Legislature Ends Session With Tax Referendum Draft
Springfield reports the fifty fourth general assembly adjourned sine die after approving a referendum urging voters to adopt a constitutional amendment allowing the legislature to tax broadly, including potential income tax powers. The house blocked a vote amid Browne protests while the senate approved the report. Governor Small signed 57 house bills and 30 senate bills, vetoed four minor ones and one item.
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Springfield
Fifty-Fourth General Assembly
Senate
House of Representatives
Lee O'Neil Browne
Scholes
Representative Browne
General Assembly
Illinois
William H. Malone
Tax Commission
Small
House
Judiciary Committee
Booth
Tice
Wilson
Thon
Cook County
Weisbrod
Chicago
Bobrer
Illinois crop bulletin notes progress and final plow
The Illinois crop bulletin issued at Springfield reports corn progress is excellent and a considerable amount has been plowed for the last time.
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Illinois Crop Bulletin
Springfield
Car Plunges Over Embankment Near Sheffield
Mrs. B. S. Hale narrowly escaped death when the car she drove plunged 15 feet after a collision with another auto near Sheffield. The incident followed a road mishap and left area residents shaken.
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B. S. Hale
Sheffield
Indicted Firms Malleable Castings Move Quietly to Cleveland
Judge Cliffe ordered transfer of the cases of three Illinois manufacturers among 94 defendants in the American Malleable Castings association to the Federal court at Cleveland from Chicago.
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Illinois
American Malleable Castings Association
Cleveland
Chicago
Cliffe
Rathbone Delivers Key Speech at Jo Daviess Reunion
Henry R. Rathbone congressman at large from Chicago spoke as principal orator at the forty first annual reunion of soldiers and sailors of Jo Daviess county held at Apple River.
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Henry R. Rathbone
Chicago
Joe Daviess County
Apple River
Illinois paid $64,807,592 in 1924 income tax
The Internal Revenue Service reported that Illinois contributed 64.8 million dollars from the 1924 income tax, part of a national total of 2.36 billion. About 700,000 taxpayers in Illinois filed returns, with a 10 percent rise in Illinois filings and a 22 percent jump in net income. One payment likely exceeding 5 million dollars was from Standard Oil.
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Illinois
Mabel G. Reinecke
Internal Revenue Collector
Chicago
Ments
United States
Standard Oil Company
Bloomington man drops suit against McLean officials
J. Fierce of Bloomington formerly Pekin, dismissed in Pekin Circuit Court a suit against Sheriff Jacob Morrison County Judge William Radcliff and Dr J C Rader alleging they railroaded him to the Jacksonville state sane asylum. Kewanee announces a $25000 Day Memorial Fund for higher education by the Day family to benefit Kewanee High School graduates and Missionary College students.
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J. ©. Fierce
Bloomington
Pekin
Jacob Morrison
William Radcliff
J. C. Rader
McLean County
Jacksonville
Kewanee
Day Memorial Fund
Hiram T. Day
Kewanee High School
Missionary College
Van Doren Named Vice President and General Counsel
Ray N. Van Doren is appointed vice-president and general counsel of the Chicago and North Western railroad, effective immediately, with President F. W. Sargent issuing the order from Chicago. Curtis D. Wilbur visits Chicago en route to the Pacific coast for his son's wedding and to inspect naval defenses, meeting Vice-President Dawes and touring Great Lakes. Judge B. D. Reynolds will hear a dispute in McHenry over damages from routing a state road through Otto F. Sohm's land, with Sohm seeking 30,000 and the state offering 3,000, claiming the land is a public street.
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Ray N. van Doren
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Chicago
F. W. Sargent
Sargent
Navy
Curtis D. Wilbur
Pacific Coast
Lyman Dwight Wilbur
Naval
Dawes
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
B. D. Reynolds
Rockford
McHenry
Otto F. Sohm
Sohm
Graves Succeeds Hale as Sixth Corps Area Commander
Brig. Gen. William H Graves appointed by the War department to take command of the Sixth corps area with headquarters in Chicago. He assumed command immediately after Maj. Gen. Hale retired on June 10, Hale’s sixty fourth birthday. Graves previously led American forces in Siberia in 1918 and earned Allied recognition for deft handling of the diplomatic situation.
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William 8. Graves
War Department
Harry ©. Hale
Sixth Corps
United States Army
Chicago
Hale
Graves
Siberia
Illinois AG Carlstrom Overrules Supreme Court on Insurance Licenses
Attorney General Carlstrom rules to issue licenses for foreign insurers and about eighty thousand agents, overriding a recent Illinois Supreme Court decision on broad public policy grounds. Tornado risk in Illinois is low compared with fire and lightning, with about five tornadoes a year in Illinois and six and a half in Kansas.
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Illinois
Carlstrom
Springfield
Illinois Supreme Court
Clifford Ireland
Department of Trade and Commerce
W. J. Humphreys
United States Weather Bureau
Washington, D. C
Kansas
Mississippi Valley
Rocky Mountains
Virginia
Illinois association to host hog and chicken calling contest
A state wide hog and chicken calling contest will be held at Taylorville August 27 in connection with the annual picnic of the Illinois Agricultural Association. The association invites all 92 county farm bureaus to enter their champion hog and chicken callers. Road crews on bond road No. 5 report sighting packs of wolves near Elizabeth as paving continues.
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Taylorville
Illinois Agricultural Association
Elizabeth
Blouses in a Range of Styles Dominate Fashion
Fashion notes describe blouse variety from plain shirt blouses for tailored suits to over blouses layered with middy tunics. Styles include wash silk or crepe versions, sports and riding ensembles, tunics with embroidery, and elegant costumes using voile and beading.
White Velvet Coronet for Wedding Veil Adornment
Detailed instructions describe creating a coronet frame from multiple wire lengths and headpiece shaping. It covers measuring 18 inch and 6 inch segments, attaching center front wires, adjusting to fit the head, and concealing wires with tulle. The finish includes pearls, lace, and orange blossoms for a decorative front design.
How to Make Wedding Veil on Coronet Frame
Step by step guide to crafting a wedding veil on a coronet frame. It explains using white shirring or a frame wire and notes where to buy wire nippers. The text ends with a wire-cutting instruction.
Simple Hand Knitted Frocks Create Casual Chic Look
The vogue for hand knitted frocks and two piece outfits grows as a practical, youthful fashion. Paris and London led the trend with costly models, but beginner friendly knitting patterns now offer stylish, durable garments that can be cleaned and worn repeatedly.
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Paris
London
Style Men Say Furs to Be Fall Winter Fashion
The style committee at the twenty third semi annual show of the National Cloak Salt and Skirt Manufacturers association in Cleveland Ohio announced fur dominated coats for fall and winter. Designers featured fur patches unique coat designs and fur revers on collars. Exhibitors included manufacturers from Cleveland Toledo Chicago Cincinnati and Toronto. The report notes winter styles will feature these fur trends.
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Style Committee
National Cloak, Salt and Skirt Manufacturers’ Association
Cleveland
Ohio
Toledo
Chicago
Cincinnati
Toronto
New Fashion Modes Feature Masculine Style
The feature advocates masculine mode with frank, short dresses. Coats show flared fullness using novel cuts panel effects godets and plaits while sleeves narrow at the wrist.
Color Inspiration for New Fall Dress Fabrics
A textile feature notes fall woolen dress fabrics draw color from bird plumage for a feather like touch and autumn richness. Birds shown include Montezuma piranga cuckoo blue jay tanager saira seagull cacique trou pirial toucan dove finch wren falcon and others.
Organdie Trim Brightens Black Satin Dress
A black satin-finished crepe dress features white organdie pockets and sleeves with blue ribbon bands and a gold braid edge. The organdie trim dominates the lower skirt and the upper sleeve details, creating a refined seasonal look.
Fanciful Footwear Mixture Features Novel Heels
Wildly patterned leathers mix with black patent to create bright, contemporary shoe accents. Designers favor short rounded toes and medium height heels in the current models.
Identifying Four Common Clover Types by Leaf Traits
An agricultural bulletin explains how to distinguish red white Alsike and crimson clovers by crescents on leaves and hairiness. It compares red and mammoth clover, notes yellow trefoil confusion, and contrasts alfalfa and sweet clover with crescents and growth habits. It also discusses peach tree pest damage and expected control advances.
Oriental Fruit Moth Threatens Illinois Fruit Trees
Officials urge farmers to watch for a whitish worm with a brown head that bores in peaches apricots plums and quince. The oriental fruit moth, a foreign pest now near Illinois from Indiana, may soon reach the state and cause millions in losses to agriculture.
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State Natural History Survey
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
Ilinois
Indiana
Illinois
Urbana
United States
China
Japan
Tennessee
Arkansas
Standards for field work set for corn belt farms
University of Illinois agriculture staff advocates daily field work standards to handle May and June peak loads. Horses cover 15 to 20 miles per 10 hours, averaging 16.5 miles on soft ground, with 40 acres harrowed daily by a 20 foot implement. Five acres plowed with a 14 inch gang plow and five horse team, and ten acres disking with a nine foot disk are proposed as daily norms.
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College of Agriculture, University of Ilinola
Clipping Guides Sweet Clover Seed Harvest
R W Stark of the University of Illinois explains clipping sweet clover at about 18 inches promotes uniform seed ripening and many branches near the base, reducing tall coarse growth. Leave an eight to ten inch stubble, raise the sickle bar, and watch for rapid regrowth which may need a second clipping. Early, proper clipping minimizes seed loss and avoids injuring the seed crop.
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R. W. Stark
Agronomy Department
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
Capon Raising Caution From Illinois Poultry Expert
Dr. L B Card of the University of Illinois cautions farmers against mass capon production without established demand. Surplus capons, dressed well and marketed to the right trade, can add poultry income but should be kept within housing limits and weighed at 1.25 to 1.5 pounds for best results.
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L. B. Card
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
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