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Newspaper
Sumner Press
Location
Sumner, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1902
Page
2
A collage of short notices covers sales at Westall’s grocery and H F Combs building supplies, farm and seed ads, church services, and social events. Items note a hired man play, a piano display by Story & Clark, smallpox vaccination efforts, WWI era style city notices, and local business updates in Sumner and surrounding townships.
It claims to be the world’s perfect healer of cuts burns bruises sores and eruptions offering a universal cure. Available at Dale & Sheridan's for 25 cents a box.
A parent from Inwood Iowa praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for saving a child's life. The letter describes rapid relief after dosing every ten minutes, followed by vomiting and phlegm removal, concluding the medicine prevented the child’s death. Sold by Dale and Sheridan.
The article promotes subscribing to the Globe Democrat, touting St Louis as host of the 1904 World’s Fair. It claims wide circulation across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and worldwide English readers, urging readers to subscribe for extensive coverage of preparations and news.
Fire early Thursday morning at Lancaster and Grenat grocery on Christy avenue gutted the building. The blaze spread after a brief alarm, damaging stock valued about 2800 with no insurance. Bullermann's Photo Gallery nearby helped stop the spread though its iron covering shielded it. The building owner held 300 insurance and wind from the north helped save adjacent properties. Investigators urged stricter enforcement of fire code requirements to prevent future incidents.
A flirtatious scene unfolds at the station as a girl and a boy trade banter about recent party antics and rivals. The boy, eager to impress, reveals a casual dating misstep while the girl retorts with a sharp, amused rebuke before he hurries to catch his train.
In a reminiscence from St Louis visitor Wa Russell, he recalls his grandfather Stewart killing a bear near the site of Judge Landes' stable. The tale places Stewart on the lot now used by the Catholic church after hearing pigs’ commotion and finding a bear in the tree, which he shot.
The Chiiato Township Teacher Association will meet Saturday at 38 on the west side to discuss program items Roark Chap. 6 7 and 8 and Hal Keaalor Chap. 9 10 and 11 Mont Lathrop Biography of Shakespeare Mabel Judy You Like It edited by two editors Clarence Petty and Frank Petty attendți?
The Inter Ocean of Chicago partners with this newspaper to present readers a liberal gift distribution. The issue includes a proposition in the advertising pages and promises sincere, honest, and truthful details. Readers are urged to write to Inter Ocean, Chicago for the explanatory papers.
A vintage ad asserts The Beat as the cheapest option yet promises first class news, broad world coverage, and reliability. It touts value for all readers and positions the paper as designed for every family member.
An old belief in drastic purgatives is challenged by claims for Dr King's New Life Pills. The ad asserts the pills are harmless, gently stimulate the liver and bowels to expel poison, cleanse the system, and cure constipation and headaches. Sold for 25 cents at Date & Sheridan's Drug Store.
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