Alleys in City Should Get Lighting for Better Night Protection
Merchants urge lighting of alleys between First and Fourth to boost police protection. Illinois Power Co to estimate cost for ten incandescent lamps as city officials plan to discuss with business owners. Night merchant patrols currently cover the area, but lighting could deter prowlers and improve security for stores along the highway.
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Simms
Illinois Power Company
Tlinois Power Company
Beer Is Taken on Truck From Elgin Brewery
Evidence to halt the operations of Lawrence Crowley bootlegger king of Illinois was seized in a raid on an Elgin brewery. Federal agents led by Bryce Armstrong seized two trucks from Elgin Ice Products Company tied to Crowley. Drivers John and Corvalia were arrested and held on $1,000 bond after naming Crowley as controller.
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Carenee
Chicago
John P. Evans
Federal District Attorney
Lawrence Crowley
King
Illinois
Elgin
Bryce Armstrong
Elgin Ice Products Company
Crowley
Evans
Joliet
John
Corvalia
Garages Ordered to Cease Car Washings Citywide
A police book notation states all city garages with wash floors must stop washing machines until further notice. The order comes from the commissioner of public works due to a water shortage. Repairs to city wells are expected within a few days, returning supply to normal. Rain last night aided curing cement on North Street, improving pavement.
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Police Department
Commissioner of Public Works
North Street
State Patrol To Enforce Car Front Light Rule
Complaints over auto drivers driving with only one headlight at night surge. State patrol will enforce the law, arresting those who fail to extinguish or dim lights. Tail lights may burn out without the driver knowing, but dimmed lights rule will be enforced.
Officers Called to Capital for State Patrol Changes
State Patrol Officer Oscar Larson left for Springfield this morning after days of waiting for orders. He was accompanied by Officer Richard Peck of Elgin and Officer Kempster of Sterling. The trip began around ten o clock as changes in state patrol laws prompt the summons. Officer Garson had been told to report at Springfield between the first and seventh of the month.
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Oscar Larson
Springfield
Larson
Richard Peck
Elgin
Kempster
Sterling
Garson
Police Find Buick Which May Be Stolen
Police respond to a report of a large machine idle on North Fourth Street for over a day without a license. The car was brought to the station and officers found only the serial and engine numbers. Determining the owner will require checking auto license books, a long process through licenses issued up to 706000.
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Buick
North Fourth Street
Mail Carriers Back Plan For Saturday Afternoon Off
Reports show nearly 2000 signers support a petition to allow mail carriers in the city to have Saturday afternoon off. Unknown when the petition will go to the Postmaster General’s department, but deliveries may be cut to Saturday morning only during the summer months.
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Severa
Postmaster General's Department
Fire hydrants painted in city to aid night alarms
Fire Chief McEvoy directs a three day painting of city hydrants. Tops receive gray while the body is bright red to allow easy distinction during night alarms.
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McEvoy
Whitgrove Begins Two Weeks Vacation From Steel Mill Job
F. J. Whitgrove, superintendent of the American Steel and Wire mills, started a two weeks vacation Monday. He plans most time at home and at the Kishwaukee Country club golf course with some short trips to nearby lakes and time in the community swimming pool during the break.
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F. J. Whitgrove
Kishwaukee Country Club
American Steel and Wire Mills
Redpath Chautauqua Opens With Star-Studded Seven Day Lineup
A seven day Redpath Chautauqua opens August 21 featuring Elsie Baker contralto and the Macfarren Symphony Quartet. Lecturers include Charles H. Plattenburg and Dr. Hilton Ira Jones with programs by the Betty Booth Concert Company and the Russian Cathedral Choir. Highlights include The Pacific Triangle lecture, Artists Night with Elsie Baker, and The Man of Now address by Dr Charles Medbury.
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Elsie Baker
Mata
Great
Laurant and Company
Hilton Tra Jones
Charles 5
Medbury
Betty Booth
Macfarren Symphony Quartet
Redpath Chautagua
Macfarren
Herbert Macfarren
Charles H. Plattenburg
Hilton Ira Jones
Sydney Greenbie
Pacific Triangle
Elsie Baker Company
America
Miss Baker
Victor
Russian Cathedral Choir
Charles
Middle West
J. Smith Damron
Pottercraftsman
S. Bellino
New York City
Redpath Bureau
Merrilees
T. Dinsmore Upton
E. T. Hagerman
Contemplated Changes in Time Table Revoked
A DeKalb area report states two Northwestern trains No 17 and No 18 originally slated to change times will remain as is for the time being. Station agent Allen announced on Monday there will be no timetable changes soon.
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North Western
DeKalb
Allen
Search of Lake Erie for Lt Null discontinued
Lake Erie search for the body of Lieutenant T. B. Null was called off today at Port Stanley Ontario. Port officials urged boats to monitor courses as the wrecked balloon departed with U.S. officials. An examination for certificates will be held at Sycamore High School Illinois on July 20 and 21 1923.
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Louis J. Roth
Telford B. Null
Lakehurst
N. J
U.S
Roth
Navy
Lake Erie
EH. Stanley
Jaoher
Port Stanley
Ont
Lake
United Dream
Stanley
Sycamore
Illinois
Lovely Slayer Must Remain in London Prison
Friends of Princess Marie held in London jail on murder charges against her husband Prince Ali Fahmy plan to seek bail. Bail is unlikely as murder suspects rarely gain release. The princess faces possible operation and would stay in the prison hospital if needed after the Savoy suite found mortally wounded yesterday morning.
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United Pessy
London
England
Friends of
Marie
Prince Ali Fahmy
Egypt
The
Savoy
North Street paving to finish this week weather permitting
Paving on North Street is to be completed within the week if heavy rains do not delay work. The contractor reports progress with a block completed yesterday and the crew moving toward Seventh Street. Additional paving is underway on Pond Street DeKalb Avenue Grove Street Seventh Street Franklin Street and Eleventh Street with Thirteenth Street prep to begin soon. Harrison Street pavement will be uncovered late next week as planned.
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North Street
Fifth Street
Seventh Street
Pondtreet
DeKalb Avenue
Grove Street
Franklin Street
Eleventh Street
Thirteenth Street
Harrison Street
Jackson Team Has the Honor in Elks Lodge
Jackson Mich Zou ave patrol wins best drilled team honor for the fourth straight year at the Elks Lodge. Business sessions resume with election of James G McFarl as Grand Exalted Ruler and selection of Boston for future officers yesterday.
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Jackson
Elks Lodge
Canea 1Rens
Atlanta
Mich
James G. McFarland
Watertown
Boston
Eleven Die in Explosion at Rowder Mills
Eleven people die and 23 are injured when a 101b lump of powder accumulates in the decapping machine at the Western Cartridge factory in Alton, spreading debris and killing five women. The plant employed about fifty workers in a single story building. many injured were rushed to hospitals as nurses and doctors responded. The blast occurred amid wartime procurement of ammunition components.
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Diegeo
Athens
Western Cartridge Company
Alton
State Man Cites Law to Drivers of Motorcades
Iowa drivers were cited by Automobile Investigator 1m. M. Fellows who believed they could operate unlicensed new cars within a motorcade. Fellows from the Secretary of State’s office escorted the drivers to the police station and explained that motorcade rules require a license plate on the front car and a rear plate on the last car.
Rainy Weather Brings Two Sleepers to Hall
Police blotter records two sleepers found today marking a rare incident in recent weeks. Warm weather prompted early retirements for many knights, while last night’s storm drove two stragglers to the city lodge.
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Hall
Knights of the Tes
Theity
Storm Causes Damage and Fear Across Communities
A severe storm last night knocked a Cortland store employee unconscious from a lightning strike and felled five willow trees blocking streets. Across the region corn and grain suffered, St. Charles church steeple was struck but not burned, DeKalb saw trees hit and a Grove street fuse box shattered, and farm fires were suspected but not confirmed.
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M. F. Malone
Cortland
St. Charles
DeKalb
Illinois Power Company
Grove Street
Deaths in Wake of Storm Over the West
Three killed and property and crops damaged in southern Michigan as a severe rain and electrical storm struck. In Cedar Rapids two women died when lightning hit a tree sheltering them. four others were stunned. Names: Mary Green Mildred Levison.
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Mlton
Detroit
Mich
Michigan
Cedar Rapids
Mary Green
Mildred Levinson
Rail Crossing on Second Street Repaired
Railroad workers have spent several days making repairs at Second Street crossing. Brick approach raised to match the rest of the crossing. Plans are in progress to fix all city rail crossings, with hope Seventh Street will be attended soon due to its rough condition.
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Second Street
Seventh Street
Tom Fawcett Goes Off Duty for Ten Days at Station
Tom Fawcett of the fire department leaves the station for a rest period of at least ten days unless a 411 alarm from 21 or 42 requires him to return. He plans a relaxed few days and possibly a motor trip to visit relatives while Captain William Wall is due back at work tomorrow morning. Norma Tendange Opens Three-Day Run of Within the Law at the Princess Tonight.
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Tom Fawcett
Fire Department
Fawcett
William Wall
Norma Tendange
Merchants Protest Parking Rules at Fourth and Lincoln
Businessmen near Fourth and Lincoln Highway urge change to parking restrictions on North Fourth Street. They argue current non parking rules hinder commerce and block access for fire trucks when street cars stop briefly at the corner. They request allowing parking on the west side to ease DeKalb area congestion.
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Fourth and
Lincoln Highway
North Fourth Street
DeKalb
DeKalb 1923 Clearance Sale Opens With Big Crowd
Ten busy days begin today as the annual summer clearance sale opens in DeKalb. The Chron icle reports 7000 copies of the special edition circulated, with thousands of bargains and ads clipped. Merchants cut prices to clear spring and summer stock for fall shipments and expect a surge of shoppers from across the county despite overnight rain.
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the Chronicle
DeKalb
Nitti Crudelle Begins Hunger Strike After Hang Verdict
Signora Sabella Nitti Crudelle, the first white woman sentenced to hang in Chicago, began a hunger strike after Monday's verdict. She drank grape juice and refused further food, then attempted self harm by head injuries and strangling herself. Warden Westbrook placed a guard and doctors oversee her care in Cook County Jail. Frank Crudelle, her former husband, was convicted alongside her for the hammer murder of her first husband and faces the same sentence.
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United Press
Chicago
Ill
Signora Sabella Nitti Crudelle
Cook County
Westbrook
Nitti
Frank Crudelle
Hammer
DeKalb Woman Sees Tornado in Northwest Territory
Mrs. W. E. Allen and her grandson Marvin traveled to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, earlier this week. A letter home reports that Sunday and Monday were hot, followed by severe weather including a tornado that caused considerable destruction in the area.
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DeKalb
Northwest
W. E. Allen
Marvin
Sioux Falls
S. D
Bad Slump on Market
Chicago Wheat slid to a nine year and 1915 low on the Chicago Board of Trade as July delivery fell to 99 1 8 cents, with September and December also dropping. Traders lashed the pit in a near riot amid a surge of wild buying and forecasts of bumper crops in the United States and abroad.
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United Press
Chicago
Ill
Chicago Board of Trade Today
United States
Washington
D. C
United States Department of Agriculture
Chicago Bee
Canada
Gray Silver
American Farm Bureau Federation
Chicago Board of Trade
Europe
Liverpool
Agnes Brock Dies After Illness at Elgin Hospital
Agnes Brock longtime resident of this city died Tuesday at Elgin State Hospital after years of illness. She was born July 14 1868 and lived here most of her life before moving to eliminations. She leaves sister Mrs Thomas Farrell near DeKalb and brother Lawrence Brock of Grand Rapids Mina plus two sisters and one brother deceased. Funeral at St Marys Church tomorrow at nine, burial in St Marys Cemetery north of the city.
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Agnes Brock
Elgin Hospital
Elgin State Hospital
Elgin Institution
Dubuque
Elgin
Patrick
Catherine Brock
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Maughan Starts on Journey to New York
Lieut M Maughan began a trip to New York at 8 30 am after a failed attempt to span the continent. His plane was forced down near St Joseph Missouri Monday. He continued the journey despite the earlier setback to press on toward the eastern city.
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Elgin Brewery
Thustler
Lincolnway
Isitt Et Teenies
Lincoln,Inn
Rowder Mills
Norma ‘Talmadge
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