Wreck Kills Fourteen Tourists In New Jersey Train Collision
A Delaware Lackawanna and Western special train wreck near Hackettstown New Jersey leaves about 44 dead and over 50 injured when rain washed sand onto tracks causing a derailment and boiler explosion. German passengers from Chicago to Hoboken were aboard. a Chicago woman heroically aided victims in the wreckage.
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New York
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Hackettstown
N. J
Chicago
Hoboken
Bremen
Republic of the United States Lines
Leopold Neumann
HB. B. Haaker
Park Avenue
Park Ridge
Lackin R. Dene
Freda Metzger
South
Troy Street
Haaker
R. B. Flumerfelt
Flumerfelt
Illinois House rejects prohibition commissioner bill in 1925
The Illinois House tabled the prohibition commissioner measure by 73 to 60 after the Senate passed Barbour’s bill. A duplicate house bill earlier failed. Separately labor’s anti injunction bill passed 78 to 65, and a strong majority backed a constitutional tax revision.
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Springfeld
Illinois Dry Forces
House
Senate
Tice
Wwannonrain
Spore
Organized Labor
Illinois
Cynical French Proverb on Pleasure Repentance and Virtue
A concise proverb notes that pleasure leads to repentance and repentance to virtue, reflecting a skeptical view of moral progress and personal discipline.
Illinois crops hurt by drought in June report
A federal crop report from Springfield shows drought cuts crops below average across Illinois. Corn remains the only strong crop while oats, hay, and pastures show record lows for June 1. Wheat holds in the lower five counties, but overall belt conditions range poor to fair.
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Illinois
Springfield
Ilinois
Chicago Toll rises in motor deaths and arson blaze
A Chicago man died from injuries after an automobile crash while two others were near death. The Cook county motor death toll reached 314 for 1925. Baby Martin Leonard, one month old, was found suffocated in his crib at the Oak Park home of Louis Leonard, Simons Wolf Lamp Shade Co. A Mount Vernon man, John D. Carnahan, was arrested for arson over a fire at John A. Carnahan & Son’s store on April 16, causing $20,000 to $25,000 damage to four buildings.
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Chicago
Cook County
Martin Leonard
Louis Leonard
Simons-Wolf Lamp Shade Company
Michigan Avenue
Leonard
Oak Park
John D. Carnahan
Mount Vernon
John A. Carnahan & Son
Zeuxis and Parrhasius Grapes Rivalry Tale
The ancient Greek painters Zeuxis and Parrhasius are said to have engaged in a famed competition. Zeuxis painted grapes so real birds pecked at them, but Zeuxis allowed Parrhasius to surpass him in a later challenge.
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Zeuxis
B. C
Parrhasius
Another Sign of Old Age
A Baltimore Sun item notes humorously that aging brings annoyance at small inconveniences such as needing a new necktie, illustrating the curling slide from youth to older years with a light domestic tone.
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Baltimore Sun
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David Kinley
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Robert B. Beach
Chicago Association of Commerce
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Vern Howell
Charleston
Howell
Calumet Concrete
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115Th ST
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Te Aire Bank
Silvertown Cord
Commander Cord
Goodrich
Prompt Tire and Battery Service
Mobile
Veedol
Texaco
Penn
GLOBE
G. J. Vulcanizing & Battery Shop
Garret Jacobsma
Washington Ave
Dolton
Bell Telephone Company
Bell System
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