Various Macomb News and Local Notes
Macomb city council plans to buy eight 1000 dollar chemical fire engines. Staunton and Canton report crime and commerce activity. Peoria to start a piano factory employing 700. Charleston post office to be housed in Moses County courthouse. Pekin voters rejected waterworks expansion. Clinton Register notes 174 families moved in. A mill fire at Astley with 10000 bushels wheat destroyed, loss about 100000. Mt Vernon denied a smallpox epidemic rumor. Carbondale seeks 13000 for quarantine expenses. Over 2800 mules sold to England for South Africa campaign. Bloodhounds farm proposed by a Kankakee man. Unknown man found dead near Smithboro. inquest in Greenville. Advert: Boschee's German Syrup for throat and lung troubles. Irish joke about bicycle price. Electric Bitters praised by a Philadelphia sufferer. Dressmaking school ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pekin
Clinton Register
Astley
Mt. Vernon
Carbondale
Jackson County
National Stock Yards
East St Louis
South Africa
Permits and real estate transfers filed in Troy notices
Records show Margaret E Mize administering to John W Garnet for lot transfer in J G Jarvis Add Troy and two transfers from Jacob Bohnenstiehl to Leonhardt Schildknecht. City of Troy buys a $1025 combined fire engine. local notices promote Kings Kingston remedies and a sewing machine sale. rewards offered for a wagon incident.
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Margaret E. Mize
John W. Garnet
J. G. Jarvis
Add
Troy
Jacob Bohnenstichl
Leonhardt Schildknecht
Jacob Bohnenstiehl
Leonhardt Schildknech
Same
Grinding at the mill across Mexico today
The Call notes how biblical two women at a mill resemble Mexican women grinding corn to make tortillas. It describes soaking corn, spreading on a flat matate, crushing into paste, patting into cakes, and baking on a stone to a rubbery finish, drawing a parallel to ancient Palestine.
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Palestine
Mexico
Dark Fruit Cake Recipe Fragment
A recipe fragment lists ingredients for dark fruit cake including butter brown sugar raisins currants citron molasses eggs milk flour soda mace cloves allspice cinnamon lemon extract. Instructions mention mixing dry ingredients, sifting baking powder and spices with flour, softening butter, adding sugar, then eggs and the liquid with the flour mixture.
A Sure Cure for Croup by Twenty-Five Years Use
A claim that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy prevents croup if given at the first hoarseness or when the croup cough appears. Appeals to widespread use in homes and asserts twenty-five years of failure-free results. Sold by S. Kingston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
Kingston, Drugwyist
Dbuckien
Kingston
S. Kingston
Mail Closures After March 27 1899 Notice
Notice announces post office mail closures after March 27 1899 until further notice. It lists separate deadlines for the West and East and for combined East and West routes, with times around 6:45 AM 12:49 PM 8:45 AM and 6:00 PM.
Vandalia Line Time Table Bulletin
Rail timetable for Vandalia line lists trains such as No 9 Vandalia Accom daily at 7 14 a m and 8 45 Indp l s Accom daily 3 40 p m No 8 Indianapolis Mail daily 9 15 a m with other services Local Freight daily except Sunday 4 10 p m and Vandalia Accom daily 6 28 p m. For full time card and rates contact G L Elliott agent Troy Illinois or J M Cuesbrough Asst G P A St Louis Mo.
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Vandalia Accom
Ind’p’l’s
Sun
Indianapolis Mail
Ind’p’lls
Vandalia
Acc
G. L. Elliott
Troy
Inlinois
Also Mentioned on This Page
General News
Macomb
Staunton, CO
Canton
Peoria
Charleston
Moses County Court House
Kankakee
Smithboro
Greenville
Boschee
Tia
John Oliver
Philadelphia
Recorder’s
Behind the Times
Bunker Hill
Alr
Times
Eore
K.of P
EO. R
Maria Smith
Seriulize
Nameoki T
Thomas T. Ramey
Edwardaville
Martha A. Sherman
Herman Ranken
Woodriver
Mary H. Albers
Fort Russell Obert
Ener
Arvis Borace L. Metcalfe
St. Louis
Annie Mary Cook
Hardpeed Newport
J. Morgan Sims
Enola Collinsville
Ilson
Anton Dubach
Maude Williams
Edwardsvile
Louis Becker
Louise Hug
Euse Mane
Helvetia
Joseph Kapp
Julia Dubach
St. Jacob R
Will
Stewart Drug CO
Carmi, Ill
Postoffice
Intelligen
Alexander
Misa Rose Bull
W. P. Case
Philip Dahte
Wm Kleinsmid
James A. Pinneo
John B. Rex
M. Rachen
Miseelene VanGundy
Dom Witt
Jim
M. W. Powell, P. M
Vandalia Line
Giffen & Giffen
Watth
Rockwell and Fillmore Std
Tee Son
Atents
Scientific American
Seroreecwes
New York
Washington
Haan Gomd Calman
Union Bargain
Union Bargain Store
Joseph Kiesel
Paul Hochman
Gur
Ishes
Appy
J.w.gornet
Clay Street Merchant
A. Heddergott
West Clay Street
George Eiebler
General Merchant
South Main Street
God
Werner Company
Dkxon
Ohio
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