Smallpox Warning Urges Illinois Health Action
A October 15 bulletin from the Illinois State Board of Health urges local authorities to enforce vaccination and strict quarantine to prevent a virulent smallpox epidemic. It cites recent outbreaks, economic disruption, and lessons from 1900s, urging hospitals, factories, and schools to require evidence of vaccination and to isolate suspected cases.
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Ilinois
State Board of Health
Springfield
James A. Egan
Illinois
Chicago
Penna Lines May Merge in Western Rail Networks
Terre Haute dispatch October 22 reports Pennsylvania Railroad plans a merger of western lines including Terre Haute and Indianapolis Vandalia system routes. A special stockholder meeting is set for December 15 in Greenville Illinois to approve the plan. The deal may exclude Terre Haute and Peoria divisions, signaling Rock Island interest in Peoria.
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Terre Haute
Pennsylvania Railroad
S. B. Liggett
Pennsylvania
St. Louis, Vandalia & Terre Haute
Greenville
Westerno
Terre Haute & Indianapolis
Terra Haute & Logansport
Logansport & Toledo
Toledo
Indianapolis
Vincennea
Pennsylvania Company
Pittsburg
Terre Haute & Peoria
Peoria
Rock Island
Saved Two from Death by Dr King’s New Discovery
Mrs W K Hayl of Armonk NY describes using Dr King's New Discovery to save her daughter from a near fatal whooping cough and bronchitis after other remedies failed. Her niece with advanced consumption also recovered. Desperate throat and lung diseases yield to this medicine, claimed infallible for coughs and colds. Trial bottles free.
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W. K. Hayland
Armonk
N. Y
Earth
S. Kingaton
Social and Personal Notes on Relatives and Friends
Pominsgs and Goings of Relatives Friends and Strangers highlight birthdays dinners dances and visits across Troy and nearby towns. Mrs Williamson celebrated her sixty fourth birthday with neighbors while Nellie Giger hosted a lunch party at Pin Oak township. Numerous social gatherings at Starlight Dancing Club Rieder's Opera House and dinners at the homes of the Wylanders Throp Wilke and others are noted along with World’s Fair visits and travel between Troy St Louis Collinsville Mendon and Greenup.
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Utr
Robert Williamson
Clay Street
Pin Oak Township
Anna Helmich
Laura Anderson
Edna Smith
Julia Bress
Lydia Helmich
Olivia Smart
Sally Anderson
Irene Smith
Anna Bress
Mary Smart
Leonard Wetzel
Clarence Anderson
Louis Smith
Edward Helmich
Richard Schmatz
Jessie Anderson
Fred Smith
August Peters
Peter
Anton Wilke
Henry
Wolbring
Emerson
Nebraska
Charles Wilke
Charles Wilke, Jr
William
Minnie Wilke
Louis Hausmann
Fred Steinmeyer
Samuel J. Throp
Big Rapids
Mich
Troy
Throp
Nisbett
F. Wylanders
William Sculley
St. Louis
Bob’ Henderson
Mora
Emil Croil
Emil
M. Davison
Wm. Hampe
B. Jarvis
Greenup
John Harrington
Marine
John F. Jorvia
John Schwalm
Mrs Glass
Pocahontas
Fred Hamie
Annie
Birdie Henderson
Mendon
Bessie G. Davy
Win, H. Wild
White Hall Orphans Home lecture aids child saving work
Rev. J N Dewell superintendent of White Hall Orphans Home spoke at M E church in Troy to promote the society now hosting about fifteen Illinois children aged one to twelve. The home offers free placement and care with no charges to adoptive families, and has placed several children in Troy homes with good results.
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J. N. Dewell
White Hall
Lil
Troy
M. E. Church
Illinois
Dewell
Temperance and social notices from church groups
Church and society items from a 1902 newspaper discuss upcoming meetings at the Presbyterian church with Epworth League supper on November 4, a YWCTU booth, and a temperance lecture by Eunice C. Cusick. Also includes testimonials for Ballard's Snow Liniment, a public sale notice near Troy, and local notices from Mentor Lodge and a merchant ad for Rocky Mountain Tea and school supplies.
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Merry Workers Society
Margaret Rawson
Epworth League
Presbyterian Church
Baptist Church
Misa Eunice C. Cusick
Greenville
Misa Cusick
Court items from October term adjourned until after election
Circuit and Probate Court notes list indictments for assault with intent to rape burglary and larceny and various circuit court dispositions. Cases include divorce, false imprisonment, assumpsit, partition and foreclosure actions with judgments and continuances. A long docket covers criminal and chancery actions with several venue changes and a few not true bills.
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Circuit Court
B. R. Burroughs
Frank Crawford
Samuel Kaplan
Robert Lane
James
Clarence Connell
Walter Evans
Wm. Lyonna
Jos
Mazieky
Camillo Molinar
John Gudat
Paul
Annie Bush
John Meehan
W.S. Combs
John Wendler
John Redmond
William Halley
Daniel Halley
W. Doty
Ollie D. Doty
John S. Carter
George M. Webber
Wm. Kastien
Adolph Kastien
Charles J. C. Fischer
W. H. Morgan
Wm. E. Guy
Bridget Maloney
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Board of Health Issues
Berrymore
Chicago Chronicle
Penna Lines
Greenyilly
C. F. Risser
R. A. Woodward
Herman Metz
Collinsville
W. N. Johnson
San Diego
Cai
Riley Edwards
Beaver Creek
J. E. Matsey
A. H. Krause
White Hall Orphans’ Home
J. N.dewell
Church and Society
J. W. Davenport
Wingo
Ballard
S. Kingston
B. C. Horton
Sulphur Springs
Texas
E. D. Joseph
St. Jacob Road
N. B
Cau
Mentor Lodge No. 165
K. of P
L. F
Kurts
R, Horszey
A. R
Snodgrass
NEW Circuit Court
Maggie Butousky
Matthias Butousky
Oratrix
John
Law
Otto Gossrau
Nolle Pros
Frank Freese
Joseph Graham
William Boals
Gustina Simkova
Victor Schuler
James Riley
Charles Fielding
Eugene Wahl
Joseph Grennen
Lee Wagner
George Cella
David Nelson
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