Peoria Editors Have a Look at Peoria
A fragmented 1900s style report describes Illinois state institutions near Peoria with detailed figures on inmate counts, care buildings, and treatment. It covers eight hour day labor, tent colonies for consumptives, hospital systems, diet, staffing, and costs per inmate, plus road and bridge updates and highway commission activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Lap IR Tau
Owlttch Sre
A. N. Johnson
State Highway Commission
Johnson
Qarrt
Tive
Imive Leen
Tive Ponids
Ordinance Creating Troy Board of Local Improvements
Special Troy Illinois council meeting June 12 1907 pursues Ordinance No 65 to form a Board of Local Improvements and to fix a permanent city grade. Roll calls show five ayes to pass Ordinance No 75 and a resolution establishing central Troy grade with Sheppard Morgan to prepare plats within one hundred dollars. Adjournment follows after brief actions and petitions including tree cutting approval for S F Mendenall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
Ill
City of
Seligman
Elliott
Rall
Horsley
Snodgrass
Deimling
Cooper
Sheppard & Morgan
Edwardsville
F. W. Braner
Wn. J. Verrer
F. Mendenall
The Council Adjourns To June Seventeenth
City officials adjourned meeting until Monday June 17 with W F Braner as mayor and Wa J Verrer as city clerk. A letter praises George Parris of Cedar Grove Me for Electric Bitters curing liver and kidney trouble after prior failure, citing the “Magic No. 3” as a wonderful mascot. Also touts DeWitt’s Carbbolized Witch Hazel Salve for scratches burns cuts and bites sold by S Kingston. Try The Cata's Want Ad column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Parris
Cedar Grove
S. Kingston
DeWitt
DeWitt's
Also Mentioned on This Page
A. R. Snodgrass
Great Western Paint and Color Company
Hickory ST
L. W. Sondles & Son
G. A. Purviance & Son, Hack and Dray Line
Zenk
Hickory Street
Complete
Opera House
H. Schmacker
A. B.C
Kinloch
Public Square
F. EK. Linder
Market Street
Rieder
Postoffice
F. W. Zanders
Risser Residence
Kinloch 17
Flow. Braner
Pastofice
Kinloch 71
R. L. Dawson
Phisterer
Alfred Peats
Park Place
Snapwick
Hampton Building
Main Stroet
Jane Sallee
Litchfield, Ill
St. James Hotel
a+ wardsville
Moning
Jane Ae and
Tzeh
Basiress Direct
Washington
United States
Casnowe
Peoria
Wight
Institution
War Department
Planning School
Seven Mileway
Barnum's
Kleptomantiac
Timols and
Naye
Geneva Cross
Valnaire Ceutenants
Evervarny
Board of Charities
Worthe
Farth Road Drug
Stowe
Tlinots
Joliet Pen Stratey
Comiict Kbar
UM Linvls
Illinois
Wrckare
Hoosier
THE
Nee
Housten Karonen Cabine
Furnisiiggs
Jersey Farm Dairy
Frank A. Welte
Journal OF Council
Board of Local Deprovements
Cata’s
Coal Mining Law Journal
Coal Mining Law Pub. Go
Belleville
McLeon & Co's
Peterman Blig
Market St
J. W. McDaniels
Misses Braun & Miller
Braner
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