Illinois Plans Statewide Parks and Rogers Clark Memorial
Department of Public Works and Buildings, led by Director H H Cleaveland, seeks a state wide system of parks recreation grounds and memorials with Gov Louis L Emmerson approval. They aim to reclaim historic sites and establish a memorial to Gen George Rogers Clark at Fort Kaskaskia overlooking the Okaw and Mississippi rivers. A Supreme Court opinion reverses a Sangamon county beauty culture case, ruling hair cutting by beauty culturists need not require barbering hours and apprenticeship.
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Department of Public Works and Buildings
H. H. Cleaveland
Louis L. Emmerson
Cleaveland
George Rogers Clark
Fort
Kaskaskia
Okaw River
Mlinois
Charles W. Vail
Supreme Court
Circuit Court
Sangamon County
Doctor Blank as a diplomat in a federal appointment
Senator Borah urged appointment of an unknown man, arguing a country doctor must be a diplomat to survive. He cited a humorous exchange where the proposed nominee reassures a cantankerous old man about his strong heart lasting a lifetime, per the Los Angeles Times.
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Borah
Los Angeles Times
Children Discover Czarist Treasure Loot In Volga Monastery
Children playing hide and seek uncovered a passage beneath a collapsed lumber pile in an abandoned Volga region monastery leading to treasure chests filled with gold silver and jewelry valued in the millions of rubles. Similar finds have occurred in other parts of Russia where czarist funds were hidden.
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Volga
Russia
Marble Vein Relocated In Vermont Quarries
A large deposit of pure white statuary marble has been discovered in Middlebury Vermont, reviving a vein once quarried sixty years ago. The stone gained fame with leading sculptors of its era before the original vein was lost and the quarry owners abandoned the search.
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Vermont
Middlebury
Self Preservation Magistrate Humorist Quips at Trial
The Humorist recounts a courtroom exchange where a prisoner bristles at police handling and jokes about a ticket to a policeman’s annual concert. The magistrate’s reactions frame a moment of wit amid a tense proceeding. The anecdote highlights the prisoner’s attempt to deflect blame with humor.
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Humorist
To Get Results He Wrote Nothing You May Do
A fragment from the Chicago Daily News shows a brief exchange where one person writes of enduring emotion and another sends an enclosed hat bill, reflecting a personal, domestic note in a gossip column style.
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Chicago Daily News
Stricter Safety Rules Proposed for Gasoline Handling
State Fire Marshal S L Legreid announced tighter safety regulations governing gasoline handling and dispensing. The measures cover bulk and retail storage, filling stations, garages, dry cleaning, alcohol and fuel oil storage, burners, and volatile oils use across Illinois.
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S. L. Legreid
Leo H.lowe
Trade and Commerce
Guv
Louis L. Emmerson
Road program contracts total 2.75 million in 1930 work
Contracts totaling 2 750 345 79 for the first series of projects in the state's 1930 road building program were awarded by Chief Highways Engineer Frank T Sheets. Projects include paving 121.07 miles and grading 28.02 miles, construction of 16 bridges, removal of one bridge, plus a sidewalk on an existing bridge.
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Frank T. Sheets
Whipp Named Leader for Illinois Delegation to Prague Conference
Governor Louis L Emmerson recognized Col Frank D Whipp on May 1 for long service in Illinois welfare. He appointed Whipp head of the Illinois delegation to the International Prison Conference in Prague Czechoslovakia. Whipp, 80, has over forty years in welfare work, and since July 1929 has been superintendent of prisons. He previously held posts including bookkeeper traveling auditor and chief clerk in welfare boards and schools for the deaf and boys.
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Louis L. Emmerson
Frank D. Whipp
Whipp
Board of Charities
First Board of Public Welfare
St. Charles School For Boys
State School For the Deaf
Department of Welfare
Illinois State Reformatory
Douglas Pattison Death Noted After Train Fall In Chicago
Douglas Pattison longtime Illinois legislator and former Democratic gubernatorial nominee died April 25 from injuries after falling from a rear car on an Illinois Central train in Chicago. The piece notes state and highway department labor plans for the 1920 construction season, including 1200 maintenance workers and a budget of about 3.25 million dollars, with 91,000 jobs projected through the Department of Highways, and mentions John Milhouse being named to the State Mine Chiefs association directorate formed at the Pittsburgh meeting of the U.S. Bureau of Mines.
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Douglas Pattison
Freeport
Chicago
Winois
Highway Department
John Milhouse
State Department of Mines and Minerals
State Mine Chiefs Association of America
Pittsburgh
United States Bureau of Mines
Illinois notices and services update from 1930s
Pheasant eggs offered free by mail from John Haberkorn to aid setting. Bangs disease embargo and cattle imports require certificates. Illinois poultry egg market drive announced by agriculture department. Mrs. Alice Dunn, widow of Justice Dunn, dies in Charleston. State property inventories total 107 million with real estate 87.7 million. Farmers institutes report 86 counties hosting 193 meetings for 279 days in 193 towns, plus 87 places for household science. Osteopathic Physicians convention set for Danville May 8-9. Charles F. Will named industrial officer in state labor department. Vandalia capitol to be restored after fire. State funds for hard roads will not cover engineering costs, says attorney general.
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John Haberkorn
Game Farms
Princeton
Ill
Minois
Tillinois Farmers’ Institute
Dangers of Smoking Under Fire in World War I Tale
Stanley H Allan recounts a WWI moment in 1918 when a private in the Seventh Machine Gun battalion Third division defies orders to smoke after hunger for a drag nearly costs him. Lieutenant Haze halts pursuit and begs for a single smoke as danger looms.
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Haze
Allan
Stanley H. Allan
American Legion Monthly
Ungartered Hose Attracts Small Boy
A Springfield Union item recalls a boy named Robert who prefers stockings worn without garters after hearing his Uncle Charles advocate the look. His mother and sister adjust his wrinkled stockings, only for the boy to explain his wish to imitate the uncle. The tale ends with a child's insistence on the self styled fashion.
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Robert
Charles
Springfield Union
Tardieu Shrugs Off French Ministry Fallout at Naval Talks
Premier Tardieu, amid the London naval conference turmoil, tells Secretary Stimson he will return and asks forgiveness for enemies. He adds he even forgives his friends with a sad smile, signaling resilience amid political shakeup.
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London
Premier Tardieu
Secretary Stimson
Mr. Stimson
M. Tardieu
No Proposal Found As She Reaches For Rejection Slip
The exchange implies a social moment where inquiry about proposing to a lady is answered with a humorous note that she was merely reaching for a rejection slip. The line captures a playful tension about romantic intentions.
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Ilinois
Stuart F. Pierson
Department of Agriculture
Pike County
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Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs
State Treasury
William J. Stratton
Hllnois
Iundg Chamber of Commerce
James L. Greene
Hot Springs
Ark
Evanston
Library Extension Division
Anna May Price
MiKi- Nois
Illinois Department of Agriculture
Stuart E. Pierson
State Department of Agriculture
Alice Dunn
Frank K. Dunn
Charleston
Oscar Nelson
Auditor of Public Accounts
Mtuinals Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons
Danville
Association
Charles F. Will
State Department of Labor
William F. Kramer
Vandalia
C. M. Service
Atty
Oscar E. Carlstrom
Liberal
Monarch
Rochester
Minn
Reid, Murdoch & Co
Sy Eels Murdoch & CO
New York
Bosten angiikee-Eerre
Jacksonville
St. Lonia FE
San Francisc
Istanbul
Turkey
United States
Ise
Braidwood
Jolieton Revie & Prima Donna Rabait & Fur CO
Dearborn St
Mrs. Schneider
Frank Schnsider
Peoria, TH
Betty Crocker
WasasuRn Crospy Company
Crocker
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