Bureau County School Notes Highlights and Activities
School office urges bi monthly test mailings and address updates. Reading Circle books, Christmas sales reports, and treasurer reimbursements are requested. District 86 Berean School reports 17 pupils with red cross activity and charity projects. District 49 Hunt's Bend and District 187 Zearing notes mention Christmas gifts to homes and new Junior Red Cross subscriptions.
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Ofce
Treaser
Illinois Valley Division
The
State Teachers’ Association
Kaskaskia Hotel
la Salle
H. B. Fisher
Streator
Berean School
District
Red Cross
Dwight
Illinois
Santa Claus
Carmi
Ethel Denny
Hunt’s Bend
Elizabeth MacFarlane
Rockford
Junior Red Cross
Ruth Meek
Zearing School
Velma Fenwick
White School
Myna F. Curley
Simple Night Cough Remedy Promises Quick Sleep
A simple method using Dr Kings New Discovery for Coughs helps banish persistent night coughs. Take a teaspoonful before bed and hold for 15 to 20 seconds, then swallow without water. It soothes irritation, loosens phlegm, and stops coughing, often after the first use.
Don't Talk Politics So Much Says Wife to Taxidermist
In a Louisville Courier Journal item a wife urges her husband the taxidermist to focus on his work and stop discussing politics, urging him to do his job. The odd exchange highlights domestic humor and a quirk of small town life.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Chicago
Selina
Dirk
Camphor Eye Wash Promises Quick Relief
Advertises Lavoptik eye wash mixed with camphor witch hazel hydrastis for sore eyes. One small bottle claims to help weak strained or sore eyes. Aluminum eye cup offered free by The Thompson Drug Co.
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The
Thompson Drug Co
Woman's Courage Foils Bank Robbery At Vera Oklahoma Bank
Mrs. Mary Garlinghouse, cashier of Vera State Bank in Oklahoma, fought two armed bandits during a bank raid. She wrestled for the gun, aided by Constable Mosby. one bandit was wounded and later died, the other surrendered, with Garlinghouse emerging unscathed and praised for bravery.
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American Bankers Association
Chicago
Mary Garlinghouse
State Bank of
Vera
Oklahoma
Association
Latger
Mosby
Ed Mosby
Hoef
R. C. Lapsley
Reciprocity and a Local Advertiser’s Double Standard
The editor touts town boosterism and home trading while a local business man praises the idea yet withholds advertising support. He instead orders cheap stationery from an out of town print shop, highlighting a ironic stance in a small town.
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Bureau County School Notes
Mackinaws
le Salle
Hlinnis
National Meeting of Bankers
Brin
Rudolph
the New Universities Dictionary
Percy W. Long
Harvard
Clark S. Northrup
Cornell
John C. Rolfe
Pennsylvania
Forrest S. Lunt
Columbia
Morris W. Croll
Princeton
George J. Hagar
Mercure
Sey
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