Illinois wins gold for best agricultural exhibit at Charleston Exposition
A collage of brief notes mentions Illinois taking top honors at the Charleston Exposition for agricultural and horticultural display, civic observations of flag day on June 14, and various local curiosities from ice mining in Arizona to a naval review near Spit Head and King Edward's coronation.
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Illinois
Crowninshield
Mediterranean
Spit Head
Edward
The Never Sweat Club Drove Trade From Local Shops
The Bunker Hill News warns that chronic loafers harm small towns by crowding shops and scaring away customers. It notes that passersby see the loiterers and decide not to enter, reducing purchases and driving away patrons, especially women who avoid such hostile environments.
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Bunker Hill
Design for Louisiana Purchase Exposition Electricity Building
Walker and Kimball of Boston and Omaha crafted the Electricity building for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. It spans 650 by 525 feet on 7.57 acres facing the main lagoon, featuring bold Corinthian columns, pediments, towers, and four main entrances with loggias. The plan prioritizes 350,000 square feet of floor space plus a sweeping balcony adding 100,000 square feet, with electricity set to play a prominent role aligned with Chicago 1893 progress.
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Walker & Kimball
Boston
Omaha
Central Avenue
Buffalo
Chicago
Washington Notes on Senate Bills and White House Events
A regular Washington dispatch reports the Senate passing the Lodge Philippine bill 48 to 30 and outlines the Nicaraguan canal bill as unfinished business. It notes naval appropriation changes, anti anarchist House plans, forest reserve transfer debates, fur seal protections, Cuban reciprocity, sugar duty changes, and Michael Herbert as Pauncefote successor. Mrs. Roosevelt departs for Oyster Bay with children, returning after Congress adjourns.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Hale
Committee On Naval Affairs
Pacific
Secretary of the Navy
House of Representatives
House
Conference Committee
Department of the Interior
Department of Agriculture
Secretary of the Interior
Bureau of Forestry
Department
Civil Service
Tawney
Committee On Ways and Means
Alaska
Great Britain
Bhut
Henry W. Elliott
Elliott
White House
Dietrich
Nebraska
Cuba
American Sugar Refining Company
State Department
Lord Pauncefote
Michael Henry Herbert
Paris
France
Herbert
Vanderbilt
Washington
Legation
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Congress
Illinois State News Roundup Highlights State Factoids
Springfield’s public school fund tops 16 000 dollars and Belleville posts 118 267 in municipal appropriations. Breese begins a 5700 dollar public school building. Central Illinois dominates broom corn output. Carlyle pioneer Frederick Bethye dies at 72. Chicago to build a 16 000 hp electric plant costing 6 million. Judge Alfred Sample dies in Bloomington after a year’s illness. Turnpike toll gate between Belleville and East St Louis abolished. road opened to public. John F Jewell named by Roosevelt to succeed the late Consul Prentis in St Pierre disaster. DeKalb County issues a 290 bounty on wolves. 10 for old, 5 for young. East St Louis Gas Co sold for 400 000, ownership to easterns, plant to expand. Decatur furniture factory to resume, 200–300 men. focus on doors and windows. May cattle inspection at East St Louis yards: quarantined 41, zero in yards, slaughtered 41, post mortem 41.
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Belleville
Breese
United States
Illinois
Frederick Bethye
Carlyle
Chicago
Alfred Sample
Bloomington
East St. Louis
John F. Jewell
Galena
Roosevelt
Consul Prentis
St. Pierre
Martinique
DeKalb County
How to Avoid Trouble with a Colic Remedy
Advice urges families to buy Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy now. It claims the medicine is essential for bowel complaints in children and adults and could prevent midnight trips to town. Sold by Kingston druggist at 8 King Street.
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Kingston
White's Cream Vermifuge for infants advertised tonic
Extreme heat strains baby digestion so the ad promotes White's Cream Vermifuge as a children's tonic to stimulate digestion and build strength. It claims quick, lasting health gains and notes 23 cents at S Kingston's. It also touts Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for biliousness to cleanse the stomach regulate liver and bowels with quick cure, sold by S Kingston druggist. The Weekly Call subscription is $1.00 per year with Lesethas 2 cents a week.
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S. Kingston’s
Chamberlain
S. Kingston
Marty for Money: Boston Man’s Wife Recovered Health
A Boston man who recently married a gravely ill young woman is delighted by her cure with Dr King’s New Life Pills. The remedy, praised as infallible for jaundice malaria fever and liver and stomach troubles, is sold for 25 cents at Kingston’s drug store.
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Boston
King
Kingston
Terrible Explosion Cited in Local Gas Stove Fire
A report quotes N EB Palmer of Kirkman Iowa describing a severe burn from a gasoline stove on a lady. Doctors failed, but Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured the sore. The ad claims the salve treats corns boils bruises and other ailments, sold at St Kingston's for 25 cents.
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Palmer
Kirkman
Bucklen
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Troy
Kinloch
THE
Atchinson Globe
Arizona
Yates
Wisconsin
Leference van
St. Louis
Beneca
Illinois State News
Springfield
Lesethas
Bane
Yaya
PMA
Fuchter
Chris. Busse
Arthphone
W. W. Jarvis
Jarvis
Troy Exchange Bank
Marty
Héttecke
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