Illinois Enacts 8 Percent Sales Tax and Related Measures
Gov Horner signed the sales tax bill with enforcement starting April 1 as retailers collect an eight percent levy. Finance Director Rice will announce implementing regulations soon. The emergency relief commission urged federal aid in April. Cook County plans $4.748 million relief bonds sale for a second time. Prohibitionists seek August 1 delegate election for a state convention. Ernest Hoover named to the civil service commission to replace the late Harry Kreamer. The commerce commission ordered Midwest Freight Lines to stop trucking without a certificate between Rockford and Chicago. Horner urged patriotic citizen cooperation to support the sales tax and oppose injunction challenges.
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Henry Horner
Finance Rice
Emergency Relief Commission
Linois
Cook County
Ernest Hoover
Taylorville
State Civil Service Commission
Horner
Hoover
Harry Kreamer
Fast
State Commerce Commission
Mid West Freight Lines
Chicago
Rockford
Spirit of America
Illinois
Springfield brief asserts multiple local incidents and crimes
State notes a bomb partial destruction harming Mrs. Blazil, hearings for 15 miners extended to March 28, wage talks keep five dollar daily base, Becker named in larceny warrant, voter reject Sunday films in Sparta, a fatal hit by auto near Williamson fairgrounds, a youth jailed for eight cents theft, Peoria budget calls 5–25% salary cuts, Pekin finds Confederate money, twin Civil War veterans turn 88, $99,289 dividend paid at First National Bank Kewanee, Argo vault raid nets $4,500, ex-cashier to begin 1–10 year term, Danville hosts Illinois Congress of Parents and Teachers convention.
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Springfield
Andrew Blazil
Taxpayers Protective League
McLean County
Bloomington
Progressive Miners of America
Illinois Coal Producers’ Association
Joseph Becker
J. Sterling Morton High School
Cicero
Frank J. Svoboda
Board of Education
Becker
Sparta
Milo Bernard
Williamson County Fair Grounds
Pete Kelsey
John Zick
Morris
Peoria City
City Council Finance Committee
Henry Splittgerber
Pekin
Jeremiah
Zachariah Hess
Sterling
First National Bank
Kewanee
Theodore Allen
Argo State Bank
Archer Avenue
Argo
L. B. Koons
Oglesby State Bank
Trinda
Danville
Illinois Congress of Parents and Teachers
Nothing Philosophy Has to Offer Can Replace Family Life
The piece argues modern life erodes the traditional home yet preserves the need for a moral social core. It contends the home offers comfort beauty and shared culture, warning against complete communal living and urging a return to family rootedness and mutual purpose.
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Minneapolis Journal
Baby Heal With Cuticura Soap Ointment
A mother describes salt rheum forming water blisters on her 16 month old, causing itching and sleepless nights. She credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment for improvement after a month or two of use and notes prices and samples offered by Cuticura Laboratories.
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Doris Hardy
High St
Boscawen
N. H
Cuticura Laboratories
Dept. R. Malden
Mass
Adv
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