Local Briefs Highlight Health, Housing and Happenings
Measles cases rise among children while watermelons arrive late in markets. The dove season opens as hunters head out for pot pie. Chris Rucker plans to move to Oklahoma after a sale on August 17. A $5,000 mausoleum rises in College Hill cemetery funded by Dr Bechtold. A teacher’s exam drew about 25 attendees at Edwardsville courthouse. Express service may resume on East St. Louis & Suburban Electric Railway next week. Miss Katie Heck’s health shows partial improvement. Wick Pipe Organ Co. ships organ to Lexington Missouri. George Edwards receives 314 from Helvetia Mutual for a lightning-killed heifer. Marion File begins world tour after Army duty. Young Theodore Kirsch fractures thigh after a porch fall. Philip Postel, Mascoutah miller, dies at 89. George Neary reports burglary of 10 dollars. Health note urges aiding digestion with Kodol For Indigestion and Dyspepsia sold by S Kingston.
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Chris Rucker
Oklahoma
Auust
College Hill
Lebanon
BH. T. Bechtold
Court House
Edwardsville
J. A. Uzzell
East St. Louis & Suburban Electric Railway
Katie Heck
Conrad Heck
Wick Pipe Organ Co
Highland
Lexington
George Edwards
Helvetia Mutual Insurance Co
Marion File
B B. M. File
Ripley
Philip H. Postel
Mascoutah
Mr. Postel
St. Clair County
Thirty-Second
General Assembly
University of Illinois
George Neary
Neary
S. Kingston
Those Haunting Notes From the Woods
A Birdlovers Society member seeks a bird call at a country home. She uses her Bird Guide to identify a mysterious sound heard from the woods. Her friend suggests the bird is a goat and jokes about moving it farther away.
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Birdlovers’ Society
Orville Lawrence and the lute fox terrier intrigue
A St Johnsbury anecdote recalls Orville Lawrence driving with a lute fox terrier when a drummer and friends teased him asking how much the dog would cost. Lawrence replied that his wife loved pups and suggested the drummer buy the dog so the wife would have two.
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St. Johnsbury
Orville Lawrence
Lawrence
Ivery
Ae “Wall
Boston Herald
Real estate transfers and estate settlements listed in Edwardsville
The column records numerous real estate transfers in Edwardsville and surrounding areas, including Joseph Kehl to Ww. M Crossman, Martin Rebec to Fletcher, Edward Mahler to Geo Leverett, and Union Trust to Pete Paerkszekes. It documents executors discharging guardians and a Frederick Sohler estate balance, with numerous parcel purchases and mineral rights transfers across multiple townships.
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Martin Rebec
Coer Ae Pig Guermeys Oy
Collinsville
Wa Fletcher
Combs Et
Mahler Heights
Public sale of farm stock and implements near Vandalia
Personal property to be sold Saturday August 17 starting at 10 am includes five horses six cattle 13 hogs 10 geese a threshing outfit and various farm implements. Credit over 10 dollars twelve months. Farm of 913 acres offered same day with terms one third cash and balance in six and twelve months at 5 percent interest. CHRIS KUEKER 35-11
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Troy
Vandalia
Chris. Kueker
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Kinloch
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F. BE. Linder
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Rieder
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Risser Residence
Kinloch 17
F. W. Braner
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The
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Wm. Weber
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Joseph Kehl
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Charles Schaller
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I. P. File
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G. W
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Ben Autofatto
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F. R. Brewer
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Theophil Luscher
Ulrich Monatein
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I. W. Cook
F. W. Brauer
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Louis Hill
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T. J. Thomas
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W. E. Wheeler
Henry Battermann
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John Holzer
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Granite City
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Ruth Scolds
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Portsmouth
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Mamie Burris
Weeee St. Louis Co
R. Gottgetten
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Alton John Burch
Pittsburg
Dora Brewer
Dan Peterman
Fast-Dispatch
Zoeller's
S. Kingston Druggist
F. C
Leidel
Jeweler Kiesel. Building
Charles Mantle
Harry
Smith
Tur Catt
Scientific American
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We. Gernet
Marmin Herbst
August Schultze
LEGAL
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Madison County
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