English Colonists Seek New Life in 1634 Odyssey
Robert Heathers and William Heydon flee tyranny in 1634 England and reach Boston where they meet Rev. Doctor Cotton and Amos Todkill. Heydon falls for Elizabeth Brade while Mabel Hartley is accused of adultery with a youth claiming to be Heydon. The men vanish amid tangled romances.
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Robert Heathers
William Heydon
England
New World
Boston
Doctor Cotton
Amos Todkill
Heydon
Elizabeth Brade
Mabel Hartley
Robert
Peggy Weld
James Rosewell
Heathers
Peril at the Brades court deepens a Boston intrigue
In a tense colonial village, Sir Harry Vane leads a search for truth as William Heydon faces a brutal accusation of adultery linked to Robert Heathers. The governor warns of strict family law while Dudley and Endicott press for conviction, and William pleads for doubt pending Robert’s capture.
Koreans Cling to Old Customs in Marriage Rules
The article explains traditional Korean marriage practice where a wife enters her husband’s family, and husbands may move to the wife’s family. It notes monogamy, arranged matches by guardians, and a custom where couples rarely meet before the wedding. Legal ages shifted since 1915, with no male under 17 or female under 15 allowed to marry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Korea
Exit the Ghost at the Haunted Hostel
A tourist tours an ancient hostel and notes its charm while a boarder, avoiding a low beam, reveals the place is haunted. The boarder says the ghost left after management raised prices, a quip attributed to London Answers.
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London
Take the Joy Out of Life Quote by Doctors
San Francisco Chronicle reports a provocative claim that doctors say life extension comes from quitting everything that gives pleasure, suggesting extreme lifestyle changes to live longer. The note frames the idea as controversial and raises questions about medical guidance and personal choices.
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San Francisco Chronicle
A. D. Lewis Named Assistant Director General of US Employment Service
A. D. Lewis, former director of Illinois mines and minerals, and ex-official in the federal labor department, is appointed assistant director general of the reorganized United States Employment Service and will oversee the mining division as superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. D. Lewis
Department of Mines and Minerals
Illinois
Federal Labor Department
Reorganized
United States Employment Service
Service
Representative Holton Bill Expands City Officials Terms
Representative Frank Holton of East St. Louis wins House passage for a bill extending mayor, clerk, treasurer and aldermen terms from two to four years for cities and villages. The measure aims to standardize term lengths across municipalities statewide.
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Frank Holton
East St. Louis
House
Mason bills seek civic service for many state positions
Senator N. M. Mason of LaSalle county introduces several measures to place numerous state positions under civic service. Among those named are automobile investigators and highway police, state library employees, highway maintenance police, many highway division workers, legislative reference bureau staff excluding the secretary, and other assorted state employees.
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N. M. Mason
LaSalle County
Secretary of State
State Library
Division of Highways
Legislative Reference Bureau
State Employees Pension Association Formed in Springfield
A meeting of 163 state employees, from many state institutions, organized the State Employees' Pension association in Springfield to push a state employees' pension bill with Rep. Frank A. McCarthy of Elin. Col. A. C. Millspaugh named president, Amos Sawyer vice president, and A. K H. Browning secretary-treasurer.
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Springfield
State Employees’ Pension Association
Frank A. McCarthy
Elin
Col
A. C. Millspaugh
Amos Sawyer
A. K H. Browning
Springfield Rep T J Sullivan seeks road around Lincoln tomb
The state would guide roadways around the Lincoln tomb if House Bill 861 passes. The bill directs the department of public works and buildings to accept a 3.67 acre conveyance from Oak Ridge cemetery and appropriates 44 860 dollars for paving.
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T. J. Sullivan
Springfield
Department of Public Works
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Warden Hill urges smaller prisons and tighter supervision
Joliet prison warden Henry Hill tells the legislative investigating committee that prisons should not be so large. He recommends closer supervision, more convict work on prison products, more deputy wardens, higher guard pay, and better training facilities.
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Henry Hill
Joliet Prison
Legislative Investigating Committee
White House Child Health Conference reports released
Washington hosted a November conference on Child Health and Protection and issued reports now published. The Library Extension Division of Springfield offers loans of this volume and other works including Aldrich Cultivating the Child's Appetite Blatz Parents and the Pre-School Child Groves Wholesome Childhood Hutchinson We and Our Children Lucas Health of the Run-About-Child Rand Growth and Development of the Young Child Shaw the Young Child's Health Terman Hygiene of the School Children.
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White House
Washington
Library Extension Division
Springfield
Aldrich
Blatz
Groves
Hutchinson
Lucas
Rand
Shaw
Terman
State highway division awards ten contracts as year totals rise
The state highway division awarded ten contracts bringing this year’s work to over 7.5 million dollars including cement costs. With 1931 contracts and 1930 carryovers, total road work exceeds 18 million dollars. The 1931 program plans about 45 million to be spent on road construction, aiming to be the division’s largest year.
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State Highway Division
State to lease 1600 acres near Belleville for game preserve
Ralph F. Bradford announces the Illinois Department of Conservation has leased 1600 acres near Belleville for a state game preserve to replenish quail and pheasants. Two of every 160 acres will be sown with bird feed. landowners and wardens will oversee hunting restrictions and bird welfare. Belleville high school agriculture class and Boy Scouts will raise part of the pheasants, eggs supplied by the state, and receive 2.50 dollars per bird released.
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Belleville
Ill
Ralph F. Bradford
Department of Conservation
Belleville High School
Boy Scouts
Savannah Sabula bridge work to start June 1
Minneapolis Bridge company has given definite assurance that construction on the Savannah Sabula bridge will commence June 1.
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Minneapolis Bridge Company
Savannah-Sabula
Mrs Rathbone Writing Social Life in Washington
Mrs Henry R Rathbone widow of a former Illinois congressman at large has supplied several articles on Washington political leaders and is now composing impressions of social life in Washington. She plans to submit the manuscript to publishers soon.
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Henry R. Rathbone
Illinois
Washington
Building Expenditures in Illinois Surged in March
Total estimated expenditures on building in Illinois for March were 107 percent above March 1930, according to a report from the state department of labor.
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Illinois
State Department of Labor
Illinois University Helps State With Large Research Gifts
The University of Illinois reports an annual contribution of 100 million dollars to state welfare, more than sixteen times its maintenance costs. It highlights a 29 million dollar yearly saving from one agricultural project and cites a prominent industrialist calling engineering research worth ten million dollars annually in the Chicago area. The bulletin says vast returns come back to the state from the university’s research investments.
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University of Illinois
Chicago
$25,000 Subscription Race For State Fair Planned
Race horse owners pledge to nominate eligible starters for a $25,000 pacing classic at the state fair. Enrollment at $1,000 per entry will let management conduct the event. Governor Emmerson and Agriculture Director Pierson approve the project. the race moves from Kalamazoo to the state fair after Kalamazoo organization discontinued it.
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State Fair
W. O. Ireland
Louis L. Emmerson
Stuart FE. Pierson
Illinois Public Welfare serves nearly 4.88 million meals in January
The Illinois Department of Public Welfare served 4,876,247 meals in January across 28 institutions. The tally covers patients, inmates, pupils, employees and officers. Food use cost 232,394 dollars, plus 51,597.64 dollars of institution products not included.
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State of
Illinois
Department of Public Welfare
State industrial commission cites mixed factory expansion and declines in Chicago
The commission notes factory operations expanded in most cities from February 15 to March 15 while Chicago and a few centers showed substantial declines. Outdoor construction activity helped ease unemployment, and free employment offices report a general drop in job seeker to job opening ratios.
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The
State Industrial Commission
Chicago
Senate passes road funding and weed control bills
A bill to refund counties 2 500 000 for state aid road construction and a measure ordering the highway commissioner to remove rag weeds along roadsides were approved by the senate. Senator Henry M Dunlap introduced both bills.
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Senate
Henry M. Dunlap
Loss funds made good after bank failure by supervisor and sureties
Oregon's state attorney reports that a supervisor and his sureties must replace the loss of funds in his custody after a bank failure. The guidance comes from Attorney General Oscar A. Carlstrom. The funds were deposited in a bank that failed.
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Oregon
Oscar A. Carlstrom
Illinois Coal Production Rises in March Report
The office of John G. Millhouse reports Illinois coal output up in March with 163,752 more tons than March 1938. Thirteen of the 27 coal counties shipped more. Fatal accidents declined. Shipping mines employed 40,124 workers and 12 strip mines 1,309, averaging 32.7 days of work.
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Illinois
John G. Millhouse
State Department of Mines and Minerals
Bill to require attending physicians to use a prophylactic in newborns
The House of Representatives approved a bill mandating physicians administer a prophylactic to prevent blindness in babies, backed by Helen Keller who urged Speaker Shanahan to support it. In the Senate judiciary committee, the bill was reported out with a recommendation to pass.
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House of Representatives
Helen Keller
Shanahan
Senate
Committee On Judiciary
Free pheasant egg setting offer from state conservation
Ralph T. Bradford, director of the department of conservation, invites interested residents to request pheasant eggs setting. Send name and correct post office address to State House Springfield. Limited supply. request promptly to receive eggs free of charge this spring.
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Ralph T. Bradford
Department of Conservation
State House
Springfield
Senator Michel Sees Senate Pass Bills on Election Dates
Senator Victor P. Michel of Peoria introduced two bills to move the primary election date to the first Tuesday after the fourth Monday in August and to adjust provisions for selecting delegates to the national nominating conventions. The Senate passed both measures.
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Victor P. Michel
Peoria
Senate
Illinois Tourist Guide Edition Ready for Distribution
The Illinois Tourist Guide is prepared for release. Free copies are available by writing to Secretary of State William J. Stratton in Springfield, Ill.
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William J. Stratton
Springfield
Tax settlements advance across counties in spring payments
More than 1 200 000 has been paid to Edward J. Barrett state treasurer by the county treasurers in partial settlement of this springs taxes. No general tax money has come in from Cook county but the majority of other counties have sent in some. Final settlements are due July 1.
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Edward J. Barrett
Cook County
Illinois Music Week Urged by Governor Emmerson
Gov Louis L Emmerson calls Illinois residents to observe Music Week May 3 to 9 sponsored by the National Federation of Music Clubs urging participation in events and activities statewide.
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Illinois
Louis L. Emmerson
The
National Federation of Music Clubs
Multiple Illinois deaths and political upsets across towns
A wide range of items from Illinois Crime and city politics include: a Hebron area suicide. Elgin mayoralty race won by tinsmith Earle R. Kelly with 6,532 to 6,116. William Olden dies near Taylorville, and Mrs. Rene Seagrave killed by a car near Buckner. Richview fire damages post office and store, 12,000 loss. 600 horses to Aurora awaiting track opening. university admin changes at Illinois. corruption probes on Chicago police. census shows Cook County farm declines. hospital project for Cook County advances. Waukegan mayor race reflects Prohibition veto politics. Morrison despondent mother and daughter death by gas.
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Elbert Phillips
Hebron
Peoria
Greenview
Myron M. Lehman
Earle R. Kelly
Elgin
William Olden
Taylorville
Louis E. Beckman
Kankakee
Rene Seagrave
Buckner
Harrisburg
Richview
Paradise Stock Farm
Lexington
Aurora
Carl A. Peterson
Moline
East Moline
Mitchell Niddo
Lake Como
Wisconsin
James Dillon
Eastern District
Illinois
Danville
Clarence Gibbons
Ed Gibbons
Gibbons
Marion
Harry W. Chase
University of Illinois
University
Willard J. Stailey
Southern Illinois Trust Company
East St. Louis
Charles H. Greene
Conrad M. Bjorseth
Chicago Police Department
Chicago
New Orleans
Ilinois
T. Q. Ashburn
Inland Waterways Corporation
John F. Isaacson
Frederica
Isaacson
William Roberts
Westville High School
Tony Vorzuits
Harshbarger
Illinois Central
Leverett
Western Union
Cook County
Census Bureau
Cook County Hospital
Waukegan
Peter W. Petersen
Emmerson
Nicholas M. Keller
Jennie Wilkins
Morrison
Marjorie
Ralph C. Wilkins
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God
Commonwealth
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Lily
Dudley
Thomas Dudley
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Endicott
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