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Br itige day observance noted with emphasis on the recurring ritual and its concluding significance.Officials marked the event's final acknowledgment as part of a longstanding community tradition.
25 Oct 1921
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Newspaper
Macomb Daily By Stander
Location
Macomb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1921
Page
1
Br itige day observance noted with emphasis on the recurring ritual and its concluding significance.Officials marked the event's final acknowledgment as part of a longstanding community tradition.
A partial, heavily garbled text describes a moment of reverence on Armistice Day, urging two minutes of silence to honor fallen heroes and mark the solemn observance. The article notes people pausing from duties and paying tribute to those who served.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a person tied to a ceremony or disposition but lacks clear names dates places or events for a concrete summary. The readable bits suggest an authorized action or transport but details are too fragmentary to identify specific entities or outcomes.
Fragmentary notice recalls solemn honors for war dead and the nation’s duty to remember. It mentions patriotism, mercy, and public ceremonies at sunset, with references to the United States Navy and national unity.
The Coffer-Miller players present The Imaginary Invalid at Macomb High School with afternoon show at 2 30 and evening show at 8. Junior class sponsors the production which travels from Indiana University Grinnell College Purdue Wisconsin University and other central west venues.
McDonough county towns establish a network of livestock shipping centers. The thirteenth association was organized in Bushnell with B M Rodgers S E Mowrey A F Bergen Tra Riddle and Elgin Everly as directors. Elverly named president Mowrey secretary treasurer. A manager will be elected to start operations soon. Vermont association pending to aid nearby farms.
The third district appellate court issued decisions in sixty seven cases this morning. Among them People ex rel DeCamp vs Kirk, the McDonough county circuit court judgment was affirmed.
Sealed strike orders target Burlington Road workers with a Nov. 3 walkout planned as division headquarters coordinate actions from Quincy to Galesburg. The U S Labor Board met in executive session to address misgivings among big four Brotherhood leaders ahead of hearings on wage reductions. Local officials fear a prolonged strike could cripple passenger and freight service nationwide. Moving update notes Mr. and Mrs Turner of Galesburg relocating to West Washington Street in this city.
Illinois first five million dollar issue of hard road bonds sold for four million seven hundred one thousand dollars at auction in Springfield. The discount was just under six percent and the yield basis about four point eight five percent. Continental and Commercial Trust and Savings Company bought in two blocks with six Chicago banks joining the pool. Macomb bankers praised the price as very good given current money conditions.
A yesterday report mixed up names in the Ba r notice. It states Mrs. Roy Pace and Shady returned from the hospital, but another woman did so with her baby.
Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Bacon report the birth yesterday of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. William Bacon of New York.
Mrs. Hattie Foster, widow of M. C. Foster, was granted a mother's pension of $20 per month by Judge J. I. Ines. Mrs. Foster has two children under 14 years old.
McDonough county alumni and former Illinois University students are urged to attend a meeting next Saturday evening at 8 o'clock in the Macomb Commercial association rooms. The group aims to organize subscriptions for the memorial stadium fund, part of a national drive to raise 2,500,000 dollars. T. W. Everett of Bushnell serves as president and issued the call.
Washington Oct 25 Normal tax rates of 4 percent on the first 44000 of income and 8 percent on all over that amount were approved today by the senate without a record vote. The committee amendment proposing these rates, which Democrats twice sought to amend yesterday without success, was approved within a minute after the senate met. To Bartonville Sheriff Lanp left this morning for Bartonville taking Carl Fentem of Colchester who yesterday was adjudged insane.
The Treasury Department issued rules permitting medicinal use of beer wines and spirits with limits for single prescriptions. Physicians may write unlimited prescriptions but a pharmacist must fill them and ensure they are for legitimate medical use only. The rules set two and a half gallons of beer per use and one pint of liquor per ten days, with no refill policy.
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