Local Illinois News Highlights From Peoria to Galva
A steam plow test near Peoria stores over an acre every fifteen minutes with fourteen plows drawn by a thirty horsepower engine. A $3800 pipe organ is installed at Macomb Methodist church with Carnegie giving $1250. Reports from Pike County and Toluca iron mines note large values and lawsuits over insurance funds. Illinois weather records show October ranges from 24 to 76 degrees. Rail and interurban expansion projects near Joliet, Galva, and Rock Island detail track and gravel work. Mince meat prices rise due to pure food laws and boiled cider use boosts flavor and shelf life.
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Supreme Court blinds by law in mutual fire insurer case
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled for the Citizens Mutual Fire Insurance Company receivership, enabling assessments to cover losses since 1966 totaling over 25000. Nearly 9000 policyholders face levied costs as the court voided a by law limiting assessments and allowed a fivefold levy to cover pro rata losses.
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Citizen's Mutual Fire
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Supreme Court
America’s Rubber Jersey Cow Causes Noise Disturbance
Neighbor complaints rise as Perkins’ cow, kept near a vacant lot, causes nightly ruckus. A New York buyer supplies an India rubber cow with an automatic bellows, blowing hourly to mimic farm sounds and alarm dogs, disrupting quiet neighborhoods near Gloucester and Cage Ann, with mixed reactions from residents.
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Trust to Nature Stirs Health Claims in Odd Text
A garbled OCR style text promotes natural health notions accusing modern eating and alcohol of causing poor stomach health. It lists various individuals and terms in a jumbled stream, hinting at cures and health remedies with scattered references to workers and mentors.
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Surprised Spelling Heavily Ridiculed as Roosevelt Plan
A scanning of a published list shows most words kept their old spellings for over a century. The article argues that the so called simplified spelling is a revision of Anglo-Saxon forms and cites famous authors who used the older spellings.
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