Gas Tax Bill Seeks Local Control Of Revenue
In Springfield a Senate bill by Robert E. Duval would keep a 2 cent gasoline tax in the counties where collected and divert the proceeds to the state road bond fund. Chicago and Cook County would receive a 50 50 split for street and highway needs. The measure could raise about 12 million dollars annually.
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Springfield
General Assembly
Robert E. Duval
St. Clair County
Duval
Chicago
Cook County
Senate
Harold ©. Kessinger
Aurora
House
Secretary of War
Chicago Drainage Canal
Barbour
Boyd
Telford
Hicks
Forrester
Bancroft
Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park Lake Front
Curran
Nelson
Bennett
Malloy
United States
Schnackberger
Indiana Board
Tiana Harbor
Springer
W. Turner
Illinois Bank Robbery and Mine Closure News
Five bandits robbed Bradley State bank and fled with 5000 to 6000 dollars. Johnston City faces 5000 miners losing work as Old Ben Mine No. 18 shuts down. Washington D. C. house commerce committee advances a bill to authorize a Mississippi River bridge at Cairo.
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Johnston City
Old Ben
House Commerce Committee
Washington, D. C
Mississippi River
Cairo
State Fire Loss Sets New Mark in Illinois
Illinois fire losses in 1924 totaled 24,187,649 the highest since records began. January losses reached 4,462,332 and December 3,111,268. Dwellings suffered 7,104 fires and 5,012,165 loss. Cook County led with 7,486,640. 214 deaths and 218 serious injuries were reported.
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John G. Gamber
Illinois
Springfield
Gamber
Cook County
Macon County
Tazewell County
Trustees Oppose Illinois State Normal Budget Cut
Trustees of Illinois State Normal University at Bloomington oppose a proposed state legislative reduction of about 54000 dollars in the university appropriation. The move would reduce funding to the Bloomington campus and affect operations.
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Ilinois State Normal University
Bloomington
Police reveal January arrests and city gang roundup
Chicago police headquarters list 2 080 arrests in January compared with 1 588 in the same month of 1923. Four youths charged with larceny are said to form a gang linked to auto accessory thefts in Moline. The Illinois Supreme Court upholds taxing parsonages in Pearsall v M I Church. Illinois cities favor tax rate stability. only 45 of 1 100 replies seek higher limits. Ambush on a lonely road leaves Sterling salesman B Levie robbed of 50 000 in diamonds by two bandits.
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Chicago
Sterling
B. Levie
Fox House
Illinois measure would make death penalty mandatory for certain murders
Illinois lawmaker Theodore Smith of Chicago plans to introduce a bill in Springfield requiring the death penalty to be obligatory for first degree murder cases, drawing comparison to the Loeb Leopold slaying and aiming to fix capital punishment practice.
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Illinois
Loeb-Leopold
Theodore Smith
Chicago
Springfield
Death of J. J. Dwyer and Wounding of Deputy Sheriff in Blanford Fight
Paris police say J. J. Dwyer age forty six had long been suspected but never charged until about a week ago. Cooper Brown deputy sheriff of Edgar county was wounded in a street brawl in Blanford during the melee.
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J. J. Dwyer
Paris
Cooper Brown
Edgar County
Blanford
Notable Injuries in Illinois Car Crash Involving Bradley Professor
Dr W H Packard biology professor at Bradley Institute and civil engineer Philip Z Horton of Peoria were seriously injured near Joliet when their car was struck by another while being passed. A separate report notes Lester Westphall of Wisconsin jailed in Danville after passing bad checks, confessing 44 similar offenses across 20 Wisconsin and Illinois cities totaling 870 dollars. The Illinois Farmers Institute in Paris February 18 20 will host sessions on child care home furniture and women’s farm life issues led by prominent social work and hygiene figures. United States income tax collections in December 1924 fell about 9.5 million from 1923 with Illinois rising from 30 567 214 in 1923 to 88 687 573 in 1924. New York saw a monthly drop from 103 529 406 in 1923 to 04 548 327 in 1924.
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Peoria
W. H. Packard
Bradley Institute
Philip Z. Horton
Joliet
Lester Westphall
Waukesha
Wis
Danville
First National Bank of
Rockford
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Illinois Farmers’ Institute
Department of Household Science
Paris
United States
Treasury Department
Washington
Illinois
New York
Aztecs Cultivated Corn Evidence From Ancient Central America
Nature Magazine notes that teogiate, a large semi tropical grass, is the only related plant corn will cross fertilize. The most abundant evidence of early cultivation is found in the land of ancient Mayas, Aztecs and Incas.
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Central America
Nature Magazine
Old-Time Delicacy Hominy Recipe Published
A farm paper presents an old fashioned method to make hominy by soaking corn in a lye solution and boiling to remove hulls, then rinsing and cooking in clean water. The process resembles New England hulled corn eaten with sweet milk or served stewed with gravy.
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New England
Treatments for protecting large tree wounds after branch removal
The article reviews protective coatings for cut surfaces on large tree wounds. It notes white lead, yellow ocher, coal tar, and grafting wax as acceptable options if non corrosive and non harmful to growth, aiming to shield heartwood from rat spore attack.
Realism and a five year old’s pie request dialogue
A five year old named Marjorie asks for pie in a realist scene. She suggests a game to frighten the other person into sharing food, revealing a child’s hunger and the adults’ puzzled reaction.
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Cook
Mar-jorie
The Nebular Theory Debated by Astronomers
The naval observatory notes Mars is considered older than Earth by many astronomers. Laplace’s nebular hypothesis, proposing a sun once larger than Neptune’s orbit that left behind planets as it shrank, faces competition from several alternative solar system formation theories.
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Naval Observatory
Mars
Earth
Laplace
Army and Navy Union formed as Regular Soldiers' Union
The Army and Navy Union of the United States organized March 31 1888. Peter Lacher of Cincinnati Ohio received responses from 30 men on February 5 1888 through a press notice. A temporary group met February 19 to establish a permanent organization called The Regular Soldiers' Union.
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Army and Navy Union of the
United States
Peter Lacher
Cincinnati
Ohio
Regular Soldiers’ Union
Oddity Among Animals at London Zoo Tigon
The London zoo displays a tigon with a lioness as mother and a tiger as father. The hybrid was bred and presented to the zoo by the maharajah of Nawanagar.
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London Zoo
Nawanagar
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Martin J. O’brien
Autoista
Illinois State News
Bradley State Bank
Moline
Patriotic Organization
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