Bill to control rail stocks drawn up for General Assembly
Springfield March 26 Governor Deneen to handle the big stick plans a bill by John Oglesby through Senator Gardner to curb railroad stock and bond issuances by commission consent and cash par value. Hearings set. railroad officials to discuss pending bills with lawmakers. public concerns over itinerant drug vendors and school funding also noted.
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Springfield
Tdeneen
Washington
Roosevelt
State Railroad and Warehouse Commission
John
Oglesby
General Assembly
Utthois
Semitor Gardner
Appropriations Committee
Wall Street
Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Ritroad and Warehouse Commission
Deneen
Pebu Lee
Imnois
Senate
House Committees On Railroads
George B. Gillespie
Hamlin
Insomnia Cure Turns Surreal in Dreamlike Sleep Test
A reader recounts a bedtime tale after trying a peanut and milk cure. He falls asleep quickly but then experiences a string of absurd dream sequences with a dragon, a two headed ball, a windlass task, a time warped train, and a traveling clown lifting a tent before waking after nearly ten minutes of sleep.
Cost of Cotton Picking in 10,000, Mi-bale Crop
The article estimates 1,500,000 cotton pickers each gathering 100 pounds daily for 100 days to harvest a 10,000, Mi-bale crop. At 60 cents per hundredweight a bale costs 9 dollars, at 75 cents costs 11.25 dollars, giving an overall pickling cost range of about 90 to 112 million dollars. It also promotes DeWitt’s kidney pills and Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve sold by S. Kingston.
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Senate
McKenzie
House
Krape
Secretary of State
State Board of Health
DeWitt
Kingstom
PHACT AND PHUNC AND PHANCY IN A TOWN MARKET
A jumbled vignette shows a peddler touting novelty items such as invisible ear trumpets and a long distance telescope while a sharp housewife hesitates then asks to inspect two devices. A domestic humor piece follows with a tale of a man trapped in a hollow log during rain and a Swede’s joke about paying for goods. Local notices and quirky dialect anecdotes conclude the fragment.
Dentist Dr F E Linder Opens Troy Office
Dr F E Linder dentist maintains a Market Street office in the Rieder Building opposite the post office and is permanently located in Troy. Office hours run from 4 30 to 7 that morning and 1 30 to 5 pm with office phone 54 and residence 84.
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F. E. Linder
Market Street
Rieder
Postoffice
Persanently
Troy
F. W. Braner
Kinloch 71
Kodol Remedy Restores Ga. Machinist After Stomach Illness
In 1897 C N Cornell of Roding Ga faced a severe stomach disease. After four years on boiled milk soda biscuits and doctors' scripts he found relief taking a fifty cent bottle of Kodol For Dyspepsia. Within two months he returned to work and in three months was fully well. May you live long and prosper. Sample endorsement from 1906. Sold by S King aton.
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Georgia
C. N. Cornell
Roding, Ga
Kodol
S. Kingaton
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St. Charles School
House Committee On Appropriations
St. Charles
John G. Oglesby
State Board of Charities
Toto
Board of Trustees
Yates
Appropriations
Assembly
Anti-Saloon League
Railroads Committee
Adkins
Pratt County
Judge Lindly
Mrs Braun
Miller
Braner
S. Kingston
Phact, Phun and
Phancy
Arkansas
Alton
Yim Johnson
Yim Smith
Tom Jones
Bosa
Isa
Tom
Atwater
Erin
Pat
F. W. Zanders
Risser Residence
Kinloch 17
Carl Strover
Thos. R. Mould
Strover & Mould
Attorneys AT Law
Public Square
Belleville, Ill
K. L. Dawson
Alfred Pests
Park Plage
Shadwick & Neudecker
Hampton Bidg
Main St
June Sallee
Litchfield, Ill
St. James Hotel
Edwardsville
St. Louis
J. Allen
Ibson
Gibson
CMA
Klein- Lan Elpy Ible
Jrree
Nieve
F. A. Welte
Grocer
C.E_ McKITTIRACK
S.E. McKittrick McKittrick Bros
Opera House
H. Schmacker
Prop
A.B. OC
Kinloch
G. A. Purviance & Son
Hack and Dray Line
Hickory Street
Premer Sgevier
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