Efforts to buy a site for new cemetery in Sorento
Community notes show Sorento forming a committee to purchase land for a new cemetery. Other items report White Hall lighting costs, Peoria to Pekin electric road work planned, bond refinancing in Lebanon, a Jacksonville stock yard project, and various local incidents and happenings from farms to storms and legal cases.
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White Hall
Peoria
Pekin
Lebanon
Jacksonville
Elijah Hartline
Cobden
All Sorts of Reflections on Love and Morality
A compact, era voice meditation on love, jealousy, and moral law. The text muses that love stirs action while pride misleads, and that God and poetry shape thought beyond mere geometry. It contrasts genuine thought with worldly ideas and notes how style can betray meaning.
A Few Sayings About Life and Marriage
A collection of wry maxims on luck, marriage, love, and social norms. It jokes that gamblers enjoy life when grounded, wives can sting by reading old love letters, and true affinity often appears only after marriage. A diplomat may lie with a straight face, while singles seek marriage as ambition.
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Mwan
Ingenious Inventions for Everyday Fixes
List of humorous, imaginary devices to improve daily life. A bike lamp that stays bright a book shelf that won’t fall a ice pick for breaking ice an angler scales that lie for the fisherman a servant’s alarm clock that won’t wake the family a safety catch for passengers an elevator an automatic peach basket to lift peaches a piano that sounds identical to neighbors a palatable health food kids will eat willingly an adjustable ring for summer engagements an ambulance surgeon who can tell drunkenness from a fracture skull.
Wanted Items Reflect a Soldier’s Wounds and Dreams
A fragmented lament lists surreal wants like suspenders for promises and a barber to shave the earth. It contrasts desires for poets, dentists of sea horses, and a pen for inky darkness with a critique that many seek victory without sacrifice.
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Thos. Harrison
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Illinois
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Greenville
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Carlyle
Clinton County Court
Ramsey Bank
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Geo. Kreitner
Belleville
St. Clair County
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Breese
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Mississippi
Okaw
Ths Place
Carbondale
Makanda J
Troy City
John Deimling
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Market and
Hickory Streets
Troy
Fred Kuntzmann
Baker ‘and Confectioner
WM. F. Peter
City Barber Shop
Phil. Eckert
Graham Flonr
Saale
Highland Marble Works
PRUE
Europe
L. ZL. Eckert
Dental Hotel
WM Meiners
Nishes
L. E. Rawson
Jeffrson Ave
St. Louis
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Sbilliard Hall
Main & Market Sts
Troy, Il
Baird
URS
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J. H. Stienhans
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W. Clay Street
Troy Exchange Bank
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Broadway
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Towanda
N.Y
Chamberlain
Kingston
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Williar
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