Illinois and nearby towns in brief news roundup
Various local items report the Mascoutah electric light company offering to sell to the city for 10000 dollars, postmaster appointments in Edwardsville and Upper Alton, J M Weber acquiring control of Litchfield papers, Bohemians origins, death of N D Ricks of Taylorville in Los Angeles, Colorado leading gold production, two long-lived county poor house residents, legal actions over a Belleville mortgage, Allen Ferris fined for out of season quail, a St Louis chicory venture at Odin, Belleville counterfeit silver dollars, Sunday restaurant closures affecting church attendance, sparrow hunting methods in McLean county, sparrow bounty fraud in Olney.
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Allen Ferris
Christian County
Ill
Quail
Ferris
Chicago
St. Louis
Oddball Iowa to Kentucky Tales and Law Laughs
A jumble of humorous clippings covers eight bachelors and twenty five old maids in Okawville, a Chinaman chewing red pepper, a Boston breach of promise suit with the husband as witness, and a Hartford hearse misdescribed as a hat. A trial in Shoeburyness tests armor, with a sharp East coast lawyer and poultry oath. Indiana barn grows skyward due to willow posts, becoming a two story home as farmers trim costs.
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Boston
Hartford
Iowa
Shoeburyness
England
Kentucky
Indiana
Feslee
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A. . Keeler
Thos. M. Crossman
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Upper Alton
Willard Gillham
J. M. Weber
J. F. Murphy
Litchfield Daily News
Weekly
News-Register
Italy
Bohemia
N.D. Ricks
Taylorville, Ill
Los Angeles
Cal
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Colorado
Klondike
Union
California
St. Clair County
Andrew Johnson
James Edwards
Hugo E. Wangelin
Belleville
Council
Henry S. Ames
Recorder’s Office
Ames
Elsah
Illinois Central
Ilinois
Odin
Carterville
Hillsboro News
McLean County
Olney
Phaot, T, Phon ‘and
Phancy
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Gebauer Bros
Market Street
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John Climling
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Urs
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Main Street
Fred Kuntzmann
WM. F. Peter
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H. E. Brown
Meiner
J. HL Stienhans
WM. J. Vetter
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Clay St
J. W. Gornet
J. M. Hawley
William Goalby
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M. F. Allwarter
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