Illinois Considers 74 Cent State Tax Rate Change
Illinois lawmakers and officials debate the general state levy, weighing a 74 cent base tax rate to fund state expenses. Governor Dunne, State Treasurer Ryan, and State Auditor Brady will decide the final rate in spring session, amid budget talks and Dem administration sources.
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Illinois Nuggets of Tragedy and Appointments
In Greenup, Samuel Fitch died from injuries after a shed collapsed on bins. Mert Fitch aided a large oil hold near Hellard. In JoNet, Albert and Tony Martin Ich, aged six and three, drowned after slipping into the canal bank. Albert Bongartz of Savanna, a Lithuanian resident, invented a clockwork cradle rocker. Michael Kahi of Stephenson County, founder of the first United Evangelical church, died at ninety two. Springfield saw Governor Dunne appoint JW Starks of Georgetown as mine inspector for the Fifth district, replacing W S Burris who resigned. Permits were issued for the State Bank of Kempton in Kempton, Ford County, and the State Bank of Keyesport in Keyesport, Clinton County.
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Robber Suspect Captured After Long Illinois Posse Chase
The Illinois posse captured Pink Cary at Kirkwood near Monmouth after a lengthy pursuit. Cary, linked to the Bradford bank robbery, is jailed at Oquawka and believed to be the St Louis Dutchman sought by authorities.
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Boston Soldier-Loses Arm At Gettysburg In Nighttime Rescue
John E. Gilman of Boston city soldiers relief section recounts his Civil War wound at Gettysburg. A private in the Twelfth Massachusetts Infantry, he describes losing his right arm near the stone wall while aiding prisoners and the dramatic rescue by comrades. He notes the regiment’s heavy losses, the death of Col Fletcher Webster, and the rough transport to York Hospital. The narrative reflects on youth in war and memories of veterans enduring.
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Texas Reminiscences of N C Duncan Wheelock Veteran
N C Duncan of Wheelock, a veteran of the Mexican war and Texas pioneer, published memoirs recounting his journey with emigrants from Madison county Tennessee in 1835. He notes capture by Mexicans and Santa Anna's order to shoot every tenth man. a squad led by Daniel Madden accompanying him was killed in the Fannin massacre.
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Buckeye Boys Corn Special Heads to Washington
Thousands of Ohio boys will travel from Cleveland Cincinnati Columbus Toledo and other points on Pennsylvania Lines to Washington on December 1 for the Buckeye Boys Corn Special. Prize winners in the Buckeye contest will tour Pittsburgh Harrisburg Philadelphia and the Alleghenies with state officials and commission members, meeting President Wilson and Secretary Bryan.
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Credit Given to the Wife in Preventing Dissipation
The Journal of the American Medical Association notes Jacques Bertillon's finding that married men show lower mortality due to supervision over health and life habits. Clerks and fiduciary workers share similar influences from marriage and family life, promoting regular hours and restraint.
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Greatly Desired Lady and the Marriage Dilemma
Gossip from the day suggests Miss Bur dett refused marriage offers including the duke of Wellington and many lesser men. The heiress, famed as a matrimonial prize, finally agreed to wed an American, provoking quips about Ashmead Bartlett and family duties in English society.
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There’s a Reason Why Grape Nuts Nourish All Ages
A promotional letter praising Grape Nuts and Postum coffee substitutes as balanced nutrition for infants to the elderly. Testimonies claim improved nerve and brain power, steady meals, and describe family members from a sixty year old woman to a traveling son choosing Grape Nuts for breakfast.
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