Local Paragrap hs Brief Bits and Gossip Gathers Here
Local notes report Valentine’s Day looming and longer days. Illnesses, fresh seafood ads, column invites, and odd snippets fill the page. Injury reports include a Glen Carbon coal washer fall and a fragile economy of meat markets. An eye care event, Indian relics, and a laxative ad round out the notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Valentine's Day
F. W. Zanders
Deimling’s
Kolum
J. Riebold
Dan Doreen
Post-Dispatch
Lee Edwards
Machal Township
Settoness & Wed
Cab
June Sallee
Optician
St. James Hotel
Edwardsville
Western Hotel
Highland
John Salter
Glen Carbon
Washington Letter on China Visit and Cattle Legislation
A Washington letter notes sixty Chinese visitors from the Imperial Celestial Government on inspection and seeks betterment for China. It discusses Riis and the presidential third-term question, a cattle shippers bill, humane concerns, expired patents for car designs, and the joint statehood bill for Oklahoma Indian Territory Arizona New Mexico. It covers Congressional floor speeches, Mrs Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt in the gallery, and J Adam Bede’s witty appeal for separate state admissions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wise Men of the East
Washington
China
America
Imperial Celestial Government
Orient
Atill
Jacob Riis
Congress
Humane Societies
Societies For the Prevention
Montana
Utah
Colorado
Texas
Carcas
Oklahoma and
Indian Territory
Arizona
New Mexico
House of Representatives
Capitol
Senate
Roosevelt
Charity Luncheon Social and Fundraising Insight
A brisk charity luncheon trend showcases church societies clubs and charities inviting friends to reserve tables with a chair, ensuring a set donation for social and financial success. Women and children’s needs drive the effort as home cooked rolls cakes salads and meats fill the meal and surplus goods are sold in paper bags.
Cutting Metals with Oxygen
A Jewelers' Circular Weekly item describes an oxygen cutting apparatus with a tube and two blowpipes guiding across metal plates. One pipe fires an oxyhydrogen flame to heat the metal to dark red while a second pipe injects pure oxygen to sustain combustion, producing a clear channel about one eighth inch thick at roughly six inches per minute.
Wages in Creole Planter Tale and Local Funeral
A student recalls a Creole planter offering laborers terms of 125 and 150 per day with or without board. The note includes Joseph Harris, 58, once a Donk mine worker, who died at St. Marys hospital after an appendicitis operation. Harris had been at Maryville. remains to Collinsville. funeral attendance noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Joseph Harris
Patrick McCarroll
St. Mary’s Hospital
Fast
St. Louis
Harris
Maryville
Collinsville
Burns and coal trade notes from 1905 Illinois
Prishtfully burned in Ford City Pennsylvania man uses Bucklen Arnica Salve claiming a quick cure. The Black Diamond coal paper lists 1905 national output at 367,474,393 tons with Illinois producing 36,475,060 tons. Eagle Pencil Co pens and ink available at Care Stationery. Try a Want ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Chicago
Ilinois
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Comeland
Lotrite
Troy City
John Deimling
Prop
W.F. Peter
Winson Shop
Theo. Guennewig
Troy
Sibil Sickert
Azores
Graham
Julius Peter
R UnionShop
Main St
S. D. Bland
Brewton
Mrugglata
Qwanescm
Dept
Lute Street
Dan
Peterman
Agt
J. F. Braun
Faith Cure Fame
Higkland
Journal of
Stokes
Hillsboro
EF. C. DeWitt & Co
Kingston
D. Schott
Doc
Kennedy
S. Kingston
Alice Roosevelt
Longworth
Ohio
Miss Roosevelt
House
J. Adam Bede
Minnesota
New England
New York
Cannon
Eagle Pencil Co
S. Pena
Care
Want
Pub. Eckert
Blickensderfer Typewriter
Epw
H. Kirin
A. F. Stricman
Hassinger Place
Wm. Sudhofef
H. T. Bahnsen
J. M. Bosomworth
Troy, Ill
I. W. Cook
E. H. Strorr- ER
Commercial Building
6Th & Olive
H. Klerinn
Sprat Shear Co
Randolph Street
Millett
Snow &Co
Washington, D. C
J. H. Stienhans & Son
Charles I. Stienhans
Ingersoll Dollar Watches
R. Snodgrass
L. W. Sondles
Kinloch
James E. Hindmarch
F. W. Braner
Market Street
F. E. Linder
Rieder Building
Postoffice
E.W. Ganders
Risser Residence
Kinloch 17
T. G. Schoece
Chicago Veterinary College
Wm. Kueker
Peterman Bldg
West Market Street
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