Previous century questions loom as new year nears
The column reflects on upcoming events and political shifts in Illinois as the century turns. It notes the presidential electors meeting in Springfield choosing McKinley and Hobart, with F. M. Biount as messenger to Washington, and comments on local races in Harrisburg Chronicle. A romantic tale from Ruma ends with two elderly lovers buried together after a groom’s absence.
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Illinois
Springfield
McKinley
Hobart
F. M. Biount
Washington
Nonchalant Century Foresight Cited Amid Odd Cow Tale
The piece lampoons late century fears and mortgages while recounting a Hemington New York cow story that supposedly swallowed a hardware store’s contents. The tale resembles a Bob Burdette joke about misread feed mixups and lumber items tumbling from the cow.
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Hemington
Acarce
Letter of a True and Loving Wife and Local Sermon
A composite item highlights Richard Yates as a famed orator who drank at the shrine of Bacchus and the anecdote of his pledge. It reports on a Trenton Sun editorial urging home-first buying in 1897, condemning spending in St Louis and hoarding money, urging circulation to boost local employment and prosperity.
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Trenton
Home Merchants
St. Louis
Remarkable 85-year-old aims to reverse aging in Illinois
A Kankakee County man named John Adam, at eighty five winters, claims to reverse nature and become a boy again. Once bald and toothless, he now has a full head of hair, five teeth, sharp sight, and is as spry as a forty year old. He hopes to keep regressing toward youth.
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Adam
John ‘Adam
Kankakee County
McCray-Dewey Academy A Call for Local Support
The McCray-Dewey Academy seeks community backing and describes its mission to educate city youth at no cost beyond textbooks. Residents within Troy’s school district may attend until age twenty six by presenting a public school graduation certificate or passing required exams. The piece defends the academy’s varied curriculum, notes productive fall term classes, and invites parental visits to observe methods, promising graduates who are mentally disciplined and morally cultured. W. W. Enwands.
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McCray-Dewey Academy
Troy
Mather
W.W
Worthington editor hails Electric Bitters for health
Worthington Indiana editor Morrison of the Sun writes of Electric Bitters as a valuable prescription. He claims it cured consumption and severe headaches and improved general health. A reader, Mrs Annie Stebie of Cottage Grove Chicago, reports fatigue and poor appetite improved after use.
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Morrison
Worthington
Ind
Sun
Annie Stebie
Cottage Grove
Ave
Chicago
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Ser
J. W. Jarvis
Ilinois
W. W. Edwards
McCray Dewey Academy
Harriesburgh Chronicle
Saline County
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Ruma
Red Bud
Monroe Skidmore
Altgeld
Gov. Tanner
Altgost
Ms ‘Inley
Canton
Richard Yates
Bacchus
Congressional Temperance Society
Capitol
Washington, D. C
Schuyler Colfax
Henry Wilson
Wm. E. Dodge
J. W. Patterson
Alwéroyd
Katix
Hardy
United States
Round Oak
Gebauer Bros
Gree
ELATS
Seioes
A. Heddergott
West Clay St
Troy, Ill
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