Roosevelt era county politics sparks front for Yates bid
The Galena Tribune and Chicago Record Herald clash over Richard Yates seeking the U S senate. Lawson Deneen allies push for a Cook County campaign, accusing rival papers of changing fronts for power. They note Madden and Cullom as examples of newspaper influence and question Cook County patronage domination.
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Lawson-Deneen
Cook County
Yates
Deneen
Illinois
Victor F. Lawson
Richard Yates
Record- Herald
Trust of
Chicago
Lawson
Trust
Record-Herald
News and Tribune
Martin B. Madden
Madden
Congress
Lorimer
United States Senate
Shelby M. Cullom
Lead and zinc district shows solid mining recovery
The lead and zinc mining district stabilizes after last winter's hype with cautious investment and steady ore output. Landowners beware of past lease woes as promoters retreat, while capital finds sane opportunities and dividends rise in a rehabbing western mining region.
Home Coming Plan for New High School Dedication
The board of education plans August dedication ceremonies for the new high school building. A reunion of the school Alumni is among the features proposed for the event.
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Board of Education
Plan
Costs More to Be American New Naturalization Law Increases Fees
A new naturalization law tightens the process with open court declarations and public notices. Applicants must be 18, provide detailed personal data, and follow longer waiting times with two sets of final papers sent to Washington. Fees rise to 5 for papers and 1 2 2 for successive stages with hearings open to objectors. A Galena booster urges broader homecomings for former residents.
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Washington
Bureau of Immigration
Vision of a grand reunion for former citizens
The writer imagines a nationwide reunion where oldtime residents share life stories and testimony to luck and fate. Successes and failures blend, but hero worship favors the renowned while the lesser successes face outsiders’ scorn, a novel idea pitched to the school board and public.
Medicine show brings entertainment to school grounds
Tana's medicine show occupies school grounds for a week with free performances drawing a good audience. Notables include Miss Letha Opie from Warren visiting Miss Mary Perry, and many locals such as John Youle and Raymond Andrews traveling to Chicago. Community news notes mining activity, repairs, visits, and a pasture offer by R A Bratton in Galena Illinois.
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Tana
Galena
Letha Opie
Warren
Mary Perry
John Youle
Chicago
Raymond Andrews
Michigan
William Hoskins
C. E. Wright
City Briefs Highlight Local Happenings Across Town
Town notices report paving on Franklin corner start soon and Frank Mittendorf of Chicago joining Joe Young’s barbershop. Camp Lincoln transport for Company M, Scheerer camp trip by Fortnightly club and Kings Daughters, and a new saloon opening August 1 in the McPhillips building. Also coverage of cattle loss from the storm, a hand injury on a drilling job, a $2 000 Woodman monument unveiling in Dubuque with trains, apples and fruit surplus, officer ill health, horse team runaway near Galena Iron Works, a dynamite cap incident at Burlington to Galena Junction, plus a sales ad tease.
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Naomi Messley
Galena
Charles Berryman
Vera Grande
W. H. Martin
Oscar Andrews
New Diggings
John Wickler
Rockford
Scales Mound
Messrs
Thomas Miller
John Matthews
Magoonville
Reliance
Warren Adams
John Speer
Apple River
Grant Pitcher
A. C. Demaray
le Mars
Iowa
W. A. Roberts
Topeka
Kansas
John Penaluna
Grandma Berryman
Illinois Central
Company M
Camp Lincoln
King’s Daughters
Scheerer
Mississippi River
Everett Eustice
John Seubert
John Furlong
Vinegar Hill Township
Dubuque
John Funston
Rice Township
Funston
Budden
Northwestern Railway
Burlington
Galena Junction
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Galena Tribune
the Tribune Publishing Co
Db. A. Callahan
Galena, Ill
Chicago Record-Herald
United States
Den
Lead and Zinc
Ning
Coatscall
Alvin White
Mildred Coulthard
Council Hill
John Ewing
J. M. Crabb
Wm. Taylor
Dralington
Darlington
Hary
Henry Hicks
Simeon Spencer
John
Fred
Letha Sincock
Wm. Odgers
Shullsburg
M. J. Metcalf
Y. M C. A. Association of Freeport
Wisconsin
Art Cam
Carrie Richards
John Cam
Harry Taylor
John Miller
Montana
Edward Sanders
Elmer Conklin
Bellevue
R. A. Bratton
Main Street
Ill
Franklin
Frank Mittendorf
Joe Young
Coatsworth
Bagdad Wilton
Axminster
Smyrna
President
India
Nottingham
Barry Brothers
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