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Various Local News Items From Belleville and Vicinity
The report covers multiple notices including schools closed for grip and diphtheria, a Freeport clerk appointment, a Belleville cotton mill interest, a buried treasure search near New Athens, crop damage from wild geese near Nashville, and flooding of the Kaskaskia river. It also notes an upcoming St Clair County Teachers Association meeting in Belleville, coal mining updates at New Baden, deaths from mining and household causes, a Colorado ex governor's death tied to Greenville, and multiple health and municipal notes from central Illinois.
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O'Fallon
Belleville
Geo. Wunderlich
New Athens
Nashville
Kaskaskia
St. Clair
New Baden
J. A. Cooper
Colorado
Denver
Greenville
Lincoln
Centralia
Ilinois Central Railroad
Quincy
Hampton Wall
Staunton
State Board of Agriculture
W.C. Garrard
B. N. Brainer
Falling Springs
St. Clair County
Bordeaux
Trenton Sun