Local notes and notices from the town gossip column
Mrs Charlea Fedder is reported ill with typhoid fever. A number of Trojans attended the race near Collinsville Thursday. Ice cream soda and other drinks at Kuntzmann's. Don’t forget the chicken supper Tuesday evening September 12. Mr and Mrs Fred Leitz welcomed a bouncing girl Thursday. Mrs Wm Geera is seriously ill. Eyes should be examined by Dr June Gallee at the Baird House on Sept 12. Kuntzmann's supplies ice cream and cakes for parties. Troy’s tradesmen are very busy. Brookside mine payrolls were the largest in six months. Have your spindles treated at Riebold's for 50 cents. A new arrival, a bouncing boy, for Wm Kimberlin. mother and son doing nicely. Rieder building rooms prepared for Dr Linder’s dental office move. Fred Campbell at Brookside called to mine No 17 to stand in for ill engineer F Miller. Miller to assume duties. Prospectus folder for McCray-Dewey academy 1905-06 distributed. reopening set for Sept 11 with good attendance expected. Capt I W Cook of this city named by Governor Deneen as Illinois delegate to the Farmers' National Congress in Richmond Sept 12–22. Cook indicates he will attend as delegate barring unforeseen issues.
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Charlea Fedder
Collinsville
Kuntzmann
June Gallee
Optician
Baird House
Kuntzmann’s
Troy
Brookside
Wm. H. Wild
Riebold’s
Wm. Kimberlin
Fred Campbell
Consolidated Coal Company
Collinaville
F.F. Miller
Campbell
McCray-Dewey Academy
Capt
I. W. Cook
Deneen
Illinois
Farmers’ National Congress
Richmond
Capt. Cook
Booker T. Washington social equality row at Saratoga
The Saratoga equality incident involved John Wanamaker hosting Booker T. Washington at the United States Hotel in Saratoga New York. Washington reportedly escorted Mrs Barclay Ward Wanamaker to a table, drawing comment on race relations and social standing from observers and commentators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Booker T. Washington
Saratoga
John Wanamaker
Booker
Alabama
Philadelphia
United States Hotel
N. Y
Washington
Electric Bitters Cited By Columbus Woman For Cure
Public aroused to the curative merits of Electric Bitters for sick stomach liver and kidneys. Mary H Walters of 546 St Clair Ave Columbus says she was dying from fever ague and nerves wrecked before taking Electric Bitters and soon after relief and eventual cure. Guaranteed at S Kingston’s drug store 50c. Notice I will be at the livery barn of C E McKittrick every Saturday with a lot of milch cows and stock cattle for sale F J Barnes Pack 39
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary H. Walters
St. Clair Ave
Columbus, O
S. Kingaton’s
C. E. McKittrick
F. J. BamnSpack
Train Plunge at Bruce Bridge Kills Many In Norfolk Trip
A Norfolk excursion train from Kingston North Carolina plunged through an open bridge draw at Bruce station six miles from Norfolk. Twenty to thirty riders aboard the first car were killed or injured with most of that car submerged in twelve feet of water. The engine and one coach sank completely. the second coach partly. All aboard except the crew and promoters were colored. the engineer, fireman, and conductor escaped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk, Va
Atlantic Coast Line
Kingston
N. C
Bruce Station
Snakes and Wife in Coffin Shocks Springfield
Springfield police arrest a man known as Prof Seldenberger after he hypnotized his wife and placed her in a coffin with snakes for display. The humane society found no applicable law, and the woman remains with physicians as she is able to tell her story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Seldenberger
Humane Society
Hutchinson Bride to Be Kills Fiancé Then Self
Hutchinson Kansas August 18 Mrs Media Wells a widow shot and killed William Burch on a couch at her home where he boarded with her and then killed herself with three bullets to the breast Burch aged 48 was car superintendent of the Hutchinson Street Railway Co Mrs Wells leaves a son and a daughter while Burch leaves a son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hutchinson, Kas
Media Wells
William Burch
Burch
Hutchinson Street Railway. Co
Wells
Proved Himself A Sport Gossip In Saratoga Copper Family
In Saratoga on Aug 18 a wealthy copper family heir reportedly squandered $40,000 at gaming tables in a few days. Rumor also says the Guggenheim fortune is briefly affected by the same sum, with remarks that the young man is a true sport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga
N. Y
Guggenheimers
Close shave saves inmate as mob threatens jail in Mobile
Brooks King, moved from Monroeville for safekeeping after murder conviction and a 35 year term, narrowly escapes mob action when Sheriff Saulsberry escorts him through a startled crowd. The incident follows a notable disguise claim and a quack advertorial closing note by S. Kingston touting Rocky Mountain Tea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Brooks King
Monroeville
King
Saulsberry Mean- Ais
Two Concerns Lose Money in Currency Disappearances
In St Louis on August 11 a few days of missing currency totaling about 1300 dollars were reported from two major firms. The Merchants Laclede National Bank lacks a package worth 800 dollars and Laclede Gas Company reports a shortfall as well. Details remain untraced from the Carondelet area offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Merchants- Laclede National Bank
Laclede
Stacey
Minnesota and St Paul Population Figures
Official state census shows Minnesota at 1,973,871 residents, up from 1,751,394 in 1900. St Paul counts 197,025 people, compared with 163,065 in 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul,Minn
Minnesota
St. Paul
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Lamm & Co
Strauss Bros
Chicago
ODD Fellows
Main Street
Rieder
J. Allen
F. E. Linder
J. E. Marley,o.d
Meiners’ Hotel
Gov. Vardaman
Mississippi
Tuskegees
Snakes
Springfield, CO
Epworth
Serenateg Teete Ee A. Band
McAdoo
E. C. Overman
Helen
Julius Peter
Wm. Kleimeier
Park Place
W. W. Jarvis
Caalr
Davidson Store Co
Shave
Rocky Mountain
S. Kingston
Laclede ‘Bank
The
Laclede Gaslight Co. of
Carondelet
Ares Py70
Womer
St. Louis, Vandalia & Eastern Traction Co
Louis, Vandalia & Eastern Traction Co
City of
Throp Street
Sai Precet
Joy
A.D
A . le Seve ST. Louis, Vandalia & Eastern Traction Company
William Feaver
Vandalia Railroad
Indianapolis
Indianapolia Mall
Vandalia
Indianapolis Express
G. L. Elliott
Ita
J. M.chesbrough
G.P.A
Lees
A. R Snodgrass
Paniag
John C. Gebauer
Kinloch Paint Company
St.louis
Kiesel
West Market Street
M. Roberts Kiesel
Mr. le A. Hicks
Iredell
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