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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
QUINCY, IL (MARKET WIRE) Mercantile Bancorp, Inc. (AMEX: MBR) announced today it has received regulatory approval to combine its two Missouri-chartered banks, Perry State Bank, with HNB National Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of HNB Financial Services, Inc., all entities wholly owned by Mercantile. As of this date, Perry State Bank's five facilities are now HNB National Bank locations. Remaining operational...
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
I took this photo on a cloudy Springtime evening after work one day, in April of 2007. This is the Amtrak Illinois Zephyr regional passenger train enroute to Quincy Illinois. The train is seen here slowing down for the upcoming station stop in west suburban La Grange Illinois, at the Amtrak / Metra La Grange Road commuter rail station. This photo was taken just east of the Maple Avenue railroad crossing,...
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
I took this photo in west suburban Riverside Illinois on the 4th of July week, 2008. The former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad station, is now decorated for the upcoming American Independence Day holiday.
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
QUINCY, IL (MARKET WIRE) Mercantile Bancorp, Inc. (AMEX: MBR) announced today that its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of 6 cents per share The dividend is payable September 16, 2008 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 2.
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VirtueOnline (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
QUINCY: Diocese offers 'resource' for making realignment decisions By Joe Bjordal and Mary Frances Schjonberg, August 14, 2008 [Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of Quincy, located in western central Illinois, has sent a document to all members of the diocese aimed at answering the question of whether the diocese should separate from the Episcopal Church. In a cover letter, the diocesan...
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Market Wire - Mergers and Acquisitions (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
QUINCY, IL (MARKET WIRE) Gardner Denver, Inc. (NYSE: GDI) announced today that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Best Aire, Inc. ("Best Aire"), a U.S. distributor of compressed air and gas products, serving the Ohio market through its headquarters in Millbury, Ohio, with additional distribution operations in Kalamazoo, Michigan and Indianapolis, Indiana.
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APT Blog (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Joy Howell, director of APT’s Broadband Changed My Life! Campaign, discussed the need for universal broadband on Quincy, Ill radio station WGEM on Wednesday, July 30. Talking about the many ways broadband, or high speed Internet access, has changed people’s...
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
I took this photo in June of 1985 in the city of Galesburg Illinois. Seen here facing east, located just east of the Amtrak passenger train station in the city of Galesburg Illinois, is preserved 4-6-4 Hudson type passenger steam locomotive # 3006 from the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. Steam locomotive # 3006 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia Pennsylvania in the year...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
QUINCY, IL (MARKET WIRE) Mercantile Bancorp, Inc. (AMEX: MBR) today announced that Richard J. Halter has been named Senior Vice President of Credit Administration of the Company, a newly created position, effective August 1, 2008. Halter has been serving as Vice President of Credit Administration at Mercantile Bank, the company's lead institution, since 2001. He will report to Ted T. Awerkamp, President...
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What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Here is some good news: St. Rose in Quincy to be chapel for extraordinary form of Mass Written by Kathie Sass, Catholic Times Editor 07/27/2008 Extraordinary form sometimes known as Traditional Latin Mass St. Rose of Lima Church will be used as a chapel [...]
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Market Wire - Earnings Reports (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
QUINCY, IL (MARKET WIRE) Mercantile Bancorp, Inc. (AMEX: MBR) today reported unaudited net income of $1.3 million or $0.15 per share for the quarter ended June 30, 2008 compared with net income of $2.4 million or $0.27 per share (adjusted for a 3-for-2 split in December 2007) in second quarter 2007.
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
QUINCY, IL (MARKET WIRE) Gardner Denver, Inc. (NYSE: GDI) announced today that it has entered into separate share purchase agreements with the holders of 100 percent of the outstanding shares of CompAir Holdings Limited ("CompAir"), a leading global manufacturer of compressed air and gas solutions. The acquisition places a total enterprise value of the business at £197.5 million (approximately $395...
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The BBC reports Keith Ackerman, bishop of Quincy, Illinois, came because, as he put it: "An empty chair can’t speak": he thought it important that the conservative view was represented. He voiced the unease of many traditionalists when he accused liberals, in effect, of trying to rewrite the Bible. "Why is it that people are determined to [...]
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Market Wire - Financial Services (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
QUINCY, IL (MARKET WIRE) Mercantile Bancorp, Inc. (AMEX: MBR) today announced it has filed all necessary regulatory applications to combine one of its Missouri-chartered institutions, Perry State Bank, with certain operations of HNB Financial Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mercantile Bancorp. Subject to regulatory approval, the consolidation is scheduled to be effective September 5, 2008....
