Here's a similar list from Missouri a few months earlier. It includes minstrel, vaudeville, and parlor songs, but most of the titles belong to old fiddle tunes.

Overlaps with the Texas list of a year later are significant.

"Times" (Bowling Green, Mo.) (Nov. 23, 1899):

“SOME REAL OLD TUNES…

Cindy,
Dixie,
Shaken,
Cuckoo,
Melindy,
Shoo Fly,
Ben Bolt,
Chinkapin,
Lily Dale,
Sorrel Hen,
Greenbrier,
Gray Eagle,
Nellie Gray,
Rock Candy,
Lead Creek,
Old Virginia,
Lone Indian,
Moneymusk,
Soldier’s Joy,
Ocean Wave,
Buffalo Girls,
Bay Rooster,
Forked Deer,
Who, Emma!,
Mockingbird,
Old Zip Coon,
Captain Jinks,
Eastern Texas,
The Wagoner,
Bowling Green,
Old Uncle Ned,
Old Dan Tucker,
Suwanee River,
I Never Did See,
Yankee Doodle,
Old Gray Goose,
Old John Brown,
Getting Upstairs,
Shortenin’ Bread,
Little Brown Jug,
Hell in Hamburg,
Old Sally Goodin,
Cotton Eyed Joe,
Big Ball Up Town,
Leather Breeches,
College Hornpipe,
Fisher’s Hornpipe,
Mississippi Sawyer,
N-----r’s Hornpipe,
The Devil’s Dream,
Sugar in the Gourd,
Champagne Charlie,
Possum in the Straw,
Bonaparte’s Retreat,
Irish Washerwoman,
Walkin’ in the Parlor,
Knockin’ on the Door,
Pop Goes the Weasel,
Sally Pick the Cotton,
Haste to the Wedding,
Noah was a Good Man,
Natchez Under the Hill,
The Arkansaw Traveler,
The Camels [sic] are Coming,
Coming Through the Rye,
Going Down Fifth Street,
Billy in the Low Ground,
Susannah Don’t You Cry,
Possum Up a Gum Stump,
Jennie Put the Kettle On,
Rising of the Morning Star,
Peepin’ through the Broom,
By By My Honey I’m Gone,
Granny Will Your Dog Bite?,
Fare You Well My Purty Gal,
Massa’s in the Cold Cold Ground,
St. Patrick’s Day in the Morning,
Bonaparte’s March Over the Rhine,
When the Swallows Homeward Fly,
Wake Up Ladies Day is Breaking,
Great Big Boat Came Round the Bend,
Old Aunt Sally’s Good Enough for Anybody.”

Bowling Green is very close to the Missouri-Illinois border, so most of these titles/tunes must have been known in western Illinois as well.

Note that "Goodbye My Honey, I'm Gone" was written as recently as 1885-86, so not every title is very "old." But most of the others must go back at least a generation. ("Champagne Charlie," for example, was written in 1869, "Captain Jinks" in 1862, "When the Swallows Homeward Fly" about 1849.)