Illinois Briefs Highlight State Achievements and Events
Illinois bar pass rate shows 800 of 1000 succeed in recent exam. Sterling hosts 25,000 at American Legion tri state celebration. Chicago police honored for helping kill and capture Drake hotel bandits. Illinois products expo outlines 65 downstate counties displays. Water conservation urged after little rainfall. Illinois Central electrification work advances near Matteson. Mines West Frankfort resume operations. total 2,250 employed. Ewing college closes after 60 years in southern Illinois. Mattoon cistern death of former Cincinnati teacher. Canton readies centennial birthday celebration August 27 29. Highway pamphlet replaces detour bulletins. Industrial orders forecast rise in Illinois. Barberry plant urged to be reported in wheat rust drive. Camp Grant mobilizes Thirty third division two weeks drills. Buttermilk stations seen as wholesome substitutes for bars. Rawlings urges dairy growth and diphtheria campaign funding with goal no diphtheria by 1980.
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Illinois
Chicago
American Legion
Sterling
Wisconsin
Iowa
Central Uptown Chicago Association
Springfield
Downstate
Danville
Tuifsels
Washington
Texas
South Dakota
George C. Amerson
Washington Boulevard
Illinois Central Railroad
Matteson
Til. Co
West Frankfort
Industrial Coal Company
Ewing College
Ilinois
Cora Stallman
Cincinnati
Mattoon
Canton
State Division of Highways
R. D. Cahn
John L. Richardson
Trnois
Milton J. Foreman
Camp Grant
Illinois National Guard
Prairie State
Isaac D. Rawlings
Isaac D. Rawlins
U S crop value near 4 billion in 1925 estimate
Government crop report shows wheat and corn valued at 4 billion dollars at farm prices for 1925. Wheat 679 million bushels, corn 2.596 billion bushels, oats 1.387 billion bushels, barley 214 million, rye 52 million. total five grain value close to 4.5 billion. Kansas winter wheat notably weak at 66 million bushels.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
United States
Kansas
Will bequest to DePauw University totals nearly two million
The late Edward Rector patent attorney leaves about 2.3 million to DePauw University in his will. He already gave roughly 2 million to the school to fund hundreds of new scholarships and buildings. Widow Mrs. Lucy Rector gets a 10 thousand dollar annuity and 71 thousand dollars in gifts to distant relatives.
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de Pauw University
Chicago
Edward Rector
Rector
Lucy R. Rector
Consuelo Vanderbilt to Wed in January in New York
Consuelo Vanderbilt daughter of Mr and Mrs William K Vanderbilt will wed Yale student Ean B T Smith son of Sydney J Smith and Mrs C Whitney Carpenter Jr early next January. The ceremony is expected at St Patrick's Cathedral.
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Consuelo Vanderbilt
New York
William K. Vanderbilt
Ean B. T. Smith
Yale
Sydney J. Smith
C. Whitney Carpenter, Jr
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Jury imposes life term for rape in Cook County
In a historic Cook County verdict in Chief Justice Jacob Hopkins' court James Grant colored is found guilty of raping Mrs Frances Hackett and receives a life sentence from the jury marking a first in county history.
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Chicago
Cook County
Jacob Hopkins
James Grant
Frances Hackett
Georgia Tax Bill Defeated in House
The Georgia House of Representatives defeated a proposed constitutional amendment to provide for an income tax, ending the effort to expand state revenue.
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Georgia
Atlanta
Georgia House of Representatives
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