Albany Mill Access and Food Shortages in Early Era
The text recalls bread shortages caused by milling limits and reliance on local grains. It notes wheat needing distant transport to a mill near Union Grove eighteen miles from Albany, plus a small mill by Mil Creek in Iowa and early supply trips from Knox County with hazardous journeys on ice via Docia and Rock rivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Grove
Albany
Milvcreek
Iowa
Knox County
Docia
Rock
Clay in Our Hands Reflects Illinois Building Boom
The article notes rising building activity in Illinois with hundreds of clay products plants expanding to meet demand. It stresses clay as an inexhaustible raw material, contrasts it with vanishing timber, and argues the clay industries will supply durable, fireproof materials for the educated citizenry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Keco
Nature
Fragmented OCR notes on September talk and names
The fragmentary text lists names and phrases from a September reading discussion or review. It references Montreal, Bea, Val, and wall notes. The passage is disjointed and lacks a clear event, date, or outcome.
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Carroll County
Thomson
Orson M. Grove
Walter R. Watson
John L. Brearton
S. C. Campbell
Supt. of Highways
Eber Shepherd
Frank Ross
Lawrence E. Brudi
Supt. of Schools
John Gelwicks
Carcuit Clerk
Treasure Underground
T. A. Wachtel & Son
Mt. Carroll
F. A. Read Coq
Freeport’s Reliable Department Store
Borcher
Hecht
Freeport
C. H. Little & CO
Chas
Oppost
HA Jewels
Stephen
Osan
Bea
Valla
Melon Day
Leonard Fink
Chadwick
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