Identifier: panaillinoissome00reid Title: Pana, Illinois : some luminous phases of its every-day life, present activities and future possibilities : a graphic sketch of a thriving city located on the lines of four transcontinental railroads, with water and coal, and all modern facilities requisite for the biggest of "big business" Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: Reid, J. A. (James Allan) Subjects: Pana (Ill.) -- History Publisher: Pana, Ill. : James Allan Reid Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Text Appearing Before Image: Geo. V. Penwell, Founder and President of the Penwell Coal .Mining Company, Pana, Illinois. Pana as a city of distinctions that are all forthe best and unexcelled by any other city inthe domain of Uncle Sam. These general con-ditions, advantages and conveniences nuikePana a premier industrial and residence city.a city in which it is a pleasure to reside, andwhere there is oi)portunity for one to not onlylive and have his being, but to accumulatethat which provides well for all humanity. The citizenship of Pana is not bested bythat of any city of any country on the globe.The residents number elements of progressionfrom Germany, Ireland and France and othercountries of the old world, combined withwhom are the enterprising Northerner, East- Page Si.\.

Text Appearing After Image: Tracks and Depots or the B. &. 0. and the C. & E. I. Railroads, Pana, Illinois. There are Something Like Fifteen Towns and Cities Trading with Panaas the Central Market Point. erner, Southerner and Westerner of the States.These create a citizenship of which any com-munity should be proud. Not only is Pana the central district of oneof the greatest agricultural and mining sectionsof this vast country, furnishing, as it does,employment for hundreds of miners and farmlaborers, but it has many industries that are rated among the best of the land. It is thecenter of population for a farming communitywhich numbers more than seventy-five thou-sand people and from this the city has a patron-izing populace of more than thirty thousandpeople. The City of Pana is the central pointof no less than fifteen cities and towns whosecombined population is not less than 30,000.

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