Election defeats and funding plans reach across Illinois
In Danville a special election defeated the proposal to adopt a commission form of government by 2777 to 2419. Legislation authorizes river bridge construction at Riverdale on the Little Calumet and Rockford on the Rock River. Peoria faces a 5000 survey appropriation for a sanitary district to treat sewage and protect the Illinois River, with an estimated total cost near 4000000.
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Danville
House
Senate
Washington, D. C
Little Calumet River
Riverdale
Rock River
Rockford
Peoria
Illinois River
Oysters ban decreed by Illinois Health Department 1925
The Illinois Department of Public Health forbids serving or selling raw oysters after January 15 1925. The measure cites typhoid fever linked to oysters bootlegging weak dealer controls and lack of enforceable standards. Local health officers will inspect oyster dealers and eateries to enforce the ban effective January 15 1925.
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Illinois
Department of Public Health
Isaac D. Rawlings
M. D
Few changes in rules expected for Fifty-fourth assembly
The house and senate anticipate mostly continuity in rules, with no major departures from prior codes. The University of Illinois will not seek extra funding for the two year budget, maintaining the 5 250 000 per year total under operation and maintenance and buildings.
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Fifty-fourth General Assembly
House
Senate
Fifty-third General Assembly
University of Illinois
Small
University
Chicago
Spectacular pistol fight ends in three deaths at Herrin hotel lobby
In Herrin Illinois a riotous gun battle in the European Hotel lobby left S Glenn Young and George Forbes dead after a shootout with Ora Thomas a deputy sheriff and anti klansman. Herbert Warren died later from a head wound. Witnesses report more than fifty shots firing as guests fled for safety.
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Herrin
Ill
Glenn Young
Ku Klux Klan
Williamson County
George Forbes
Ora Thomas
George Galligan
European Hotel
Fifteenth
Monroe Streets
Young
Thomas
Herbert Warren
Bowen
Forbes
Warren
Havens
Doerr Undertaking Company
Jenkins Undertaking Company
Sheriff Galligan
Marion
Ly- Mar
A. M. Walker
Harold Crain
Galligan
Baker Urged to Enforce Law in St Louis
A representative committee of St Louis business leaders delivered a petition and resolution to Governor Baker at the Hotel Jefferson urging stronger law enforcement. The group cited loyalty to oaths and constitutional supremacy as essential for federal state and local officials and asked for active enforcement during Baker’s administration. Governor Baker, speaking at the Racquet Club, pledged cooperation and said a program of law enforcement would be a major focus.
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United States
Citizen’s Committee
Citizens’ Committee of the One Thousand
Elbert H. Gary
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Commercial Club
St. Louis
Baker
Committee On Taxation
Association
Japanese Move to Settle in Arkansas
Two Japanese families from California settled on a 400 acre tract near the Frisco Railroad between Marion and Joyner as Delta Improvement Company plans to colonize thousands of acres with about 50000 Japanese. Memphis broker Dean Adams and the company are negotiating further deals widening the purchase into the state's richest land. A private guard was placed at the estate of Miss Giulia P. Morosini in Riverdale, reason undisclosed.
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Arkansas
Alon
Marion and
Joyner
California
Wisder
Delta Improvement Company
J. W. Brinkley
Memphis
Dean Adams
Memphis Realtor
Adams
Tenn
Herrera
New York
Giulia P. Morosini
Jay Gould
Riverdale
Three Die When Train Hits Auto Near Pokagon
Caroline Stanger and Anna Blearley, both 20 from Chicago, and Henry Boas, 28 from St. Joseph, Michigan, were instantly killed when a fast Michigan Central passenger train struck their auto six miles east of Niles at Pokagon.
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Niles
Mich
Caroline Stanger
Anna Blearley
Chicago
Henry Boas
St. Joseph
Michigan Central
Pokagon
Here
Pension Increase Voted for Widow of Sergeant Major Quick
Washington. Congress nearing approval of a bill to raise Edith L. Quick widow of Sergeant-Major John Henry Quick to 600 dollars a year from 300. The House Pension Committee reported favorably noting illness limits work ability. Quick praised by Gen Lejeune as the greatest marine who ever served.
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Washington
Congress
Republic
House Pension Committee
Edith L. Quick
Liermann Avenue
St. Louis
John Henry Quick
Lejeune
Navy
Veterans’ Bureau
Mine pay scale talks stall at Cleveland meeting
Officials of Coal River Collieries Co owned by Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers met with a committee of the American Federation of Labor to discuss labor conditions in the mines. In Sofia a raid on a Communist printing shop left one Communist dead and three police wounded as a secret journal operated.
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Cleveland, O
Coal River Collieries Co
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Iican Federation of Labor and Oil
Sofia
Tax collections in Missouri show decrease for 1924
A federal revenue report compares internal tax receipts for the first half of fiscal 1924 and 1925 by state. It shows overall calendar year 1924 proceeds at 1.808 billion dollars, down from 1.827 billion in 1923. Illinois and Missouri receipts both fall in early 1924 versus 1923, reflecting earlier installment payments and tax year timing.
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Linois
Washington, D. C
Internal Revenue Bureau
Missouri
Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Illinois
Shipstead attacks stock gambling in Wall Street
Minnesota Senator Henrik Shipstead of the Farmer-Labor Party denounced Wall Street activities in a Senate address. He charged that high security prices far outpace underlying business conditions and blamed the Treasury Secretary and the Federal Reserve Board for encouraging the boom. He cited a booming stock exchange with about 2,000,000 shares traded daily and call money near 2 percent, contrasting with higher historic averages. He claimed pretense of restraint had been abandoned.
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Washington
Shipstead
Farmer-Laborite
Minnesota
Wallstreet
Senate
Secretary of the Treasury
Federal Reserve Board
Wall Street
The
Stock Exchange
Treasury
Accord With U S Urged By Jap Baron
Baron Shidehara, former U S ambassador and Japan's foreign minister, urged continued U S Japan cooperation for Pacific and world peace in his Diet address. He said the U S exclusion law remains unsettled but continued discussions now would not help. Premier Kato spoke on Japan's economy and stressed rigid government austerity for the year.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Pacific
Baron Shidehara
Kato
Diet
Nine Hurt as Frisco Train Wreck Occurs in Oklahoma
Nine persons were injured in a Frisco accident near Roff Oklahoma when St Louis San Francisco train No 11 hit a tampered switch causing four cars to overturn. Three passengers were seriously injured including an infant child of H W Lancaster Ardmore Texas and J A Sanders Moberree Texas. Officials said the switch lock had been tampered with and no immediate investigation would be conducted.
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Frisco
Tulsa
Okla
St. Louis
French Sentry Killed by Bomb at Point Mala Bat Lighthouse
A French sentinel stationed at the lighthouse on Point Mala bat in Tangier was killed by an aircraft bomb. The attack has provoked strong public reaction and editorials criticize the Spanish bombers for insufficient air control.
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Tangier
Point Malabat
Golden Rule Fund Reaches 1 129 388 For Near East Relief
About one million people donated 1 120 388 to the Near East relief fund on Golden Rule Sunday observed nationwide December 7 reports show. In St Paul Minnesota three carloads of alcohol allegedly taken from a Philadelphia distillery were seized by federal Prohibition agents from Minneapolis.
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New York
United States
National
Golden Rule Committee
St. Paul, Minn
Philadelphia
Minneapolis
Bankers Criticize Lax Prosecution of Inside Bank Robberies
Sedalia Missouri report details Missouri Bankers Association executive session attacking laxity in pursuing inside bank robbers and urging full terms for convicted offenders. Next convention set for St Louis May 19 20 with officers and group chairs listed.
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Sedalia
Missouri Bankers’ Association
St. Louis
M. R. Sturtevant
EB. BD. Amick
Kansas City
W. F. Keyser
W. W. Pollock
Mexico
G. P. Eddings
Moberly
K. M. Blanchard
Chillicothe
C.G. Hooper
Maitland
J. A. Walker
Marshall
W. T. Moberly
H. A. Buschman
Poplar Bluff
E. C. Carter
Carthage
Dale S. Flowers
Albany
J. E. Garm
Joplin
Lausanne Treaty Discussed At White House Dinner
Washington reports that a White House dinner brought together most members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Richard Washburn Child to discuss the Lausanne treaty and possible U S ratification. President Coolidge did not comment on the convention. The Senate has sought details on the Paris reparations agreement.
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Washington
United States
Turkey
White House
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Richard Washburn Child
Child
Coolidge
Senate
Johnson
Hughes
Institute in Honor of Mme Curie Fund Drive in Warsaw
The population of P. is raising funds for a national gift to Mme Curie, the discoverer of radium. The gift will be a radium institute in Warsaw, her native city.
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Mme, Curie
Warsaw
Mme. Curie
Wsaw
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Department of Interior
Bureau of Mines
Ilinois
George Musick
William de Witt
Milton Berkson
South
Cornel Avenue
Urbana
Herman Fox
Leo Halperin
R. D. Cahn
General Advisory Board
State Department of Labor
Springfield
Jens Jensen
Friends of Our Native Landscape
Jensen
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Secretary of State
Boards of
American Forestry Association
Illinois Forestry Association
Forestry Association
Hamiltton
Union League
John H. Walker
Illinois Federation of Labor
Victor A. Olander
Wiinois
Chicago Motor Club
Michael Murphy
Hopedale
County Waterford
Ireland
America
Department of Commerce
KLAN
Aid
Herrin, Hil
Representative
St. Louisan
U. S
Jap Baron
Tennesse House
Nashville
House of Representatives
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