Help One Another: Duty to Society and Community Welfare
In nearly every town there is need for recognizing the principle of cooperation and the motto Help One Another. We are interconnected and cannot live in isolation without obligations to others. Emphasizing public welfare over individual interest, the piece urges ditching envy and hatred to foster community growth and Spring Valley's betterment. It asks each reader to ask if they do all they can to advance their community’s best interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sany
Spring Valley
Call to attend church next Sunday in Spring Valley town
A call urges all residents to visit any of Spring Valley’s six churches next Sunday. It argues the church benefits individuals and the community, and stresses joining a local church to strengthen town institutions and shared obligations.
Scrap Leather Used on Roads Patent Britain
An estimate shows 55 720 pairs of old shoes are required per mile of a road composed of slag rock asphalt and scrap leather and patented in Great Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Chicago, Ottawa & Peoria Ry Timetables Spring Valley 1919
The Chicago, Ottawa & Peoria Railway lists winter 1919 timetables from Spring Valley with westbound departures to Hicks Junction, DePue, Bureau, Princet on and Joliet, plus Local and Limited runs. It details fare notes, ticket offices, and special interchangeable books.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hicks Junction
DePue
Bureau
Princeton
A. M
P. M
Spring Valley Station
Peru
LaSalle
Ottawa Streator
Marseilles
Seneca
Morris Joliet
P. My
Princeton Limited
Suday
W. St Paul St
Monahan Confectonery
Greenwood
Dakota Sts
Eccentricities of Genius Verlaine Profile
Paul Verlaine a modern French poet lived a life alternating between religious ecstasy and excesses. After 1870 he led bohemian Paris, vanished for eleven years, reemerged in 1881 as a quasi Catholic with Sageese and died in 1896.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Verlaine
Paris
Verlaine
Bureau County Courthouse Bond Question Placed for June Vote
County supervisors discuss whether to build a new courthouse and issue bonds plus tax questions. A committee is urged to draft resolutions for June 1920 and refer all related propositions to a public vote. Separate report recommends deferring purchase of Honor Rolls to the full Board due to financial uncertainty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Czase
Bureau County
Illinois
There Are Others Prompts On Stage Choir Tale
Jud Tonkin remarks on a man whose notion of personal success is to sing off key so loudly the choir yields. The line hints at a broader social mockery within a community scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jud Tonkin
Bureau County Board Passes Honor Roll Purchases and Court House Plan
Bureau County Illinois Board of Supervisors adopts a resolution to purchase copies of the Clifford R. Trimble Honor Roll for American Legion posts and Gold Star Mothers, honors soldiers and civilians, and endorses the Bureau County Honor Roll for historical value. The session includes requests for increased clerk pay, courthouse petition drafts, road improvement plans, and payrolls for Primary Election expenses and board member mileage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank J. Baird
Princeton
Ill
Casassa
Splain
Ken
Circuit C 2
County Iatent of
Thoard
Nort
Clifford R. Trimble
Bureau County
County Board of Supervisors
Bureau County Board of Supervisors
American Legion
Court House
Norton
Drayton
Connor
Pettegrew
Tha Con
Board of Supervisors
Minois
Bureau
State of Illinois
Illinois
Golding
C. L. Melcher
Dixon Illinois
Clarion
LaMoille
Ohio
Walnut
Greenville
Fairfield
Westfield
Berlin
Dover
Manhus
Hall
Halli
Selby
Wyanet
Con
Leepertown
Arispie
Indiantown
Macon
Neponset
Wheatland
Mile
Sesson
Winter
Baird
Bollman
Jacoby
Piper
Young
Schwarzentraub
Seibel
Alexander
Valant
Sulski
Cahill
Mills
Smith
Skinner
Vane
Wood
Downey
Rawson
Ericson
Mason
Anderson
Sharkey
James Fletcher
Securely Sealed Egg Envelope Mystery
An egg white sealed envelope resists opening from boiling water as steam enhances its firmness, confounding attempts to reveal its contents.
You Just Try NR For That Indigestion
An advertisement touts NR as a remedy for indigestion promising to improve digestion assimilation and elimination. It claims effectiveness with a money back guarantee and urges readers to try NR to fix stomach trouble.
One Day's Test Proves No Best
An advertorial urging readers to try Mature NR Tablets for digestive issues. It claims the product fixes constipation and indigestion, promises regular bowels, improved tongue coating, and renewed energy. The note cites a 25 cent price per box and endorsement by druggists.
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Cazette
Bruce W. Marshall
M. Ruth Miller
Pp. M. Mahoney
Ilinois
Chicago
Ottawa
Peoria RY
Igixkt
Spring Vally
Ladd
m—laSalle
Via
Joliet, al. and
Chi
Cago & Joliet Electric Ry
Thos. A. Drayton
Claude Brown
E. F. Norton
County of
State of
John S. Skinner
Thos A. Drayton
Charles
Buckman
Metals
Greenwood Street
Peter Barto
Bureau County Board of Supervisors Indorse
Peron
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