
C. A. Wilmeroth
James Micklist
L. E. Moore
Struble
Titus
Cook County League
Rose Lewis
Chicago Literary Score
Jessie Warner
Oak Park
Carl Everett Woodruff
Franklin Park
Broughton
Woman's Clubs
Milwaukee
Helen N. Jackson
Shaw
McMurphy
Chamberlains Colic Remedy Praised By Hartford Druggist
Druggist A W Sawtelle of Hartford endorses Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy noting a customer crediting its lifesaving effect at the shore and a man with severe cold pains recovering after doses. The remedy is sold by J P Garner Co Austin Geo Koch Co Moreland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. Sawtelle
Hartford
Conn
J. P. Garner & Co
Austin
Geo, Koch & Co
Moreland
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Miss Williams
Lake St
Austin, IN
Leeding Dry Goods Company
Ohio Street
Austin Telephone
Park Ave
Grand
Book OF Designs
ER. Moore &C
Randolph Street
Austin Steam Dye
D. R. Schermerhorn
Kennard Barradell, Art of Singing
Seefte
Rooma
Abbott Block
Grocer
Schmitz
News OF the Town
Malta
Austin Pastofice
Howard Robertson
J. E. Thorndyke
Catholic Woman's National League
Satan
P. B. Saur
Champiale Building
R. State
Cadloen
Business Personals
Rena S. Tuthill
Austin Coal Company
Don Rosado
A. Kampp
North Park Avenue
John Price
Justice of the Peace
Surance
Papdead m
Austio
EL Nee Lahe
Harry Pebbles
California
E. H. Pitkin
South
W. E. Morse
Kenton
Charles Meseke
D. Thompson
Gale Avenue
Hunt & Humphreyville
Gould
Prof
Elkhart
Fawcett
Bishop Walden
Cincinnati
Robert W. Karqinah
Portland
Ore
Dr. Hemingway
South Franklin Avenue
Arthur J. Kendall
Wesley Avenue
S. Clark St
August Terneak & CO
Ill
Tonio
Wellow
Nervita Medical Co
Glinton & Jackson Sts
Geo. R. Baker
Giark
van Buren
PILLS
Cts
Emerson Ingalls
Masonic Block
By Ube
West
Groth & Klapperich
Chidren's
B ‘ Wee
Fowler
Morrow
Austin Bicycle Works
W. H. Briggs
North Park Ave
Austin, HI
J. A. & B. McCann
Chicago Ave
the Standard Bath Cabinet Co
Toledo, Ohio
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