Illinois State News Highlights and Local Trials
A $6000 suit filed in Charleston seeks payment on a policy for a son who died in a baseball game last fall. Barberry eradication work ends for the season with 90000 bushes located and destroyed across 20 counties. Benjamin Caldwell, former congressman and 1912 gubernatorial candidate, dies in Springfield General Hospital. Several Illinois districts levy high school tuition limits. Putnam County has none. Illinois seed grain show judges announced for Urbana January 12 to 16. Farm accounting schools to spread across 64 counties using simple ledgers. Jon Kammerer sentenced to be hanged February 13 for quadruple murder in Villa Park. Cook County Recorder reports 115,331.11 profit aided by photostat system. 522,226 total documents filed. Winter wheat damage feared from heavy ice storm with 2,878,000 acres sown. condition at December 1 at 87 percent of normal.
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Illinois
Urbana
Ilinois
Farm Organization and Management Department
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
Hi. C. M. Case
Cook County Recorder’s
Chicago
Recorder
County Recorder’s
Torrens Department
A. J. Surratt
Springfield
Mr. Surratt
Ilino
Surratt
Oysters Blamed for Typhoid Spike in Illinois
Health commissioner Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings warned against raw oysters after an inquiry linked germs to about 100 typhoid cases in Chicago and nearby areas. He advised cooking fat oysters or avoiding them, noting risks could spread to downstate communities and beyond Chicago markets.
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Isaac D. Rawlings
Springfield
Tlinois
Chicago
Doctor Rawlings
Publc
Tragic Collision Kills Mrs Ruth Heal at Tuscola
Mrs Ruth B Heal forty died instantly when her car was struck by a freight train at Tuscola. Her husband was killed in the same manner two years earlier.
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Ruth B. Heal
Tuscola
Three Patients Die In Farmhouse Fire At State Hospital
Three aged patients at the State In sane hospital three miles east of Alton died when a frame farmhouse burned. The dead include Charles Sunder land sixty seven of Alton Henry Langguth seventy of Monroe county and Fred Lange fifty with relatives unknown Thomas Guyn a fourth patient was also burned.
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State Insane Hospital
Alton
Charles Sunderland
Henry Langguth
Monroe County
Fred Lange
Thomas Guyn
Postmaster Lueder Announces record Chicago 1924 postal receipts
Chicago postal receipts for 1924 are projected at 54 million dollars matching records. Over 41 million first class pieces were canceled before Christmas plus 3 500 tons of parcels post and second class matter. Five deaths from two fires near Hast St Louis attributed to overheated stoves. Illinois lawmakers to seek 19 to 33 auto club backed bills at the fifty fourth general assembly. Lawrence M Hight cheerful in jail with his wife guilty of murder facing sentences. Chicago taxpayers face an additional 7 million in 1924 tax bills after review and levies. largest increases include a 25 cent per 100 school building tax and a 30 percent rise in the state rate.
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Lueder
Chicago
Hast St. Louis
Louis Pape
Pape
Trairieville
Cecilia R. Heriod
Aussie Heriod
Dorothy Brooks
W. ©. Brooks
Bunkum
Board of Review
Ned O
Showdown on Frange's Debt Stirs U S France dispute
Washington moves toward a showdown over the 4 billion dollar French debt. Officials cite Paris balance sheets and pledges to pay while advising Congress to block new private credits until an honorable settlement is reached. Senator Reed urges France to honor its obligations to restore trust.
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Washington
France
United States
Paris
Reed
Pennsylvania
Melton
American Debt Commission
Congress
America
Nine Bodies Recovered After Virginia Flood
Nine bodies lie in a morgue after a flood swept the Mathieson alkaliWorks settlement in Saltville Virginia. Six to seven people are missing and twenty one more are in hospitals in Saltville and Abingdon with some in serious condition. Four or five are expected to die and about 200 are homeless. Mrs Barry Traytor is identified among the dead found four miles from the dam site.
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Saltville
Virginia Blue Ridge
Washington
Lee
Mathieson Alkali Works
Abingdon
Barry Traytor
Indiana Widow Kills Parents Brother and Babe
Four members of the Bassler family were found murdered with a shotgun at Metea Indiana near Logansport. Victims included Henry Bassler sixty Catherine Bassler sixty John Bassler twenty two and Viola Hobough three. Emma Hobough thirty the widow daughter sister and mother of the baby is in Cass county jail recounting alleged mistreatment. Sheriff Bowyer arrested her at Thomas Sheets home.
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Logansport
Ind
Metea
Cass County
Henry Bassler
Catherine Bassler
John Bassler
Viola Hobough
Emma Hobough
Early public swimming pool ad surfaces in London 1742
The earliest known English public swimming pool was advertised in London on May 28 1742 inviting patrons to swim with attendants available to teach or assist gentlemen in swimming. The notice marks an early formal public facility offering instruction and access.
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London
Cliff’s Fall Laid Bare Treasure Long Hidden
A cliff near Byblos in Syria collapsed revealing a 4000 year old rock cut tomb. A giant sarcophagus with a distinctive lid and mushroom shaped knobs emerged along with a small tomb or grotto. Find includes bones, a bronze or gold lamp, silver vases, obsidian goblet, gold salvers, alabaster vase, bronze vase, ivory plaques and luster ware.
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Byblos
Syria
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