Relief Funds Grow as Santa Claus Drives Donations
Wayne Hummer praises broad public generosity across cities with prominent newspaper appeals for relief funds and Santa Claus drives. Events include prison reform talks, highway police reports, and governor Emmerson's Washington visit. Illinois finance and tax plans unfold with rate discussions and deportation program updates amid a wide array of state notices.
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Wayne Hummer
Governor’s Commission On Unemployment and Relief
Illinois rolls free of tuberculosis cattle in most counties
More than a million cattle across 62 Illinois counties are accredited free of tuberculosis according to Stuart E. Pierson. About 450 000 head in 40 counties remain unaccredited but have been tested.
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Stuart E. Pierson
Huskinson Named Chairman at Prudential Casualty St Louis
George Huskinson former superintendent of insurance for Illinois has been appointed chairman of the board of directors of the Prudential Casualty and Surety company in St. Louis.
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George Huskinson
Illinois
Prudential Casualty and Surety Company
St. Louis
Dieterich to Speak at Jackson Day Dinner in Springfield
Congressman-elect William H. Dieterich will be the speaker at the Jackson Day dinner on January 7 at the St. Nicholas hotel in Springfield. The Democratic party of the state is invited to attend.
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Samuel T. Metcalf
Sangamon County
Col. Chaarles
William H. Dieterich
St. Nicholas Hotel
Springfield
Democratic Party of
Civil service exam set for December 17 announced
Harry 8 Parker, president of the civil service commission, announced that 222 applicants will take the examination December 17. Three classes are to write, assistant, physicians, bakers and storekeepers for institutions.
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Harry 8. Parker
The
Civil Service Commission
Illinois News Nuggets of Death and Disasters Across Counties
The report lists a series of incidents and events from Illinois including bank closings at Christopher State and First National Kansas NL, deaths of Col. E C Silliman and George Heikes, a bull attack near Galesburg, a duck hunting drowning near Alton, and a vigil of rail and bus travel for University of Illinois students. It notes medical aid plans in Chicago, a park gift from Jacob Hopkins in DeKalb, officer deaths and a jail escape roundup, tax reassessment in Cook County, embezzlement case involving Harry Adkins, a Confederate-linked burial at Rushville, a Rockford arrest in a larceny case, a homicide investigation tied to a Durand shooting, a quarantine at Vandalia penal farm for spinal meningitis, and a veteran veteran employment effort selling 300000 apples by 325 veterans in Chicago.
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Charles L. Pike
Col. E. C. Silliman
Peoria County
Chenoa
Louis Matson
Galesburg
John Merritt
Greenwood Island
Mississippi River
Alton
First National Bank of Kansas
George P. Heikes
Iroquois County
Watseka
University of Illinois
Ernest B. Conners
Wood River
Jacob Hopkins
Chicago
DeKalb
Claude M. Dibble
Moore Brothers Stove Works
Joliet
Evanston Hospital
Yale Scientific School
Andrew
Rube”) Foster
Leland Giants
American Giants
Kankakee
Kansas City
Olaf Gustafson
Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad
Oakton Street
Niles Center
Cass County
Board of Supervisors
Cook County
Board of Review
Harry Adkins
City of
Marion
J. J. Grady
Adkins
Gilderoy Settles
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Rushville
Settles
Mary Ann Lee
Garlock
General Lee
Glen Amundsen
Durand
M. Stewart
Brodhead Roadhouse
Amundsen
Illinois
Vandalia
Chicago Loop
Cook County Council of the American Legion
Serra Statue to Stand in National Capitol Statuary Hall
A bronze eight foot statue of Junipero Serra, founder of California missions, will be placed in Statuary Hall at the National Capitol in Washington. The work is by Ettore Catorin of Santa Barbara, California.
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Lincoln Tomb
Herrick Hammond
Junipero Serra
California
National Capitol
Washington
Ettore Catorin
Santa Barbara
Calif
Plant man honored by Massachusetts society
Dr. David Fairchild, famed plant specialist, receives the White medal, top American horticultural award. He and his associates introduced over 80 000 new plant varieties into the United States, contributing to crops yielding millions of dollars.
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David Fairchild
America
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Doctor Fairchild
United States
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