Strong Endorsement for Magill for State School Chief
The Overland-Spitfler Go notes strong backing for Hugh S Magill Jr Republican candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction. Newspapers and educators praise his school laws and management, urging nomination to lead postwar educational reconstruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh S Magill, Jr
Springfield News-Record
Magill
Mattoon Journal-Gazette
Coles County
Blair
Amboy
Charles MacIntosh
Pratt County
State Teachers’ Association
Siagill
A Russian Lenin Compared to Charlotte Corday
The piece contrasts Lenin’s assassination with the French Revolution’s Charlotte Corday, noting conflicting reports on Lenin’s death but agreeing he was shot by a Russian woman for political reasons. It likens Lenin to Marat and discusses consequences of political violence and propaganda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nikolai Lenin
Dora Kaplan
Marat
Charlotte Corday
Lenin
War talks and wartime outlook from H C B in Washington
Washington diary expresses faith in Wilson and allied leaders to form a league of nations while fearing Roosevelt's plan. He notes calm city life as gasoline conservation rises, predicts government control of fuel and tires, and discusses looming hard battles and the drive toward Berlin. He plans a Marshall visit on Sept 14 to reconnect with Clark County friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodrow Wilson
David Lloyd George
Clemenceau
League of Nations
Theodore Roosevelt
Wilson
Germany
Hughes
McAdoo
Borah
Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue
Child's Restaurant
16Th
the Avenue
Corcoran Art Gallery
Red Cross
Tiday Basin
Bathing Beach
Speedway
F Street
New Willard
New Ebbitt
Pension Bureau
Potomac Park
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Uncle Sam
Mississippi River
Marne
Great Britain
Hindenburg Line
Rhine
Berlin
William the Damned
Vienna
Hapsburgs
Hohenzollerns
Marshall
Clark County
County Sheriff Candidate Seeks Republican Primary Nomination
A Martinsville township tax collector for one term and three term Board of Supervisors member seeks the Republican nomination for county sheriff in the September 11 1918 primary. He pledges to serve the people and continue to make his term satisfactory if elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinsville Township
Board of Supervisors
Public Sale Near Marshall Attracts Farm Animals
Arthur Guinnip will hold a sale at his farm three miles northwest of Marshall on Tuesday September 10. The sale includes five horses two mules eight milk cows two heifers and sixteen shoats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Guinnip
Marshall
Administratrix's Notice in Clark County Illinois
State of Illinois Clark County notices heirs that on October 7 1918 the administratrix of the estate of Peter C Lilley will present final report to the Clark County court at the Marshall Illinois courthouse and seek discharge from duties and responsibilities of administration Saloma Lilley admi x Everett Connelly attorney 36-4
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Illinois
Clark Counity
Peter C. Lilley
Clark ‘County
Marshall
Iinois
Saloma Lilley
Everett Connelly
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Pathe Records
American Graphophone CO
Columbia Graphophone Co
Emerson Phonograph Co., Inc
Pathe
Frank L. O. Wordsworth
Columbia Co
Bubeck & Gallagher
Nodel
West Main St
Erally
Illinois
T. RF
Springfield
W. A. Byram
Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Hart Schaffnner & Marx
Young
Booth & Handy
Black & Hutchinson, Grocers
Layton’s
Blue Ribbon
Harley
Magda
Per Can
Ryron
America
CHAS
Brandens Fern
Liberty Loan
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