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REINECKE, W. C., druggist, Main street, Kane, Ill. The above named gentleman has been established in business here but a short time, but has already succeeded in building up a large trade in Kane and surrounding country. Mr. Reinecke is a native of Germany; born in 1853, where he passed his early years, and there obtained a liberal education in the University of Goettingen. In the land of his birth he obtained a large knowledge of the drug trade, for some years officiating as clerk. In 1870, Mr. R. crossed the Atlantic for America, and first located at Quincy, in this State, where he became employed by the drug firm of Brink, Keenman & Co., and subsequently salesman in a notion house. Proceeding from Quincy to Pittsfield, Pike County, he there formed the acquaintance of and married Miss Amelia Siegle. Removing to Quincy from this point he eventually made his way to Kane, during the present year, where his affable manners gain him many friends.