Illinois News Briefs Highlight Accidents and Local Crises
Mount Vernon youth Dee Osborn, 20, dies after being accidentally shot by companion Harry Lawson, 17, during a hunt. Cairo pastor Rev. A P Garrett commits suicide amid scandal rumors. Lawrenceville elder James Seward, 75, dies after a life of teaching and reclusion. Joliet prison warden Edmund Allen resigns. law requires him to live inside. Several flag a near miss near Palmerton, Indiana after high-water washout. Crystal Lake bank closure reopened by rival. Mildred Shipley, 4, dies of lockjaw after hay-rope injury. Monmouth hires Tarkio College chemist Pardee to replace Swan. Hanaford coal mine to resume Sept 1. 200 jobs planned. Lewistown hosts annual teacher institute with 350-375 expected participants.
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Cairo
A. P Garrett
Cairo Baptist Church
Garrett
Greenville
Wis
Lawrenceville
James Lawrence Seward
Union College
New York
St. Louis
Johnson
Jones Commercial Colleges
Walter Seward
Sand Ridge
Chicago
Edmund M. Allen
Sinois State Prison
Joliet
Edward F. Dunne
Dunne
Springfield
Urbana
W C. Loy
Indianapolis
Palmerton
Ind
Peoria
Elgin
Citizen’s State Bank of
Crystal Lake
Bank of
Charles B. Wright
Burton Wright
Arcola
Mildred Shipley
Monmouth
McMichael
Arthur McCoy Pardee
Tarkio College
Tarkio
M. M. Cook
Illinois News Nuggets Briefs Across Towns
A roundup of incidents and notices from Illinois towns reports tragedies and milestones. Incidents include Carl Reed’s death from a kerosene explosion while filling an incubator in Urbana and electrician John Williamson electrocuted near West Frankfort. Other items note arrests, divorces, promotions, and civic efforts from Urbana to Springfield and Geneva to Chicago.
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Urbana
Carl Reed
Vermont
Harry Osborne
Constable Fair
W. R. Schoonover
University of Ilinois
Auore—Iliiais Buckley
Elgin State Hospital
Ilinois
Lawrenceville
Methodist Church
J. Markham
Benton
John Williamson
No. 18
West Frankfort
Elliot
H. M. Thompson
Ottawa
Church
Illinois
Luther League of Illinois
B. A. Olson
Seneca
O. J. Thompson
Paxton, Monmoth
Ethel Spurgeon Darnell
Avon
James Morrison Darnell
Racine
Wis
Leavenworth
Kan
Chicago
Walter F. Weed
Wilbert A. Hard
William Weil
Duquoin
O. H. Hawkins
Railway Mail Service
Carbondale
Indianapolis
James Doheeney
Effingham
J. Rockwell Brynen
Doheeney
W. M. French
New York City
International
Apple Shippers’ Association
Geneva
Civil Service
Springfield
Illinois Centennial Commission
E .S. Smith
Jessie Palmer Weber
Pana
Oscar Gooth
Litchfield
Samuel P. Mooney
George Metzger
Gootch
Ilinois National Guard
Camp Lincoln
Highth Regiment of Infantry
Dixon
F. A. Denison
BE. J. Lang
Paris
Frank Wood
Quincy
Pan American plan funds provisional Mexican government
The Pan American conference outlined a policy to back a provisional Mexican president with U S and coalition support. If Carranza refuses the plan, U S and allies would recognize a president backed by Villa and Zapata with arms shipments allowed to the new government. Carranza heads to Mexico City amid likely opposition to the plan.
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Washington
United States
Lansing
Mexico
New York
Carranza
Villa
Zapata
Brazil
Chile
Argentine
Uruguay
Guatemala
Bolivia
Mexico City
Crop Prospects Rise with Record U.S. Harvest Forecast
Washington reports an August agriculture department forecast showing three billion bushels of corn 1.6 billion bushels of oats and one billion bushels of wheat for this year. Rye white and sweet potatoes tobacco rice and hay also expected to set records as farmers planted over 310 million acres, with wheat alone valued above 2.5 billion dollars and a wheat surplus exceeding 400 million bushels. The five leading grains total 5.547 billion bushels, up about 124 million in July and nearly five percent versus last year.
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Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
George Fitch Dies Author of Peoria Fame
George Fitch author of Peoria Illinois died in Berkeley California after an operation for appendicitis. He fell ill Saturday while visiting his sister Miss R Louise Fitch a UC student. Body to be moved to Peoria for burial. Born Galva Illinois June 1877.
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Berkeley
Cal
George Fitch
Peoria
Fitch
R. Louise Fitch
University of California
Mark Twain
Bill Nye
George Ade
Finley Peter Dunne
Galva, Il
Waste Not Old Cans Boots and Sawdust Reborn in France and Canada
In a Youth's Companion piece the author notes France recovers cans to make tin soldiers and repurposes boots into shoes and leather products. The saws yield high quality steel for instruments, and Canadian mills turn sawdust into paper pulp for building sheathing. Lead pencil sawdust is sold as a valuable oil.
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France
Canada
Charm of Motherhood and the Pinkham Remedy
An article urges preparation for motherhood and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a tonic for women. It claims the product helps women become normal, healthy, and strong, advising readers to seek confidential advice from Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Get Rich Slowly Says Bankers Promote Thrift
The American Bankers Association savings section passes along to readers the idea that thrift builds wealth not by quick schemes but by steady saving. It argues a man earning five dollars a week saving one quarter weekly could double income in twenty years, with gains growing over time.
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American Bankers’ Association
Savings Bank
Herald
Duluth Herald
Hindenburg Receives East Prussia Carpet From Konia
A German Information Service translation notes Konia in Asia Minor presented Field Marshal von Hindenburg with a lavish carpet. It features an exact East Prussia map and a laurel surrounded portrait, with an inscription thanking Hindenburg and von Benckendorff for victories at the Masurian lakes.
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Hindenburg
German Information Service
von Hindenburg
Konia
Asia Minor
East Prussia
Paul von Benckendorff
Masurian Lakes
Poker Tale Turns on Ace High versus Full House
A brief dialogue centers on a man arguing with a sick friend over a poker hand. He reveals his friend has an ace full against his four sixes, prompting curiosity about the other's illness and the true truth of the situation.
Military Training for School Boys Endorsed
The Springfield Republican argues that the war highlights ditch digging as the most useful training for school boys, recommending a couple of earnest hours daily spent in digging ditches to prepare for military demands.
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Springfield Republican
Denison Coffee Health Advice Sparks Contradiction
A peculiar medical note warns about coffee from Denison as a health measure. The same source contains a quoted exchange about lighting and darkness, suggesting conflicting views on visibility and mood.
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