Illinois Eyes 1500 Miles Of Hard Roads In 1928
Frank T. Sheets state highway engineer predicts a banner year for concrete paving in Illinois. The 1924 record of 1230 miles will be surpassed in 1928 if weather allows, with contracts already let for hundreds of paving, grading, and bridges and Cook County adding 450 miles. The total under contract approaches 1583.58 miles with an estimated state cost near 42 million dollars, contingent on the gasoline tax ruling by the supreme court.
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Illinois
Frank T. Sheets
State Highway Department
Sheets
Highway Department
Cook County
Supreme Court
Reforestation at Cold Brook School Lands in Russia NY
Two thousand trees are added each year to the forest begun years ago by Cold Brook public school in Russia town Herkimer county New York. School forests are exempt from taxation in New York state and pupils are acquiring wooded land.
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Cold Brook
Russia
Herkimer County
N. Y
New York State
Illinois Facts Snapshot Historical Atlas Highlights
A compact summary of Illinois demographics and industry: timber cover, 1926 scales and balances value at 1.813 million, zinc melting lead in the nation, 15 counties at statehood, about 14 000 public school buildings valued at 323 million, fourth in 1927 farm crop value, Chicago air traffic hub, 1928 election cadence, 900 000th Illinois Bell phone, over 1 billion in trust funds, 7.296 million population estimate, electric capacity to light five 60-watt bulbs per resident, St Clair county proclamation 1790, Chicago L movements records December 5, 1927, 667 accredited four year high schools.
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Illinois
United States Department of Agriculture
Chicago
Illinois Bell Telephone Company
St. Clair
St. Clair County
Ilinois
Chicago Rapid Transit Company
Blue Laws Ban Pies and Pumpkin Hair History
The passage cites Peters 1781 noting pumpkin meat used for beer bread custards sauce and pies on Thanksgiving as a remedy to blue laws. It adds a colonial quip that New Englanders were called pumpkin heads due to the practice of cutting hair with a pumpkin shell when cups were unavailable.
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Connecticut
New England
Blue Laws
New
Dalton Notice on Water System Improvement at Multiple Streets
Village of Dalton announces a bonded project to install cast iron water pipes hydrants and fittings along Michigan City Road Sibley Street Dante Avenue Blackstone Harper Stony Island and other streets in Dalton Cook County Illinois. An assessment following benefits has been ordered with ten yearly installments at 6 percent interest. Final hearing January 21 1928. Objections may be filed before the hearing. Commissioner Joseph L. Locher dated January 5 1928. Published January 6 and 13 1928.
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Board of ‘Trustees
Wolton
Michigan City Road
Chicago and Southern Railway
Woodlawn Avenue
Sibley Street
Jeffery Avenue
Michigan
Madison Avenue
Wilson Avenue
152Nd Street
Nelson Avenue
Cornell Avenue
East End Avenue
Dalton
Cook County
Illinois
Joseph L. Locher
Board of Trustees
Village of
Dolton
Ellis Avenue
Greenwood Road
First Alley
Sibley Boulevard
Fairfield Avenue
University Avenue
Minerva Avenue
154Th Street
Blackstone Avenue
Dolton Village to Combine Storm Water and Sanitary Sewers
The Board of Trustees of Dolton seeks county court approval for the Irving Avenue sewer improvement from Berger Avenue to Washington Street in Cook County Illinois. The project cost will be assessed and paid in ten annual installments with 9 percent interest. Objections may be filed before the hearing and appearances are allowed. Publication dates January 6 and 13.
The Charge of the Light Brigade Numbers Revealed
Stuart Ma. Emery notes in Liberty that the Light Brigade consisted of 673 men, not 600, in the Crimean War. In 20 to 25 minutes the unit suffered 127 killed 104 wounded and 73 taken prisoner, with nearly 500 horses killed during the disastrous attack.
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Alfred Tennyson
Light Brigade
Stuart Ma. Emery
Liberty
Old Moon Earthshine Seen In Crescent Phase Tradition
Old adage notes that during the new moon a thin crescent is visible and the old moon appears in the lap of the new. Sailors in earlier times regarded this night sky phenomenon with superstitious dread as earthshine lights the moon’s unlit portion.
Mexico and Peru Ahead in Feminist and Cultural Aims
The piece notes Mexico's early feminist pioneer Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and highlights Mexico's colonial innovation from 1539 onward. It contrasts South American culture's development with North American and Latin American literary flowering, emphasizing poetry's long standing role and nationalistic currents in Spanish and Portuguese America.
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North America
University of Mexico
San Marcos
Lima
Carlos V
Mexico
Thomas Paine
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Isaac Goldberg
Current History Magazine
Father Resolves to Live With His Daughter After Marriage
Washington Star reports a congressman notes the high cost of living causes quirks. A young couple discusses a frugal future with minimal housing and servants while the father unexpectedly offers to move in permanently after their marriage.
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Washington
George
Washington Star
Dalton No 41 sewering of several streets in Village of Dalton
The case notes installation of a connected system of sewers in Ellis Greenwood and nearby streets in the Village of Dalton Cook County for an assessment of cost. Payments are to be made in ten annual installments at 6 percent interest. A final hearing is set for January 21, 1928 at 10 a.m. Pub Jan 6 and 13.
Illinois News Notes Highlights From Illinois Local Reports
A roundup of Illinois items: Caleb Potts died from a Bloomington hotel robbery wound, Lee Woodley killed himself in East Moline, Rockford voters rejected an eight one hundredth percent school tax raise, and eight year old Hurley Cleon Claussen was fatally shot near Hortonville. McLean county inmates form a jail kangaroo court, while a Eugene Field Memorial cemetery for orphans was announced near Hinsdale. J W Hemingway of Oregon, Illinois led November milk production honors among 825 dairy herds. A Decatur Nazarene church safety-bond mystery arose after a bank refused to hold a $500 bond. A Rockford romance and perjury case postpones marriage, and Cook county hospital treated 39 692 patients in eleven months with 44 642 rejections. Federal prisoners in Illinois jails rose almost 100 percent to 252. Illinois farmers plan a February institute at Waukegan with speakers Harding Preusy and Purnell among others.
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Caleb Potts
Butler
Bloomington
Lee Woodley
East Moline
Rockford
Hurley Cleon Claussen
Lee Edwards
Hortonville
Lee
McLean County
Eugene Field
Leland H. Banforth
Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter
Kenilworth
Hinsdale
J. W. Hemingway
Oregon
Ogle County
C. S. Rhode
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
M. F. Grose
the Nazarene Church of
Decatur
Calvin Alexander
Anna Seabeck
Spring Valley
Carpenter
Cook County Hospital
Michael Zimmer
Anton J. Cermak
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Illinois News Notes
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