Dunning Employed Take Test July 20
Springfield report notes first civil service examinations set for July 20 for Chicago state hospital staff as the Civil Service Commission plans to offer tests to nearly four hundred employees. Fred B. Clarke acts as superintendent. Frank D. Whipp returns from Chicago stating the hospital is in order.
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Springfield
Chicago State Hospital
Civil Service
W. B. Moulton
State Commission
Chicago Hospital
Fred B. Clarke
Civil Service Commission
Clarke
Peter Bartzen
Cook County Board
Frank D. Whipp
Chicago
State Tests Dates and Locations Announced
State Superintendent F G Blair announces test dates July 23 to 26 and testing sites at Springfield Illinois University Champaign Normal schools at Normal Carbon dale DeKalb Charleston University of Chicago Chicago. The department reports 805 life certificates issued and growing applicant interest. Secretary Doyle releases a primary election vote report for Illinois April 9 compiled by Elmer Hill noting party plurality beside each candidate name.
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F. G. Blair
Office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Springfield
University of Illinois
Champaign
State Normal Schools
Normal
Carbondale
DeKalb
Charleston
University of Chicago
Chicago
Department of Public Instruction
Blair
Doyle
Illinois
Elmer Hill
School Superintendents Change Across Illinois Cities
Announcement lists numerous Illinois school superintendents moving to new districts for the coming year. Notable shifts include J H Coonradt from Decatur to Taylorsville, C A Lentz from Jonesboro to Vienna, H A Paine from Bement to Petersburg, and W R Spurrier from Centralia to Princeton, among others.
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Illinois
J. H. Coonradt
Decatur
Tay- Jorvthle
C. A. Lentz
Jonesboro
Vienna
H. A Paine
Bement
Petersburg
A. S. Anderson
Litchfield
Mt. Carmel
C. E Sawyer
Danville
Fast Aurora High School
William Hawkes
W. R. Spurrier
Centralia
Princeton
G. V. Clum
Prophetstown
Mt. Carroll
J. Curlee
Havana
E. H. Murray
Mendota
E. B. Brooks
Paris
P. M. Hoke
Arcela
C. J. Brosman
University of Illinois Appoints New Faculty and Additions
At a board meeting the University of Illinois announced multiple appointments Dr Lotus D Kaufman becomes professor of education Dr W E Burge joins as assistant professor of physiology Miss Ruth Wheeler named instructor in household science replacing Miss Susannah Usher Miss Maude Persons appointed assistant in household science and lunch room director The agricultural building adds a single story cement floored court with reading rooms museum and classrooms under construction.
Knights of Road Oppose Parcels Post Bills in Iowa Meeting
The Town Travelers Protection Association met in Davenport in May to denounce the parcels post proposal. They warn it will empty country stores, favor mail order houses, and harm rural merchants while boosting urban commerce and reducing traveling sales jobs. They urge nationwide organizing to block the bill.
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Town Travelers’ Protective Association
Davenport
Charles Hernty
The
New Castile
Ind
America
Indianapolis Star
Congress
John A. Ordway
Blodgett, Ordway & Webber
Boston
Mass
New England Dry Goods Association
Ordway
Iowa
Brother Knights
Hospitals Needed to Fight Tuberculosis Across States
Only four states Mississippi Nevada Utah and Wyoming lack beds in consumptive hospitals or wards. Eight years after the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis formed 386 states had no provision and total beds were 10 000. Dr. Livingston Farrand notes a large gap with roughly ten indigent consumptives per bed and 250 000 to 300 000 poor patients needing care, urging expanded hospital provision nationwide.
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Mississippi
Nevada
Utah
Wyoming
National Association For the Study and Prevention
United States
Livingston Farrand
National Association
An APT Scholar
Conversation pieces a dialogue between Mrs Beacon Streete and Norah about speech habits and proprieties. Norah agrees to use the word limbacy instead of legacy and jokes about preparing mutton limb for dinner.
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Beacon Streete
Norah
Ain't It to Be Poor Button Incident
A Sunday school boy Richard hides bright buttons from a motor car show in his pocket. He pins one on his coat during service and the minister asks him to read the motto aloud. Richard cannot read without glasses and defers to the minister, who struggles to read the message.
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Richard
Metropolitani Magazine
Blessed Sympathy in Human Animal Relations
A quotation from the Christian Register extols sympathy with animals as liberally educating. It praises forming real relations with animals and observing life in any sphere, noting how a living creature directed by a personality seeks human love if cared for.
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Christian Register
Important to Mothers Examine Castoria Bottles Carefully
Consumers are urged to inspect every Castoria bottle for infants and children to ensure safety and proper use as a trusted remedy.
Paxtine Antiseptic Ad Promotes Dental Hygiene
An exchange mocks proposals while an advertisement touts Paxtine Antiseptic for cleaning artificial teeth and bridge work. The Paxton Toilet Co. of Boston Mass offers a 25 cent box postpaid.
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Paxton Toilet Co
Buston
Mass
Mre. Winslow's Soothing Syrup Teething Aid
An 250 cent bottle of Mre Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children promises teething relief as it claims to soften gums ease inflammation relieve pain and cure wind colic. The ad ends with a quip about hesitation and discovery.
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Winslow
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Dunning
Frank Whipp
Fredb. Clark
Illinois Institution
Missisippi
Deneen
American National Red Cross Society
Ernest P. Bicknell
American Red Cross Society
Mississippi Valley
Bicknell
Ilinois
Knights OF Road
Fletcher
Alice
Kate
Tie
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