Happenings of the World in Brief
James Bradley Orman former Colorado governor and railroad irrigation pioneer died at Pueblo at sixty nine. Frank L. Polk sails for France to take the Mace of Secretary Lansing at the peace conference. Marshal Foch invited to visit America by the American Legion this fall. Col Samuel T. Ansell resigns as acting judge advocate general. plans to push army court martial reform. Resignation of Herbert Quick from farm loan board announced. Daylight saving repeal rider struck from agricultural bill. Shantung protest copy sought by senate. Parcel post to Germany resumes. Otto A Labudde named Milwaukee customs collector. Labor strikes in Berlin. Bolshevik Petrograd refuses to release Swedish legation. Women voting rights bill faces unfavorable Senate report. Three soldiers killed in Le Bourget munitions dump blast. Bela Kun army demoralized in Budapest. Count Karolyi travels toward America. Johnny Dundee defeats Joe Tiptitz. Jimmy Wilde defeats Pat Moore in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Labor Party
Beardstown
Iee
Moline
Charles Mrodenburg
East St. Louis
New State Tax Commission
National Musical Club of America
Petersborough
N. H
Livingston County
Fairbury
Rock Island
Camp Grant
James A. Hart
Saltwater
Mattoon
Springfield
Chicago Air Line Taxi Company
Jennie Williams
Chicago
Pana Exchange
Christian County Telephone Company
Newkirk
Norris City
Taylorville
Ray Brubeck
Edinburg
Illinois
Ralph WW. Wheeler
Chicago Athletic Association
American Steel Cross
Jacob Haynes
Decatur
Decatur, Drove His Favorite Mare, “Maude Fuller
Illiopolis
Haynes
War Department
van Todd
Danvers
France
Fox Lake
Trenty Nutter
Co. EL. Wells
Jacksononville
Carlinville
Chicago Telephone Company
State Public Utilities Commission
State Utilities Commission
St. Chair
Dirigible crashes into bank during test flight in Chicago
Domestic Eleven are killed and twenty eight injured as a giant dirigible on test flight catches fire and falls 500 feet crashing through the glass roof of the Sinois Trust and Savings bank. Nine dead are bank employees burned in a fiery explosion from gasoline tanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sinois Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago
Illinois News Nuggets: Local Gains and Plans Across Cities
Illinois brief highlights include Rock Island raises teachers pay by $10 monthly, new coal mine near Newmanville ready to open, and plans for a $100000 skyscraper at Charleston’s National Trust bank. Additional items cover municipal ice plant for Rochelle, an eight week home training course for mothers in Chicago, and several civic appointments and trials across the state.
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Rock Island
Chicago
John J. Garrity
Newmanville
Cass County
Springfield
Washington Park
Charlotte Rapp
Dixon
Guillern Tinois
New National Trust Bank of Charleston
Williamson County
Rochelle
Pecatonica
Ss. S. Kemble
Red Cross
France
Dana
Lostant
Rutland
LaSalle County
Central Illinois Independent Telephone Company
State Public Utilities Commission
Wilson
Marry H. Merrick
The
Association of Commerce
A. E. Somers
Storrisburg
Winds
Brundage
Somers
Vera Trepagnier
New Orleans
Paul Frederick Volland
Trepagnier
Golcanda
Rossclare
Hardin County
Elizabethtown
Marvy Cunningham
Elgin
Picsdeng Pobard
Cunninogdae
Asus
Great Lakes
Half Per Cent Liquor Limits in Private Dwellings Debate
Washington notes on the house passing the enforce ment bill tightening liquor controls after January 16 1920 reporters describe the vote 287 to 100 with party splits noted The bill allows private possession for personal use with burden of proof and imposes broad search powers while banning liquor ads and defining intoxication as more than 0 5 percent alcohol The act ties to the war-time act and constitutional amendment with penalties up to 1000 dollars or five years in prison for repeat violators
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Washington
Wilson
House
Igoe
Mendell
Babka
Bee
Blackmon
Buchanan
Carew
Casey
Cleary
Coady
Cullen
Dent
Defalt
Ponovan
Dooling
Dupre
Eagan
Fitzgerald
Gallagher
Gallivan
Ganly
Gard
Goldfogle
Griffin
Humphreys
Johnston
Lazero
Lea
Linthicum
Lonergan
McAndrews
McGlennon
MacKiniry
McLant
Maher
Martin
Mead
Minahan
Mooney
O’connell
O’connor
Fell
Phelan
Pat
John W. Rainey
Riordan
Rowan
Sabath
Sherwood
Small
Smith
CN. Y
Steele
Sullivan
Bachrach
Britten
Burdick
Burke
Curry
Dyer
Hamonds
Freeman
Garland
Glynn
Haskell
Hull
Husted
Jefferis
Juul
Kahn
Kennedy
Kleczka
la Guardia
Lampert
Lehrbach
Longworth
McArthur
MacCrate
Madden
Mann
Merritt
Moore
Morin
Mudd
Newton
Nolan
Ogden
Porter
Radcliffe
Ramsey
Reber
Rodenberg
Sanford
Siegel
Snyder
Stephens
Tinkham
Ware
Veigh
Walsh
Ward
Watson
Commissioners of Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue Bureau
Department of Justice
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James Bradley Orman
Colorado
Pueblo
Frank L. Polk
New York
Imperator
Lansing
Marshal Foch
American Legion
America
Legion
Samuel T. Ansell
Army
Baker
Ansell
State Department
John W. Correll
Burleson
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Herbert Quick
Berkeley Springs
W. Va
Farm Loan Board
Senate
Shantung
General Buss
Henry White
Germany
Post Office Department
Otto A. Labudde
Milwaukee
Wis
Representative Lever
Dem
South Carolina
Farm Tawn
Wilken
Lianton
Bs Phasierin
Austria
Paris
Piura
Pers
Berlin
Petrograd
Stockholm
Interallied Council
Italy
Ientsin
China
Chamber of Deputies
le Bourget
Budapest
Bela Kun
Michael Karolyi
Hungary
Vienna
Johnny Dundee
Joe Tiptitz
Philadelphia
Boston
Jimmy Wilde
Pat Moore
London
Michigan
State States Men’s Association
Detroit
Alabama State Senate
Montgomery
J. L. Roberts
Sadie Thomas
Dallas
Tex
James A. Fart
National League Baseball Club
National League
Spokane
Wash
Idaho
Alentana
Whitehouse
Bhicks
Leavenworth
West
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
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