Weather and events mix in Illinois and Joliet notices
Unsettled Illinois weather brings rain or snow in the north and rain in the south tonight or Friday with slightly warmer air in the far south. The Gerlach-Barklow men’s convention ends tonight with a banquet at the Country Club at 7 p.m., with special cars from Woodruff Inn at 6:16. Joliet Elks face a request to stop wearing elk teeth emblems after a New York meeting showed photographs of Elks’ teeth. No December Association of Commerce luncheons. next is the first Thursday in January per President Chamberlain.
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Illinois
Gerlach-Barklow Company
Country Club
Woodruff Inn
Joliet
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
American Game Protective Association
Association
New York
Association of Commerce
Chamberlain
Christmas Party By Dancers
Embryonic premier danseuses will gambol about in gauzy ballet costumes Saturday afternoon as Miss Mary Catherine Woods and Mr. Ed Mahan lead the Joliet Conservatory juvenile dancing class in a Christmas party. The program includes private pupil dances and regular classes with a Santa Claus, a decorated tree, and a cotillion finale. Several youngsters show genius level ability and will perform for moms, dads, and friends. special invitations have been sent to parents.
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Mary Catherine Woods
Ed Mahan
Joliet Conservatory
Egg Gambling Is Still Under Taboo
In Chicago on December 15 Judge George Rush refused to dissolve the injunction restraining members of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange known as the butter and egg board from dealing in futures in eggs. The injunction, granted Tuesday, halted speculation and tied up exchange trade. A hearing was set for next Wednesday to review the case filed by dealer Barney Kauffman.
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Chicago
George Rush
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Butter’and Egg Board
Barney Kauffman
Rush
Ulster rejects entering Irish state says Craig
Sir James Craig, head of Ulster Unionists, told Lloyd George Ulster will never join the Irish free state. While Dublin and London parliaments debated the Irish peace treaty, Craig warned of tariff wars and criticized the pact as illegal. Belfast saw disorder with shootings and a bomb blast injuring a man.
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London
James Craig
Ulster
Lloyd George
Irish Free State
Sinn Fein
Dublin
House of Commons
James
Commons
Fritz Kreisler
Briand
France
Medicine Man Idolized Figure Disagrees With Police Report
W H Server and Harry Trachman faced Magistrate Nicholson after arrest for disorderly conduct amid a pistol incident. Patrolman Turner testified seeing Server approach a Warnave hue and Collins street house while Trachman, alleged to have threatened the officer, claimed he did not shoot. The officer noted a bottle containing medicine, misidentified as a gun, and Server claimed to be a medicine man, inventor, and radium seeker. Court postponed to 4 p.m. to allow Server to present his case.
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W. H. Server
Harry Trachman
Nicholson
Turner
W. H. Porver
Warnavehue
Collins Street
Server
Black Hisls
Trachman
Russian famine meals reveal aid plan for relief
A stark portrayal of starving Russians eating scraps shows why the American Relief Administration seeks food remittances. The ARAs plan offers $1 to $50 units to fund flour, rice, condensed milk, beans, tea, cocoa, and sugar shipped to famine zones via donors or institutions. Funds support mass feeding for children and adults through warehouses and the ARAs New York office at 42 Broadway.
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American Relief Administration
Russia
Broadway
New York City
We Admit It- No Times on December 26
A Joliet Times notice explains that December 26 falls on a legal holiday and the paper will not publish that day. The editors also confirm no issue on January 2 due to the legal New Year holiday, aligning publication with holiday observance.
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Fair City
Joliet
Times
Woodrow Wilson Denounces Distance From A E F Comrade Status
Former President Woodrow Wilson declares himself a comrade of all A E F expeditionary forces in a New Year greeting to Rainbow Division veterans. Wilson responds to J Bently Mulford, praising the men and expressing cordial wishes for their fortunes.
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Washington
Woodrow Wilson
A. Elf
Rainbow Division
Peat
Wilson
J. Bently Mulford
Mulford
Army and Navy Slowed by Block on Promotions
Dec 15 reports a government halt on all further army navy and marine corps promotions until instructed by the commander in chief. The note underscores a nationwide pause affecting officers and promotions across services as military operations and reorganization continue. Local fishermen and smacks pivot to landbound dwellings, signaling a shift in resource use amid these broader changes.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Marine Corpa
Cannot Work Alone and the Labor Crisis urged
A speech argues wages must stay high to prevent business contraction and that cooperation between capital and labor is essential. It uses Edison’s pendulum metaphor and cites three bulwarks—federal reserve, global gold, and public faith in President Harding—as stabilizers amid recurring panics and a flood of German goods undermining American pricing.
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Thomas Edison
China
America
Federal Reserve System
Harding
Philadelphia
Germany
Check-Off Order To Be Re-Cast In Missouri Honey Trade
Chicago Dec 15 The injunction blocks use of the check-off method for collecting dues in the Abent area. About 964 thousand dollars worth of honey is marketed annually by Missouri bee-keepers.
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Chicago
Abent
Missouri
Hot Shot Fired At Judge Landis And His 2 Jobs
Washington dispatch reports Representative Lee of New York introduced a bill to bar federal judges from holding other paid offices. The measure targets Judge Landis by restricting his time to judicial duties, condemning his baseball work as improper and advocating removal from outside commitments. The bill cites court congestion and cites Landis’s barnstorming as evidence of impropriety.
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Washington
Landis of
Linois
Representative Lee
New York
United States
Bar Association
Congress
Lee
Landis
Judge Landis
Dry Saloon Must Sell 9 750 Bottles Of Pop A Week
The Office Statistician calculates weekly soda sales to cover bartender pay and overhead. He concludes the proprietor must sell 9 000 bottles weekly to earn sufficient profit, accounting for an assistant at 15 dollars weekly, then notes the arithmetic grows with expenses and the Sunday pause.
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Juliet
Flour millers demand tariff wall from Senate panel
Representatives of U S flour millers told the Senate finance committee today they want a tariff wall so high that Canadian millers can't jump over it. The report notes Japanese women typically start smoking around age ten.
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Washington
United States
Senate Finance Committee
State troops patrol Kansas amid coal field unrest
Pittsburg Kan Dec 15 State troopers in detachments patrol the Kansas coal fields at noon as the Amazon army three day offensive has largely shut down mines in the district. No violence occurred though crowds watched. Howat denounces the female assault and expresses sorrow at their actions.
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Pittsburg
Kan
Kansas
Amiazon Army
Girard
Franklin
Petticoat Brigades
Milt Gould
Ammaniton
Alma
Frontenac
Cherokee
Chicopee
Mulberry
Alexander Mowat
Nenaparec Oak
Alexander Howat
Howat
Judge Plans Ceiling Repair at Temple of Justice
A notice from Tem ple of Justice presided by Justice of the Peace McCulloch reports a large plaster ceiling will be repaired. Owner Barr consents to decorate the building with a fringe of shamrocks and return the pictures The Gathering of the Clans and Highland lassie and her lover to their hooks.
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Temple of Justice
Justice of the Peace
McCulloch
Barr
Merry Little Galloping Dominoes And The Truancy Standoff
A youth near State and Ohio street reports a Sunday gambling scene as three boys, caught playing craps, confess to regular games. A truancy officer intervenes, warns of jail, and promises release at noon if they commit to attending school every day the following week.
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State and
Ohio Street
Little Joe
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Brands New Treaty
Allegal
Eamonn de Valera
Ireland
Dail Eireann
de Valera
Michael Collins
Belfast
Japan
A.E.F
Petticoat
St. Charlies
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