Ladd Man Killed at Momence in Railway Crash
Lawrence Nellis formerly of Ladd was killed when a railroad motor car he rode sideswiped a New York Central passenger train at Momence at 9 45 am on Thursday January 15. A fellow worker escaped injury. An inquest returned an accidental death verdict. Nellis, born September 1 1894 in Ladd, left a wife Clara Lauer and two children Gilbert and Robert. He had moved to Crete two years earlier for work with the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific line and was interred in Peru City Cemetery with a large local turnout at St Benedicts Church.
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Lawrence Nellis
Ladd
New York Central
Momence
Nellis
C. M. & St. P. Railway
Crete
Catherine Nellis
Decease
Clara Lauer
Gilbert
Robert
Frank
Peru
Henry
Savannah
Minnie Cahill
Chicago
John
Joe
Philip Werner
Carl
Rosella
St. Benedict’s Church
Peru City
Oscar Keay
Mike Grivetti
Robert Chioni
George Plym
Tony Grivetti
Walter Meyer
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Advertisement Claims Local and Constitutional Link
The notice promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a two part remedy a local ointment that provides quick relief and an internal tonic that boosts general health. It asserts catarrh worsens when the body is run down and notes the product has been sold by druggists for over 40 years by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Truthful Kentucky Gazetteer Issue Delivers One Bold Truth
A Kentucky editor prints a single issue claiming to reveal the truth. Items name John Bennin as lazy, Tom Coyle blamed for dirty shop, Dave Conkey’s death deemed heart failure yet whiskey given as cause, and a marriage note for Silvia Rhodes and Jas Collins with biting character descriptions.
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Kentucky
John Bennin
Beeville
Tom Coyle
Dave Conkey
Silvia Rhodes
Jas, Collins
Baptist Parsonage
Gordon
Water Safety and Pollution Warns of Cross Connections
Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings condemns public water contamination while noting cross connections between safe and polluted supplies as a major risk. A Sterling factory cross-connection triggered typhoid cases and two deaths, costing about four thousand dollars per affected worker. Scarlet fever remains prevalent with about 75 daily cases.
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Isaac D. Rawlings
Sterling
State Health Department
Bureau County School Notes: Principal Changes and Award
Miss Marie Bradley resigns after five and a half years at Malden School and will finish at Knox College this semester. Homer Wiley assumes Bradley’s duties and C. M. Foster returns to Bureau School. Tests in silent reading and arithmetic will be mailed. The County Fair exhibit prep begins. Francis G. Blair awarded Superior Elementary School diploma to Bureau Township Schools, fifth in Illinois.
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Bureau County
Marie Bradley
Malden
Knox College
Miss Bradley
Homer Willey
Francis G. Blair
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Parent-Teachers Association
Bureau Township
Illinois
Blair
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Joe Dewey
Frank Delaney
Spring Velley
Fred Daley
Kewanee
Clede Deal
Elizabeth Lauer
Weiler
Mendota
Cornelius Weiler
Anna Drymiller
Mary Leahy
Neil Greig
Sam Lunn
Charles and
Buster Wardell
John and Earl Buckman
Henry Lauer
Clara Reese
Edith Lauer
Jake Spanier
John Boyland
Arlington
Peter Lauer
Spring Valley
Moonshine
Bureau County School Notes
Spring Valley City Bank
Dr. Bell
Gasoline Alley Club
Prosperity Club
Via
Franckey
Prince Bajbar
National Production Company
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