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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1926
Page
5
New York Citys Broadway hosts about 18 000 signs with yearly growth as theaters, restaurants and tobacco firms compete for space. Showy displays range from 200 lamp signs to a 90 000 dollar annual rent four story sign house, with power use reaching hundreds of thousands of candle power.
Antonio di Palo, 27, a laborer, confessed to police that his wife Rose was killed in bed with an ax after she refused to stay home at night. Neighbors said she dressed well and went out, and the couple had quarrelled over money and her independence.
Prof. Howard Butler of Princeton, ally of Woodrow Wilson, spent years chasing Croesus wealth in Asia Minor and left an estate valued at 19924 dollars in North Salem New York.
State geologist Albert B. Bartlett asserts Wyoming holds about 1.0766 trillion tons of coal, nearly all bituminous, enough to meet U S demand for 2,000 years at present consumption.
The Patoka High School notes include Freshman and Sophomore class lists with officers, plans for a girls and boys glee club and a band, and ongoing classes and field trips. The baseball team defeated Sandoval 12 to 5 and will face Kinmundy High School at Patoka City Park. debates in English II continue, Zoology field trips impress, and history lessons advance.
The Junior Class met for the first session of the term and organized baseball, basketball and debating clubs. Officers listed include Jacob Davis president and Darrel Caldwell vice-president with a roster of members. Dry cell batteries offered at 30 cents each by Patoka Hardware and Furniture Co.
Reports from Elvaston Cairo Bloomington Olmstead Albion Belleville Aledo Paxton Murphysboro East Moline Petersburg detail new projects. An $8 000 packing plant rises in Elvaston while Albion builds a 74 000 waterworks system. Subways roads and paving projects advance in several cities.
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