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Newspaper
Blue Island Sun
Location
Blue Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1914
Page
2
London writer C P Stewart describes lucrative gun running to rebel groups in poorly policed regions. Obsolete rifles are sold by London firms, with profits from smuggling, peril, and risk of capture. Tales include a Tunisian brig explosion and covert concealment in tin cases with buoyed chests.
M J Leveridge reports a sixteen room Chicago school used wooden screens with unbleached cotton over windows, plus a fan and steam pipes to deliver warm air. Before classes the room reached 70 degrees, windows opened after start, eliminating drafts. Stuffiness, odors, and headaches vanished, and pupils performed better.
A Brooklyn reader compares housing and daily expenses in Munich and Paris. She notes long lease requirements, inventories and extra charges, plus affordable furnished apartments from 40 dollars monthly and modest pension costs around 1.25 dollars daily in certain quarters.
Mrs Mary M Dwyer offers marriage guidance in New York style advice. She endorses concessions and shared control while stressing care, good cooking, neatness, and comfort. She warns against gossips, suggests patience, and notes women should support their husbands in politics.
At Mattoon the Forty eighth annual Illinois G A R encampment elected officers for the Sons of Veterans and set Moline as the 1915 meeting place. Governor Dunne praised Memorial Day sentiment and recalled Civil War veterans in a long speech.
Governor Dunne thanked Joliet penitentiary honor convicts for extinguishing a fire in the rattan shop. Warden Allen said the damage reached 3500 dollars but would have been worse without the inmates’ tireless efforts. The governor sent a telegram of appreciation.
Illinois state board reports 84 applicants sat the semi annual architecture examination at the University of Illinois. Only 20 earned licenses. Albert L. Flegel had license revoked for alleged violation of a statute prohibiting corporations from practicing architecture in Illinois.
The Illinois art commission in Springfield studied options for more space for state departments. They rejected adding to the capitol building and proposed building south of the capitol grounds toward Edwards Street. The governor suggested Springfield help fund land purchase, with plans to present a report to the legislature this winter.
The Illinois Bulletin lists pastorate shifts including E. M. Ryan resigning Carmi W. A. Creason resigning Chenoa and Ocoya Alfred Carnell taking Bethel Rock Island Assn Voters. George Woodley Moody Bible School accepts Chatsworth. Transfers include R. G. Carnahan Pinckneyville to Wabash and R. Grant Dusenberry Mattoon to Nashville.
The Secretary of State issued certificates of incorporation for Pendhayn Aviation Company of Chicago with $5,000 capital. Warren G. Bright Horse Shoe Company of Streator with $15,000. Conee Coal Company of Hillsboro with $10,000. A A Rittenour Sanitarium of Chicago with $50,000. Motorists' Security Alliance of Chicago. Incorporators are listed for each: Emil Kahn, Joseph Pendhayn and Mannie Kahn. Cyrus W. Webb, Warren G. Bright and David L. Boyd. Frank L. McDavid, Amos Miller and John R. McDavid. A. A. Rittenour, Jean E. H. Rittenour and A. M. Calvert. Albert Haas, Julius M. Lorenz and L. I. Bretz.
A 1914 essay argues that environment shapes 90 percent of individual development, and that exploitation of eugenic ideas via legislation fails. It praises natural selection, warns against dependence and poverty, and advocates universal scientific education to prevent harmful social outcomes. The piece stresses Mendelian heredity, environmental factors, and the need for rational, individual reform.
In United States Senate document 419 Irving Fisher argues human vitality rests on heredity and hygiene and notes environment can mimic inheritance. Metchnikoff is cited on the non-genetic factors shaping longevity, arguing nature’s vast forces counteract simple heredity as the old view weakens.
A branch of the Agricultural Laborers and Rural Workers union formed on the Lilford estate in Northants. Lord Lilford’s agent issued a circular saying no union members would be employed on the estate, affecting about sixty men who were urged to consider their position. Union meetings in nearby villages denounced the lord of the manor and the estate farmers.
A young missionary in China hosts friends and asks for fruit but clashes with a servant over language. The servant returns with a platter bearing the host’s husband’s everyday trousers, arranged with contempt, ending the meal in humor.
A reflective line notes that few individuals are so quarrelsome as to fail in keeping peace with themselves. The aphorism suggests inner consistency matters more than outer conflicts.
An editor notes that opposition to tax payment appears more predictable than tax collection itself, implying widespread resistance but also highlighting a persistent fiscal challenge. The remark frames tax disputes as a recurring civic issue with enduring relevance.
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