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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1925
Page
6
In a Cairns coast setting Verlund, a damaged ex-sailor, waits for Chee Lee to settle a deadly score tied to a missing girl Chee Lee once protected. The narrator recalls a brutal murder decade old and the reef of violence that binds them as a trooper arrives with a captured suspect.
A writer cites a Kansas City Star quote about a man who sought immortality after death. In a Styx crossing tale, he returns to earth, seeks his name, and finds his fame reduced to a single act in history. A classroom joke crowns him for a beheading, ending with the note that the living remember only odd details.
Dr. S J Keyes relates a funny incident at Ottawa Normal where a sparrow fed by a relative dropped a one dollar bill on the veranda and flew off with crumbs in its beak, highlighting a humorous glimpse of daily life.
A fashion writer advises home dressmakers on optimizing the jumper frock and chemise era trends. Emphasizing slimming lines, vertical panels, and minimal trimming, the guide covers choosing patterns for slim and full figures, inserting panels, pin tucks, and godets, plus sleeve and collar variations to shape silhouettes and create versatile summer dresses.
Illinois the day bill to create a prohibition commissioner failed 73 to 60 in the house, while the anti injunction bill passed 78 to 65 with senate approval. A constitutional tax revision measure gained overwhelming support at 135 to 2, with a back to senate for concurrence before a November 1926 referendum.
Illinois journal notes several incidents including chicken thieves duping a Rock Island resident and stealing about seventy five fowls, Joliet woman Elmira Earl Bowen listed among early telegraphy pioneers, Winnebago County ending groundhog bounty after no drop in rodents, a Taylor Springs coal miner Zaync killed with two sons and a girl at Staunton crossing, and a destructive blaze at Western Packing and Provision Chicago causing about 100000 dollars in damage.
Eight hundred delegates to the Spanish American War veterans state convention at Decatur adopted resolutions calling for a state veteran bonus, redistricting reform, a deep waterway from Chicago to the Gulf, and a referendum on prohibition racing and boxing.
A federal crop report from Springfield says Illinois crops are below average due to prolonged drought with oats hay and pastures at the lowest June 1 levels on record. Wheat holds in some belts but overall is poor to fair. fly damage and frost contribute to uneven conditions. oats prospects poor with many fields plowed or used as pasture.
One man died in Chicago from injuries in an automobile accident and two others are near death. The Cook County 1925 motor death toll now stands at 14.
One month old Bady Martin Leonard son of Louis Leonard owner of Simons Wolf Lamp Shade Company at 1509 Michigan Avenue Oak Park was found suffocated by bed clothes in his crib at the Leonard residence.
John TD Carnahan of Mount Vernon was arrested on arson charges over a morning April 14 fire that damaged the John A Carnahan & Son store and three other buildings, with estimated losses ranging from 20 000 to 25 000 dollars.
In the Rialto theater in Chicago a robber and two companions with shotguns held up five ushers and officers in the manager's office and escaped with $5,000. The incident occurred as hundreds watched a performance.
Oscar Rohling a 35 year old Urbana World War veteran attempted suicide in a Chicago detective bureau cell by swallowing poison after his arrest for child abandonment. He will recover.
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