Illinois measures reshape state finances and civil service
Illinois lawmakers passed wide ranging bills funding state operations and major public works. Key items include appropriations for prisons, asylums, normal schools, barns, and parks. extensions of civil service. new state hospitals. and a big push for road and city infrastructure plus tax and election reforms.
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Illinois
State Board of Administration
University of Illinois
State Normal Schools
State Civil Service Commission
Conn fatally shoots wife then kills himself in Missouri
Quincy report states David Conn traveled from Canton to St Francisville where his wife lived with a sister. He drew a revolver, declared intent to kill her, shot her three times, then turned the pistol on himself, dying instantly. Other city items note a dog bite near Chatsworth and a heat-related death in Joliet.
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Quincy
David Conn
Canton
St. Francisville
Chatsworth
Charles Falck
Germanville Township
Kankakee
Sophia Walters
J. J. Walters
Kankakee County
Minonk
Fred Daneskas
Ashton
Joliet
Anthony Gombash
Gombash
Illinois Steel Company
Silver Cross Hospital
Crystal Lake
Henderson
McHenry County
Chicago
George Kelley
Richfield
Elwood
Elwood National Bank
James Beattie
Christ Nelson
Aurora
Committee On
Illinois State Medical Society
W. E. Ryerson
J. F. Percy
Galesburg
EH. Mammen
Bloomington
Carlyle
H. J. Schlafly
Swedish Evangelical Mission Churches of Illinois
E. J. Herpe
State Association
J. J. Johnson
George Swenson
Pontiac
Lincoln
Douglas
Metamora
Galatia
Limerick Bros
Webber
Tuttle Drug Company
Havana
Sam Duke
Kilbourne Township
Mason County
Carl Krebaum
Newton
Jesse Reed
Nathaniel Pease
James E. Pease
St. Louis
Freeport
Belvidere
Oregon
Orissa Hawn
Charles Hawn
Daniel Hawn
Eloquent quips and social sketches from Harper's Monthly
Brief vignettes reveal Miss Phoebe anxious about a weekend train, a railroad joke on wooden legs as antiwar protest, and a spinster reintroducing herself as Cornelia after years as Connie Brown. The column captures period humor and social misrecognitions.
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Andrew Carnegie
New York
Poetry of the Indian and its clockwork manacles
The passage argues Indians are all poets in spirit but lack terms for precise time. It laments inability to speak of six o'clock or next week, citing phrases like the math hour and the moon of temper leaves as poetic equivalents to clock and calendar.
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Chancery
Parole Board
Board of Pardons
Board of Parole
Supreme Court
Superior Court
Cook County
Teachers’ Pension Fund
Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund
Chicago Board of Education
Nurses
Boards of Education
Occupational Diseases Commission
New York
Treasury
Institute For Miners
University of Illinois
Coal Mines
Repatriated settler speaks on land gains and Canada choice
Eugene Jubinville recounts leaving Michigan for Meota area in 1903 with eight children. He describes farm size, cattle, crops, and wealth, noting land at $15 per acre and high yields. He praises opportunities in Canada and urges readers to seek government literacy services.
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Essex County
Ontario
Monroe County
Michigan
Red Lake Falls
Minnesota
Canada
Jack Fish Lake
Meota P. O
Eugene Jubinville
Jobinville
Cure for Itching and Burning Using Cuticura Remedies
Miss Lu Johnson of Washington, D C describes a severe skin eruption starting under the knees and spreading to the waist. After doctors failed, she used Cuticura Pills Ointment and Soap, reporting cure in eight days and urging others to try the remedies.
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Cumberland
Miss Lu Johnson
Ninth St
N. W
Washington, D. C
Miss Johnson
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Ad Slogans and Sayings From The Philadelphia Record
A cropped collection of humorous quotes and product plugs from the Philadelphia Record itemizing life advice and ads. It includes marital boasts, debt reminders, remedies like Ham line Wizard Oil Garfield Tea and tobacco notes, with a closing quip on flattery.
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Springfield
General Assembly
Chester
Pontiac Reformatory
Carbondale Pnre
Eastern Normal School
Charleston
Normal
de Kalb Normal
Macomb Normal
Tor
Game Department
Starved Rock
State Park
Tadpole Arch
Sherman
Equality
Col
Michael V. Lawler
Nmnois
Kenesaw Mountain
State Association of Milk Producers
Association of Dairymen
Fort Chartres
Frank C. Burke
Legislative Commission
State Horticultural Society
State Association of Bee Keepers
Board of Agriculture
Court of Claims
Charities
Board of Administration
Surgical Institute
Civil Service
Lake County
Outer Harbor
LABOR
Municipal
Commissioner of Public Works
City Funds
Pension Fund
House of Correction
National Guard
Naval Reserve
N. C
Second Regiment
Park Commissions
Pensions
Park Police Pension Fund
Civic Federation of Chicago
Railroads
Administration
State Warehouse and Railroad Commission
Uniform Bill of Lading Commission
State Universities
Jaeee
Office of State Inspector of Apiaries
Interurban
Stead
Secretary of State
Fish and Game
State News
Phoebe
Rose
Poetry
The
Hardappe
Philadelphia
Lewis
Costa
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