Waterfowl Season Forecast As Illinois River Floods Rise
Sportsmen anticipate a strong waterfowl season as Illinois River floods push ducks into the Havana Beardstown area with about 75 000 ducks reported near Duck Island Clear Lake and Chautauqua Refuge. Open season runs October 16 to December 14 with daily duck limits of ten and goose limits of three.
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Illinois River
Duck Island
Clear Lake
Chautauqua Refuge
Havana-Beardstown
Peoria
Ottawa
Marriage deferment warnings from Springfield Selective Service head
Paul G. Armstrong, Illinois Selective Service Director, warns registrants recently married or seeking marriage deferments that such actions do not guarantee exemption from induction. He cites law and subparagraph C of paragraph 354, urges careful local board weighing, and notes varying rulings. Boards may reclassify due to IA registrant scarcity, praising Illinois boards for fairness.
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Paul G. Armstrong
Selective Service
Topcal
Armstrong
Illinois
Tuberculosis Claims 60 000 Lives Annually Says Illinois Group
The Illinois Tuberculosis Association issued a bulletin stating tuberculosis is the leading cause of death for ages 15 to 45 and seventh overall, yet preventable and curable when caught early. It blames reluctance to seek physical exams and warns against waiting for coughing or weight loss to seek care.
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Illinois Tuberculosis Association
Centenarian credits temperance with long life in Illinois
An Illinois woman who died at 111 attributed her long life to 50 years of eating only one meal daily. Born in County Tyrone Ireland she moved to McHenry County in 1837 and maintained full faculties to the end, with her daily noon meal at noon.
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Illinois
Ilnois Writers’ Project
County Tyrone
Ireland
McHenry County
Pioneer Necessity Was the Mother of Invention
Illinois settlers of long ago faced spring floods and mill inaccessibility. They improvised a tool called a gritter later renamed grater. By punching holes in thin metal and nailing it to boards, they rubbed corn over the surface to produce grits used as a staple.
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Illinois
Illinois Writers’ Project
Harvesting Gas Converts Illinois Fields Into Fuel
The so called waste of natural gas in Illinois oil fields prompts efforts to capture and utilize it. Salem and Londen fields yield enough gas to justify pipelines to cities, field plants turn gas into fuel and chemicals, with some gas reinjected to preserve reservoir pressure and extend oil well life.
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Illinois
Salem
Londen Felds
Making a State The Glacial Move Shaping Illinois Soils
The text explains how glacial ice and meltwater transported Canadian and Great Lakes rocks into Illinois. It notes three glacial stages from the Labrador Peninsula and describes pebbles, cobbles, and boulders as surviving fragments from rocks ground up in the ice.
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Illinois
Labrador Peninsula
Canada
Great Lakes Region
Court Sessions Held Gala Events in Pioneer Days
Illi nois Writers' Project notes court sessions in pioneer days drew crowds with horse races side-shows and primitive theater. Circuit judges traveled the circuit and jurors witnesses and litigants gathered at places along the route while hotels overflowed with people sleeping on the floor.
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Illinois Writers’ Project
Circuit Court
Early Steamboats and the Rise of Locomotives in Illinois
The Illinois Writers' Project notes that steamboats in early Illinois carried the first locomotives, signaling their decline. Chicago’s first locomotive arrived by steamboat from the Great Lakes, and in July 1858 a Peoria-bound steamboat delivered two Boston-made engines via Atlantic, Gulf, Mississippi, and Illinois rivers to the Peoria and Oquawka railroad.
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Illinois
Illinois Writers’ Project
W. P
Chicago
Great Lakes
Peoria
Boston
Peoria and
Oquawka
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
Missississippi River
Illinois River
Fatal horse race ends in death in Rushville
In 1854 two Schuyler county men argued over a horse swap and agreed a half mile race with the faster horse winning the boot. On the Plank Road at Rushville they rode at full speed, a rose stumbled, and both horse and rider were killed.
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Illinois
Schuyler County
Illinois Writers’ Project
Plank Road
Rushville
Waukegan Boy Named Illustrator for Twain Novel
True Williams, a Waukegan youth, is identified as the illustrator for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in a 1877 newspaper series per the Illinois Writers' Project. The report notes Williams as the first artist from Waukegan to be linked with the Twain work.
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Waukegan
Illinois Writers’ Project
True Williams
Adventures
New York artists praise Waukegan native True Williams
Chicago Evening Journal on January 22 1877 quotes a Waukegan Gazette reader praising True Williams as one of the citys top illustrators for Mark Twains The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The item notes local visits from Mrs Checkett of St Louis to Mrs Williams and Mrs Edna Abbott and mentions C B Anderson and Tom Alcom in Centralia on business.
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Tom Sawyer
Chicago Evening Journal
Waukegan Gazette
Thone
New York
Mark Twain
Waukegan
True ‘ Williams
Metropolis
John Checkett
St. Louis
Sarah Williams
Edna Abbott
Mrs. Newcomb
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Shobonier
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R. R
Wm. Ververs
Roy Malan
Wm. M. Jones
Vernon
Edwin W. Berry
Huey, Ill
Lizzie Gray
Vandalia
Vandalia Rendering Works
Salem, Illinois
Singing Hills
Gene Autry
Ralph Byrd
SUN
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Belle Starr
Randolph Scott
Gene Tierney
Charlie’s
Jack Benny
Kay Francis
Centralia Theatres
Tin Pan Alley
Alice Faye
Jack Oakie
Clark Gable
Lana Turner
Betty Gable
Dick Foran
Dead
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M. Weaver
Geo. Reeves
F. Tone
Carol Bruce
Pittsburg
FBI
Arizona
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Jean Parker
Buck Jones
Tim McCoy
Maisie
Ann Sothern
M. O'Sullivan
Salem Theatre
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Nat Pendleton
Adolphe Menjou
Texas
William Holden
Glenn Ford
Joan Blondel
John Howard
Patoka
Vernon and
McCormick Deering
Patoka Elevator Co
Geo. J. Wasem
Mgr
Esquire Theatre
Vandalia, Illinois
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Blondie
Hopalong Cassidy
Death Valley
Tyrone Power
Betty Grable
Caroline
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