Train Timetable Bits Show Westbound and Fastbound Runs
Westbound cars move from Spring Valley to Hicks Junction and other towns with listed departure times in the morning and afternoon. Fastbound cars run to Peru LaSalle Ottawa Streator Marseilles Seneca Morris with scattered schedules and notes on Sundays and holidays. Ticket promo and store ad mention Monahan Confectionery in Greenwood and Dakota, with hours 9 am to 9:30 pm and Chicago fares via Joliet Electric Railway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spring Valley Station
Hicks Junction
Ladd
A. M
Peru
LaSalle
Ottawa
Streator
Marseilles
Seneca
Morris
Ges
P. M
Chicago Ill
Joliet, Ill
Chicago and Joliet Electric
Rat infestation bill shocks homeowner in plumbing trouble
James Stucky recounts a rat problem that clogged toilet drains requiring tearing up floors and pipes. A rat’s nest was found in the basement and removed by RAT-SNAP, with a plumber’s bill of 125 cents including the product cost of 35, 65, and 1.25 dollars from Fehr and Cumming and Thompson Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fehr and Cumming and Thompson Drug Co
Health facts for children on disease prevention and care
A school health bulletin urges hygiene and ventilation, hand washing, and avoiding shared cups. It stresses quarantine in outbreaks, typhoid vaccination, early physician care for sore throats, and vaccination against diphtheria, with statistics on fatalities and child paralysis cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Division of Child Hygiene
State Department of Health
Master in Chancery to Sell Spring Valley Property
Public notice states that on November 6, 1920 at 2 p.m. the Master in Chancery G C Wilson will sell at the east front door of the Bureau County Court House in Princeton the south eighty feet of lots 17 and 18 in block 43 in the Original Town of Spring Valley with coal and fire clay rights and subject to 1920 taxes, cash in hand.
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I. G. C. Wilson
Bureau County
Princeton
Bureau
Illinois
Ity
Spring Valley
Rocky Mountain TFA Endorsed by Women at Thompson Drug Co
An advertisement touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain TFA as a life improving tonic. It claims relief from headaches sour stomach bad breath and loss of appetite with endorsements from women and a local druggist Thompson Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollisters
Notice of Appointment and Claims for James Burke Estate
Estate of James Burke in Bureau County Illinois appoints Mary Burke executrix invites all creditors to appear at the Bureau County Court in Princeton for December Term to have claims adjusted and requests debts be paid promptly dated October 7 1920
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James Burke
Bureau
State of Illinois
Bureau County
Court House
Princeton
Rat Snap Cure Ad Promises Savings and Kill Count
An old ad touts RAT-SNAP in three sizes to kill rats with a 65¢ package claimed to kill 50 rats. It argues rats cause annual losses of feed and property and claims cremation after death with no odor. Sold by Fehr and Cumming and Thompson Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fehr and Cumming and Thompson Drug Co
Also Mentioned on This Page
P. J. Secrest
P. F. McNamara
St. Paul and
Greenwood Sts
de Filippi
S. Spring Valley
J. H. Franklin
Jagodzinski Building
Springs Valley
Tilinos
DR. Ladue
Dr. Rummell
Spring Valle
Edward Peters
Haler Meralirector
Bell Phon
Chicago
Peoria RY
Spring Valley, Ill
b—Deane
Joliet
f—La Salle
g—La Salle
la Salle
Sanitary Ice Cream Parlor
W. St Paul St
Monahan Confectorery
Greenwood
Dakota Std
James Stucky
G. M. Bryant
DePue, Il
C. A. Jensen
LA Salle Theatre
JOS. F. Kuss
Hotel
Kaskaskia
A. B. Connor
Teleaphone
Optometrist
Cassiday Bros
J. L. Murphy
Peltier Bldg
Bostor
THE
COX Jewelry CO
Marquette St
la Salle, di
DR. Olmsted
Granville
John Wishnevsky
Prop
Department of Health
Master IN Chancery’s Sale
Circuit Court of
Chancery
Spring Valley City Bank
Chas. W. Knapp
William Hawthorne, Et al
G. C. Wilson
Mary Burke
Executrix
James DE Filippi
Isten
Lester
Spur
Liccerr & Myers Tobacco Co
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