Flood control push drawn by Chicago leaders
About 2,000 Chicagoans and others urged federal action to curb Mississippi floods. Speakers including Mayor Thompson and Governor Small pressed for higher levees spillways and a ten year program costing up to 1 billion dollars with river and harbor improvements and flood defenses.
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Washington
Len Small
Illinois
W. H. Thompson
Chicago
Cook County Board
Oscar Carlstrom
H. C. Gardner
Chicago Association of Commerce
John M. Parker
Louisiana
Leroy Percy
Mississippi
H. G. Dufour
New Orleans
Mississippi River Commission
Army Engineers
The
Mississippi Valley Association
James E. Smith
Congress
Mr. Smith
Great Lakes
Board of the United States Army Engineers
Illinois River Valley
Governor Small
Illinois River
Capitol
William Hife Thompson
Congressional Committee
Frank Reid
Aurora
Man Hangs Self Near Wife's Grave Tombstone Mystery
August Schwan, 53, placed an elaborate tombstone over his wife’s grave in New York. Police found his body hanging from the marble top, feet dangling over the well-kept mound.
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New York
August Schwan
Kemal Re-Elected President of Angora Turkey
Mustapha Kemal Pasha, a central political figure since the war, was unanimously re elected as president of the Turkish republic without opposition.
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Angora
Turkey
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
Economy Merely Is Doing Without The Things You Favor
A brief aphorism attributed to Harrisburg Telegraph reflects on frugality and choosing fewer comforts to tighten budgets. The line contrasts personal restraint with material abundance, suggesting prudence in tough economic times.
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Harrisburg
Illinois Births Deaths Rates Decline While Housing Road Bids Rise
Illinois reports 87 619 births and 55 259 deaths for eight months, birth rate 17.8 per 1000 and death rate 11.3 per 1000. Population density edges up. State bids on hard road stretches include Kendall county 0.21 mile project won by Harden Construction. Parole board moves toward leniency for minor offenses as Joliet prisons hold 3 062 inmates. Lincoln Gettysburg tablet dedicated at Sangamon county court house. Forest Trees of Illinois goes into second printing. Telephone companies seek sale of Perry County properties. Coal contracts awarded for state institutions. Chicago transit reform proposals push for subway and transit commission. Armistice Day proclaimed. flood relief delegation going to Washington. Shanahan ill after hemorrhage.
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Stork
Grim Reaper
Illinois
Isaac D. Rawlings
State Department of Public Works and
Division of Highways
Harden Construction Company
Kendall County
Will County
Shidler Construction Company
Kankakee
Livingston County
Indiana Road Paving Company
Rochester
Ind
State Parole Board
Lawrence Benson
Harry Jenson
Joliet
Hinton G. Clabaugh
Chicago
Illinois Sanitary District Laws Extend Tax and Bond Limits
Summary of House bills 562 and 563 Overland from the Fifty fifth general assembly as signed or allowed without signature. Bill 562 extends district indebtedness to 5 percent of property value and bonds to 1928, adds highway property conveyance, and excludes bonded debt tax from the limit. Bill 563 preserves Juul law tax rate not below 80 cents per hundred dollars, replacing prior 18 cent cap, for sanitary districts created to remove obstructions in Des Plaines and Illinois rivers.
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Illinois
General Assembly
Small
Des Plaines
Ilinois
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Sangamon County Court House
Women's Relief Corps
Capitol City
State Department of Forest Conservation
R. B. Miller
W. R. Mattoon
University of
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Perry County Telephone Company
Perry Company
Pinckneyville
Cutler and
Vicinity
Illinois Southern Company
L. H. Becherer
Panther Creek Coal Company
Pana
Penwell Coal Companies
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St. Louis
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Cook County
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