Fire damages Hunt home in DeKalb. $2500 loss
A morning blaze at Clifford Hunt's residence 336 College Avenue caused heavy smoke, water damage, and attic destruction. Fire Chief McEvoy said hoses burst and chemicals were used to minimize damage as neighbors helped evacuate furniture. two hours of effort saved the house from total ruin.
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DeKalb
First Lutheran
Clifford Hunt
College Avenue
McEvoy
Anna Begstrom
Hunt Home
C. W. Roland
North Fourth Street
South Fourth Street
Pope Pius XI blesses world on St. Peter's balcony
From Rome, Pope Pius XI appeared on a balcony to bless the world after a mass marking the seventh anniversary of his coronation and the restoration of Vatican Italy relations. About 100000 filled St. Peter's Square for the event a medieval pageant with cardinals and papal court in attendance.
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Rome
UPI
St. Peter’s
Pius XI
Vatican
Italy
Urbis Et Orbis
Colleges of Cardinals
First annual Scout Rally at State College gym
The Eta chapter of Alpha Phi Omega sponsors a regional Boy Scout rally at State Teachers College new gym. Six city troops will compete in inter troop contests including knot tying, fire making, first aid, signaling, and dress relays with prizes for top teams. Public attendance encouraged with programs detailing each stunt.
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State Teachers College
New Gym
Eta
Alpha Phi Omega Fraternity
National Scout Fraternity
State College
Walter Swarthout
Congregational
Publc
Child Suffers Broken Collar Bone in Fall
A young child, son of Mrs. Elmer Scott of North Twelfth Street, broke his right collar bone in a fall last week. The injury caused significant pain but has lessened over time. A year ago Charles, three, fell from a cart and broke a leg, and the family hopes this will be the last misfortune for some time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Scott
North Twelfth Street
Scott
Charles
Aes
Funeral rites held for Walter W. Scott 70 in Beatrice
Walter W. Scott of Beatrice Nebraska died Sunday at his home after four years of illness. The Kaneville born former business man had worked in Waterman Kaneville and Hinckley. He is survived by his wife four children a sister Mrs J E Evans of Chicago and three nieces in Aurora.
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Waterman
Beatrice
Neb
Walter W. Scott
Mr. Scott
Kaneville
Hinckley
J. E. Evans
Chicago
Aurora
Belleville Judge Fines Seven in Liquor and Slot Case
Court records show Judge W. R. Weber of St. Clair county fined seven defendants a total of 1800 dollars after pleas of guilty to liquor violations or slot machine charges.
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Belleville
U.r—Aan
W. R. Weber
St. Clair
DeKalb Officials Appoint Cassius Poust First Assistant DA
Cassius Poust, long time DeKalb county states attorney, is named first assistant district attorney to George E Q Johnson. The Chicago job requires weekly office time, with residence in Sycamore and continued involvement with Poust Fisk and Mondrey law firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cassius Poust
DeKalb County
George E. Q. Johnson
Washington, D. C
Sargent
Poust
The
Chronicle
Federal Service
Department of Justice
Chicago
Johnson
Sycamore
Poust, Fisk & Mondrey
John E. Northrup
Conk
John E. Swanson
John Page
Rockford
Phil Ward
Sterling
Hole in Ice Sparks West Terre Haute Missing Person Drama
Edith Mae Dierdorf still missing after Jan. 27 case in West Terre Haute. Villa Grove residents report a hole chopped in ice of a reservoir pond with a heavy object suspected to be a body. Police drag attempts fail awaiting spring thaw. links to Ethel May Dierdorf considered but unconfirmed.
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Terre Haute
Ind
U.P
Edith Mae Dierdorf
West Terre Haute
Villa Grove
Ill
John Borrer
Railroad
Ren
E. L. McCollum
Carl Lewis
Ethel May Dierdorf
Europe Endures Deep Freeze Across Nations
Europe faces record cold with 48 deaths in three days. Shipping, railways, and telegraph networks are disrupted. Debrezen residents suffer in unheated homes while a Cracow family freezes to death in a wagon. Kiel reports gale winds as Baltic ice operations continue. Warsaw logs 47 degrees below zero, easing from 63 below the prior day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
London
U.P
Debrezen
Hungary
Cracow
Poland
Bagnor
George
Schleswig- Holtein
Elsass
Kiel
Baltic Sea
Warsaw
Hoover Returns to Miami via Motor from Florida Yacht Trip
President-elect Hoover left Puntarassa 25 miles from Fort Myers at 8 40 a m and headed to Miami Beach by motor escorted by secret service. The Saunterer yacht remained off Puntarassa while Hoover abandoned plans for a fishing trip due to cold weather. Mrs Hoover and others would join at Miami Beach while Herbert Hoover Jr returned to Washington.
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Hoover
Miami
Auto
Fort Myers
Fla
U.2
Belle Island
Miami Beach
Secret Service
Puntarassa
Here
Joseph Murphy
Secret Services
Saunterer
Edison
Pantarassa
Aged Justice Died by Own Action in Belleville Hotel
Belleville authorities audit the accounts of Justice of Peace Thomas J. Hitchings who died from a self inflicted bullet wound in his rooming house. Investigators review state funds tied to his duties amid reports he died due to financial worries. Friends say he suffered despondence over his estranged wife’s imprisonment for a Mt. Vernon bank robbery. His marriage to his young stenographer ended quickly as she left him and was later arrested.
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Belleville
Ill
U.R
Justice of Peace
Thomas J. Hitchings
Hitchings
Statesville
Mt. Vernon
State Teachers College Women Win Debating Round
State Teachers College women claim third straight victory by defeating Wheaton College in a Wheaton debate. The triangular state meet is set for March 8 in this city with sectional winners contesting the remaining debates. The team, coached by G. W. Campbell, features Carmen Johnson, Josephine McLaren, and Pamella Havell, and has also defeated North Central Naperville and Shurtleff Alton teams this season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheaton College
Wheaton
State Teachers College
Platteville
Wis
Teachers College
Carmen Johnson
Josephine McLaren
Pamella Havell
Weingarten
Crane Junior College
Chicago
North Central College
Naperville
Gladys Risvold
Vera Babcock
Shurtleff College
Alton
Maritha Ruesch
Younh
G. W. Campbell
West
Chicago Public Brary
Mrs Thompson Injury After Saturday Kitchen Fall
Mrs Amanda Thompson, mother of Mrs W W Hyde and Mrs Henry Rolfe, injured her head when she fell on the kitchen floor Saturday at the Hyde home. A slight gash was cut, but she was able to be about yesterday while recovering from a several weeks illness. Friends in the city fear a relapse may follow the fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompson
Amanda Thompson
W. W. Hyde
Henry Rolfe
Hyde
Jail release in hootch case of Roy Sly at Liberty Belleville
Roy Sly of O fallon Illinois was freed after 70 days in county jail on a possession of a half pint whiskey charge. The release came yesterday due to lack of sufficient evidence at the request of State's Attorney Lindauer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberty
Belleville
U.2
Roy Henr Sly
O'Fallon
Ill
Lindauer
Science May Save The Lives Of Radium Girls
Five New Jersey women once doomed by radium poisoning may gain extended life from a new theory that mesotherium, not radium, caused their illness. Doctors report slight worsening but hold out hope of indefinitely prolonged expectancy as suits continue. The women include Grace Fryer Albina Larice Katherine Schaub Edna Hussman and others from Newark Hillside and Orange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New Jersey
United Press
France
U. S. Radium Corporation
Grace Fryer
Albina Larice
McDonald
Orange
N. J
Katherine Schaub
Newark
Edna Hussman
Hillside
Mae C. Canfield
Ethelwynne Metz
Helen Puck
Canfield
Former DeKalb Resident Loses Eye in Chicago Hospital
C F Carlson once from DeKalb now living in Chicago had his right eye removed last Wednesday in a Chicago Hospital. He suffers an eye ailment and doctors hope to save the left eye with a possible second operation. Carlson worked on the Chicago elevated system and is brother in law to Mrs Alfred Johnson and John Swanberg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeKalb
C. F. Carlson
Chicago
Carlson
Alfred Johnson
South Tenth Street
John Swanberg
South Fifth Street
Fist Fight Highlights Johnston Impeachment Hearing
Oklahoma City February 12. The second day of Henry Johnston’s gubernatorial impeachment featured fist fights and heated arguments among attorneys senators and a witness. Senator Fletcher Johnson attempted to whip a reporter at the press table before Chief Justice Mason stopped the disturbance. The 44 member senate court of impeachment resumed at 10:00 a m examining the pardon of fugitive murderer Dewey Crosthwaite and its link to Johnston's former secretary O D Hammond. The prosecution seeks motive for the pardon amid the eleven articles of impeachment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
O.R
Henry
Johnston
Oklahoma Senate
Fletcher Johnson
Charles W. Mason
Senate
O. 0. Hammonds
Formal Order In Gas Trials Signed In Springfield
Judge Charles G. Briggle of Lange Mon county circuit court signed a formal decree directing the state department of finance to return January 1928 gasoline tax money to Richardson Lubricators Co of Quincy under the defunct two cent tax. The payment is stayed pending the state's appeal to the supreme court likely to be decided in June. Briggle had ruled $578,000 collected but blocked by injunctions should be returned to gasoline companies.
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Springfield
U.P
Charles G. Briggle
Langemon County
State Department of Finance
Richardson Lubricators Company
Quincy
Supreme Court
T.cision
Briggle
tWow
DeKalb Plans Banquet for Reds Recruit Evar Swanson
DeKalb hosts a reception and banquet next Tuesday evening for Evar Swanson Cincinnati Reds recruit and Pacific Coast league star. Tickets cost 1 dollar and go on sale today at multiple outlets. about 400 guests expected at First Lutheran church with Rev Magnusson aiding. Swanson and wife are visiting relatives in New Boston and Kirkville.
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DeKalb
Evar Swanson
Cincinnati Reds
Pacific Coast League
First Lutheran Church
E. W. Magnusson
Evar
Reds
National League
Stills’ Drug
Cottage Cupboard
Lincoln Inn
Weinlund’s
Carlson- Stenstrom
Kirchner
Seventh Street
Kirkville
DeKalbon
St Louis Proclaimed Aviation Capital of United States
George C. Smith of the St Louis industrial bureau declared St Louis the aviation capital of the United States at an aviation banquet in East St Louis citing that 1300 of 4800 licensed pilots trained in the St Louis metropolitan district.
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St. Louis
East St. Louis
Ill
George C. Smith
Industrial Bureau of
United States
Weather forecast for Mliness shows clouds and snow
Mostly cloudy with snow starting tonight or Wednesday. Temperatures stay mild tonight but not very cold.
Embargo Debate Over Arms Restrictions Draws White House View
President Coolidge favors embargoes on arms to maintain peace but rejects Capper style tracing of aggressors. Congress debates extending executive embargo powers, while Porter and Kellogg push resolutions allowing flexible action without naming violators. Capper ties to League of Nations. Shotwell and Butler named as backers, deny league link by Capper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Coolidge
Capper
White House
United States
Congress
Senator Capper
Porter
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Kellogg
Republican
Kansas
German Reparations Talks Open Amid Tax Burden Debate
Feb 12 reports show Dr. Hjalmar Schacht outlining present and future German tax burdens and the nation’s fiscal situation at the reparations conference. An American observer called Schacht's exposition able and moderate as debates among six nations begin under an American chair. Morgan and Young expected to guide impartial assessment while no minutes will be kept.
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Schacht
Reichsbank
Parker Gilbert
Germany
Paris
Owen D. Young
J. P. Morgan
United States
Morgan
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Cassius E. Poust
Era Chapter
Washington Today
State Teachers’ College
XICAN
Emilio Portes Gil
Mexico
Portes Gil
Dewey Crosthwaite
Thelma Lovejoy
Crosthwaite
Mrs. Evar Swanson
Halts Arms Sale
League of Nations
James T. Shotwell
Columbia University
Nicholas Murray Butler
Shotwell
Butler
League
Kellogge
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