Italy Demands Justice in Adriatic Peace Terms
Paris dispatch notes Italy’s Diaz and Diaz to Rome and Premier Orlando signaling no peace terms with Germany beyond reparations. Wilson’s statement asserts future frontiers and a league of nations framework. Italy’s aims include restoring historic frontiers, safeguarding Adriatic coast, and ensuring minority protections under international guarantees.
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Austria
Austro-Hungary
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Engineer Heroes Back Home After War Effort Return
New York reports 1,829 troops aboard the Santa Teresa from Bordeaux including famed Eleventh engineers who fought near Cambrai with picks and shovels. The Duca d Abruzzi brings 46 officers and 996 ambulance service personnel from Marseilles, plus detachments from quartermaster and hospital units. A small group of 83 Illinois casuals accompanies the voyage.
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Cambrai
Santa Teresa
Bordeaux
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Duca d' Abruzzi
Marseilles
Plan for Illinois canal and roads faces funding questions
Governor Lowden's Waterway bill passes the Senate 37 to 2 and heads to the House as the Dailey committee nears the end of its cost study. A proposed state cement plant and road maintenance funding are tied to a sixty million bond program. Revenue measures face joint sessions on April 24 and 30.
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Calumet
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Illinois Leads In Systematic Road Building Plan
The federal Bureau of Public Roads released a report detailing state funding allotments for road construction. Illinois is highlighted as a leader with the longest continuous highway trunk line across the northern portion, about 7 1/2 miles, and two additional trunk lines from Chicago to Rock Island and Chicago to St Louis via Danville. Plans include 4,152,046 available on July 7 and a congressionally appropriated 200,000, with Illinois aiming to construct 000 miles of hard surfaced roads and raise at least 8,000,000 annually from license fees for improvements.
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Governor Lowden vetoes revenue bill over tax inequalities
The governor rejected revenue bill 67 saying high taxes can be cut by fair taxing. He cited widespread inequality and double assessments across Rome counties and urged passage of a bill to restore equal taxation to avoid future tax increases.
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Lowden
Rome
Senate approves architect licensing bill for code dept
The Illinois Senate passed a licensing bill for architects under the Code Department of Registration and Education requiring a high school education and three years experience with a competent architect. A separate measure bars German as the basic language in all schools, making English the required medium of instruction while Latin Greek and other languages may still be taught.
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Corrwell
Code Department of Registration and Education
Dlinois Senate
Jewell
Wheat price guarantee and world famine outlook
Discussion in newspapers centers on the 1918 wheat price guarantee and the likely impact on the treasury. Hoover warns that 1919 may see no surplus, with demand rising from feeding Germany Austria Poland Italy and India. Europe’s food needs, shipping, and Australian grain supply are key factors, while Western Canada is urged to expand production to meet soaring prices and aid recovery.
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Germany
Austria
Poland
Italy
India
Europe
Hoover Ray
Russia
Bulgaria
Serbia
Rou- Toanta
Roover
Canada
Pupils Review Articles of Confederation Tax Question
In a seventh grade history review the class discusses the Articles of Confederation. Nina volunteers with a shy answer, suggesting the colonists “put a tax on them” in reply to the teacher’s question about the era.
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Nina
Pa's Sage Soda Reply Sparks Dime Cost
A humorous exchange ends with a father's quip about the “effervescence of youth” prompting a correct answer of “soda water.” The line twists into a cost of a dime, delivered in a rustic, lighthearted tone characteristic of the era.
Fragmentary health note from a Lynn Mass source
An incomplete transcription mentions health decline and constant aches. It notes a real Faia Be Pickhars Med Co in Lynn Massachusetts and references no market for wild onts. The readable segments imply a personal health context with unclear references to a company and local supply.
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Rmagn
Providence
Warvall
Pickhars Med.Co
Lynn, Masa
Women Readers Told Kidney Trouble Is Hidden Disease
Thousands of women suffer back pain headaches and loss of ambition from kidney or bladder trouble. Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root claims to restore kidney health and relieve nervousness despondency and poor health. A sample bottle can be obtained by mailing ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY. Large and medium bottles sold at drug stores.
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Pierce
Pierre
Invalides’ Hotel
Buffalo, N. Y
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