Why My Father and Brothers Should Join the Izaak Walton League
The essay by Pearl Barehead won first prize from the Izaak Walton Committee. It lauds the league as a nonpaid national group advocating forests clean streams and outdoor life. It cites protection of woods wildlife and waterways and urges fathers and brothers to join to restore the landscape and public health.
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Pearl Barehead
Izaak Walton
Miss Barehead
McKinley School
THE
Izaak Walton League OF America
Outdoor
America
Gas tax struck down by Illinois Supreme Court
The Illinois Supreme Court declared the 2 cent gasoline tax law invalid as an unintelligible measure and unconstitutional. It ordered the funds to stay in the general treasury and noted refunds are unlikely for motorists. The ruling affects county credits and prompts possible new tax legislation.
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Supreme Court of Illinois
Floyd E. Thompson
Rock Island
Circuit Court
Kane County
Supreme Court
General Assembly
State Court of Claims
Illinois
Frank T. Sheets
University of Illinois
High Court
Wicked Bible 1631 Omission Sparks Notable Error
The so called Wicked Bible omits the word not from the Seventh Commandment in an edition printed in 1631. A copy survives in the Bodleian Library.
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Bodleian
Great Tom Bell of Christchurch Oxford Tolling at Close
The Great Tom bell in Christchurch Oxford weighs 17000 pounds and chimes nightly at nine ten after closing. The historic bell sits in the Tom Gate tower and tolls to mark the end of the day.
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Tae
Tom Gate
Christchurch
Oxford
Scriveners in the Middle Ages and Their Tools
Frank H. Vizetelly notes that scribes formed a respected craft as literacy spread. Writers carried reed pens and inks in metal or leather cases hung from the girdle, with up to six reed pens stored for letters. Some regions still employ quill-drivers today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank H. Vizetelly
England
Detroit News
Comfort for the Poor Wealth and Cold Bathroom Floors
Ohio State Journal notes discomfort with poverty and harsh housing, describing comfort as scarce and a tile bathroom floor as cold as linoleum of the harshest quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio State Journal
Illinois Medical Practice Act survives two Supreme Court challenges
The Illinois Medical Practice Act withstood two Supreme Court attacks. In Dr. Blaine L. Ramsay’s case an injunction to stop hearings and publication of charges was granted relief, not invalidating the act. In John J. McGinley’s Rock Island case, practicing without a license, the lower court’s judgment was upheld despite a dissent calling the act void for unfair discrimination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Blaine L. Ramsay
Ramsay
Superior Court
Cook County
John J. McGinley
Rock Island
Duncan
Governor Cuts Limestone Price For Farmers In Illinois
Gov Len Small authorized a 10 percent price reduction on ground limestone sold to Illinois farmers by the Southern Illinois penitentiary. The new price, 90 cents a ton fob Menard, remains until April 1. Farmers urged to place orders with local Farm Advisor as demand grows.
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Len Small
Southern Illinois Penitentiary
Ilinois
F. E. B. Menard
Lincoln Memorial Highway Bill Introduced by Illinois Congressman
Hon. Henry Rathbone of Illinois introduces a bill proposing federal funding to build a Lincoln memorial highway from Mattoon Coles County to Toledo Cumberland County Illinois. The route would pass Thomas Lincoln’s home and recalls Abraham Lincoln who lived at New Salem and with his father in Coles county.
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Henry Rathbone
Illinois
Mattoon
Coles County
Toledo
Cumberland County
Lincoln
Thomas Lincoln
President Lincoln
New Salem
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First Trust &Savings Nta
Riverdale, Ill
Horace Holmes
John Harms
Twin City Garage General Auto
Goodyear and
Fish Tires
Philco
National Lead
Dolton
N. W. Monk
J. L. Locher
Malloy Coal CO
Lincoln Ave
Roseland
Buick Sales Co
Michigan Ave
Oscar E. Carlstrom
Roy Ide
State Department of Public Welfare
State Parole Board
Parole Board
Elmer J. Green
Illinois State Penitentiary
Mr. Carlstrom
Centralia
Illinois Farmers’ Institute
W. G. Curtis
Stockton
William Webb
Plainfield
H. H. Young
Springfield
Clayton C. Pickett
Chicago
F. G. Blair
College of Agriculture
Herbert W Mumford
Urbana
State Department of Agriculture
S. J. Stanard
State Horticultural Society
W. R. Soverhill
Isaac D. Rawlings
Old Sol
Rawlings
Carlstrom
Ford County
Virginia
Scriveners
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