Pittsfield Oil Improves Road Work Efficiency
Austin road oiler bought by Pittsfield city council cuts oil use and time. Last season four blocks around the square required four days and a crew of over a dozen. this year the work took three-fourths day with one quart per square yard. Future applications planned with half the oil. Additional local notes include trades, visits, and social events among residents.
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Pittsfield
Nay
Austin Road
Will Troos
Lluos
Lee Township
Brown County
Dean Williams
Litlian Williams
Springfield
Floyd Whalen
Iarry Conrad
New Canton
A. V. Wills
King’s New Life Pills Claim Spring Cleansing Power
The advertisement promotes Dr King s New Life Pills as a time tested laxative that moves sluggish bowels stimulates the liver and clears impurities from the blood. It urges readers to cleanse the body of winter poisons and notes the pills cost 25 cents at your druggist.
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Dr. King
Adams County Fall Round-Up thanks subscribers for support
The Adams County Fall Round-Up Association sent letters of appreciation to all contributors. The notes praise local unity and wide cooperation with farm organizations, urging active participation for a more impressive event that benefits Quincy and its citizens. George Gabriel, president, and F Perry, secretary.
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Adams County Fall Round Up Association
Adams County
Quincy
George Gabriel
F. Perry
Two Bonds Presented for Redemption by City
City Clerk Duke Schroer received two $1,000 bonds issued in 1897 from Rollins and Sons New York brokers asking for redemption. One bond matures July 1 this year and the other July 1 next year. both carry 45 percent interest and will be sent to Springfield from the surplus redemption fund. A mother’s view aside, the note remarks that owners often hold bonds to gain interest.
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Duke Schroer
Rollins and Sons
New York
Glindeman
Springfield
Cut This Out Ad Offering Trial Foley Remedies
A vintage advertisement urges sending a cutout with 5c to Foley & Co Chicago for a trial package of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets, promising remedies for bronchial coughs colds back kidneys rheumatism and constipation from Miller Arthur Drug Co.
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Foley & Co
Chicago
Foley
Miller & Arthur Drug Co
G A R Delegates Chosen for Decatur Meeting
Mrs Frank Arrowsmith and Mrs Minnie Bishop were named delegates to the G A R meeting in Decatur May 23 25 during a Col Berry circle No 30 gathering on Wednesday afternoon Ursa Lecture Rev J M Rudy to speak Sunday evening at Ursa Christian church on The Signs of the Times or This World's War Palmyra visitors George Moore Edward Disselhorst and Bernard Frie bank came to Quincey Friday for the Hower lecture P G Inspector Davis Chicago spent Friday with Mails Superintendent Leonard Schmidt and Postmaster Lummis Six Pulaski school pupils in North East township were neither tardy nor absent last year with Miss Alman Bottorff returning for another year officials raised salary by $5 a month Awnro Alois Heckie bought a car but it jumped onto the sidewalk damaging tires and was towed home Burglar entered Otto Bergman’s Sixth and Jefferson home stealing a woman’s Elgin wristwatch Jacob Pfaeffie 10 was petitioned delinquent by Probation Officer Thomas Nolan for associating with immoral persons.
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Harry Jaques
Jacksonville
George Holt
Central Hospital
Cincinnati
Ohio
Pittsfield Women's Club
D. C. Graham
Harry Haypin
Mound City Paint Company
St. Louis
George Haypin
Frank K. Peters
Ilinois Tobacco Company
Springfield
Illinois
Russell Niccum
George Kendrick
II. P. Trooper
Normal University At
Normal
Parent- Teachers’ Association
E. A. Glandon
Judge Dovey
F. L. Hanscom
L. A. Chamberlain
Ida Foote
D. N. Wetzel
George Smith
Wetzel
Fred Wicks
Doory
Rev
J. R. Leslie
A. Clay Williams
Vilda Nighbert
Mattie Fisk
Beardstown
A. Craig
Pleasant Hill
Clyde
Virgil
Virgil Craig
Currywile
James Ogden
Hadley
Mattoon
Tih
Tadley
Ed Lake
Barry
Roy Likes
Kinderhook
Litchfield
Trannibal
Whitehall
Montezuma Landing
Pittsfield
Tohn Dillon
Quincey
Frank Arrowsmith
Minnie Bishop
Decatur
Col. Berry
Pulaski
North East Township
John Steiner
Alman Bottorff
Two Police Court Cases At Friday Session
Two cases heard in police court Friday morning. J H Williamson, an old soldier, fined for peace disturbance at carnival grounds Thursday night. Ira O Martin, also an old soldier, fined for intoxication. County clerk reports a patient at a state hospital in Jacksonville in critical condition. relatives to be notified.
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J. H. Williamson
Ira O. Martin
W. J. Smith
E. L. Hall
State Hospital
Jacksonville
Richard Ross
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Fashion Shop
Maine St
Ursa
J. M. Rudy
Christian Church
Palmyra
George Moore
Edward Disselhorst
Bernard Friebank
Hower
P.G
Davis
Leonard Schmidt
Lummis
William, Dutton
Beatrice Dutton
George Dutton
Willard Dela Willard” Williams
Bernice Am
Heckie
Alois Heckie
J. A. Bunting
Ninth
Maine Streets
Twelfth
Kentucky
Ninth Street
Jersey Street
Heckle
Bergman
Otto Bergman
Sixth
Jefferson Streets
Elgin
Mr. Bergman
Thomas Nolan Field
Jacob Pfaeffie
Nettie Stalf
Ohio Street
Quincy National Bank
Ilinois
U. S
U.S
Federal Reserve Bank
United States
Postal Savings
County of
Adams
T. J. M. Winters
H. Weitmeyer
Simon Duker
John G. Blomer
W. T. Duker
J. M. Winters
Hinois
Quincy Gas Electric & Heating Co
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