All World a Stage for Facts of 1925
Yen Fu Chien of Foochow ponders American quick-change tastes as crosswords replace wah jongg, and hair nets fall to bobbed styles. The National Geographic bulletin calls the world a stage for the 1925 fad, with platinum jewelry rising in value and ostrich plumes fading from fashion as autos shift to closed models.
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Yen Fu Chien
Muah Jungg
America
Fu Chien
Yen Fuhlen
Yen Fu
Fouchow
National Geographic Society
Washington
Arctic
Broadway
Michigan Avenue
Charles Lamb
Quibbo
Colombia
Artificial voice box aids throat cancer patients in speech
Report describes a new artificial larynx device by Dr John Mackenry and Dr Harvey Fletcher. The instrument uses a larynx rental concept with a front orifice pipe for breathing. It includes rubber vocal cords and vibration gears driven by lung air to produce speech through a pipe stem into the mouth.
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John Bo Mackenry
New York
Harvey Fletcher
Western Electric AT & T Laboratories
World records 63 000 stamp varieties noted
Leipsic reports a world total of 63 000 postage stamp varieties with 23 000 in Europe and 40 000 elsewhere. In two years 4 000 new issues appeared as governments expanded production. Inflation era shifts have emptied German dealer windows of many rare American stamps once seen.
Frozen Spinster Found Dead in Seaford Cottage
Miss Alice Jopes aged sixty five was found frozen to death in her Jackson avenue cottage Seaford near Freeport. Neighbors, alarmed by her absence, broke in the door after she had not been seen for several days.
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New York
Alice Jopes
Jackson Avenue
Seaford
Freeport
Pirates Loot Million in New York Harbor During 1924
A New York survey reports maritime losses in 1924 ranging from 70 000 to 1 000 000 dollars. Piracy operates mainly at night along the East River and harbor inlets with fast motor boats. Stevedores and marine interests urge police protection and stricter enforcement as pirates steal cargoes and even mooring ropes from piers.
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New York
New York Harbor
Hylan
Steashly
trans-Atlantic
Tnonan Wise Steamship Companies
Navy
East River
Perth Amboy
Port Reading
Eizabeth
New York City
Redistricting Bill Defeated In Springfield House Vote
Springfield Chicago battle over reapportionment ends 86 to 64 with Cook County lawmakers supporting the Schnackenberg measure to ignore the judiciary committee report. Chicago warned of taxation without equal representation as the plan failed in the Illinois House.
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Springfield
Chicago
House of Representatives
House
Cook County
Schnackenberg
Judiciary Committee
General Assembly
Homer J. Tice
Greenview
State Department of Agriculture
Aps
Tive
Illinois farm institute warns on road menace and reform
The Illinois Farmers Institute urged the legislature to pass a state police bill to curb auto crime after hard roads isolated farms. The group opposed child labor and gasoline tax amendments, while Mrs. Elsie Sweetin and Lawrence Hight, convicted in the murder of Williford Sweetin, seek a $2,000 fund for appeal to the Supreme Court. Sweetin received 85 years to life.
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Carlstrom
Nelson
Turner
Church
Curran
Pension Board
Johnson
King
Supreme Court
Marinier
Cicero
Mergy
Paris
Illinois Farmers’ Institute
Elsie Sweetin
Lawrence M. Hight
Williford Sweetin
Benton
Illinois dean bans cruel initiation stunts in fraternities
Thomas Arkle Clark, men's dean at the University of Illinois Urbana, issues a letter restricting informal initiations to the chapter house and grounds and prohibiting cruel practices toward students. Separately, Illinois will distribute eight million dollars from the common school fund to counties once county figures arrive in Springfield.
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Thomas Arkle Clark
University of Ilinois
Urbana
Illinois
Springfield
Raid on Kankakee booze joints nets 35 arrests
Chief Enforcement Officer Charles W. Wursell leads Illinois prohibition agents in a synchronized raid on 35 liquor outlets in Kankakee county. Thirty-five people were arrested and later moved to the federal court in Danville after large quantities of liquor were found at most locations. Bruno Matthew, once a mayoral candidate, among the detainees.
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Charles W. Wursell
Prohibition
Illinois
Kankakee County
Kankakee
State Hospital For
Bruno Matthew
Chief Vursell
Anti-Saloon League
Wurzell
Federal Court
Danville
Daly elected Illinois Shrine president at Springfield convention
Robert J. Daly of Chicago was elected president of the Illinois Shrine at its Springfield convention. Officers named include J. T. Buckbee of Rockford as first vice president R. O. Sharron of Peoria as second vice president G. B. Powell of East St. Louis as secretary and Dr. A. C. Baxter of Springfield as treasurer. Gen Leroy T Steward, longtime Chicago post office delivery chief, to retire March 24 on his 65th birthday. Steward was police chief under Mayor Fred Busse in 1910 and 1911. Henry G. Smale named acting superintendent of deliveries.
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Robert J. Daly
Chicago
Springfield
J. T. Buckbee
Rockford
R. O. Sharron
Peoria
G. B Powell
East St. Louis
A. C. Baxter
Leroy T Steward
Arthur C. Lueder
General Steward
Fred Busse
Henry G. Smale
Chicago and Illinois News Snapshot From 1920s Proceedings
President Coolidge received a Lincoln gavel from Senator McKinley and was shown Chicago Live Stock Exchange officers in Washington. City pumping costs in 1900 would hit 790 million with no universal metering, and Chicago′s 7 million population would demand more stations. Four Muddy coal miners were killed after being struck by a train near O Gara mine No 1. Aurora zoning setback challenges state rules, while seven Chicago labor officials faced Illinois Supreme Court confinement for conspiracy. Forest preserve protection praised. Chicago to build seventy five junior high schools in ten years.
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President Coolidge
Senator McKinley
Washington, D. C
Abraham Lincoln
Springfield
Celinda R. McCullough
Urbana
McKinley
Chicago Live Stock Exchange
Chicago
Ericson
Muddy
Harrisburg
Big Four
O’gara
Luther Foster
John Cooley
Henry Cooley
James McGurt
Foster
Illnois Supreme Court
Emma Porter Pipes
Theodore Wind
Stanley Walczak
Edward J. Boatman
Orville K. Blevins
Frank Amborski
Gust Wirth
Supreme Court
Carter's Little Liver Pills Cure Pimples Says Reader
A reader reports relief from a persistent breakout after using Carter's Little Liver Pills for several days. The writer claims improved digestion and fewer stomach upsets along with clearer skin and fewer headaches, endorsing the product.
Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children ad pitch
An old advertisement urges mothers to keep Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children for the season. It claims the powder breaks up colds regulates bowels relieves feverishness constipation teething troubles headaches and stomach troubles and notes usage by mothers for over 80 years with a trial package from Fred Address Mother Gray Co Le Roy N Y and all drug stores.
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Mother Gray
Fred
Mother Gray. Co
le Roy
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