Fargo Theatre Project Underway and New Mayor Sworn In
City council saw Mayor J B Lindstrom inaugurated for two years and new aldermen sworn in. A resolution thanked outgoing officials J J Kingsley W A Kilmer Gust Anderson L D Chambers City Attorney H D Fisk and City Treasurer Annie Hamilton for loyal service. Appointments named for Finance Street and Alley Fire Police Waterworks Street Lighting Sewers and Trains Sidewalks Buildings and Grounds and Ordinance committees. DeEstin L Pasley named city attorney and H B Goodison public works commissioner. Dr J B Hagey health officer and Judge H W McEwen on library board. Page 7.
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J. B. Lindstrom
Lindstrom
J. J. Kingsley
W. A. Kilmer
Gust Anderson
W. W. Hyde
John Berglund
J. W. Allen
Street
Alley
Berglund
William Wagerett
August Nelson
W. P. Hiland
Mark Biehl
Clyde Holderness
Hiland
Bieh
Battle Over Tariff Sees Divided House Debate
Washington May. Intensely bitter battle to change or kill the administration tariff bill unfolds in the House. Democrats seek alliances with mid western factions to form a coalition akin to the Senate debenture plan. The bill broadens levies to many farm products while masking some increases. A new tariff commission draws attention as Republicans dub it moderate though rates rise in effect.
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Washington
U.P
House
Senate
Minnesota
United States
Services For Mrs Teach On Friday
Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah BE Teach of this city will be held Friday at 3:00 p.m. from the Baptist church at Sycamore, with burial in Elmwood Cemetery at Sycamore. Mrs Teach had lived in the city only two years, moved from Sycamore, and had been in ill health, developing pneumonia before her death yesterday morning at her home on North Fourteenth Street.
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Sarah BE
Teach
North Fourteenth Street
Baptist Church
Sycamore
Elmwood Cemetery
Poppy Sale Aid for Veterans By De Kalb Legion Auxiliary
De Kalb Women’s Auxiliary of the American Legion conducts a two day poppy sale on May 28 and 29 to raise funds for veterans relief. Each poppy is handmade by an ex service man earning one cent per piece, with some crafting up to 300 per day. Proceeds aid disabled veterans in hospitals and in community welfare.
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Flanders Field
Women's Auxiliary of the
American Legion
DeKalb
Elgin
Dwight
Kankakee
Maywood
The
Legion Auxiliary
Elgin Hospital
Municipal Tuberculosis Hospital
Chicago
Lepisto
Suomi
de Kalb
Ishpeming
United States
Harry F. Sinclair
Washington, D. C
A. W. Sinclair
Millonaire
United States Senate
Senate
Teapot Dome
Hinckley Resident Chris Nelson Dies at Home
Chris Nelson of Hinckley died Tuesday morning after a period of failing health. A former farmer in southern Hinckley, he leaves his widow and three children Harold Nelson Joliet and Arthur Nelson of Joliet and Mrs Emery Firkins of Sycamore. Four grandchildren survive. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at the Methodist church in Hinckley.
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Chris Nelson
Hinckley
Nelson
Harold Nelson
Arthur Nelson
Joliet
Emery Firkins
Sycamore
Methodist
Weather outlook for Illinois mostly cloudy with showers
The forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies tonight and Thursday with likely showers and little temperature change. Details focus on Illinois weather.
Finnish Lutheran District Conference At DeKalb Church
Finnish clerics and lay leaders gather Friday to Sunday as Michigan district delegates meet at DeKalb church. Notables like Rev. A Lepisto and Rev. A Haapanen attend with guests from Hancock Ironwood Calumet Ishpeming Chicago and Waukegan. Programs include services, business sessions, polity debates, and farewell rites.
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Middlewest
Michigan
DeKalb Church
Little DeKalb
America
Michigan Peninsula
Hancock
Ironwood
Calumet
Ispheming
Chicago
Waukegan
A. Lepisto
Suomi College
A. Haapanen
Suomi Synod
DeKalb
A. A. Rautalahti
Many Russians Drown As Bridge Collapses
Disaster near Smolensk as a wooden dam fails under a crowd watching ice floes on the Dnieper. The river surged many feet above normal, causing a severe flood and many deaths among spectators.
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Smolensk
Russia
U.P
Dnieper
Rockford Man Arrested For Being Intoxicated
Elmer Lobedon of Rockford was arrested yesterday afternoon for intoxication. After a brief jail stay he appeared before Police Magistrate J M Blair and received a fine.
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Rockford
Elmer Lobedon
Lobedon
J. M. Blair
Lindstrom Takes Office As DeKalb Mayor For Two Years
Mayor J B Lindstrom pledged to enforce laws and serve majority wishes, announcing a two year term and delaying final appointments until vetted. He called for city book auditing to reveal finances, and stressed cooperation, accountability, and appointive integrity for stable leadership.
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Sey City
J. B. Lindstrom
Lindstrom
Capone Men Given Ride Morans Hit in Chicago Gun War
In Chicago and Hammond Ind a fresh gun battle left seven Moran allies dead on St Valentine’s Day, three Capone rivals identified in an abandoned car. Victims John Scalisi Albert Anselmi and Joe Perardi shown killed in vengeance for Moran massacre links. Police note Torrio’s return and wealth behind revived violence.
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Chicago
Moran Beer Gang
Morans
Hammond
Ind
John Scalisi
Albert Anselmi
Joe Perardi
Moran
Scaliss
Scalisi
Anselmi
Moran Gang
Johnny Torrio
Torrio
Plans To Take Census In Two More Years
Plans are completed for Sue to take the regular national decennial census for 1930 in DeKalb county. DeKalb will join the ninth district with LaSalle Grundy and Kendall counties, headquarters at LaSalle. Other northern Illinois counties go to districts with headquarters at Aurora Rockford Dixon and Chicago Cook county divided into five districts.
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Sue
DeKalb County
LaSalle
Grundy
Kendall
Debenture plan battle shapes Senate vote in May
Washington debates over Hoover farm relief debenture plan continue as the Senate splits along party lines 44 to 47 against the Watson amendment. Johnson supports the plan while Borah and others threaten to defy the president, risking a deadlock between houses.
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Bulletin
Washington
U.P
Hoover
Senate
Watson
Deneen
Glenn Afllinois
Borah
Idaho
Hiram Johnson
Johnson
Republican Congress
House
Republican Farm Platform
California
Car Stolen In City Last Evening
A 1927 Chevrolet coach belonging to Ross Hulmes of Sawyer garage was stolen between 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. from South Fifth Street across from the Sawyer filling station. Mrs Hulmes drove it to work and parked it there. Police were notified and descriptions sent to nearby departments.
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Ross Hulmes
Sawyer Garage
Veteran Pastor William Schulzke to be honored in Springfield banquet
Reverend William Schulzke, longtime pastor of St. John s Lutheran Church in Springfield, will be feted tonight with a banquet and reception marking forty five years of service to the church and community in Springfield Illinois on May 8.
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Springfield
U.P
William Schulzke
St. John’s Lutheran Church of
Three Men Drowned When Skiff Capsized Near Sewickley
Three men were drowned and eight escaped after a yawl struck an anchored barge and capsized in the swift Ohio River near Sewickley Pennsylvania. Victims were Robert Minick 23 Hyndman Pa Samuel Gray 48 of Mt Airy West Virginia and Henry Fuller 48 of Rankin Pa. All were Dravo Construction Company workers building a dam at Dead Man's Island and were leaving the island to row to shore when the accident happened.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
Ohio River
Sewickley
Robert Minick
Hyndman
Samuel Gray
Mt. Airy
W. Va
Henry Fuller
Rankin
Dravo Construction Company
Dead Man's Island
Illinois lawmakers pass police bill amid party lines
In Springfield the state Senate approved a public works police bill by 38 to 6 with Democrats split. The measure permits naming highway patrolmen with police power, capped at 30 officers, to curb road crime while labor groups say safeguards protect workers. The article also notes debates on the income tax, Weeks salary raise for legislators, and a De King homicide probe committee, plus several appropriation bills for veterans and public buildings.
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Capitol
Springfield
Til
U.P
General Assembly
Abt
East St. Louis
John A. Walker
Illinois Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
Department of Public Works and Buildings
Michel
Peoria
House
Senate
Legislative Agricultural Bloc
de King
House Committee
Joseph de King
Aurora
William E. Gilmore
Champaign
Dennick
Kane County
Grand Jury
Legislative
Tice
Pekin
Black Diamond Trail
Johnson
Pinckneyville
Rep
Congress
Illinois
Kane
Illinois Soldiers Orphans Home
Normal
Haish estate houses replaced by Fargo theatre project
Work begins to raze four old Haish estate houses on East Lincoln Highway for the H B Fargo theatre in the east end business district. Agreement reached with east end merchants, Fargo to erect a two story fireproof building with a theater of 1500 to 1600 seats and six stores fronting Lincoln Highway. Building to be similar to Fargo theatre in Geneva. construction to start next week after deed transfer and purchase of Beehive building.
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East Lincoln Highway
H. B. Fargo
East End
Fargo
DeKalb
Geneva
Lincoln Highway
Jacob Huish
Mr. Fargo
Sinclair Oil Company
Sixth Street
Robert Ferguson
Theatre
Fargoteaere
Cowell Will Leave Post At State Teachers College
Coach Roland A. Cowell head of men's physical education and three sport head coach at State Teachers College today handed in his resignation effective at fall term. He will leave DeKalb with an enviable record and has developed a coaching and teaching physical education program now required for all men.
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Roland A. Cowell
State Teachers’ College
Cowell
DeKalb
Teachers College
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Fargo Theatre Project
Rowe
Police
General Conference
Mich
Lke
Capone
John Torrio
Committee of the House
House Revenue Committee
McCarthy
State Teachers College
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