Jack Dillon Biography From Early Ring Career to 200 Bouts
In eight years in the ring Jack Dillon fought nearly 200 bouts quickly outranking rivals. He defeated boxers such as Frank Moran Jim Savage Charley Weinert Tom Cowler Jim and Porky Flynn and Battling Levinsky. Recent losses include Billy Miske. Dillon born Ernest Cutler Price February 2 1891 in Frankfort Indiana. He claimed the name Jack Dillon after a race horse and stands five feet seven and a half inches tall with a fighting weight around 170 pounds.
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Frank Moran
Jim Savage
Charley Weinert
Tom Cowler
Jim
Porky Flynn
Battling Levinsky
Billy Miske
Dillon
Frankfort
Ind
Ernest Cutler Price
Jack Dillon
Doyle Opposes Strike Threat as Pact Ahead of Spring Training
Larry Doyle the Chicago Nationals second baseman informs President Weeghman he does not support the strike threat by Baseball Players' Fraternity head David L. Fultz. Doyle, while a fraternity member, says he will report February 20 for the spring training trip.
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Larry Doyle
Chicago Nationals
Weeghman
David L. Fultz
Baseball Players’ Fraternity
Doyle
Lincoln as a Boy Remembered Him
John Langdon Caine recalls Lincoln in a Century Magazine piece. Lincoln cheered a boy’s oration, reviewed the delivery, recited remembered speeches, and urged the boy to own the words. He stressed early study of verse and the Bible as a source of lines and ambition for history.
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Century Magazine
Lincoln
John Langdon Caine
Washington
Hynes
Labor and Work Sayings From Classic Voices
A collection of quips on labor and work from Johnson Carlyle and Biomer: work as necessity and nobility, and the enduring difficulty of keeping secrets forgetting injuries and making good use of labor. The lines reflect a historic sermon on effort and human happiness.
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Caryle
Cilo
Kaskaskia Case Keeps Island Within Illinois
The Illinois Supreme Court affirms that the Mississippi River boundary line remains the division between states, keeping Kaskaskia in Illinois. The decision, voiced by Justice Cook, notes the river’s midline as the boundary and recalls Illinois’s 1777 fort and cemetery relocation funds.
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Supreme Court of Illinois
Kaskaskia
Cook
Mississippi River
Illinois
Mississippi
Okaw
Ilinois
Fort Gage
George Rogers Clark
Missouri
Pierre Laclede Liguest
Public officials vindicated in Wilson peace note leak probe
The house rules committee voted unanimously that public officials named in the investigation were vindicated. It finds Thomas Lawson’s charges unsubstantiated and says advance information about the note was supplied to brokers by newspaper men.
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Wall Street
Wilson
House Rules Committee
Thomas Lawson
Awful Extremes Reflect Prosperity and Suffering
The nation faces sharp contrasts as rich displays wealth while thousands suffer for life’s necessities. Bread riots in New York and Philadelphia expose hunger, with women leading protests and authorities intervening to restore order. If inaction continues, poorer towns risk similar distress nationwide.
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New York
Philadelphia
Chicago Herald to launch vast traveler information service
The Chicago Herald Land and Industrial Bureau will create an extensive information and public service to help visitors avoid depot scammers. A hundred firms will join, listing on a bulletin board with lockers of information, offering free guidance on where to shop eat stay and see.
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Chicago
Chicago Herald Land and Industrial Bureau
Bureau of Information and Public Service
Art Institute
Columbian Museum
Newberry
Municipal Pier
Perhans
Iowa
Kansas
Michigan
Wisconsin
Information Department
Ward D. Williams
Chambers of Commerce
Mother Gone to a Home Beyond This World
Poem laments mother’s death and honorably notes her passage to a peaceful afterlife. The speaker recalls maternal care and faith, expresses grief, and finds solace in a heavenly reunion beyond mortal sight. The piece sentimentalizes loss and spiritual rest.
Three Bills Seek Tough Auto Theft Penalties
The house judiciary committee reported three bills to curb automobile theft. They impose penalties for unlocking and starting a car, possessing a stolen vehicle, and stealing an automobile punishable by fines and 1 to 20 years in prison. The measures aim to curb auto theft in Chicago and other cities.
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House Judiciary Committee
Assembly
Chicago
Foley’s Honey and Tar Praised for Night Cough Relief
A Brownsville reader reports Foley’s Honey and Tar eases his family’s bed time coughs and croup symptoms. He notes it calms feverish nights and helps his children sleep, endorsing it as a trusted remedy for coughs and throat irritation.
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Foley
Brownsville
Texas
Chas Reker
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Abraham Lincoln
Vergil
Big Guns
Pennsylvania
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ST. Jacon
ST. Louis, MO
Valier
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Daily Globe Democrat
Sunday Globe-Democrat
the Globe Printing CO
Keifer’s
the City Drug Store
North Side Square
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