Garlic banks in Chicago prey on Italian immigrants
In Chicago the so called garlic banks lure Italian immigrants with easy deposits as strings of garlic hang in shopfront windows. The crook bankers pledge safe returns but disappear, leaving hundreds of families destitute. Many operators are educated Italians with prior prison records who abuse community trust.
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ICAGO
Chicago
Deer of Sons of Italy
Italy
Theaty
Kirby Bank
Progressives Adopt Permanent Plan In National Organization
Toledo dispatch reports permanent organization of the national progressive party will be kept via four committees of workers, with Walter F. Brown announcing plans. A general committee of seven to ten members will represent diverse regions. A progressive service bureau will be led by Miss A Keller of New York with Jane Addams association. committees will run finance and publicity bureaus.
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Toledo
Ohio
National Progressives
Walter F. Brown
New York
Bureau of
Progressive Service
Miss A. Keller
Jane Addams
Prairie fire devastates three mile wide strip in North Dakota
A heavy wind drove a prairie blaze across a three mile wide strip in the county toward the Missouri River. Thousands of tons of hay were burned and several hundred cattle perished in the flames.
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Center
N. D
Missouri Rive
Wisconsin Stockmen Plan Monster Midwinter Exposition
A monster livestock show and stockmen s round up will run during the Wisconsin farmers course week January 28 February 7 in Madison. Breeders from Ayrshire Brown Swiss Guernsey Holstein Jersey Red Polled Shorthorn cattle and more will exhibit. experts from the American Guernsey Cattle Club Holstein Reisian Brown Swiss Cattle Breeders associations will speak on marketing breeding and meat production.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Middle West
Badger
Wisconsin Livestock Breeders’ Association
Wisconsin College of Agriculture
University Livestock Pavilion
Ayrshire
Guernsey
Jersey
Berkshire
Poland
China
Hampshire
Oxford
Shropshire
Robert B. Ogilvie
American Clydesdale Breeders’ Association
Union Stock Yards
Ivanhoe
Nelson Morris Company
L. Kammerer
Green County
William F. Renk
Wisconsin Sheep Breeders’ Association
William H. Caldwell
Peterboro
N. H
F. L. Houghton
Brattleboro, VI
Ira Inman
Beloit
Wis
American Guernsey Cattle Club
Holstein-Reisian Association of America
Brown Swiss Cattle Breeders’ Association
Ard Rowlands
Wausha
Department of Animal Husbandry
Charles Herr
Lodi
Dean Skinner
Messrs. Martiny, McKerrow
Tormey
Henry B. Favill
Chicago
Charles D. Rosa
Rock County
American Dairy Cow Registry Association
Dredges Dumped Mud Back Into Chicago River Probe
The discovery that mud scows from a dredging company dumped mud back into the Chicago river at night, while the city paid $400,000 to remove it by day, shocks reformers. Officials deny knowledge. potential consequences loom as efficiency advocates seek savings in city and county budgets, with 1911 city expenses over $58 million and county costs rising under the Bartzen administration.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Bureau of Efficiency
Peter Bartzen
English Storm Wrecks Coast Aboard Geriaz and Gilmour
Terrific gale along the English coast leaves two dead as the Brazilian steamer Geriaz runs aground near Plymouth after a refit costing 250000 dollars and collides with the British schooner William Gilmour. At least 200 people are rescued from peril.
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Plymouth
Eng
Geriaz
William Gilmour
Three Hurt In Wreck Near Hyattsville
Three people were injured in a head on collision in Hyattsville Maryland today involving a Baltimore and Ohio freight train and a Chesapeake Beach and Hyattsville train. Two of the injured are reported seriously hurt. Authorities investigated the crash location and cause.
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Hyattsville, Md
Baltimore and Ohio
Chesapeake Beach
Hyattsville
Militant Governor Targets Loan Sharks in Nebraska
Lincoln Neb Dec 27 Governor Aldrich vowed to ask the legislature to outlaw loan sharks. He warned a lender in his office that a state employee would be forced to pay exorbitant interest or face removal from the premises, and the lender chose to depart at once.
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Lincoln, Neb
Aldrich
Sleepful Grace Odell Lies In Deep Sleep Confounds Doctors
Grace Odell, aged 11, remained in a deep sleep for 86 hours in Sterling Illinois as doctors tried all known methods to wake her. The case drew attention as medical staff pursued further tests and treatments while monitoring her vital signs closely.
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Tyle
Garlic
Qghicago
L. P. Martiny
Andrew W. Hopkins
George C. Humphrey
Julien Ries
Milwaukee Milk Shippers’ Association
Rich
Holstein Breeders’ Association
Jersey Breeders’ Association
Red Polled Cattle Breeders’ Association
Wisconsin Shorthorn Breeders’ Association
Western Guernsey Breeders’ Association
Berkshire Breeders’ Association
Duroc Jersey Breeders’ Association
China Lreeders’ Association
Wisconsin Horse Breeders’ Association
Scort & Bowne
Bloomfield, N. J
Scott-Rose Co
Coats
J E
Brice
Continental
Ayer
J.C. Ayer Co
Lowell, Maes
Cheat City
Papesu Ustunsiv
Blackburn
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