Merivale Welcomes Millionaire Frank Stockleigh and Secret Bride
In Merivale the town greets Frank Stockleigh returning with his Montana wife and his renewed bond with Jenny Walsh. Jim Furber reappears after being proved innocent, having served eight years in prison, and Jenny reveals she and Jim were secretly married then. The town honors Frank for uncovering the truth and uniting the couple.
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Merivale
Jenny Walsh
Jenny
Frank Stockleigh
Doc
Williamis
Frank
Nev
Jim Furber
Montana
Millonaire
Squire Gray
Jim
Doc. Williams
Pete ‘Williams
Pete
Mayor Pete
Doctor Williams
Mrs. Frank
Mayor Williams
Mrs. Stockleigh
Mr. Furber
Miss Walsh
W. G. Chapman
Industrial Casualties and the Need for Safer Workplaces
A chart from a leading American insurer at an international safety expo estimates 25 000 annual fatal industrial accidents and about 300 000 injuries in the United States. The writer notes that since 1909 statistics now reveal the vast toll and the need to guard workers as well as machinery.
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Insurance Company of America
United States
Quick Fly Elimination Methods Cited
The article suggests using 20 drops of carbolic acid on a hot stove lid or shovel with the room kept semi-dark and only one opening. It also mentions placing a tablespoon of formaldehyde in a pint of water and letting it stand to drive flies out of the room.
$0 MILLION STOLEN BLAME PUT ON DIRECTORS
The Interstate Commerce Commission calls New Haven railroad financing a case of historic maladministration. The 30,000 word report brands the directors criminally negligent and transmits evidence to district attorneys in Massachusetts Rhode Island and New York. It cites waste and mismanagement totaling an estimated sixty to ninety million dollars and outlines lavish spending and political entanglements under former President Mellen.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
New Haven
Senate
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New York
Federal Department of Justice
Commission
Mellen
Boston & Maine
West Chester
Connecticut
New England
Mr. Mellen
Port Chester
Morgan
Illini News Nuggets Chronicle Tragedies and Trials
Peoria reports Richard Donnelly killed by automobile driven by James J. Casey. In Carlyle William Burnside, eighty three, a former county surveyor, dies. Chicago revenue agents raid opium shops and arrest eight. Eldorado plant suffers $10000 fire damage. will be rebuilt. Medill McCormick and George Dowell campaign for Progressives in Anna. Edward Polen pardoned after life sentence for murder due to ill health. Joliet elopement of Ezra Henline and Ina Darr. Roy Briney killed by freight train near Findlay. Governor Dunne visits Fort Sheridan for cavalry maneuvers. Genoa farmer Allen Storm’s family poisoned tubers. boy confesses. Dixon sisters face grand jury over shot of Emmanuel Byers. Juliet’s Beatrice Conway paroled briefly then returned. Paris teen Harrison Weathers commits suicide after rejection. note cited. Continues with Paris incident details and family wealth context.
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Peoria
Richard Donnelly
James J. Casey
Carlyle
William G. Burnside
Irishtown
Chicago Revenue
Eldorado
Eldorado Brick Company
Anna
Anna.—Medill McCormick of Chcago
George W. Dowell
Duquoin
Bloomington
Edward Polen
Clinton
Chester
Polen
Hbzra Henline
Mclean County
Joliet
Ina Darr
Pingra Grove
Pana
Roy Briney
Todd’s
Allen Storm
Storm
Dixon
Emma Hutton
Lillie Byers
Emmanuel Byers
Walsh
Conway
Chicago
Paris
Harrison Weathers
Weathers
Harrison
Illinois delegates meet at second Christian Endeavor Union
About 1,000 delegates gathered in Peoria for the twenty-second Illinois Christian Endeavor Union convention. The event featured welcomes by local leadership, a keynote from Rev. John Polleak of Belfast, and a resolutions committee chaired by A. G. Fegert.
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Illinois Christian Endeavor Union
Chicago
Peoria
R. O. Becker
Peoria Association of Commerce
M. L. Pontius
Peoria Ministerial Association
W. R. Mee
John Polleak
Belfast
Ireland
A. G. Fegert
E. L. Reiner
Jessie Weiler
Altamont
W. T. Rodgers
Macomb
Lloyd Morey
Champaign
E. P. Gates
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New Haven Road
Eastern Railway
Illinois
Illinois News
Springfield
State Highway Commission
Livingston County
D. O. Nicholson
A. L. Booth
Gardner
Champaign County
J. W. Stipes
Edward S. Pilcher
Coles County
Feoria County
Highway Commission
State Commission
John H. Jones
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Jones
Pittsburg
Perry County
Wales
Lincoln
Shawneetown
George Sarver
Sarver
Here
Jacksonville
John Henry
Rogers
Henry
Charles Exard
Woodson
Everett Clain
Wood River
Colored Baptist Church
Wood River District
Centralia
East St. Louis
Cairo
Clarence M. Stark
Louisiana
Mr. Stark
Herrin
Will Ray
Horace Henry
Vale Ray
Ray
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