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Illinois Briefs: Prisoner House Closed and Other News
Peoria’s house of correction closed due to lack of tenants after housing 38,000 prisoners since 1879. Normal bans public dancing of the shimmy with fines. a special election is set for September 15 primary and November 2 general. Sherman’s Old Settlers speech canceled. many Illinois notices on crops, births, deaths, and local events follow.
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House of Correction
Peoria
J. W. Bradman
Normal
State Normal College
Lowden
Morton D. Hull
Adam Cliffe
United States
L. ¥. Sherman
Old Settlers
Lanark
American Legion
Carroll County
Sherman
the Legion
B. L. Cottam
East St. Louis
Paris
France
Cottam
America
William A. Lemma
Chicago
Judge Lemmas
Shawneetown
Carbondale
Holland
Mich
Willie A. Brazelton Lemma
C. B. Pike
United States Department of Agriculture Statistician
Springfield
Mount Vernon
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
Jesse James
Englewood
J. B. Todd
Todd
Illinois Rifle
Camp Perry
Dickson
Loren M. Felt
Jesse C. Bailey
Joseph GC. Grubb
Darton
R. B. Brown
John Turner
J. Madison
A. C. Atherton
Victor Fabian
A. R. Epstein
D. E. Dunn
Wayland R. Cocraft
Evanston
Joseph Spelarich
Milton J. Moore
H. D. Grose
Toliet
Albert H. Sweezy
la Grange
Walter C. Klock
Glencoe
A. G. Bruewell
Riverside
L. E. Youngquist
Wilmette
Legislative Voters’ League
Fifty-first General Assembly
State Tax Commission
Linois Public Utilities Commission
Springfeld