Work of the Legislature in Illinois After Four Month Session
After a four month session the Forty-fifth Illinois General Assembly passed key measures including Chicago Charter provisions, local option for cities, drainage reforms, and insurance changes. Major items covered charities funding, labor reform, railroad regulation, and a large state appropriation exceeding 20 million. The charter centerpieces create a city park commission, redistricting, a smaller board of education, and new ward-based alderman seats.
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Springfield
Forty-fifth
General Assembly
Chicago
Charities Fund
Board of Education
Quote on cow feeding and profit by Prof. D H Oris
The passage argues that a cow consuming more than her share leads to wasted excess. It states a man feeding at 70 percent can only expect about ten percent profit. It calls this fast economy the worst form of extravagance, attributing the view to Prof. D H Oris.
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Prof
D, H, Oris
Doan’s Kidney Pills and Other Classic Remedies Ad Featured
A montage of 1920s era household remedies is cited, including Doan’s Kidney Pills praised by James R. Keeler of Fenner St Cazenovia MN, plus product plugs for Doan’s, Putnam Face Less Dyes, Garfield Tale laxative, Lewis’ cigars and assorted quips.
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James R. Keeler
Fenner St
Cazenovia
Dean
What Made Him Doubtful Gipalt Hat Sparks Doubtful View
A Philadelphia Ledger item recounts commuters on the D L W line discussing Hawkins of Stamford. Despite knowing him for over two decades, one commuter doubts his character due to his gipalt hat, provoking a light, humorous exchange. The dialogue highlights how appearance shapes judgments even among long acquaintances.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Cuticura Heals Eczema in Baby and Everyday Remedies
A mother recounts her baby's eczema worsening until Cuticura Soap and Ointment brought relief after other doctors failed. The note claims a $1.25 total cost for one soap cake and two ointment boxes. Also includes brief, disparate magazine items on starch, a blind whist player, Garfield Tea, and light humor.
Danger and Distinction in a Rocky Cards Game
In a mining camp in the Rockies a player’s partner signals a pair with two fingers and a rival slashes off the fingers with a dirk. The reader notes the brutal moment amid tales of risk and luck in frontier gaming. A parade of consumer pitches follows, touting Defiance Starch and chemical-free, safe finishing for fine fabrics, plus bold ads for nerve remedies and a quiet wedding as a curtain raiser.
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Rockies
Still Normandy's Heroine on a Rouen postcard
A Rouen shopkeeper offers a postcard showing a modern French heroine resembling Joan of Arc. The figure appears in a pose spinning near Domremy’s thatched cottage, linking contemporary tourism to a historic memory of France.
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Normandy
Rouen
Joan. of Arc
Domremy
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Claims Cure and Guarantee
An old advertisement offers a one thousand dollar reward for a catarrh cure Hall's Catarrh Cure is promoted as a internal remedy that acts on the blood and mucus surfaces. The text notes a testimonial of five years and promises the cure with a price of 75 cents per bottle. It also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
F.J. Cheney
Hall
Peat Fuel Invention Claimed By Swedish Inventor
H Ekelund of Jonkoping Sweden claims a new peat fuel method turning peat into powder to heat steel furnaces without coal. The notice notes connection to Lewis' Single Binder cigar ad and Peoria factory lore, with spring poem references.
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Lewis
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
H. Ekelund
Jonkoping
Sweden
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AWS
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Insurance Department
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Hfe
Lloyds
Senate
Vicksburg
I. Cc
University of Iinois
University of Illinois
University of Dividla
Lincoln Homestead
Court of Vlatms
Supreme Court Lundin
Shawneetown
Jacob W. Wilkin
T. and
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
George Eliot
Putnam
Washington
Harper's
Cutiura
Bert Trim
Woonsocket
R. L
Trim
Reginald
Hess
Atego
New York
Bears
Castoria
the Centaur Company
CITT
London
St. Vitus
Canadian West
Ottawa
Canada
J. S. Crawford
W. Nints Street
Kansas City
Missouri
C. J. Broughton
Quincy Building
Ilinois
Thane
Samuele
McReshon & Modkins
M.G. Filton
Tartarnithine Co
Carters
Hicks
Woison E. Colema Futone Attor PA
Waslington
Alview Free
Vermaslow
Thomson
N. K
Beoditeo
LA Creol
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