Illinois Legislature Aims to Improve River Transport
Reports from the state capital describe three key bills to boost waterways and highways with federal aid. A bond measure seeks the full 20 million authorization, while lawmakers push a wide river program with hopes of federal partnership and eventual government control. Senator Pervier introduces a ferry upkeep bill to aid Hennepin, and residents back river preservation along with hunting and fishing preserves.
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Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
Senate
House
Deneen
Waterway Committee
Chillicothe
W. S. Jewell
Department of Agriculture
Illinois River
R. F. Bradford
Fish and Game
Hennepin
Clayton C. Pervier
Bureau County
Ilinois
Putnam County
Bureau Valley Railroad
Rock Island
Pervier
Bureau
Henry
Spring Valley
French Town to bear the name of Lawrence
Chicago Chapter D A R provides funds for rebuilding Tilloloy village in France. A cottage will bear the name of Mrs. George A. Lawrence honorary state regent, and six hundred cottages will be rebuilt as a gift to France. The project includes a $700 cottage cost with $100 for furnishings, money already received by the Chicago Chapter.
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Chicago
French Town
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Daughters of America
Tilloloy
Daughters of the American Revolution
George A. Lawrence
Magnolia
Galesburg
Academy of Fine Arts
Paris
Lawrence
Frank B. Orr
Orr
Deneen
Illinois
Starved Rock
John A. Logan
Washington
Alfred R. Urion
Ottawa
Lamartine M. French
Poor Mail Service Sparks Post Office Protest and Obituary
Complaints pour in as subscribers miss Republican issues until Saturday or Monday. Henry post office delays papers on the 5 p m train to Peoria, routing via Chillicothe and Fort Madison, delaying about 1500 readers. The note includes a death obituary for Henry William Hoeck born 1836 died 1919 with funeral details in Whitefield township Sugar Grove cemetery.
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Magnolia
McNabb
Tiskilwa
Henry Post Office
Peoria
Rock Island
Henry
Granville
Toluca
Chillicothe
Fort Madison
Streator
Putnam
Iowa
Chicago
Post Office Department
Henry William Hoeck
Holstein
Emma Clarmin
Herman Hoeck
Davenport
John
Just
France
Hugo
Carl
Della
Edna
Vernica
Lutheran Church
Harry Blackburn
Whitefield Township
M. B. van Leer
Sugar Grove Cemetery
A. B. Smith
New York Luck thrills as elevator fight shocks audience
William Russell stars in the American Mutual play New York Luck featuring an elevator shaft brawl and a dramatic downfall. He plays a Maine station agent who finds fortune in New York, then marries a millionaire’s daughter after a perilous run of adventures. The Houry Opera House show is set for Monday, March 24. The Marshall county taxes are due, with payments at banks or the collector in Lacon by March 15 for personal property and by April 1 for real estate, with costs added for late payment. Mrs. Joseph Tinnegan, formerly Bernadette Halligan, dies suddenly near Bradford leaving two children.
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William Russell
New York
Mr. Russell
Hohokus
Maine
Houry Opera House
Marshall County
Lacon
Ill
Joseph Tinnegan
Bradford
Bernadette Halligan
Galvin
Elizabeth Stevens
Ethelyn Tidebach
Sterrett
van Leer
Milford Lucas
Robert Coggshall
William Dewey
John Tidebach
Gordon Ganger
Robert Daniels
Workheiser
Peterson
Frank Chambers
John Green
Frederick Siewers
Henry
Venona
Toluca
Sparland
FE. Nichols
Berry
Waterous
Horatio Hartley
Sallie Paxson Hartley
Magnolia
Thomas Paxson
Hennepin
Horatio M. Hartley
Margaret Eileen
George Cecil
Alice Hortense
Methodist Church
Ving
Charles C Smith
M. RB
Alden Hunter
Frank Hartley
Oscar Clark
John Merdian
John Orr
Charles Meier
A. B. Smith
W. C. T. U. Meeting Highlights Prohibition Education
A W C T U session at Mrs A G Hillab4ands home features readings on health education and morality by Miss Clara Waughop Mrs M C Doyle and others. Topics include pictures in education famine of saloon substitute and a call for enforcing laws with a $25 union vote. Local school changes fire drill and a real estate purchase of Edward street lots for 7000 by Joseph Harrington through H W May agency.
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A. G
Union
Lizzie Zenor
Union Signal
Maria Davis
Mary Newman
America
Anti-Saloon League
D. R. Blackwell
Joseph Harrington
Edward Street
Luella Stever
H. W. May
Victory Sunday and church calls for support
The New Era movement urges Victory Sunday with house to house visits to boost church activity and raise funds for local and world work. Sermons focus on progress a duty and making good as Bible school and Christian Endeavor services are scheduled.
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Presbyterian Church
Christ
Church
God
Jesus
Bible School
Christian Endeavor
St Marys Church Lent Services and Epworth League Social
The article notes Saint Marys Church Lent services on Sundays at 8 and 10 a.m. with stations and benediction at 2:30 p.m. Weekday masses are 8 a.m. Also mentions Epworth League Social at M E Church with a mock marriage and receipts over 15 dollars. Includes notice of Opal Kuard’s Cleveland praise and Benjamin Hauber returning to work with American Express.
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A. Schauer
Epworth League
C’hildren
M. E. Church
Cleveland Press
Opal Buard
Jackson Buard
Putnam
Opal Kuard
Laurette Taylor
J. Hartley
Miss Kuard
Cleveland
Miss Buard
Jenny
Taylor
Opal
Benjamin Hauber
France
American Express Co
V. Christian
Oards
Father Brennan lecture on Ireland's claim at peace table
A large crowd gathered at St. Joseph's Church on Sunday to hear Rev. Father Brennan discuss St. Patrick and Ireland's role at the peace table. The speaker, born in Ireland, praised Ireland's long struggle, learning, and contributions, concluding with a vivid image of Treland and Columbia.
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St. Joseph’s Church
St. Patrick
Ireland
Father Brennan
Emerald Isle
Europe
Treland
Columbia
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Woodbine
Nellie Hartley
Oracle
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Alberta Smith
Francis Knight
Mary Sleater
Kathryn Tar
Sara Wright
Inner Sentinel
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Outer Sentinel
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Less
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Henry Hock
Meagrin
L. N. Osborne
W. C. T. U. Meeting
Fa Bain
Methodist
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ST. Mary's Church
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Mg Ra
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St. Louis
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