Prosperity signals in agriculture and industry rise in Illinois valley
The Illinois Valley Association notes signs of recovery with a prize hog sale in Springfield fetching 9600, and a new daily mail car on the Rock Island line aims to speed mail between Chicago and Peoria. Vigilant valley leaders push for drainage rights, resisting Chicago Drainage Board demands.
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Rock Island
Chicago
Peoria
Poris
Lacon Journal
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Lacon
Henry
Chicago Drainage Board
Illinois Valley Association
State budget plan aims for tight two year appropriations
Gov Tanner and the Republican House committee on appropriations push to hold two year spending to the lowest limit and bar any new building appropriations. They believe a cut from the two year ago level of 1.5 million can be achieved, with further pruning across departments to reduce debt. The Altgeld era is cited as costly, but economy could restore finances to four years prior without tax increases.
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Gov Tanner
House Committee On Appropriations
Greek Involvement Deepens Turkey Crete Crisis
The piece notes Greece's growing role in Crete's conflict with the Ottoman Empire. Cretans, mostly Greek in descent, clash with Ottoman forces as Greece aids the island, raising tensions with the sultan and prompting speculation of Russia or England influence and a potential reshaping of the Turkish empire. The report also references an address by Oliver Wilson on farming, education, taxation, and national organization.
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Greece
Crete
Bultan
Oliver Wilson
State Grange
Farmers’ Institute
Freeport
Freeport Journal
Education of Farm Children Free Text Books Debate
A Woodford County Farmers Institute piece by R B Dickinson argues against state funded free text books. It questions taxpayer burden and publisher influence, cites Illinois Teachers Association stance, and warns public funds should not cover clothing and meals, urging a balanced public helped schooling.
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Woodford Co. Farmers’ Institute
R. B. Dickinson
Dickinson
IlMoois
Dickenson
State Teachers’ Association
State of Illinois
Springfield
Jeach Senatorial District
Competition and reform to aid workers and childhood
In a Tympan essay the author condemns the harsh effects of competition on the poor and children. He argues times will worsen under the law of competition and calls for gradual public utilities ownership and reduced political business influence. Read, study, think for future generations.
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Cassar
Ecclept Cesar
Preparedness for Naval War in Harper's March Issue
The article argues for a calm push toward war readiness with Great Britain, aligning with Von Moltke that war is an element of order. It urges a national plan to deter conflict by building a large seafaring force and maintaining force capable of meeting a major adversary.
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Lowel
Ballard’s Horehound Syrup Praised In Clinton Missouri
A Clinton Missouri citizen Mr A L Armstrong touts Ballard’s Horehound Syrup as the best cough remedy among about forty kinds sold locally. He claims it cures coughs colds consumption and throat and lung diseases and even relieves croup and whooping cough. Sold by Dr Powell.
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Ballard
Powell
McNulta Favors Free Alcohol Policy to Aid Industries
In a letter to American Distilling Co. president S. M. Rice, Receiver John McNulta argues for legal reforms to export free alcohol for manufacturing, store spirits in tanks, tax only beverage alcohol, and retaliate against foreign tariffs. He links these measures to absorbing surplus corn and boosting farm prices.
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Whisky Trust
John McNalta
M. Rice
American Distilling,Co
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Seaboard
United States
Congress
New York Journal of Commerce
Florida county tales a snake and a rat in a gleaming tale
Washington Star recounts a Florida scene at a cross roads store and post office where county men await the mail. Col Lee Jackson Ashby Smith shares a tale of a seven foot rattler captured at Boca Ratone and a gray rat that defeats the snake in a grim cage battle.
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Washington Star
Florida
Col Lee Jackson Ashby Smith
Boca Ratone
Dade County
Man's Brain Drains Senses In Growing Technological Age
A New York Journal commentary argues that human brain power and gadgets replace natural senses. It warns that sight taste smell hearing origination decline as intelligence expands and technology overwhelms physical perception.
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New York Journal
Rand
Bil Nye
Mays
Alot
Insane Asylum of
The Climate of Oregon and Its Mild Winters
The piece explains Oregon's Willamette Valley climate, kept above freezing in December by the warm Japan current. It notes southwest winds moderating winter warmth, delaying blizzards, and the local Illinois colony at McCoy being 30 miles from the ocean. It adds a moral on industrious, honest boys securing work over idle ones.
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Oregon
Willamette Valley
Michigan
Japan
Pacific Ocean
Illinois
McCoy
Secret War History Chapter In McClures March
General Jobert Thayer, ex US Senator from Nebraska, recounts a night with Secretary Stanton in the War Office. The letter warned that President Jake's son might seize control by force, a tense episode from the secret war history.
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McClure’s
Jobert Thayer
United States Sestor
Nebraska
Stanton
War Office
Jake’son
McClaughry Named Warden at Joliet Penitentiary
Major McClaughry appointed warden of the State Penitentiary Joliet and George Torrance named to Pontiac Reformatory. The appointments are described as good ones.
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Major McClauughry
State Penitentiary
Joliet
George Torrance
McClaughry
Pontiac Reformatory
Coldest snap on record grips war era town
A local paper details a rare weather event during wartime as Tom Sumner of Minook recalls a sudden freeze with ice hanging from clouds nearly reaching the ground, illustrating the severe cold described in the account.
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Tom Sumner
Minook
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