State Capitol News Notes At Illinois Fair And Capitol Moves
Cash prizes totaling more than 150000 will be awarded at the state fair with special purses ribbons and trophies. Harness race winners receive 30000 beef cattle 19000 dairy cattle and dairy breeds nearly 20000 breeding stock and draft horses 13000 and horse show animals about 16000. Two university department heads appointed Francis W Loomis head physics and R D Carmichael head mathematics. DeWitt Billman edits Smith Hurds Revised Statutes with 384 corrections. County truant officer jurisdiction clarified by Attorney General Carl strom. Eighty six counties represented by Normal students. Secretary of state reports 19500566 33 increase in fees first six months 1929. Gas tax collection to begin August 1 three cents per gallon adds to road fund projected over one million dollars in first month. Five million pine trees to Illinois residents in 1930. seedlings raised by inmates. Lindbergh clock presented as wedding gift in Springfield. Springfield Day at the state fair attracts 300 to 350 North St. Louis businessmen.
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Garrett D. Kinney
State Department of Finance
Illinois
Department of Public Welfare
Rodney H. Brandon
Brandon
Illinois Leaders Appointments and Public Works Updates
Dr. Thomas G. Hall named head of the faculty at the State Fair School of Public Health. George C. Dixon chairs a nine member commission to plan a Fort Dixon monument. Illinois reports 1919 public recreation outlay of 6.41 million, leading the nation. New York and California follow. University of Chicago archaeologists report 25 mound burials in Quincy park. Illinois field tour by College of Agriculture faculty visits Joliet prison and state hospitals. 1930 license plates to be white on black for visibility. W A Johnson becomes veterinary at Springfield yards. State buys 26 new highway trucks for 110000 and 125000 for Joliet prison factory equipment. Dr Hubert H Fletcher appointed managing officer of Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Home at Quincy.
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Thomas G. Hall
Andy Hall
State Fair School of Public Health
George C. Dixon
Dixon
Louis L. Emmerson
Fort Dixon
Abraham Lincoln
E. F. Lawrence
Sterling
Lorado Taft
O. C. Simonds
C. Herrick Hammond
Illinois
Playground and Recreation Association of America
New York State
California
College of Agriculture
The
University of Illinois
Joliet
Kankakee
Elgin
Geneva
William J. Stratton
Mr. Stratton
Hubert H. Fletcher
Winchester
Illinois Soldiers’ and Sailors Home
Quincy
Col
O. C. Smith
Fletcher
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Old Folks Say Dr Caldwell Was Right
A vintage health advertisement touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a gentle laxative tonic from 1875. It claims simple vegetable laxatives and herbs treat constipation biliousness and indigestion without narcotics.
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DR. Caldwell
Caldwell
Medical College
Senna
Illinois Farm Tenants Dominate State Agriculture
Illinois reports 94 650 farms or 42 percent operated by tenants per H M C Case of the University of Illinois. Grain share leases remain common while livestock share leases rise with 10 000 requests in a decade. Dr Andy Hall says contagious diseases are low in downstate areas with 347 measles and 300 whooping cough cases. Adjt Gen Carlos E Black and staff are involved.
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Illinois
H. M. C. Case
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
Andy Hall
State Department of Health
Downstate
Governor to Review 33rd Division at Camp Grant Encampment
Preparatory duties run August 3 to 17 at Camp Grant as Asst. Gen. Richings J. Shand Col. Frank Taylor and staff remain on duty. Governor Emmerson will review the 33rd division on Governor's day August 15 or 16, the first visit since he became commander-in-chief of Illinois forces. Charles F. Buck issued Hawthorne track license to Chicago Business Men's Racing Association for a 19 day meet from August 3 to 24 with a daily fee of 2500 and a 47500 certified check.
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Illinois National Guard
Richings J. Shand
Frank Taylor
Emmerson
Camp Grant
Charles F. Buck
Chicago Business Men’s Racing Association
Hawthorne Track
Cook County
Apple Cider Vinegar Gar Offered at Altom's Patoka
Pure home grown apple cider vinegar gar advertised at Altom's in Patoka Illinois.
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Altom’s
Patoka
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State Capitol News
Francis W. Loomis
New York University
A. P. Carmen
R. D. Carmichael
DeWitt Billman
Legislative Reference Bureau
Smith-Hurd
General Assembly
Board of Education
Carlstrom
Illinois State Normal University At Normal
Secretary of State
Accounting Department
Edward A. Wieck
Illinois Coal Sales Acsociation
L. A. Downs
Illinois Central Railroad System
Charles A. Lindbergh
Springfield
St. Louis
Atlantic
Eiffel Tower
Paris
North
Larvex
University of Chicago
Quincy Park
Marion Krogman
Krogman
Mississippi
W. A. Johnson
East St. Louis
Springfield Yards
State Department of Agriculture
Dailey
State Division of Highways
Adjt
Carlos E. Black
the Centralia
Ill
Phyllis Haver
Clara Bow
Ictor McLaglen
Black Watch
Tim McCoy
Hoot Gibson
Douglas McLean
A. L. Brown
Vernon
Essex
Tion
Oldsmobile
Langenfeld Motor Co
North Poplar
Centralia
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