State of Chicago Proposed to Seize Illinois Seat
Chicago city council unanimously approves a resolution urging secession from Illinois to form a separate State of Chicago. The measure, led by Alderman John Toman, requests legal outlines to pursue separation and argues Cook County warrants more senators and representatives due to 1920 census. It cites persistent downstate redistricting as unequal to growing counties.
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Cook
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Francis X. Busch
Toman
Indiana News Briefs From June 25 Across Several Cities
A set of short dispatches reports crime in Frankfort where 10-year-old Sammy Stoker was forced to open his uncle’s house. Greensburg saw car thefts and a woman injuring her hip after slipping in bare feet. Newcastle notes Fourth of July injuries from a torpedo and a boy with a fire cracker. Brazil celebrates Masonic day. Martinsville issues a marriage license to Margaret Barth and John Leathers with parental consent. Warsaw seeks a driver identity after a heavily loaded truck left a skid on Market Street after paving cost $94,000.
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Sammy Stoker
Sammy
Warsaw
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Governor Jackson to attend governors conference
Indiana Governor Jackson and Mrs Jackson will travel to Poland Springs Missouri for the annual conference of governors from June 28 to July 4 and return around July 6. Also listed is a for sale old iron truck in A-1 shape offered cheap if sold by Saturday by James D. Allen at 09 I. fencennes St.
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Poland Springs
James D. Allen
I. Fincennes St
Land dispute reappears in Indiana court near Gary
Drucilla Carr and co plaintiffs pursue quit title to 100 acres of beach land east of the Gary Mills site. Judge R M Vanatta will hear in Laporte circuit court on July 13. Suit cites squatters rights from pre mill construction as basis against heirs of the Philbine estate. Previous trials named several attorneys as co plaintiffs. case has lingered nearly two decades.
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R. M. Vanatta
Marion
Ind
Laporte
Philbine
Youth Killed in Truck Collision Near Kokomo
In Plevna near Kokomo Indiana on June 25 Hamilton Lantz age ten was killed and two others were seriously injured when two motor trucks collided inside a yard. A third truck stood nearby and victims were pinned against it.
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Hamilton Lantz
Plevna
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