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Newspaper
Dekalb Daily Chronicle
Location
Dekalb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1919
Page
2
A brief note highlights Joy in a quiet city event where performers and attendees gather for a sunny evening concert. Local organizers and musicians are mentioned, with a focus on community spirit and hopeful attendance.
United Press dispatch from Springfield reports the Illinois State Teachers Association opens a three day conference with memorial services for 45 Illinois teachers who died in wartime service. Gov. Frank Lowden and President Cyrus S. Grove of Freeport are among speakers.
Fragmented report notes the Woods ok Gray school once built as northern Illinois’ first, recently destroyed by fire. Also mentions a 4,000 pound cheese delivered for Christmas trade and unverified notices from various places including Ohio Wesleyan, North Dakota, and Alabama about local events and opinions.
Local residents travel for Christmas and holidays visiting relatives in Rochelle Aurora Rockford Plano and Chicago. Notables include Rev Olympia Brown a pioneer preacher who once led a Bridgeport Connecticut church with P T Barnum among parishioners. Mrs F B Moore dies at home December 19 with funeral at her house and burial in Plano.
A burst of scientific and scholarly gatherings unfolds across North America starting today. The AAAS holds its 72nd convention in St Louis with affiliated bodies. the American Philosophical Society opens at Ithaca hosted by Cornell. the Geological Society of America meets in Boston along with the American Palaeontological Society. the American Society of Church History convenes at Union Theological Seminary in New York. the Archaeological Institute of America opens at Toronto University with the American Philological Association. Harvard hosts sessions of three societies while civic leaders gather in Cleveland for the National Municipal League’s 25th convention, and Alabama votes on constitutional amendments in today’s special election. Farmers’ clubs meet in Berkley, California, and Oregon’s Farmers and Homemakers’ Week gathers at Oregon Agricultural College.
One hundred county prosecutors and many assistants gather in Decatur to open the ninth annual convention of Illinois State's Attorneys Association. Mayor Borehers delivers welcome. Joseph Skinner and Jesse Deck offer addresses. topics include Supreme Court decisions, criminal jurisprudence, and grand jury reforms.
A Fargo Forum column laments excesses in American life, urging more production, thrift, and responsibility. It contrasts consumer wealth with work ethic, Christian values, and genuine democracy, warning against short cuts and constant complaint. It notes electricity outpacing light as a curious fact.
A collage of curiosities notes in brief form many claims about geography science and commerce. It mentions Australia forests quinine use in India sealskin dyeing snails sugar plantations mountain microbes and tall leaves. It also covers debt law in Turkey Delhi iron columns coal reserves a Brazilian coffee origin and other assorted oddities.
Report lists racing meetings in Havana and New Orleans, billiards match in New York, golf opener at Pinehurst, and several boxing cards in Jersey City and Syracuse. Also notes sea otter value and a testimonial praising Chamberlain's Cough Remedy from Ferguson Station Missouri.
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