Illinois News Briefs Highlight Deaths and Local Affairs
Rev C A Bucks a Rock River Methodist Episcopal member since 1896 died in Ottawa at his daughter’s home. A coroner’s jury faulted state highway officials over Alexander Flowers death near Danville for unmarked detour. Curtis P Roby says Old Fort Massac State Park will add a game preserve with strict no trespassing rules. Ogara Coal at Carrier Mills and Saline County Cente restart mines, employing 350 and 300 respectively. Vecchera Legion prepares for convention in Quincy. current membership nears 1924 levels. L T Shoemaker released on bond in Marion murder case. testimony discusses conspiracy claims and evidence handling.
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C. A. Bucks
Rock River Methodist Episcopal Conference
Ottawa
G. N. Kneuss
Chicago
Aurora
Morris
Ilinois
Ogara Coal Company
Saline County
Carrier Mills
Saline County Cente Corporation
Ledford
Dedication set for Mothers' house at Ruma August nine
A dedication ceremony for the $50000 Mothers' house of the Sisters of the Order of the Precious Blood at Ruma is planned for Sunday August 9. A Murphysboro and St Louis committee will handle arrangements.
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the Sisters of the Order of the Precious Blood
Ruma
Murphysboro
St Louis
United States
Randolph County
Red Bud
St. Louis
Chester
Grand Jury Indicts State Prohibition Officials in Chicago
A federal grand jury in Chicago indicts Maj. Percy Owen, Ralph Stone, and seven others on conspiracy to violate prohibition. Named defendants include Albert Bennett Bernard Rump Harry Schlau Louis Quuabar George Bruce Louis Abelson and Morris Zimbross. Owen has been on leave due to ill health amid suspension rumors. Indictments follow a sacramental wine scandal and investigations by agents Roche and Fadden.
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Percy Owen
Ralph Stone
Chicago
Albert Bennett
Bernard Rump
Harry R. Schlau
Chateau Bath and Sanitarium
Louis Quuabar
Disbisciglia Wine Company
George Bruce
Louis Abelson
Morris Zimbross
Owen
Federal
Patrick R. Roche
T. A. Fadden
Special Intelligence Unit
Rail line motorcar replaces train on Dixon to Aurora run
Numerous local items include a Dixon to Aurora motorcar service starting on the branch, a Civil War veteran Martin Mann dying at 82, and Miss Stith Trete as insurer cashier involvement. Other notes cover St Charles Chronicle purchase by Vincent Vincell, a fatal three traffic deaths near EUREKA, and legal actions in Mounds and Ripley Tennessee, plus North Chicago sewer conspiracy probes and sheriff investigations.
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Chicago & Northwestern
Dixon
Feoria
Pair Captured Admit Nilwood Deputy Slaying
Paul Blackburn and Charles Lewis, youths from Chicago, confess to shooting Deputy Sheriff William Barnes at Nilwood. Blackburn, wounded, and Lewis, uninjured, provided details. Blackburn first gave the alias Lockwood. Blackburn is nineteen, Lewis eighteen, both described as Chicago railroad clerk and automobile mechanic respectively. Mrs. Mary Evans of Vandalia dies at seventy six. Sheriff Edinger dumps 100 confiscated beer barrels in Woodstock amid a glasses shortage to show law enforcement action.
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Paul Blackburn
Carlinville
William Barnes
Nilwood
Blackburn
Lockwood
Chicago
Charles Lewis
Lewis
Lester Edinger
Woodstock
McHenry County
Malaria treatment aids 30 paresis patients in New York
Thirty patients once deemed hopelessly insane at Long Island College Hospital regained work ability after artificial malaria inoculation followed by drug therapy. The method, originating in Vienna, is debated but shows marked improvement in many paresis cases alongside other hospitals using malaria alone.
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New York
Long Island College Hospital
Austria
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Washington, D. C
State Hospital For
Ward's Island
Brooklyn State Hospital
Wagner von Jauregg
Psychiatric Institute of Vienna
J Kyle
University of Vienna
George H. Kirby
Rockefeller Institute
Rockefeller
Genesis of art and death cults traced to ancient humans
Professor Bern of Bonn University told a German philology congress that art emerged in Europe around 50,000 BC with early glacial art in Europe. He said Neanderthals were replaced by a race about 40,000 BC that worshipped the dead and believed in an afterlife, with burial practices showing fear of the dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heidelberg
Bern
Bonn University
Congress of German Philologists
Europe
One pupil in rural New York school a mother teaches daughter
In For estburg Sullivan county district five the school has only one student Anna Hickey taught by her mother Mrs Mary Hickey. The Bongaup Falls Power company plans to buy farm lands in the district to build a supplementary dam, a move cited as the cause of the drastic change from twenty five pupils to one.
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Middletown
N. Y
Forestburg
Sullivan County
Mary Hickey
Anna
Bongaup Falls Power Company
Metabolism and Behavior Study At University Of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania psychological clinic advances a new field titled metabolism and behavior. Dr Henry E Starr leads a course with 80 students examining chemical changes in the body affecting emotional makeup and life philosophy. Research with saliva as fatigue and emotion indicator expands to stammering etiology with 296 individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Psychological Clinic
University of Pennsylvania
Henry E. Starr
Medical School
Doctor Starr
Lightner Witmer
Starr
Twitmyer
Ppsychological Clinic
Study of Birds Objective Trip Under Nininger Begin South Dakota to Mexico
Prof H H Nininger of McPherson College leads a summer bird life study from western South Dakota to Mexico City and back along the Mexican and U S coasts. The itinerary aims to precede migrations, observe northern wintering birds in Mexico, and return via the western United States to the Canadian border under the National Ornithology Society. A special loose car will carry the party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McPherson, Kan
South Dakota
Mexico City
Mexico
United States
Canada
H. H. Nininger
McPherson College
Rio Grande
Nininger
Canadian
National
Ornithology Society
Bryan at Rest in Arlington
William Jennings Bryan lies in Arlington with a formal funeral honoring his life. The services included readings from Psalms and John, a Presbyterian burial, hymns such as Lead Kindly Light and Faith of Our Fathers, a farewell by Doctor Sizoo, Chopin’s Funeral March, and military escort with the Third Cavalry and dismounted artillery leading to the grave. Taps sounded at burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph R
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
Doctor Sizoo
Chopin
South Gate
Third Cavalry
Sixteenth Field Artillery
Sizoo
Bryan Funeral in Washington Ends National Tribute
William Jennings Bryan lay in state at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church after dying in Nashville Tennessee. Thousands filed past the bronze casket as Rev Joseph R Sizoo and Rev Dr Joseph R Stroo delivered eulogies. Mrs Bryan limited the military honors with a semi military cemetery service and Kellogg attended for the State Department while DC buildings flew flags at half staff.
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Washington
William Jennings Bryan
Potomac Hills
Daston, Tenn
Union Station
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
Friends of the Commoner
Bryan
Ben G. Davis
Mr. Bryan
Tennessee
Virginia
Joseph R. Sizoo
New York State
Joseph R. Stroo
Arlington
Fort Myer
Nebraska
Kellogg
State Department
District of Columbia
Coolidge
Dread Cattle Disease Found Near Houston Texas
For the second time within a year foot and mouth disease has been found in cattle near Houston. Dr E J Jarrell of the livestock sanitary commission reports the outbreak and notes ongoing concerns for local herds and containment measures.
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Houston
Texas
E. J. Jarrell
The
Livestock Sanitary Commission
Noted Philanthropist Dead New York
Dr. Lucien G Warner capitalist and philanthropist died after an extended illness. For years he was identified with the Xenng Men's Christian association.
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New York
Lucien G Warner
Xenng Men’s Christian Association
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Alexander Flowers
Danville
Curtis P. Roby
Old Fort Muassac
Metropolis
State Fish and Game Commission
Vecchera Legion
Quincy
Legion
L. T Shoemaker
Williameon County
Creston Baston
Lawrence Surat
Marion
Shoemaker
Williamsean County
No Mercantile Company
F. R. Gate
Pratt County
Charles Martin
Opalthur
Tuscola
Arthur
Monticello
Gile
Sani
Southern Hitness Gas Company
F Townsend
Bulding
Carbondale
Carterville
Crainville
Johnston City
West Frankfort
Christopher and
Duquoin
Robert Kalline
Galesburg
Gentry Cummings
Kalline
Cummings
Albert John Ochsner
Sedgwick Street
That
City
Martin Mann
Diel
MacLeansburo
Tie
Seventh Lines Infantry
Lester Newmath
Premore Vincell
John Wo Gates
Tier
St Charles
Miss Ling Paschal
Eureka
Toledo, Medria & Western
Ares Marvin Mangold
Wilma Mangold
Ella Leman
Roanoke
Anna Mangold
Melba Mangold
Hurley Mangold
Marshall Bagby
Mounds
John Struer Negro
Ripley
Tenn
Pulaski County
Basby
Barby
Struer
Bagby Struer
Bagby
North Chiease
Eadboard Ahlstrom
Lake County
Gus Santry
Dennis To Donovan
Chima
AV Smith
North Chicago
Mary Evans
James S. Evans
Vandalia
Fayette County
Pennsylvania
Win B. Twitmyer
Department of
J. B. Abbott
San Bernardo
Chubut
Argentine
Marshall Field
Elmer S. Riggs
Field Museum
S. Dakota
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