Tornado Strikes Phillipsburg Kansas Kills and Damages
A Phillipsburg Kansas tornado on Wednesday evening killed eight to ten people and caused extensive property damage. Harvesting has begun with wheat mostly in shock and of good quality likely to yield above average. Local listings note Dr. L A Powell properties for sale and a Premium Nebraska State Fair catalog. Gov Folk of Missouri planned to speak at the July 12 Fairbury Chautauqua.
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Phillipsburg
Kan
Notice on debts and visiting grandchildren in Fairbury
A notice requests all debtors from J. J. Lambs pump and wind mill business to settle with Geo. Picard & Son. It notes Glenn Mills Hazel Mills and Fern Reitzel visiting grandparents D. R. Kelly and comments on tobacco spitting and a Fairbury Chautauqua program printed in Lincoln.
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Geo. Picard & Son
J. J. Lamb
Glenn
Hazel Mills
Council Bluffs
Fern Reitzel
Wymore
Nebr
D. R. Kelly
Pennsylvania
New Life Pills Promise Quick Relief for Bowel Ailments
A vintage advertisement claims Dr. King's New Life Pills cure bowel and stomach diseases including pain in the bowels. It touts speed and safety with a guarantee at Spear Plug Co's drug store for 25 cents.
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Dr. King
Spear Plug Co
Local items and notices from Fairbury Journal
A collection of brief notices including sales of cattle and seeds, a mechanic’s art note, a dental pain quip, a family visit from Kansas, a paint advertisement, a church social, a pharmacy relocation, a bounty law with new animal scalps rewards, and county clerk notes predicting scalp trade activity beginning July 1.
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Houston
Fairbury Journal
Wanted by Chicago manufa factoring house seeks trusted assistant
Classified notice announces a permanent assistant position at a Chicago financing firm located at 323 Dearborn Street offering $18 weekly. No investment required and prior experience not essential. Also mentions social news of editor and wife returning from Milwaukee trip and a wedding at a German Lutheran church with about 150 guests.
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Chicago
Dearborn St
Just What Everyone Should Do
Irwinville resident Mr J T Barber keeps Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy at hand for rapid relief during sudden colic cholera morbus or diarrhoea attacks. He praises the medicine as one of the best he has seen and says he keeps a bottle in his room. Sold by Spear Drug Co.
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J. T. Barber
Irwinville
Spear Drug
Coa
Mrs. Watson and daughter visit relatives in Lincoln
Mrs. A. T. Watson and her daughter traveled Wednesday to Lincoln to visit relatives. Miss Lillie Osborn went Monday to visit the family of P. W. Price in Kansas City and returned yesterday.
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Madge Hudson Barnes
A. T. Watson
Lincoln
Fourth of July Celebration Planned in Hartzell Grove Diller
The town of Diller gears up for its biggest Fourth of July event. Forest Hartzell buys land from Lincoln Land Co. for $150 per acre and moves depot closer to Commercial street. The Modern Woodmen host a full day of music, speeches by Thos. Darnell and Hon. W H Barnes, basket dinner, sports, a ball game, and ample refreshments with a special police force for order.
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Forest Hartzell
Lincoln Land Co
D. RB. Kelley
Thos. Nelson
R.V. Folkers
Diller
Hartzell’s Grove
Hardy
the Grove
Darnell
Lincoln
W.H. Barnes
Fairbury
Woodmen Lodge
Lincoln City Council Enacts Spitting Ordinance
An obscure Lincoln council measure bans spitting on sidewalks, urging monthly maintenance notes. The item also mentions kerosene drain cleaning practices and a quip about New York papers over a half-dollar souvenir from 1859 returning to a man.
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New York
Found a Cure for Dyspepsia in Fort William Woman
Mrs. H. Lindsay of Fort William Ontario reports relief from years of stomach pains after taking Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. She says she has had no suffering since use and recommends them for dyspepsia. Sold by Spear Drug Co.
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Chamberlain
Spear Drug Co
Lindsay
Fort William
Ontario
Canada
Empress Dowager's Mausoleum Funded Far From Pekin
The Empress Dowager of China has spent about 5 million dollars on her mausoleum near Pekin, with the note that she may lie long in the future. A public highway improves farm value, yet a few men avoid free road work to spite neighbors and let the road fall into disrepair.
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China
Pekin
Dying of Consumption Cured by King's New Discovery
Personal testimonial from William Myers of Cearfoss Maryland describing consumption from early stage to near death and credits Dr King’s New Discovery with quick relief and cure for coughs colds sore throat and bronchitis. Proclaims it prevents pneumonia and is sold by Spear Drug Co with 50 cent and one dollar bottles and a free trial bottle.
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Wm. Myers
Cearfoss
King
Spear Drug Co’s
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Lightner & Stotts
Buster Brown
L. C. Ballard
A. H. Colman
Kansas City
P. B. Miller
L. O. Ballard
S.ee
L. A. Powell
J. W. Fours
Otto Schnuelle
Henry Schnuelle
John King
J. H. Madden
Gov. Folk
Fairbury Chautauqua
J.D. Fanders
J. O. Blauser
S. Tf
J. R. Fritz
D. H. Diller
Pitteburg Kan
Patton
J. C. Blauser
Alex Bell
R. V. Folkers
Fannie Diller
Neely Pharmacy
Nebraska
Milwaukee
Wis
Woodmen’s
Burlington
Northwestern
Racine
Muscatine
Wm, Kunter
Haley Willems
J. Shaff
Carl Franzen
Annie Kunter
National
G. A. White Piano Company
Fairebbury
Nhebrasea
The
Commercial Street
City Council of
Beatrice Chautauqua
Beatrice Chautauqua Association
U.8
Robt. M. Lafollette
R. P. Hobson
U. S. Navy
John Meritte Driver
People’s Church
W. J. Nolan
Nat M. Brigham
G. A. Gearhart
Nightingale Jubilee Singers
Imperial Saxophone Quintette
Roney Boys
Meisteringer’s
Beatrice Military Band
Chas. L. Reed
Beatrice
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