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Newspaper
Chicago Eagle
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1917
Page
2
A detailed roll of Democratic leaders per Illinois chapters is given with names, roles, and ward headquarters. It includes Illinois delegates from Cook County and state officers in Edwardsville and Mattoon along with ward-by-ward postings and addresses in Chicago.
A dense listing of numerous club and society headquarters across Chicago neighborhoods. Entries provide addresses, phone numbers, presidents, and secretaries, with meeting days and venues such as Grace Hall and McNally's Hall.
The article lists Cook County district selections for the New Democratic State Committee including John J. Coughlin Sullivan and Martin J. Moran Harrison among others, with Downstate members such as Thomas F. Donovan Sullivan and William F. McNamara Sullivan. It notes Collins and Viterna each with 3 630 votes in the Fifth district and mentions Goodrich Line steamers first trip to Sault Ste. Marie starting June 28. It praises Judge Scully leading Chicago Cook County election machinery and touts Matt Aller as a potential City Treasurer along with C A Bickett as a respected coal industry figure.
Berhalters Health Food stores in Chicago brighten the city with attractive window displays. The exhibits are appetizing and pleasing to the eye.
The Washington postmaster promotes a farm to table movement linking farmers directly with city residents to reduce living costs. Parcel post deliveries cut middleman commissions, with hundreds of farmers listed in Pennsylvania to West Virginia offering eggs, butter, pork, poultry and other products. Farmers can join by notifying the postmaster to appear on future bulletins.
Two girls in gaudy outfits stroll along the state department area arm in arm. A gum theft claim distracts them but a nearby woman notices a moment of loyalty amid chatter and flirtation, ending with a wary glance at a passing soldier.
The Council of National Defense reports massive expansion of Washington’s communications. Telephones and telegraphs will connect military, treasury and agriculture with national financial and post camps, doubling long distance capacity and adding a new underground cable from Washington to New York with over 80 000 miles of wire.
In Washington the uniform remains a vivid symbol of a nation at war as thousands of young men in khaki crowd the streets and camps from the Conduit road to Virginia. The war department glows with activity and the new military ethos replaces old notions of romance with quiet duty.
The notes describe simple home polishes using vinegar and salt for brass, a new pneumatic hammer for tamping paving stones, and ancient Egypt's early cultivation of pomegranate referenced by biblical travelers. It also notes patent spiked roof frames, chalk shortages in England and France, a Polish enlistment event in Chicago, Sweden's coal shortfall prompting peat experiments, and a brief mention of a man named John Kanepa influencing Polish recruitment.
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