Reinstate Your Insurance Now Campaign Urges Ex‑Servicemen
The State of Illinois and the American Legion with A Dickson of Chicago plan a three month drive to reinstate WWI government life insurance lapsed by three quarters of veterans. Red Cross offices will explain benefits, urging reinvestment for protection, safety, and fire prevention awareness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of War Risk Insurance Representatives
A. Dickson
Chicago
American Legion
Fellows
Red Cross
Child suffers arm injury from wringer at Sheffield
Five year old Frank Phillips was helping with washing when his hand was pulled into a wringer driven by a gasoline engine. The arm was badly bruised but no bones were broken after workers stopped the machine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Phillips
Sheffield
New Argo-Phosphate Method Promises Quick Complexion Fix
Advertises a novel treatment claiming to remove blemishes in days and quickly add weight for thin individuals. Proclaims dramatic skin improvements, rosy complexions, and rounded shoulders using Argo-Phosphate, with Rosetone recommended for bust development. Dispensed by Thompson Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompson Drug Co
Rats Resist Grain Despite Proof from RAT-SNAP
Fred Lamb declares RAT-SNAP stopped rats from eating his best grain at the feed store. He reports neighbors’ shop sold him the product, it killed rats by morning, and he now has no rats. The remedy is sold in three sizes 35e 65c and $1.25 by Fehr and Cumming and Thompson Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fehr and Cumming and Thompson Drug Co
Bureau County Governing Board Actions 1920
Minutes detail Canada thistle enforcement forms and duties for Township Commissioners, highway damages settlements to landowners, and tubercular pauper care protocol. Budget figures for county tax levy are presented, with adjournment set to September 27, 1920.
Finance Committee recommends levy of 189176 dollars in county tax
The committee proposes that 189176 dollars be levied on all real and personal property including railroad tele graph and telephone in the county as assessed for 1920. The county clerk should extend a tax on property at a rate not exceeding 50 cents per 100 dollars to raise the amount. Signed by A. D. Piper chair and committee members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau County
Canada Thistle
Canada
Margaret Stewart
Spring Valley
Illinois
Jacoby
Vane
Pekin
Golding
Winereas
Clarence Melcher
Andrew Yepson
Turner Erickson
Charles Markee
Jane Markee
William Norton
William Stabler
E. Malone
Ezra Stetson
J. W. Markee
E. van Couwenberge
Florian de Bates
George and
Charles Boyden
F. Sprague
A. W. Boyden
Martha Hays
Mary L. Hamrick Tay
Leonard F. Houghton
E. J. Ely
Mineral Grain Co
J. C. Green
Splain
Downey
Corporation of Ladd
Ericson, Baird
Alexander Thistle
A. D
Sharkey
Alexander
Bureau County Tuberculosis Sanitarium
County Tuberculosis Nurse
Princeton
Board of Supervisors
League of Nations
Lincoln
Republican Party
Washington
Wilson
America
Also Mentioned on This Page
State of
Ment
Fred Lamb
Gol
A. D. Pip&r
H. L. Wood
John S. Skinner
Jos. B. Casassa
Max P. Seibel
Finance Committee
Josef T. Skinner
Skinner
President
United States
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
James M. Cox
Democratic Party
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Henry Fuller
Carey R. Johnson
A. H. Maem
Wohn EL Johnson
Thomas J. Studley
George W. Westermeier
PARTY
CO Warren G. Harding
Massachusetts
William B. McKinley
Govenor
Kankakee
Fred E. Sterling
Rockford
Louis J. Emmerson Ernon
O Andrew Russel
Jacksonville
Edward E. Miller
St. Louis
O Edward J. Brundage
Arlington Pl
Supreme Court
Charles W. Vail
Stewart Ave
University of Illinois
Laura B. Evans
Taylorville
Helen Matthews Grigsby
Pittsfield
William L. Noble
Evanston
Congress
William E. Mason
Washington Blvd
Richard Yates
Springfield
Republican State Central Committee
Frank L. Smith
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!