Illinois State Librarian Answers Reader Questions in Q and A
The Illinois Secretary of State under the State Librarian shares a Q and A featuring historic Illinois items. Questions cover newspapers in Springfield, oath of Lincoln, Wild Bill Hickok’s birth, the 1930 memorial, early Illinois printers, and notable state places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of State of
Illinois
State Library and Archives Division
Capitol
Edward J. Hughes
Springfield
Linois
Ninan Eddwards
Sangamo Spectator
Lincoln
Taney
George R Weber
Illinois Republican
Illnois
Maryland
Wild Bill Hickock
Troy Grove
Homer
Kaskaskia
Civil Service Examinations Open for Navy and Education Posts
The United States Civil Service Commission announced open competitive exams for several posts. Positions include junior engineer naval architecture at 2000 dollars a year with Navy Department, associate technical analyst at 3200 dollars a year, assistant technical analyst at 2600 dollars a year with the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation Social Security Board, and curriculum special and textbook writer mathematics at 8800 dollars a year plus a writer and research worker at 2600 dollars with the Office of Indian Affairs. Full information is available from the Secretary of the Civil Service Board of Examiners at the post office or custom house in eligible cities or from the Commission in Washington DC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Civil Service Commission
Naval
Navy Department
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Social Security Board
Office of Indian Affairs
Secretary of the
United States Civil Service Board of Examiners
Washington, D. C
Thornton Township High School initiates six into Quill and Scroll
Six journalism students at Thornton Township High School were inducted into the Quill and Scroll international honor society on Thursday afternoon, April 1. The new initiates are Helen Fletcher Ruth Kemnity Catherine Norton Elizabeth Bearle Getty Weare and Walter Baker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Bassler
Thornton Township High School
Quill and School International Honorary Society
Helen Fletcher
Ruth Kemnity
Catherine Norton
Elizabeth Bearle
Getty Weare
Walter Baker
Loudene Anderson
Dorothy Britton
Edward Shilenhus
Shopping News Award Winners From Thornton High
Ruth Kemnitz reports Thornton Township High School received a new Encyclopedia Britannica presented by Mr Smallman of Downtown Shopping News in an assembly on March 29 with a later radio airing on WLS. Fifteen Shopping News carriers from Thornton won the award after achieving a 91.15 scholastic average while competing with 2000 boys from 57 schools. The instrumental students named include Harold Gilbert Harold Geffert George Gettler Louis Kemnitz Walter Schething Jack Tieri Vernon Doolewerdt John Hansen Hardy Griffith Gordon Gouwens Robert Merkle Glenn Leach Harold Saeger Howard Bardwick Roy Charles Thoreson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Kemnitz
Smallman
Thornton Township
WLS
Thornton
Harold Gilbert
Harrold Geffert
George Gettler
Louis Kemnitz
Walter Schething
Jack Tieri
Vernon Doolewerdt
John Hansen
Hardy Griffith
Gordon Gouwens
Robert Merkle
Glenn Leach
Harold Saeger
Howard Bardwick
Roy Charles Thoreson
North Carolina Wedding Announced With Absent Groom
An announcement in the Spray Arrow notes the wedding in North Carolina proceeded with the groom absent, and his absence was not noticed until after the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Local and Personal News Highlights Dolton Riverdale
Mr and Mrs Arthur Rosenberg attend a funeral in Clinton Ind for Mrs William King who died March 25. Mrs David Arndt suffered a fractured arm in a Monday accident. Miss Virginia Schaefer returned from Blue Island hospital after an appendectomy. Theodore Siggelkow and Walter Wulf visited Waukegan and Westmont Easter with relatives. Mrs John Wulff is recovering from pneumonia. Shamrock Club met for cards after a 1 PM dinner. A Safe Way bus accident near Halsted left several injured but none seriously. Community members hosted and visited in Chicago and Dolton with various social events and film appearances. Lucinda Herman won a $45 prize at the Dolton Theatre on March 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Rosenberg
4Th Street
Delton
William King
Clinton
Ind
Virginia Schaefer
Lincoln Avenue
Dalton
St. Francis Hospital
Blue Island
Theodore Siggelkow
Walter Wulf
Edbrooke Ave
Riverdale
Waukegan
Peter Kurz
Katherine
Agnes
Edward
Fred Kay
Safeway
140Th
Halsted Street
140Th Street
B. Distenfield
92Nd Street
Chicago
Distenfield
Neola Lewis
E. 34Th Place
Margaret Zimmerman
S. Union Avenue
Lewis Floratta
Englewood Hospital
Cornelius Poort
Momence
Ill
Elmer Schaffner
Lowe Avenue
Ben Kai
George Benedict
Sam Johnson
John Miller
Edward Johnson
Happy Eight Club
Felix Schabloske
Lincoln Ave
Victor Frohny
la Porte
Philip Bassler
Dolton
Dolton Theatre
Midwinter Institute
Auburn Park Methodist Church
Lucinda Herman
Chicago Road
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Western Intelligencer
Daniel P. Cook and Co
A. Robert Blackwell and
Elijah Conway Berry
Blackwell and Berry
Illinois Intelligencer
Egypt
Jackson County
Pounds
Gallatin County
Draper’s Bluff
Union-Jackson
Cormick Bluff
Johnson County
Walter Lane
Pope County
Bob Upton
Mississippi Palisades State Park
Savannah
Civil Service Examinations
Forward
Democracy
Democratic
Peelse Eo
Fred C. Drake
the Democratic Party
Justices of the Peace
Arthur E. Dillner Dalton William F. Donahue Harvey William Jacobs
South Holland
Frank L. Kaminski
Calumet City
John Keen
Lansing
William D. O’hara
Paul Kamradt
Andy Douglas Gouwens
Steve Kopas
Homewood
Harry G. Moore Harvey Frank A. Simnick
Sandy M. Marlow
Riverdale Beer Garden
Indiana Avenue
Hans and the
Windy Five
Calumet Township
Han’s Hall
Burr Oak Ave
Lincoln Street
Aqet
Jacobsma
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