This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Local notes on weather, events and births in town
Brief items recount fall weather, cider season, souvenirs at Tur Rack et al.. threshing progress, local repairs, upcoming football outlook and post cards. Anecdotes include a birth, a reunion of the 117th Illinois Infantry, new homes in Hazelwood Place, a marriage license in St. Louis, and road to civic improvements such as a proposed amusement park near Collinsville and the McKinley high school cornerstone ceremony with a 2000-child parade. Also notes on oil prospects, a car collision improving a patient, and the new Collinsville opera house nearing opening.
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Tur
M. Roberts
Kiesel
John Fischer
117Th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
O'Fallon
L. W. Sandles
Hazelwood Place
Racker
Fred Meier
Charles Blythe
Lena Hellmich
Maryville
St. Louis
McCray-Dewey Academy
Charles Wendler
Fred Remke
Henry Holtgrieve
Glen Carbon
C. E. Krueger
St. Paul’s
James Lamb
Worden
Alice Lyles
North Seventeenth Street
Fred S. Edwards
Fred P. Kinder
Cook
Philip Lauth
Collinsville
Troy
Edward Harrison
Charleston Crude Oil Co
Dickman Farm
Peters Station
Edwardsville
Louis Bour
McKinley
Granite City
Stanley Stock Company
L. A. Richardson
Marine
Theros Charpolas
Staunton
Charpolas
Quail
J. P. Worden
Stelzer
Fred Campbell
Brookside
East St. Louis
Campbell
J. J. Brown