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Newspaper

Ashton Gazette

Location

Ashton, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Aug 18, 1921

Page

2

Illinois Prepares National Guard Training Drills Camp Grant

Springfield reports Illinois National Guard units complete 15 day intensive drills at Camp Grant under the new federal reorganization plan. Adjutant General Dickson praises troops after inspection at Camp Logan. Illinois anti air craft battalion heads to Camp Grant August 25 followed by Battery B Monmouth and Fourth Infantry at Camp Lincoln August 19 to September 2.

Springfield Illinois National Guard Camp Grant National Guard Illinois Dickson Camp Logan Monmouth Grant Fourth Infantry Illnois Camp Lincoln Walter W. Miller Automobile Department Secretary of State Peoria Palatine Chicago Philip B. Woodworth Weveks War Plans General Staff Rose Polytecnic Institute Doctor Woodworth Central Department General Pershing Albert Levy Manufacturers and Importers’ Association Palmer House Rock Island C. F. Fetterer la Ravine la Salle Catherine Maloney Anna Thomas Frank McGlinn Maclay Hoyne Robert E. Crawe Bloomington Central Pageant of Progress Danville State Fair W. F. Carr Ottawa W. 8. Dillon Illinois Charitable Eye and Har Infirmary Leo Steiner Illinois State Reformatory Pontiac Ira M. Lish Saunemat Charles P. Hitch Paris A. D. Warner Rockford Charles J. Peters Federal Bureau of Markets William W. Barnard W. W. Barnard Company of August Bellendorf Quincy Germany Edward H. Sass Bellendorf Cheago Fred H. Kolze Schiller Park Hoffman Galesburg Chester B. Magoon Susie White Justice of the Peace Miller Aurora Chamber of Commerce At McComb State Highway Department Warren County Burlington Illinois Commerce Commission

Fair Taxes for All Hardings Fair Taxes for All

An official White House statement explains the tax revision program aiming to raise revenue with certainty and equity. It argues the rich will not be relieved of burdens and outlines changes including higher exemptions for small earners, altered corporate taxation, and repeal of luxury levies to stimulate business.

Washington White House

Three Bandits Rob Kincaid Payroll Vault Heist

Three robbers struck the mining town of Kincaid on a Saturday seizing the Peabody Coal payroll from the bank cashier and deputy sheriff. They escaped with 114000 dollars in cash, after overpowering staff and loading bundles into a car before villagers realized the crime.

Memphis Tenn Sheriff's Deputies Kincaid Ill Taylorville Peabody Coal Company Langley Tovey

Oklahoma Rep Herrick Pushes Beauty Contest Bill

A bill targeting newspaper beauty contests was introduced in the House by Representative Herrick of Oklahoma. He argued that women today prioritize looks over their homes.

Washington Herrick Rep Okla

Bandits Rob Stern Home Seize $4000 in Furs

Two armed bandits broke into the home of Mr and Mrs Isaac Stern. They bound gagged a sixteen year old nursery maid and locked her in a closet before escaping with four thousand dollars worth of furs and clothing.

Chicago Isaac Stern

Woman's health testimonial praises Lydia E. Pinkham's remedy

Mrs. George Tegarden of Moundsville West Virginia reports irregular menstrual cycles and pain improve after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She urges other young women to seek help and promises confidentiality when writing to the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.

Moundaville W. Va Vetor Lydia EK Pinkham George Tegarden Third Street Moundsville Lydia E. Pinkham

Government Maintains Paid Hunters

The government employs hundreds of hunters with the Biological Survey hiring four hundred to five hundred hunters to trap wild animals. In 1920 professional hunters bagged 32 000 skins and scalps distributed among tribes: wolves 584 coyotes 27 100 mountain lions 149 bobcats 4 123 Canada lynxes 48. To western farmers these figures translate into about five million dollars in saved livestock.

East

Nothing Left but a Shelf After North Delaware Fire

A North Delaware Street fire nearly destroyed a home, leaving a neighbor to say there was nothing but a shell of the house left. The kid exclaimed to his mother that all that remained was a shelf, a line the Indianapolis News relayed with local color.

Delaware Street Indianapolie News

Justifiable Aloofness in a Witty Exchange

Miss Cayenne dismisses Omar Khayyam as improper amid jazz poetry and bootlegging talk. She refuses to read him, citing modern excess and alcohol-related incidents as reasons.

Omar Khayyam Miss Cayenne Omar

Taken at Once She Compose a Short Story

Cartoon dialogue shows a brief romance moment as she asks to be written into a story and he declares love while she accepts, captured in a whimsical magazine panel. The exchange centers on creative courtship and mutual consent within a comic frame.

Cartoons Magazine

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