Illinois Prohibition Forces Score Reverses in State
Illinois voters swung against prohibition in a sweeping statewide election. Across 240 towns and cities liquor advocates claimed 80 percent wet status, with Bloomingto n, Rockford, Decatur, Mattoon and Springfield turning pro liquor. Danville saw heavy violence near Speaker Cannon's home as pro banists faced clashes and arrests.
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Bloomington
Rockford
Decatur
Mattoon
Springfield
Galesburg
Electton
Dewitt
Champuaizn
Winnebego
Boone
Macon
St. Clair
Coles
Mason
Mercer
Greene
Pike
Gallatin
Pratt
Schuyler
Deneen
Grape Creek Township
Duttling
Billy
Socialists Elect Mayor in Milwaukee Victory
Emil Seidel, Socialist candidate, wins Milwaukee mayoralty by the largest majority in the city’s history. He plans to resign from his pattern-making job to lead the city, pledging reforms including referendum, three-cent car fares, eight-hour workday, municipal utilities, and relief works with union labor.
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Milwaukee. Wis
Socialista
United States
Emil Seidel
Milwaukee
Carmly
Victor Schoerecker, Jr
Seidel
John M. Beffel
Republcan
Veiporratiy
Democratic Party
Million Dollar Creosoting Firms Merge in New Corp
The National Creosoting Company of Paterson New Jersey and Colonial Creosoting of Hillsboro New Jersey have merged with Federal Creosoting of Indianapolis to form a one million dollar corporation. Directors include A I Hert of Chicago S A Fletcher president of Fletcher National Bank Indianapolis and W A Hughes vice president of the Fletcher bank.
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National
Colonial
Federal Creosoting Companies
National Creosoting Company
Paterson
N. J
Colonial Creosoting Company
Hillsboro
Federal Creosoting Company
Indianapolis
A.I. Hert
Chicago
S. A. Fletcher
Fletcher National Bank
W. A. Hughes
Fletcher Bank
Wildcat Attack Closes With Man Injured in Wisconsin
In Marinette Wisconsin on April 6 Harry Aberham keeper of an Ellis Junction eating house was attacked by a wildcat while returning from a limber camp. He kicked the animal to kill it and sustained a badly lacerated arm.
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Marinette
Wis
Herry Aberham
Ellis Junction
Therhan
Gentleman burglar confesses as schoolteacher killer
In Springfield Massachusetts Bert ram D Spencer admits killing Miss Martha Blackstone and wounding Miss Dow last Thursday night. He claims a two year spree of robberies totaling over twenty incidents with about 105 jewelry pieces found at his home. He led a double life as a respectable clerk and a masked burglar, but held no remorse. He was arraigned and held without bail for trial on April 15.
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Sarah J. Dow
Spencer
Heavy Enrollment At State University Rises
Bloomington Ind April 6 Registrar John W Cravens of Indiana University reports an enrollment increase of 101 students over last year with 1325 registered so far and a possibility of reaching 1459. The spring term adds Prof M B E Haggerty from Car Park University to the philosophy department noted for monkey studies.
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Bloomington
Ind
John W. Cravens
Indiana University
M. BE. Haggerty
C Park University
Monkey Fan
Department of Philosophy
Druggist Freed of Liquor Charge in Court
Harry Atchison a druggist at Massachusetts Avenue and Vermont Street was discharged in police court yesterday afternoon on a Sunday liquor sale charge after Ben Goodin a Black man who allegedly bought a bottle from the store a week ago Sunday could not be located by Patrolman Gooch.
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Harry Atchison
Massachusetts Avenue
Vermont Street
Ben Goodin
Gooch
Corset Steel Saves Miss Osborne From Bullet
In Ukiah California on April 6 Miss Maud Osborne narrowly escaped serious injury when a rifle discharged. She grabbed the weapon by the muzzle and the missile lodged into the corset steel, breaking the steel and bruising the flesh behind it.
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Ukiah
Cal
Maud Osborne
Comprihe
Nesbit on grinding out poems lecture
Nesbit, Chicago Post humorist, spoke to the Contemporary club at the Propylaeum. He described how newspaper poetry is ground out and the source of ideas, contrasting modern prolific poets with past times when producing a poem daily would have drawn curiosity.
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Propylaeum
Won Nesbit
Chicago Post
Contemporary Club
Nesbit
City births and deaths in the region record
Birth notices list Frank and Kathleen Abbott at 142 W. Vermont St for a girl. Newton and Merza Teague at Methodist hospital for a girl. multiple couples with street addresses and newborns. Death notices include George W. Barlow, John Young, Laura Brookins at Lincoln hospital, William Hardiman, Josephine M. Borden, Robert Crutchfield, Ruth Thelma Davis, Carl Heise, Nelson J. Rose, Mary A. Maley, Olive Rodgers, Mable Willoughby, Radford Horn and others with ages and causes such as cerebral hemorrhage, scarlet fever, pneumonia, bronchopneumonia, tuberculosis, and chronic nephritis.
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Frank and
Kathleen Abbott
Vermont Street
Jrirl
Newton and Merza Teague
Methodist Hospital
Charles and
Ursula Kenny
Germanta Evenue
Bay
Russell and
Ide Gard
Methorise Hospital
George and
Mattie King
Chadwick Street
Viola Ryan
S. Addison Street
Boy
Louis and
Josephine Haslanger
Sutherland Avenue
Nathan and
Bra Davis
Hich Street
William and
Mazie
Appenlats
Arlington Avenue
John and
Mingeie Harden
Charles Street
Everitt and
Frances Johnson
Liurman Avenue
Milton and
Dunlly Barnett
Pratt Street
Edward and
Pearl Sehnfer
W. Thirtieth’s Street
Robert and
Edna Betz
Geisendorf Street
Wiliam and
Lulu Clemens
W. Meridian Street
George W. Barlow
Chicago Street
John Young
Seventeenth Street
Laura Brookins
Lincoln Hospital
William Hardiman
Roosevelt Avenue
Josephine M. Borden
Nelson Street
Robert Crutchfield
W. Pearl Street
Ruth Thelma Davis
Addison Street
Carl Heise
Central Insane Hospital
Nelson J. Rose
N. Mlinois Street
Mary A. Maley
St. Vincent Hospital
Olive Rodgers
Lexington Avenue
Mable Willoughby
Sheffield Avenue
Radford Horn
Limits Celebration to One Day Only
Commercial club directors approved an ordinance restricting fireworks to July 4 from 4 a.m. to midnight. They expect fewer accidents as boys have traditionally started a week early with gas-pipe cannons and other weapons. The ordinance was mailed to the city council president for consideration next week.
Fragmented 19th Century Health and Building Notices
The clipping lists individuals with medical conditions including tubercular peritonitis and bronchopneumonia, plus premature birth notes for Ken Wann and John H Schraeder. It also records ages and addresses and then details numerous building permits for sheds and houses with owners and costs across streets such as Market, Linden, Denny, Tilinois, and Capitol.
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Ken Wann
E. Market Street
Catherine Buschman
Linden Street
Ingrippe
John H. Schraeder
N. Denny Street
Phillipina Eck
N. Tilinois Street
Frank Lee
E. Twelfth St
H.C. Miller
Kappes St
L. A. Morrison
St. Clair St
T. A. Randall
College Ave
A. Ketcham
N. Capitol
N. Boggs
Bell St
W.T. de Vor
Eugene St
Rerals Reynolds
Broadway
Oe Tremon
Pennsylvania
Z Sam Meyers
Kelly St
Thickson & Talbot
W. Washington St
Patten Loses Half Million in Cotton Deal
Chicago April 6 A crash in cotton prices yesterday cost James A Patten about 500000 according to stock exchange members Some brokers suffered smaller losses while Manchester cotton men who had jeered Patten on his England visit may feel vindicated Heavy rains in the south and a Liverpool New York speculative combine are cited as causes of the loss
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Chicago
James A. Patten
Stock Exchange
Patten
Manchester
Manchester Cotton Exchange
England
Liverpool
New York
Psychologist predicts science of ad design to maximize responses
Cambridge, April 6. Prof Charles Sherwood Ricker says psychology will soon make advertising a precise science. He explains how vivid sensory impressions sway the reader’s will and prompt written responses. Harvard volunteers will test ad styles and reading materials to study optimal newspaper and magazine placements for maximum returns.
Blind singer Hobart jailed for assault on wife
George Hobart, a blind musician known for songs like Nellie Gray, faced police court on charges of assault and battery after biting his wife on the arm. She took him to court, begged the judge to help, and he was fined ten dollars and costs and given 30 days in the workhouse, suspended, with a warning. The couple, living at 13 Rathbone Street, have two children.
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George Hobart
Nellie Gray
Eivil
Collins
Hobart
Hobarts
Rathbone Street
Local Grocery Ad Specials for Thursday
Honeysuckle Hams ten pound age special a pound H and E granulated sugar limit twenty five pounds per customer Thursday only. Minute tapioco three packages twenty five cents Granulated yellow corn meal package ten cents Fairbank's Fairy Sunny Monday or glycerine tar soap limit seven cakes per customer at three and one third cents.
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Fairbank
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University of Tiinels
Matheny
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Bertram D. Spencer
Mass
Bert
Ram D. Spencer
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Miss Blackstone
Miss Dow
Snarab Blackstone
Dow
Round Hill
Beries
State University
Armor Plate Safe Deposit Vault
American National Bank
Old Post Office
Market and Pesn
Sts
Bermuda
Our Steamship Department
Prof. Ricker
Harvard
Cambridge, Mass
Charles Sherwood Ricker
Hugo Munsterburg
Ing
Psychological Department
Chielus
S. Penn. St. Opp
Gas Office
the Leading Trust Company
Indiana
the Union Trust Company
Office Company's
East Market Street
St.denis
New York City
Kreis
Wanamaker
Wm, Taylor & Son, Inc
Louisa
HK. B. Kramer
Kramer
Heinz
Indiana’s
Shubert Murat Theatre
Sgt. Walker Whiteside
Girl
Bernard the Wizard
Patrick
Frank Morrell Donovan & Arnold
Frederi Marseilles Garinex
Matinee
Tasa
Piation
Oelker
Floods City
Hinodrome
Eek
Charles
Prices Mat
George Ania
Atwool
HEART
L’amour de
Paris
London
Sam Stern
Mayvilies
LePage
Brows & Brown
Dumonds
Empire
Nelson-Wolgast
Kentucky Belles
Cubs
Ball Park
Weber
Huder
Ferger
Fierson
Meyer-Kiser Bank
Thompson's
St. Louis
Anheuser-Busch
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