11 Dec 1920
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Newspaper
Macomb Daily By Stander
Location
Macomb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1920
Page
1
A plan from Bryan to confer a Christmas arrangement with Mr. Harding is noted as a carryover from earlier years for 1920. The item reflects regional social customs and historic engagement involving local figures.
The report states ER Huff was jailed in Knox County Kentucky on charges of passing worthless checks and possessing a stolen automobile. The article mentions a former hotel employee named Gregg connected to the case and notes other related names and alibis, with scattered details about locations such as Louisville and Owensboro, though several elements remain unclear from the fragment.
Bardolph defeat Macomb 18 to 16 in a fast paced game on Bardolph floor. Nester Hager and Wright Bolin starred for Bardolph and Macomb used several substitutes as the edge stayed with Bardolph from opening whistle to final buzzer.
Arrangements completed for a sale of a car of fancy milk cows at the A T Ewing barn on South Rudolph street in Macomb on Saturday December 18. The sale will be held by McMillan and Mathews.
At Geneva the Japanese delegation warns arms build up in the U S continues while disarmament moves to three stages. Haiti’s M Doret wins a propaganda amendment. In Chicago the Edge Act-backed foreign trade corporation with $100 million capital advances. Hoover calls the plan the era’s most momentous since the armistice.
Official Greek plebiscite result and invitation reach former King Constantine in Lucerne. Greece will send a cruiser and warship escort to receive him and family at Venice, with the royal party departing Lucerne by train likely Monday.
The Central Illinois Public Service Co asks the Illinois Utilities Commission to approve a ten percent increase in electric light and power rates across 145 communities. Hearing is set for December 21 with the new rates to take effect January 1. towns include Macomb Taylorville and Beardstown.
McDonough Post No. 6 will hold its annual officer election next Thursday at 4 in the city hall while the assembly room is redecorated. The meeting will also plan a Christmas celebration for disabled and wounded ex service men at Holmes hospital. Full attendance of members urged.
Captain of Lombard College football Ray Murphy was barred from further conference athletics by the Illinois Athletic Conference over professionalism charges. The action follows allegations tied to playing with a professional team and taking money, with supporters divided on the impact this season’s Lombard games will have on conference records.
Rome reports Teteleni district in southern Albania is destroyed by a violent earthquake. About 200 killed and 15,000 left homeless as Pepelesi is razed and shocks continue. Earlier messages on December 5 noted shocks with thousands homeless but no casualties.
James K Fountain of Centralia and Lilly L Barrett of Macomb were wed. note on diamond color hints impurities causing tints.
Five men charged with conspiring to wreck the Diamond Special of the Illinois Central near Springfield last September were found not guilty of conspiracy to kill. They face four other charges. Verdict followed nine hours of jury deliberation amid confessions and testimonies about the planned wreck and passenger robbing.
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