Menard County Newspaper Clippings

 

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News Articles

The Petersburg Military Band
The Markwell Familiy-5 Gens.
Oldest Veteran Congratulated--William Thomas Martin
Taking Down Colonel Rogers Place
 Menard Co Teachers Institute, 1890
3 Members of the Long Nine [Photo]
Picture of New Salem

 Celebrations

Henry Balster 90th Birthday
Mary Balster 82nd Birthday
Alice Baum 83rd Birthday
Alice Baum 84th Birthday
Mrs. Harold Smoot Wedding Reception
Mary Hohimer Watkins 91st B-day
Balster-King Wedding
White-Powers Wedding

Deaths & Disasters

Abner Feagans Accidental Death
Three Drown in the Sangamon
Barney Adams Stricken Down: Auto
Henry Luke Suicide Poisoning
Pvt. Harris Osborne Wounded
Henry Reitz Suicide Drowning
Herman Reitz Suicide Shooting
1903 Athens Mining Accident
1900 Athens Mine Fire
Murder of Maud Cooper-Mar. 1921
Marion Baum Train Death
Smallpox in Athens

 Lincoln-related News Items

Photo of Lincoln's Funeral Cortege
Lincoln During Civil War [Photo]
Lincoln's Old Home [Photo]
Lincoln's Dog [Photo]
Ann Rutledge
The Lincoln Home
Lincoln's Home in 1860
Woodcut Illus. of Lincoln's Home
Lincoln's Old Homestead
Sketch of Lincoln's Home
Lincoln's Tomb 1900

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