Washingtons Decalogue and Gold Rule Guide Legislation
A compilation of congressional notes cites the decalogue and golden rule as standards for laws. Other items report on the Canadian reciprocity bill hearings, sugar trust investigations, and the farmers free list vote. Presidents, elections, and notable trials appear alongside battlefield and fire reports from North America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Representative Pepper
Iowa
Christian Party
U. S. Senate Finance Committee
Gloucester
Mass
House
Middle West
Appropriations Cut in Illinois Budget Debate
Senate and House leaders slash state appropriations as May adjournment nears. Key targets include University of Illinois funding, armories, charitable funds, and new buildings. Budget gaps force payroll cuts and tighter control over state offices and departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Charles B. Hurburgh
House
University of Illinois
Senate
Dunning
Hurburgh
Assembly
Deneen
Vermilion County
Charleston
S. C
Chicago
Naval Reserve
Illinois
General Assembly
Chicago Harbor
Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Civil Service
Starved Rock
Carroll
Bill Posters of State to Meet in Springfield
The annual convention of the State Bill Posters association of Illinois will be held in Springfield May 16 with at least sixty delegates expected. W. J. Horn of this city heads the reception and entertainment for visiting delegates. New Illinois corporations notarized: United States Audit Company Chicago capital 25000. Ward Bradley clothing Mount Carroll 7600.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Browne
Candy
Smejkal
Bureau of Vital Statistics
State Board of Health
Church
Illinois
Conference of State Charities
Young Men's Christian Association
University of Illinois At
Champaign
Galesburg
State Conference of Charities and Corrections
Champaign-Urbana
Hich
Esclites
Edmund Janes Jamés
University of Illinois
Sherman Kingsley
Chicago
Bill Posters of
State
United States Audit Company
William B. Ward
G. A
L. C. Bradley
Clothing Company
Mount Carroll
Men's Furness
Charles L Odell
Albert R. Kessler
Kraft
Illinois News Tersely Told Highlights Across Cities
A compact roundup across Illinois reports fires, accidents, and public incidents. Notable items include a school fire in Virginia with over eighty children evacuated in a minute, a three month old scalding incident in Silvis, a dynamite outrage near Aurora, and a Chester hospital death. Additional notes cover political changes, union strikes, and local elections.
Immigrants Pour Into Western Canada From United States and Overseas
Canadian Immigration Branch reports over 325000 arrivals in the past year seeking settlement. About 130000 came from the United States, the rest from the British Isles and Northern Europe, with strong farming as the common driver. Millions are drawn to prairie crops while Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta prepare reception halls and homestead districts for 160 acre parcels. A Vanguard train carrying 25 families and 41 carloads of farm tools and stock arrived in Winnipeg, signaling further growth as demand for department literature remains high.
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Canadian Immigration Branch
Canada
United States
British Isles
Europe
Western
Canada Plains
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Antwerp
Red Star
America-Canada
Gothland
Samland
Note That Led To Missing Pants Bouquet Tale
A young man barters clothes with a gardener to obtain roses for his beloved. He delivers flowers but receives a blunt pencil note confessing a debt for pants. The gal’s frosty reception follows as she reveals the insulting note.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Breaking a Hobo's Heart At The Opera House
The Cleveland Leader reports a panhandler asked Gus Hartz near the opera box office for the price of a postage stamp. Hartz seized the envelope and mailed it after stamping it, then warned the man that nothing more was in it for his wife.
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Gus Hartz
Opera House
Fred
Fred Coan
Panhandler
Cleveland Leader
Society Chatter Targets Baby Care Stunt
A humorous overheard exchange critiques a woman who hires a nurse to tend her poodle and vows to personally care for her baby, sparking discussion of social norms and trends.
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Washington
American Sugar Refining Company
House of Representatives Committee On Rules
John J. McNamara
Bordwell
Los Angeles
Cal
Tijuana
California
Wisconsin
Upper Michigan
Lake Superior
Kitto Mikalla
Eveleth
Minn
Oklahoma
Taft
Newark
N. J
St. John’s Lodge of Masons
Franklin Murphy
Danville
Ill
New York
Senate Printing Committee
Aaron Burr
Riverside Drive
Madison
W. E. Pardeen
Frederick Patterson
Akron
Colorado
Woodrow Wilson
New Jersey
Denver Press Club
Wilson
The
Playground Association of America
Juan Navarro
Juarez
Mexico
Francisco I. Madero
Madero
Diaz
Disposed 40
George M. E. Kelly
Thirtieth Infantry
Fort Sam Houston
Denver & Rio Grande
Minturn
Colo
Elizabeth Hartley
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Thomas Harrington
H. O. Havemeyer
Bernard N. Duclos
Lenox
Falls
Julius W. Hopkins
First National Bank of
Cleveland
Day
Helm Committee
Senator Lorimer
A. J. Petit
Fred Lemar Charles
University of Ilinois
Urbana
Mary, Marilla Hobbs
Methodist Deacons
Lake Bluff
Kansas
John 8
Dawson
John French
N. Y
Manford
Okla
Charles E. Simon
Baltimore
Wickersham
Rockefeller Foundation
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Cambridge
Edinburgh
Scotland
Lafayette the Great
Empire Music Hall
George V
Omar
Ilinois
Woodmen of America
Woodmen
Rock Island
Catholic Order of Foresters
Mystic Workers of the World of Fulton
National Union
Illinois News
Virginia
Assumption
S. W. Bexmeyer
Bexmeyer
Jesse Brown
Eleventh Street
Silvis
Belvidere
McInnes
Schaeffer
Aurora
Alonzo Kinkle
Chester
Jerry Danforth
Chester State Hospital
Ccoroner
Danforth
Warren Avenue
Dixon
Knights of Columbus
Alma
Nora Egan
Illinois Mothers’ Congress
United Christian Party
Daniel B. Turney
Decatur
S. P. Cater
Howard Lake
W. R. Benkett
Davenport
William Lorimer
H. A. Simpson
Pana
Peoria
Louis Bonashek
Clayton Paris
Arthur Paris
Kewanee
Eloise Jacobs
H. E. Jacobs
Big Eight High School Association
Sterling
Iva K'Null
Taylorville
Helen McClean
Charles McClean
Edinburg
Kincaid
Midland
Bloomington
Illinois College of Jacksonville
Wesleyan University
George Camp
Pine Avenue
West Randolph Street
Austin
H. Ulrich
West Lake Street
Maywood
E-Z Opener Bag Company
Involys
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