Illinois Republican Platform endorses Roosevelt era reforms
The Illinois Republican platform praises the national party's protective policies and calls for continued labor protection, civil service expansion, and efficient state administration. It endorses Joseph G Cannon for president, supports primary reform, bank oversight, and road and river improvements, emphasizing strong national leadership and state progress.
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Concerning Cross Eye Cause and Cure Urged by Optometrist
In a discussion on cross eye T O F Randolph explains nine of ten cases can be cured with proper optical treatment. He cites refractive errors and faulty perceptive development as causes and urges early care to prevent permanent blindness and avoid surgical remedies later.
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T. O. F. Randolph
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Not a Strangler. A Strange Hotel Notice and Medical Stats
A traveling salesman reads a printed notice in a hotel about paying for service and attendance. A waiter reassures him he is welcome, while a stray story references cremation totals in Great Britain for 1905 and earlier years.
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Hunt
Locust Plague Ravages Debrecen Region in Hungary
The report describes swarms devastating fields around Debrecen Hungary. Locusts have consumed 110000 acres of crops and threaten widespread ruin as fires and rolling tools fail to curb the invasion. Storms have spread swarms across the Theiss River and into standing corn. Farmers face ruin as the pest persists.
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Debrecsin
Hungary
Need Twenty Thousand Men For Wheat Harvest In Western Canada
The Manitoba government estimates that 20 000 additional men are needed to harvest this year s wheat crop. Older provinces will supply workers dispatched from Winnipes to grain centers. Strong demand for labor amid high crop yields and general prosperity has created an unusual farm labor shortage.
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Baskatchewan
Dominion
Manitoba
Winnipes
Canada
USA
Trade with noncontiguous U S territories rises in 1906
A Commerce and Labor bulletin reports total U S trade with noncontiguous areas at 119 million dollars for the fiscal year ended 1906. Shipments to Alaska Hawaii and Puerto Rico climbed about 20 percent while Philippine trade fell. Gold shipments from Alaska rose, with domestic gold at 12.5 million and foreign gold at 7.5 million.
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Busin“ness
United States
Department of Commerce and Labor
Alaska
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Philippine Islands
Naska
Canadian
Four July Daze Toll US Deaths Tally 158 in 1929 Journal
The Journal of the American Medical Association reports 158 deaths from Fourth of July accidents this year in the United States, with 75 attributed to tetanus and a total of 5,300 injuries, the highest in four years. Firecrackers cause the most mishaps.
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British Medical Journal
Great Britain
Bedical Journal Anserts
United States
Journal of the American Medical Association
Governor Glenn Extends Militias Power Against Mobs
Gov Glenn of North Carolina issues orders to state militias authorizing use of firearms against mobs without local sheriff approval. He states mob members are outside the law. Industrial Farm in Utah secures 800 acres for an industrial farm aiding friendless children via women's clubs prompting a cottage system.
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Mayor of Bloomington Dies at 33 in Indiana
S Neville, mayor of Bloomington and Illinois warehouse and railway board member, died at West Baden Indiana at age 33. A banker and longtime politician, he was a close ally of Gov Yates and urged McLean county delegates to back Yates for governor in 1900. His health suffered after Yates’ U S Senate defeat.
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McLean County
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Melean County
Amon
Fifer
Neville
Mangeere Tistenchak
Raen Floods Freeport Causing Major Damage
Severe rain caused a cloudburst in Freeport flooding parts of the Second Ward and displacing residents. Water depths reached feet, damaging homes and cellars while forcing evacuations from flooded areas. Rail lines faced washouts and culverts failed on multiple lines, with overall damage estimated at 180000 to 200000 dollars.
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Cauning
Shane
First Ward
Illinois Central
Madison
Great Western
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Return of Chicago Educator After 31 Years
After an unexplained 31 year absence Prof. Charles HI Frye former Chicago normal school superintendent returns home. He gives his wife 85000 and says Ask me no questions. He is now 81 years old and is said to have lived in the Philippine Islands during his years away.
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Chicago
Charles HI. Frye
Chicago Normal School
Frye
Trewan
Philippine Islands
Victory for Tive Miners Sealed by Court Ruling
Judge E R M Kimbrough of the Circuit Court at Danville upheld the miners wage framework by refusing to overturn mine classifications by scale districts. The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway had challenged the Cherry mine classification seeking lower rates similar to Gillespie.
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Seale
Finois
Inde
E. R. M. Kimbrough
Danville
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company
Cherry
Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company
Gillespie
Heir to 600000 Keeps Navy Career Amid War Urge
Edward Flood of Peoria county receives a $600 000 bequest from an California relative and prefers to stay in Naval service aboard the Kentucky. At 24 per month, he continues as a gunner on the battleship and hopes to grow as a crack slot with war ordnance.
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Batilenhig
Zimner
United States
Kentucky
Sam
Edward Flood
Peoria
California
Naval Service
Flood
Bis—War Ordnance
Looted mail sacks raise $200000 theft at Effingham depot
A large train mail sack from a Pennsylvania train carrying drafts checks money orders and currency was found opened on the outskirts of Effingham with about half the contents rifled. The sack was to be transferred to Illinois Central Chicago and northwestern points. Separate item notes veteran railway engineer Leroy T. Foote of Chicago and Alton dies after being shot in Springfield following a 1881 hold up near Slater Missouri.
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Chicago
Effingham
Pennsylvania
Leroy T. Foote
Alton
Slater
Jesse James
Springfield
Storm of notices from Sterling to Bloomington spans tragedy to politics
A scattered lore of incidents fills the report: murders and suicides, accidents and drownings, jail escapes, a mayoral change in Bloomington, political nominations at the Chicago Socialist convention, and a fatal oil lamp explosion in Jacksonsville. Names abound including Clarence Clark, Thomas Murphy, Otis Ridd, Dunne, James White, Stella Everson, Miss Marsarer Wilt, Rev. Bell, Wortham Brothers, and Miss Ellan Herman, with events across Sterling Peoria Joliet Springfield and Rockford.
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Ar Clinton
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Hot Springs
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Blodmington
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Fire destroys floating freight boat in Chicago riverfront blaze
A fire aboard a freight boat anchored off the Illinois slip in Chicago burned rapidly, threatening about 25 people nearby. The vessel owned by Hibbard Spencer Bartlett & Co carried inflammable merchandise and oil, with barrels dumped overboard as flames shot toward the dock. Estimated damage runs well over 1 000 dollars, with investigators probing spontaneous combustion as a possible cause.
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Chicago
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Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co
Biig
WSC Tscovere
Three Boys Die After River Boat Capsize
A pleasure trip on the Leertonica River ended when a gasoline boat capsized seven miles upstream. Three boys, including Oscar penis and Gee tarry Sweeney, drowned while others swam ashore or clung to debris. Dozens witnessed rescues and near misses as floodwaters caused crop and bridge damage across the region.
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Charles Smithkee
Schine
Marker
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Catholic Knights Convention Adopts Resolution On Traditions
The thirteenth biennial convention of the Catholic Knights of America State of Winds met in Springfield. A resolutions committee refused to sanction changes to the order’s sacraments and kept current practices for elder members. Officers elected include President William Burback and Vice Presidents William Sheehan James J. Hong and Adam Rein. Next gathering set for Collinsville on the first Tuesday in August 18.
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Springfield
Committee On Resolutions
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Tayo
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James J. Hong
Mattoon
Adam Rein
Sterling
Charles A. Kleist
Chietgo
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Charles FL Tieh
Chicago
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Albert G. Lane Dies at Home in Chicaza Veteran Educator
Albert G. Lane longtime Chicago educator dies at his Chicaza home from nervous prostration after overwork. A widower with two daughters Mrs. George W. Noble of Evanston and Miss Warrier Lane, Lane led Chicago public schools as district superintendent and earlier as chief of the Chinase school system. Born in Chicago in 18, he was in the first Chicago high school grad class and became principal of Franklin school at 18.
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Albert G. Lane
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Day View
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Chicago Public Schools
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Edocational Association
Chicago
Franklin School
Strike Costs Half a Million in Illinois United Miners War
Illinois United Mine Workers treasury show strike cost at 1 087 425 91 initial, now 501 500 28 with relief aid 415 700 09. Widow and orphans fund balance 7 472 88. cash to be paid 680 45. recent receipts 133 75. Lincoln tree uprooted near Abraham Lincoln home at 8th and Jackson in Springfield. relic hunters collect parts.
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Springfield
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