Fifteen Big Mills Are Consolidated
Certificate of incorporation filed for Flour Mills of America Inc with 80 000 preferred shares and 525 000 common no par value stock. Merger uniting Kansas City based Hoffman Mills and Walier and Spies milling into a major flour producer linking Thad Hoffman and Valier brothers with executives from New York and Toronto. Headquarters to be in Kansas City with plants across Kansas and Missouri and large grain elevators.
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Baltimore
The
Flour Mills of America, Inc
John C. Haslam
M. Scovell Martin
Robert M. Johnson
Wall Street
New York
Chicago
America
Spencer Trask & Co
Edward B. Smith & Co. J. & W. Seligman & Co
Kansas Flour Mills Company
Kansas City
Southwest
Walier and Spies Milling Company
St. Louis
Thad i. Hoffman
Charles Valier
A. T. B. Dunn
Thad L. Hoffman
R. W Hoffman
Enterprise
Kansas
A. T. B Dunn
W. R. Duerr
H. J. Owens
Lewis Valier
Fred Morrow
Toronto
L. M. Gardiner
Hoffman Mills
Moses Brothers Mills
Great Bend
Kingman Mills
Kingman
Pratt Mills
Pratt
Anthony Mills
Anthony
Goodlander Mills
Fort Scott
Oklahoma
Valier and Spies Milling Company
St. Jacobs Th
Marine, Til
Serious Floods Hit Brazil Amid Record Rains
Summer rains since January drench the north central plateau, causing floods across Rio de Janeiro and surrounding regions. The Associated Press reports 800,000 people distressed, with extensive property damage and livestock losses as towns along the San Francisco and Parnabuba rivers flood and valleys flood up to thirty miles wide.
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Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Associated Press
Federal Meteorological Service
San Francisco
Parnahuba
Clemenceau Faces Tax Penalty Seizure in Paris
Paris reacts to a sheriff seizure of Georges Clemenceau’s furniture for unpaid tax penalties, provoking public indignation across the city.
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Clemenceau
Paris
Georges Clemenceau
Five of Nine Spies Sentenced to Death in Leningrad Trial
In a wartime trial at Leningrad, five of nine alleged spies were condemned to be shot after their charges were considered. The verdicts reflect harsh wartime penalties and the ongoing crackdown on espionage activities in the region.
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Leningrad
Illinois News Notes Highlights From The State
The Dahlgren Milling Company flour mill burned with losses around 50000. A jubilee fund drive of 500000 is announced by J H Tilden of Lombard College Galesburg. Rifles Products plant in North Chicago sustained about 250000 in fire damage. Illinois Master Barbers convention set for May 10 11 12. Rotarians in northern Illinois met at Evanston Country Club hosted by Evanston Rotary. East St Louis moves to enforce Sunday closing for groceries and butchers. Mary Kirkpatrick pioneer of Pilot township Danville dies at 72 after illness. Six Illinois towns Mundelein Urbana Moline Silvis Burnham Lemont approve boxing under new state law. Sidney Morris Ragsdale 16 Milton wins first in American Legion Illinois school children flag creed contest. Frank H Gillett to become pastor of Danville First Church of Christ. Henry Stocker Morris banker dies aged 70. Plans for July 2 bishop Muldoon anniversary celebration. Florence Loretta Cook 15 Champaign dies by suicide. third Champaign student in three years. Mandamus filed to route Highway 38 along old road Fieldon Hardin. Calhoun Green counties residents plaintiffs. Eighty three of 500 Illinois dairy cows named to Illinois 500-pound Butterfat Cow club. 83 cows owned by 56 dairymen in 14 counties. Farm business report for Monroe Randolph counties shows 30 farmers saved average 756 after expenses on 86 acre average. Judge Fred G Wolfe to preside in Schuyler county against Chicago drainage district. first suit seeks 250000 for broken levees May 24. total damages 600000.
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Illinois
Chicago
Mundelein
Urbana
Moline
Silvis
Burnham
Lemont
Sidney Morris Ragsdale
Milton
American Legion
First Church of Christ of
Danville
Henry Stocker
Farmers’ and Merchants’ National Bank of Morris
Ilinois
P. J. Muldoon
Rockford
Muldoon
Archdiocese of
Florence Loretta Cook
Champaign
State Highway Department
Springfield
Calhoun
Green
Monroe
Randolph
College of Agriculture, University of Hlinots
Fred G. Wolfe
Quincy
Schuyler County
Coal Creek
Glee Club Quartette to Beneficiate Dalton Pioneer Boys
The Blackhawks and Silver Foxes Pioneer Boys Clubs of Dalton present the Chicago College Glee Club Quartette at the Dolton theatre on Friday evening May 7 1926 curtain 815 pm. Proceeds fund sending local boys to Lake Hastings summer camp. Tickets priced 35 cents, a rare high calibre concert for the Dalton area.
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Blackhawks
Silver Foxes
Dolton
Chicago College Glee Club
Middle West
Dolton Theatre
Glee Club
Fox
Lake Hastings
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Leland Harrison
Illinois News Notes
Dahlgren Milling Company
Dahlgren
J. H. Tilden
Lombard College
Galesburg
Rifles Products Company
Illinois Master Barbers Association
Northern Illinois
Evanston Country Club
Rotary Club of
Evanston
East St. Louis
Mary Kirkpatrick
Pilot Township
Dalton and Vicinity
Loop
Public.service Company OF
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Mer. Public Service Co
No. Il
Illinois St
Chicago Heights
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