Casey Seeks New Street Lights for Casey
City council received bids for a new electric light plant to serve Casey. Three bids were filed from Merkle Machinery, Beeson Machinery, and Power Supply Co, Terre Haute, with the Power Supply Co lowest at 72700. The building will sit east of the present plant facing Central avenue. O D McGinness to erect the building.
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Casey
Merkle ‘Machinery & Construction: Co
Kansas City
Beeson Machinery Co
Kansas ‘City’ Co
Merkle Machinery” & Construction’ ‘Co
Bia
Heine
Power Supply Co
Harrisburg
Terre Haute
O. D. ‘McGinness
Power Supply. Co
Limestone distribution to farmers continues this week
Limestone at cost is again being furnished to farmers with new requests prompting late shipments. The Marshall Chamber of Commerce is handling the distribution as several carloads are allocated to support limestone use this year.
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Marshall Chamber of Commerce
Two Cars Collide Near Marshall Farm Entrance Sunday
On Sunday afternoon a touring car eastbound struck a car driven west by John Hasson Jr. near John Coates farm east of Marshall on the National Highway. Both vehicles were damaged and a woman in the larger car was injured while a child around four years old received praise for staying safe. Four Marshall boys watched a large car drive toward them.
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John Hasson
Hasson
Harry LeSeure
Henry Wallis
Skeeter
John Coates
Marshall
Trains Restored by Big Four After Commerce Commission Probe
The Big Four Railroad resumed service after pulling trains on the claim of public demand for coal transport. The move, taken without state commerce commission consultation, faced backlash as the public and chambers of commerce in Marshall and Lawrenceville pressed for mail and rail service restoration. The chambers were blamed for the quick decision enabling the revival.
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Big Four
State Commerce ‘Commission
Commerce “Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Marshall
Lawrenceville
Chambers of Commerce
Illinois Education Meetings Dated By Department of Public Instruction
The Department of Public Instruction lists education meeting dates across divisions. Northwestern division and Black Hawk division meet in late October and early November at Rock Island and Augustana College. Chicago division holds events in November at Hyde Park High School. Central Association of Science and Mathematics teachers gathers December in Chicago, with Illinois State Teachers Association sessions in December and Springfield.
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Springfield
Department of Public Instruction For
Illinois
Northwestern Division
Illinois State Teacher's ‘Association
Black Hawk
Illinois State Teacher' '’ Association
Augustana College
Rock ‘Island
Chicago
I -Dlinois State Teachers’ ’ Association
Central Association of Science’ and Mathematica
Hyde Park High School
Old Fashioned Panic Averts in Turbulent Market
Roger W. Babson in Massachusetts warns that Europe faces a grave debt crisis as England shifts from creditor to debtor. He links stock market behavior to the Turkish situation, predicts higher prices and tighter money, and notes England may have to fight or lose empires while taxes rise at home.
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Wellesley, Hills
Mass
Roger’ W. Babson
Wellesley
Russia
Constantinople
France
England
Turkey
Germany
Europe
Gallipoli
Coxt
South Africa
India
Egypt
Bersia
Holy Land
Real estate transfers list numerous small deeds and one large sale
A compilation of land and lot transfers including Mundy to Traviola for 34-12-18 at $1, Scott to Scott for 40 acres at $5, Perisho to Horton for a Marshall lot at $275, Horton to Cole for a Marshall lot at $300, Osborn to Beavers on Casey lots at $1200, Hull to Taggart for a West Union lot at $1, Hutchinson and wife to Phillippe for multiple parcels at $3500, and related exchanges and small payments among multiple parties across Casey, Marshall, and West Union locations.
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Paxton
Joe Fitzgarrald
John D. Watts
W. W. Craig
Dora
Mary C. Brown
Lot Marshall
Joseph A. Hutchinson
L. C. Phillippe
L. O. Phillippe
R.M. Clements
J. H. Hilbert
Walter Coffee
Pearl Crouch
Casey
A. Bennett
Ben Sweet
Marshall
William A. Nelson
C. W. Wells, Jr
Sarah E. Ward
Inez M. Worden
Frank ‘H. Foster
Charles M. Sullins
John Bowes
A.N. ‘Daniel
Lot Casey
William “Kirby
Pleasant
My White
Walker Spotts
City Rejects All Bids on Light and Water Plants
City council rejects all bids for light and water plants after bids from Power Supply Company and Chase Engine and Manufacturing are found not comparable. Engineer Wilcox favored Chase, but council votes 5 to 0 to reopen bidding after corrections.
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Frank L. ‘Wilcox
Chase Engine and Manufacturing
Wilcox
Chase
Bennett
Light and Water Committee
St. Louis
Herald
Town Pests and the Gent of Leisure in a Busy Newspaper Office
A satirical piece mocks a lazy columnist or editor as a pest in a crowded newsroom. It playfully imagines a persistent loafer stirring trouble while others work. The language imitates old style humor with exaggerated dialect and punning.
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Lampe
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