Springfield plans for ground east and south of state house
A Springfield mass meeting heard Springfield state architect W Carbus Zimmerman explain plans to secure ground east and south of the state house for future state buildings including a new supreme court. Governor Deneen supported the project as resolutions endorsing it passed. Nearby, Illinois Grange urged local option and anti cigarette laws as the Monon case prompted a demand for an annual report.
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Chicago Museum
George W. Murray
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Oliver Wilson
Peoria
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California
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State Board of Equalization
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Juntgen accuses Parrish in bank wreck case
Walter Juntgen indicted for wrecking Edgar County National Bank swears James Parrish president directed many false entries. He alleges losses of 50 000 to stockholders and customers. Autavit tied to defense motion to examine bank books. Trial set for Monday for full investigation.
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Paris
Walter Juntsen
Edgar County National Bank
James &. Parrish
Juntgen
Robbers Take 600 Dollars From Danville Coal Office
Burglars forced the safe at Dering Coal Company in Westville and stole 600 dollars. Mine employees heard an explosion, rushed to the office, but the robbers had already fled with the loot.
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Danville
Dering Coal Company
Westville
Saloons Close at Sparta as Licenses Expire in Belleville
Belleville W Dec 13 The law was placed on the saloons at Sparta Sunday for the first time since licenses were granted one year ago. Every saloon was closed tightly and the imbibers went dry. An effort to close the saloons at Marissa failed.
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Belleville
Sparta
Marissa
Death comes to him suddenly in Pana church service
Rev. J. Woe Crocker a Baptist minister aged 62 died after sudden bowel trouble while leading services at New Hope church four miles southwest of Pana Illinois on December 18 authorities reported.
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Pana
J. Woe Crocker
New Hope Church
Man Seeks Daughter Who Eloped in Chicago
Edward Mitagerald of Brighton Park arrived in Bloomington to report his daughter eloping with John ONeil of Chicago. Police were alerted but the couple could not be found.
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Bloomington
Dee
Edward Mitagerald
Brighton Park
John Oneil
Chicago
Over Young to Marry in Vandalla
Vandalla NL December 18 John Eshle an and Minnie Ritter wed in town. The groom is 64 while the bride is barely 16.
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Vandalla
John Eshlean
Minnie Ritter
Girls Dance Sixteen Miles a Night Tale
A young man who loves dancing carried a pedometer to a ball and logged thirteen and a half miles in one evening. It notes typical dance distances: waltz half a mile, polka three quarters, galop or cotillon a mile. It states that girls often dance more than men and can exceed sixteen miles in a single night. The piece adds that bell summons to houses for servants appeared in England after Queen Anne's reign.
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England
High Life In Tomsk
A traveler describes Tomsk Siberia noting shops with Caucasus apples, Chinese tea from 400 miles away, German kodaks and modern goods. A London-like barber charges a shilling for shave and cut. Population about 60,000 with many churches and public buildings. Tomsk University houses medicine and law faculties and ranks third in imperial education.
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Caucasus
China
Peter the Great
Germany
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Empire
Graft tale of a tramp and a boy with a stolen ring
The Graftern Success author James B Dill retells a New York Tribune anecdote about a crafty tramp who convinces a boy to return a silver ring the tramp claims to own by revealing his own alias Sterling. The story underscores the theme of graft and deception.
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James B. Dill
Oberlin College
Mr. Dill
Sterling
New York Tribune
Irishman’s splash and physician’s race theory tale
Last summer excursions from Providence to Newport ended in laughter when Patrick McGuire jumped to avoid left behind and landed headfirst, then exclaimed Jabez what a lap. English physician Scholes argues Egyptians and other colored races had ancient cultures, challenging views of racial inferiority.
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Newport
R. I
Patrick McGuire
Jabez
Scholes
Humphreys Patent Medicine Addressing Lameness and Ailments
An old advertisement catalog lists Humphreys medicines for lameness, throat troubles, worms, coughs, colds, influenza, bellyache, wind blows, and digestive disorders. It promises relief for multiple ailments with a mailed book offering further details and pricing.
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J. BE
Deviltry in a labor case sparks open shop clashes
Lomin O Dec 13 A fight between master plumbers and journey men over open shop leads to wrecking of three buildings the Steve Majesse block and the Ros enfeld and Dobos blocks J W Selser a pan union carpenter is beaten and thrown onto an electric railway track in Denver a separate report notes a 5 percent year end bonus for American Smelting and Refining workers in Colorado and a Vancouver Island Fawn wreckage found with a ship’s fate unclear in Victoria plus a 10 percent wage hike for American Woolen Company operatives in New York with salaried workers excluded.
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Steve Majesse
John Rosenfeld
Dobos
J. W. Selser
Pan-Union
Denver
Colorado
American Smelting and Refining Company
Franklin Gautterman
Victoria
B. C
Vancouver Island
New York
American Woolen Company
Bota
Longtime judge G W Ruddick of district dies at 70
Waverly Tennessee December 13 Judge G W Ruddick who served as judge of the twelfth judicial district for more than twenty years retired in 1892 is dead at age seventy.
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Waverly
G. W. Ruddick
Twelfth Judicial District
National League meeting draws baseball leaders to New York
Baseball club owners and managers from all sections of the country are in New York attending the annual meeting of the National League.
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New York
Chicago Markets Report on Wheat Corn and Hog Prices
Chicago Board of Trade quotes show mixed grain and pork futures with Dec wheat around 86 87 cents and May near 98, corn around 45, oats around 81, pork futures for January near 13.40, and hogs and cattle receipts noted. East Buffalo reports mixed cattle and hog pricing with lambs strong and calves steady, reflecting regional trading activity.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
T.co
Choice Prairie
East Buffalo Live
East Buffalo
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
N. Y
Prosecution Language Sparks Dispute in Court
In a Chicago Daily News item a prisoner swears he is no murderer and protests the prosecutor's language as if he were the defendant in a society divorce case. The piece also notes Lhassa Tibet with ten thousand inhabitants, two thirds women, running city business.
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Chicago Daily News
Lhassa
Forbidden City
Thibet
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