Neighbors Report Local News And Oddities
The Belleville clerk reports 568 dog licenses since May 1 and an estimated 1000 dogs in the city. East Alton farmers note a large peculiar fly destroying chinch bugs. A coal vein eight feet thick was struck at Paigley Illinois at 540 feet depth. Carlinville plans a cemetery association to find a new site. A Red Bud death by swallowing ink puzzles locals. Litchfield mine accident costs Morgan Jones his life as a rope breaks on a cage. The Red Bud Democrat mocks a hen owner with a strange fashion and crowing. A United Charities case in Wilkes-Barre presents a tiny boy weighing 10 pounds at age 8. The Long child stands 22 inches high and born to Jacob and Elizabeth Long with mother aged seven and father ninety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belleville
Alton
Paigley
Carlinville
Ovn
United Charities Organization
Wilkenbarre
Jacob
Elizabeth Long
Bunco Swindle Man Flannery Foils Townsfolk
A man named Flannery pretended to be a federal post office inspector and hobnobbed across western towns by dislocating his hip to claim damages from broken sidewalks. He sent a string of settlements, first in Wichita and then Guthrie, totaling 500 dollars, then vanished. He drifted toward Texas as the supposed king of the swindle, with his whereabouts currently unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flannery
Wichita
Kae
Federal Post Office
Guthrie
Okla
Texas
Barnum, Humbugging, and Honest Value in Advertising
Advertising ethics shine through a discussion of P T Barnum and his showmanship. The piece argues Barnum amused rather than humbugged, while consumers seek honest value for groceries and goods. It concludes Barnum is dead and buried, and people won’t tolerate deceit in advertising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P.T. Barnam
Blank’s
Barnum
Horne
Stolen Gems and Quips From a Bygone Paper
A garbled column of witticisms and social maxims critiques money status and manners. It contrasts greed with virtue, notes on brokers versus the broke, and jokes about fashion, marriage, and public life. The piece ends advertising wedding and party invitations from The Cat office with sample styles and low prices.
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Trus
Hood
Red Bud
Win
Hess
Litchfield
Morgan Jones
Menu
Rel Bud Democrat
Mergle
Dreas
Matagesa
Hoe
Business and Buyers’ Guide
F. W. Zanders
James N. Jarvis
Notary
F. F. Miller
C. E. Ritcher
Notary Public
Law
Central Hotel
Meiners
Lk. Hampton
Troy
WV. E.eter
Opera House
F. Kuntzmann
Robt. L. Dawson
Plasterer
City Livery Stable
Hack
Vandalia
Market Street
Droge
Main
Woman's Mutual Benefit Co
Joliet
B .Laurie
B. Dawson
Curbstone
Albert Reider
Prop
Farmers’ Exchange
Troy, Ill
Stienhans
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