Northwest Insurance Quartet Promotes Policies At District Event
A large crowd attended a district gathering featuring the Northwest Quartet and Campbell Orchestra. Notable attendees included agents J H Foster and Myers Walker, with remarks by company representatives Beeker and Bartholomew. The menu listed soups, chicken with hot dressing, rolls, fruit salad and desserts as part of a formal evening. Attendees from multiple towns were named among the insured and organizers.
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Northwestee Insurance Co
District Fu
Aid
J. H. Foster
Jylov
Will B
Mary A. Walker
Oy Ho, Becker, General Company
Smithfield
Old Rivals Meet on Diamond Sunday for Opening Series
Bushnell and Macomb baseball teams, longtime foes, meet at 3 o clock Sunday at the fair grounds to open a summer series. Macomb relies on Douglass Havens battery and Bushnell on Lynn McDade. Admission is 36 cents plus war tax.
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Bushnell and Macomb
Fair Grounds
Bushnell
Macomb
Douglass
Havens
Battery
Lynn
McDade
St. David
Public Utilities Bond Plan and School Name Changes
Springfield May 12 The senate committee on public utilities reported Senator Sadler’s public ownership resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to allow municipal bonds for utilities up to 15 percent of property value with referendum. The Senate also moved bills to rename normal schools to teachers colleges and to centralize school governance by county boards.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Senate Committee On Public Utiliies Today
Sadler
Thompson Traction
ATL
Senate
Career House
Bestern Ilinois State Normal School
Ilinois
Unions Admit Falsity of Letter in Board Hearing
Frank Walsh for the railway unions admits the document is not authenticated in a Railway Labor Act hearing in Chicago. The letter, alleged to be from a Pennsylvania official ordering defamation to obtain information, is urged to be withdrawn after all officials deny knowledge. The board pondered whether to strike the letter from records.
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Frank Walsh
Brotherhoods
Associated Press
Chicago
Railway Labor Today
Railroad Labor Board
Pennsylvania Railroad
Frank P. Walsh
James Sheehan
Walsh
Osteopaths and Medics Clash Over Springfield Clinic Ban
In Springfield on May 12, the Sangamon County Medical Society opposed the Illinois Osteopathic association convention by barring osteopaths from holding clinics at St Johns Hospital. Dr Owens cites prior resolutions excluding osteopaths as physicians. hospital director declines to enforce the ban.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Sangamon County Medical Society
Illinois Osteopathic Association
St. Johns Hospital
Owens
State Osteopath’s Association
Doctors of Medicine
Convicts Riot at Texas Penitentiary and Escape
Nimtsville Texas May 12 More than a score of state convicts armed mutinied today stormed the arsenal shot two guards and fled
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Associated Press
Nimtsville
Tex
Victim of Chicago Ward Feud Dies After Ambush
Anthony D Andrea Nineteenth ward leader was shot as he entered his home and died today at 1 15 am The incident follows his ambush early Wednesday and coincides with a birthday observed by Mrs Bert Cooper Chicago May 12 Assed Press
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Assed Press
Chicago
Anthony D'Andrea
Head of Capiz High School Led by Louis TH Lisk
Louis TH Lisk, former Blandinsville boy, heads Capiz High School in Tiolo Philippine Islands. This year 72 students will graduate. He has sent a souvenir yearbook to Blandinsville friends.
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Louis TH. Lisk
Blandinsville
Capiz High School
Tiiolo
Phillippine Islands
Miners Reject Wage Cuts in Illinois UMW Circular
Springfield reports John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers vows no wage reductions and upholds contracts from the Bituminous Coal Commission. He argues wage scales do not cause hardship and predicts an economic rebound as the nation eyes a resurging industrial role. Also featured is Roy Coats premiering Havana Town at the Illinois Theatre with Georgia Koch leading a six girl chorus.
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Associated Press
Springfield
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Linois
International Union
Lewis
International Organization
United States Bituminus Coal Commission
Roy Coats
Havana
Ilinois Theatre
George Koch
Macomb
Coats
Illinois
Luan Hendee
Loraine Sutton
Marguerite Clem
Alleyne Binnie
Lucile Early
Dolores Harlan
Parish debt bonds sold by priest links to Toledo mail robbery
Gorek a South Chicago priest was arrest ed in Gary Indiana by federal officials over a Toledo mail robbery. He confessed selling 140 in bond coupons to pay debts and revealed he buried 72000 in bonds allegedly given by Wanda Rhaytes, a suspect in the robbery.
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Chicago
Anthony Gorek
South
Ind
Gary
Toledo
Ohio
Gorek
Wanda “Rhaytes
Clara Smith Hamon Renounces Hamon Estate
Clara Smith Hamon relinquishes all claims to the estate of Jake L. Hamon, in return for 10000 dollars, following an Oklahoma jury acquittal on charges related to his murder. The agreement, signed with the estate administrator, acknowledges rights in oil leases.
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Los Angeles
Clara Smith Hamon
Jake L. Hamon
Oklahoma
Miners of West Virginia in Battle Near Merrimac and Sprigg
A gun battle on the West Virginia Kentucky border near Merrimac and Sprigg is reported to the Mingo County sheriff. One man, Harry Staten, a former magistrate and prosecution witness, is said killed at Sprigg. Captain Broeckus and state police are said to be hemmed in amid heavy firing as the towns endure multiple clashes. Special deputies are being enlisted. communications to Merrimac are interrupted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Williamson
W. Va
West Virginia-Kentucky
Merrimac
Sprigg
Dayton
Mingo County
Broeckus
Merrimae
Spriggs
Kentucky
Harry Staten
Mattewan
Macomb Soldier Victim of Error
A Macomb soldier, mistakenly listed as a casualty, was later confirmed alive after officials corrected an error. The volunteer had previously registered with Chicago area students and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel during service.
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Chicago University
Slacker list error prompts halt of public draft roll releases
The discover of William Sutherland Bacon as a misidentified first on the slacker list triggers suspension of further publications. Bacon, a Rush Medical College student, served as lieutenant colonel in chemical warfare at Lakehurst New Jersey and was honorably discharged January 9 1919.
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Associated Press
Chicago
William Sutherland Bacon
Fort Sheridan
Chemical Warfare Service
Lakehurst
N. J
Bacon
American Legion
New York
War Department
J. B. Bacon
Rush Medical College
del Prado
Chicago University
Sanitary Corps
Bandits Hold Up Messenger Escorting Bank Van
In Chicago on May 12 a uniformed policeman escorting a bank messenger was overpowered by five bandits. They forced the officer to walk a block and escaped with about $7,000, threatening to shoot if he looked back.
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Associated Press
Chicago
State Commercial & Savings Bank
Doctor Bacon Heads to City with Son William
In New York, Dr. Bacon is in New York from which place he will motor to this city with his son William and others. The report notes travel plans and likens the journey to a family visit and medical duties.
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New York
Dr. Bacon
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United Mine Workers
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