Local items fill busy week with visits and listings
Anton Ponsetto of Rockford spent Monday here with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mattioda spent Monday in Ottawa and Streator. Jack Cohen and Bert Segal of Chicago visited the B. Rosenzweig home. Fehr and Cumming display new fall dresses. Many residents travel or host visitors from Rockford Chicago Joliet Tempe and other places. Several sales and notices listed for homes, stoves and instruments.
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Anton Ponsetto
Rockford
Peter Mattioda
Ottawa
Streator
Jack Cohen and
Bert Segal
Chicago
B. Rosenzweig
Frances Lemke Returns From Midwest Visit
Mrs. Frances Lemke came back Friday after a two week trip to Chicago and Hammond Indiana. She has leased a fourteen room Chicago apartment and will move there later this month. Also notes include a rain canceling Hicks Park at Sandwich game and local fans hosting the Valley team. A Spring Valley ad seeks agents for popular domestic product with strong profits. Also listed is a used Singer Swing Machine for sale with sewing services advertised nearby City Hall.
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Frances Lemke
Chicago
Hammond
Ind
Hicks Park
Sandwich
Valley Boys
Former head of St Bede College dies at Beatty Abbey
The Right Reverend Leander Schnerr Archabbot of St Vincent s Archabbey Beatty Pennsylvania and former president of St Bede college died Friday Messages at St Bede abbey note he never resided at the college though he visited often He was born September 27 1836 joined the Benedictine Order in 1857 ordained in 1859 elected Archabbot July 15 1892 and served as president until 1910 when the college became an abbey
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Leander Schnerr
St. Vincent’s
Beatty
Pennsylvania
St. Bede College
St. Bede Abbbey
Abbot Schnerr
Archabbot Schnerr
Archabbot
Archabbot Leander
Precinct Expansion Expected as Women Vote Grows
Universal suffrage will trigger redistricting in Bureau County and the addition of new election districts to handle more than 10 000 extra voters. Districts cap at 459 voters. any excess prompts county board redistricting at the June session. The fall general election will likely produce oversized districts and larger ballots as population and women voters raise district totals. Illinois women will vote for presidential electors this fall, a right they gained in 1913.
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Bureau County
Tlinois
Snce
Farmers Will Thrash With Electricity
Six farmers south of Wyanet bought a twenty-two inch cylinder separator powered by a thirty-five horsepower electric motor mounted on trucks. The mobile unit reduces need for large crews and saves time. Brown Bros. supplies the high tension power lines feeding the threshers.
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Wyanet
Brown Bros
News Agent Drops Dead On Train Between Ottawa And La Salle
I L Robinson, veteran news agent, died aboard a Rock Island train last Thursday night between Ottawa and La Salle. The body was removed to a morgue in La Salle. he had gone to Chicago earlier that day in apparently poor health. He left Chicago on the train for a routine delivery run between Chicago and Peoria. A divorced wife lived in Bureau, with a son and daughter among survivors.
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I. L. Robinson
Rock Island
la Sale
Ottawa
la Salle
Robinson
Chicao
Peoria
Chicago
RAT-SNAP advertised as rat killer in 1920s style notice
A reader testimonial touts RAT-SNAP rat poison after finding a dead rat in a cellar. Joanny describes buying 35¢ cake pieces and success after use. Product sold and guaranteed by Fehr and Cumming and Thompson Drug Co with prices 85e 65c and $1.25.
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Joanny
Fehr and Cumming and Thompson Drug Co
Land for Sale in Missouri Oil and Timber District
Forty acres of Missouri land for sale in oil and timber country. Write or phone I. H. Marshall Mendota Illinois for details or appointment.
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Missouri
Oil and Timber District
I. H. Marshall
Mendota
Illinois
Public Utilities Gouge People Amid Tax and Rate Increases
The Illinois campaign reveals how tax and public utilities commissions raised rates after disguising property values. The Chicago Teachers Federation cites the People's Gas Light and Coke Co. as an example where taxes were assessed on 38 million dollar value but rates were based on 99 million, illustrating systematic gouging across cities and communities. Len Small calls to abolish the public utilities commission and grant home rule authority to cities.
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Illinois
Public Utilities Commission
Chicago Teachers’ Federation
Tax Commission
Len, Small
State
Lowden
Public Utilities Corporations
People’s Gas, Light and Coke Company of
Chicago
IllFlated Orchid Hunters
A New York explorer in Venezuela finds a hut with three human skeletons and thousands of dead orchid plants. An orchid of rare beauty grows from the rib of one skeleton, suggesting the three explorers were murdered.
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New York
RAT SNAP KILLS RATS AND MICE GUARANTEED
Fehr and Cumming and Thompson Drug Co offer RAT SNAP in cake form to kill rats and mice and control odors. The one cake size 350c covers pantries and cellars, 65c for chicken houses, and 1.25 for larger buildings. Sold with a guarantee by local drug and supply stores.
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Fehr and Cumming and Thompson Drug Co
Nine Points of the Law Proverb Cited in Legal Outlook
The piece notes that success in litigation hinges on patience money a good cause a strong lawyer wise counsel reliable witnesses a fair jury and a capable judge with luck seen as a bonus to obtain what one can. It riffs on the saying pos session is nine points of the law and hints at the elusive tenth point.
Mrs Keach Uses RAT SNAP on Farm Rodents
On the farm Mrs Keach feared rats and noticed many in the fields. A neighbor claimed RAT SNAP killed 17 rats and scared the rest away. RAT SNAP comes in 35¢ 65¢ and 1.25 packages sold and guaranteed by Fehr and Cumming and Thompson Drug Co.
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Fehr and Cumming and Thompson Drug Co
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South Greenwood Street
Fehr and
Cumming
Casford
East Third Street
Thomas Dowling
Rock Ford
John R. Duncan
John Norton
Nellie Roberts
Tempe
Arizona
Anton Ray
Dom. Pallas
Dom. Kava
Miss Rose Doyle
Melba Hill
Kathryn Vincent
Lois Mercer
John Hansen
Dewey
West
Cleveland Street
Robert ‘Treat
Mr. Hansen
Elizabeth
Rose Sehlevinski
Lemont
Mirs. J. Wadzinski
Webster Park
Fred Grabowski
Spring Valley
Inquire
E. Fourth Street
Kimball Piano
Ruth Miller
Joliet
George Spangler
Andrew J. Miller
St. Louis
Verna Dent
Frank Emmett
Joseph Guarnery
Cleveland St
Wayne Hummer
Bucklin St
la Salle, Ill
Eugene Brodock
Wm, Emery
Robert Evans
James Johnson
Fred Erickson
Albert Johnson
Ladd
Lorenzo Swanson
Englewood
Wilbur Johnson
Joseph Segata
Italy
U Havre
France
Sandy Bosonetto
Anthony Hughes
San Francisco
Hughes
Helen Todd Walley
M. Wall
East Erie Street
Stanley Glogouski
Martha Kel-beck
Clara
Wendell
Olive
Mathea
Mra
Minnie Glogouski
City of Spring Valley
Wea
Jd. Ro Wathons Company
Winona
Minn
Singer
Singer Sewing Machine
Tay
Bureau
Hartford Fire Insurance Company
I. J. Jagodzinski
Willie
Mrs. Keach
Rat-Snap
Symphony
THE
Thompson Drug ‘Co
Rexell
Spring Valley, Illinois
Geo. L. Hoffman & Co
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