Labor Day celebration and city plans across Illinois
Staunton marks Labor Day September 2 in style. Duquoin reopens waterworks debate at spring city election. Vandalia Odd Fellows meet Greenville April 26. Wabash spends 500000 on platform and yard upgrades between East St. Louis and Bement. Beardstown hosts first annual picnic June 22 as Odd Fellows lodge assembly grows. Belleville shoemakers unionize amid local labor push. Sawyer manufacturing moves from St. Louis to Edwardsville with bonus. Bloomington builds a brick steel coliseum for 5000 seats at 20000 dollars. Chicago elevates twenty miles of tracks at eight million dollars, creating 250000 jobs and removing dangerous grade crossings. A fan asks about carload contents and explains the quantities. A cynical tonic on wealth urges ruthless gain and warns of divine retribution.
Fractured quotes and slang from a busy early edition
A jumbled collection of jokes slang and anecdotes from a historic paper page. Figures include Miss Lizzie Colt a Washington belle and a jokey tale about Xerxes X for short and Eleven after an accident. The notes mix humorous lines with mock obituaries letters and stray anecdotes.
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Lizzie Colt
Washington
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Bement
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Belleville
Sawyer Manufacturing Company
St. Louis
Edwardsville
Bloomington
Chicago
Chester Clarion
RECO
PHACT
Phan
Phancy
Cincinnati
Fredericktown
Italy
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Illinois
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Xeres
Col. Ingersoll
Kentucky
Greenup Co
Cadwell
Biznes
Owen
Louisa
John
Marla
Gilead
Sarah
Theo. Guennew
Main & Market Sts
Troy, i
WM. Meiners
F. L. Hampton
Practical
Main Street
Baptist Church
H. E. Brown
Meiner
Baird
A, Baird
Accomodations
Troy
Troy City
John Deimling
Corner Market
Hickory Streets
Pwell
Una
Nereo
Clay ST
J. W. Gornet
ECDI
Troy Exchange Bank
W. W. Jarvis
J Vester
Agamelit Qobinsville
Matt
VY sTe
Tro
Duce
Fred Kuntzmann
WM. F. Peter
City
Eliot
Copyriants &c
INN & Co
J. IM
Odd Fellows’ Building
Main
M. F. Allwarter
L. E. Rawson
Jefferson Ave
St. Lois
F. W. Zanders
Phil, Eckert
Wes
WM. Ham PE
Tinner
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