Illinois Faces Tax Reform and Reapportionment Debates
Governor Emmerson urges legislature to balance Cook county representation while pursuing tax relief and public works. He calls for farm aid, reduced waste, and careful budgets amid drought, unemployment, and war on overtaxed real estate. He asks for home rule for Chicago and outlines road, crime, and agricultural policy alongside court and county actions.
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Louis L. Emmerson
Fifty-Seventh
General Assembly
Illinois
Cook County
Chicago
Commerce Commission
Illinois State News Panel Shares Local Tragedies and Changes
Danville adopts a three platoon police system while Decatur Alderman Lorris Robinson is found shot to death in his garage. Quincy's 82 year police veteran Thomas Harvey dies at home. A Chicago exchange seat sells for 14500, up from 14100. Other items note a Monticello bus collision injuring attorney C. G. Elmer, a Streator school fire, and 1930 Cook county forest preserves total 33000 acres.
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Danville
Lorris Robinson
Decatur
Thomas Harvey
Quincy
Chicago Exchange
C. G. Elmer
Lanark
Monticello
Florida
Anthony
Streator
Cook County
Cermak
John Edgar McFarland
Canton
William Todd
Camp Point
Chicago
Illinois
Indiana
Aurora
Fox River
New York Street
Ogden Avenue
D. E. Welker
State Highway Department
Effingham
Hank Bruder
Northwestern University
Waukegan
Omega Gilbert
Evanston
Clyde L. King
Philadelphia
Sampson Oil Company
Bloomington
Lawrence C. O’brien
Leavenworth
Lindley
Grayville
Pat Trouble
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Albert Camp
Newport
Ark
John Welsh
Marshall
James Turner
Helen M. Carr
Knox County
David Farrell
Burlington Railroad
George Hillyer
Joliet
Galesburg
Dennis Sullivan
Burlington
Ilinois
General Assembly
C. F. Mansfield
Uniform Conservation Laws Commission
Ted Kleinhans
St. Louis Cardinals
Care ers Found May Be Both Short and Ugly
Anne Morgan, daughter of a prominent financier, discusses the idea of careers for American girls. She favors winning one’s way in one’s own environment, noting country girls gain by staying home rather than moving to the city. She adds that many small-town girls who seek city careers succeed but are not always tall or handsome.
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George Thomas Palmer
State Teachers’ Association
Springfield
Los Angeles Times
Baggage Dispute Reaches Inquiry Office
A passenger challenges claims about missing baggage and directs the matter to the inquiry office as the exchange underscores tension over unresolved luggage on the train. The Santa Fe Magazine quotation reflects friction in a transport disruption scenario.
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Inquiry Office
Santa Fe Magazine
World White Population Estimate Highlights Global Share
The latest estimate places the world white population at 725 million, reflecting demographic distribution across regions and nations. Analysts note variations in self-identification, migration patterns, and historical population growth shaping this figure.
Calloway Cashes In On Cotton Waste Ideas
Casen Calloway of La Grange Georgia pursued profitable ideas from waste cotton left after fabric manufacture. He built Valley waste mill to a 5000000 dollar value and expanded from nine to fourteen mills after World War I era. An accident at the plant led to an industrial wiping cloth from the same waste solving a hazard and boosting sales to 50 million units last year.
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Casen J. Calloway
la Grange
Cason Calloway
Valley
Calloway Group of Mills
Rubber glider aims to prove rubber-wing flight
Washington inventor Taylor McDaniel builds an all rubber glider to demonstrate the practicality of air floated rubber tubing construction, with no steel components.
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Taylor McDaniel
Washington
Lightweight inflatable aircraft glider aims for safety and efficiency
An inventor plans a 125 pound glider using three hollow rubber wing spars and a large rubber tail tube. When inflated, the tubes resist bending under a 200 pound load, claiming safer and cheaper airframes. Popular Science Monthly notes the concept.
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Popular Science Monthly
They Don't Live Long Bird Fancier
A Union Pacific Bulletin item jokes about a bird fancier who contrasts a lively bird with a sedentary habit. The brief quip plays on satire about activity and laziness in a humorous railway context.
That Kind Friend and the Leaking Car Line
A brief Inverness Courier quip notes a kind friend who questions the owner of a used car about its gallon by gallon leakage. The joke contrasts the helper remark with the owner’s nonchalant attitude toward the leaking vehicle.
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Inverness Courier
When a literary man markets all he writes
A quip notes that when a writer gains fame he tends to market every work he produces, extending to all he has written and imagined.
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Charles W. Vail
Supreme Court
Simon Marquis
Macoupin County
Southern Illinois
Chester
Fred Marquis
Staunton
W. T. Fossett
Hamilton
Williamson
Perry
Stuart B. Pierson
D. W. Robison
Oscar E. Carlstrom
Henry Bixby Hemenway
Division of Vital Statistics
Department of Health
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Carl R. Chindblom
Stuart E. Pierson
Sangamon
William E. Hull
Secretary of War
Chief of Engineers
Illinois Waterway
Dresden Island
Brandon Roads
Congress
Lake Michigan
Gulf of Mexico
Concordia Seminary
Hillsboro
Illinois University
Lutheran Synod
Ilinois Agricultural Association
Illinois Tax Commission
Omer EB. Custer
Walter Moody
William J. Stratton
Illinois State News
Atwater
Kent
Atwater Kent
A.C
Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company
Wissahickon Ave
Atwater Kent, Pres
Rockies
Canada
Anne Morgan
America
Dr. Pierce
Chas. H. Fletcher
Castori
Liha
Union Pacific Bulletin
Pean
Wholesale Supply Co
Ford Bldg
Detroit
Marcelle Laboratories
C. W. Beggs Sons & Co
West
Palm Springs
California
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