Court House Items Show Discharges and Property Transfers
Court records list final reports for Walter Sievers and Anna Koch estates, probates, and executor appointments. The Chouteau Namcoki Venice drainage district reports a balance after receipts and expenditures. Numerous deeds note property transfers in Collinsville, Glen Carbon, and surrounding areas, with names like Espenschied, Elliott, Kalbfleisch, and Hochweg. Marriage licenses issued to Wan Hadden and Katie Henning, Norman Graner and Lita McCaley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna M. Koch
L. H. Buckley
BE. C. Springer
Matthias Buchta
Chouteau
Namcoki
Venice
Rainage
Wan Hadden
Glen Carbon Katie Henning
Glen Carbon Norman Graner
Maro Lita McCaley
Ft. Russell
Secretary Shaw Trains Talk With Texas-Bound Student
On a Pullman trip from Aikins West Virginia Secretary Shaw met a Princeton prep school student traveling to Texas. The boy questioned Shaw about crops and policy, then received Shaw's card and learned the official title. The exchange ended with the boy joking that he thought Shaw was a farmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaw
Slatter
Washington
Aikins
W. Va
Pullman
Texas
Princeton
West
Byer
Treasury Department
Gas well fire doused by Bill Flaxham in Kansas town
A railroad passenger asks a Kansas native about local excitement. The native explains a gas well fire was extinguished by using Bill Flaxham as a sponge in the horse trough, then dumping him at the well mouth. The train then moves on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Bill Flaxham
Hoss
Darline
Haene
Fixing the Stars for the Navy Flag Union
A New York woman proposes a redesigned flag star layout to include Oklahoma, shifting from 45 to 46 stars. Her plan adds a top row of seven stars and a bottom row of seven, with four rows of eight in between, to achieve symmetry for the Bureau of Equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Equipment of
the Navy
New York
Oklahoma
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Praised for Skin Injuries
Tekonsha resident G. J. Welch credits Bucklen’s Arnica Salve with quick relief from skin injuries in his family. He calls it the quickest pile cure and best healing salve. Sold for 25 cents at S. Kingston’s drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. J. Welch
Tekonsha
Mich
Asaya
S. Kingston
Remembering a wedding anniversary and comic vignettes
A miscellany of light anecdotes and jokes follows a couple’s wedding anniversary remark, a boy’s quip about a sister, an Iowa physician’s insurance affidavit, a math puzzle about deaths and siblings, a three hour sermon on prophets, a high school anecdote with Washington, and a gossipy newspaper digression. A London Tit-Bits obituary note and a Wall Street arithmetic piece wrap the page.
Also Mentioned on This Page
L. W. Sondles & Son
Braun & Miller
Riebold’s
Sievers
A. J. Parkinson
John Leder
Bertha S. Kolb
Ilinois Central Ny. Co
Louis May
B. Metzger
Leclaire
P. H. Espenschied
C. A. Ernst
C. A Ernst
Jane A. Stillwell
T. J. Elliott
J. E. Schroeppe
Margaret Hanvey
Glencoe Place
Collinsville
J. E. Kalbfieisch
T. H
Meier
Union Trust & Savings Bank
Wm. Gregor
H. J. Purea
Nwf
Jvc
W. Sauer
H. M. W.n.verlin
Sauer
H. H. Look
Frank Higginbotham
Edgar
George Roth
Robert Droesch
Geo
Meeker & Kraft’s
Edwardsville
J. S. Hall
Marion Hall
Geo. Epstein
Ed Featt
Charity Coalson
Admr
McKinney
Admrd
Allen’s
New Douglas
Madison Coal Corporation
John Rice
Verena Kurt
Jacob Kurt
Trsd
Highland
Life Estates
Emeline T. Combs
J. H. Blum
Guernsey's
Dr. King
Kennedy Dry
Kingston, Druggs
Clare Brogsom
Troy
Ill
Phact, Phan
Phancy
Jewels
Judgment
Jeta
Joon
Chicago
Johnny
Iowa
Modern Woodman Society
Malachi
George Washington
United States
London
Wall Street
ST. Louis
Main
J. Allen
Prop
Nealsunttn
Ryan Sear
Eine Olano
Neal
Acme White Lead & Color Works
Detroit, Mich
H. F. Kueker & Son Lumber & Building Materials
Carl Strover
Thos. R. Mould
Strover & Mould
Attorneys AT Law
Public Square
Belleville
Tul
James N. Jarvis
F. W. Braner
Market Street
Kinloch
F. W. Zanders
Risser Residence
Kinloch 17
F. BE. Linder
Rieder
Postoffice
Cacr
Opera House
H. Schmacker
A. B.C
G. A. Purviance & Son, Hack and Dray Line
Zenk Stable
Hickory Street
Raneterm
C. EB
Nckittrick
McKittrick McKittrick Bros
Firat Olaga Turnonte
June Sallee
Litchfield, Ill
Fred
Western Hotel
St. James Hotel
Kennedy
Rounis
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