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W. T. & E. A. Rogers Company, manufacturers of wagons, is advertising their products and shops in Quincy, on the corner of Fourth and Oak streets.

An invitation from the Rhode Island Veteran Association to surviving 10th Regiment and 10th Battery members to attend an anniversary dinner at Boyden Heights.

A Second Presbyterian Church concert programme, including details of an event held "at the residence of A. J. Dunning, Wednesday evening, June 30th, 1880" in Springfield.

Details of Al Capone on his way to federal prison, when he told newspaper reporters that he is, "a wet." The producer of this article, Signal Press, is located in Evanston.

A request for people to join "An Organization of Gentiles" to "save America from the wave of anti-Semitic persecution which is afflicting parts of Europe."

A Waukegan Centennial Pioneer Belles certificate marking the celebration of the one hundredth birthday of Waukegan. The certificate, which includes details of duties surrounding the celebration, is to be signed by new members of the Pioneer Belles.

An advertisement promoting Dr. Miller's Hog Nose-Cutter, on sale for $1.00 at 1926 Fifth Ave., Rock Island.

An article titled, "Extra," from "The Journal" in Springfield, announces with "great pleasure" that Gen. John A. Logan was elected to the U.S. Senate. Logan was a veteran of the Mexican-American War, a general in the American Civil War, a member of…

Charles Higgins, wanted for murder by the City of Chicago Police, Frederick Ebersold, Superintendent of Police.

Illinois Soldiers' College and Military Academy in Chicago advertising its first session, September 15, 1866. Initially opened as a military academy in 1861, the Illinois Soldiers' College was organized in 1866 to help disabled Illinois veterans…