Oak Park monument dedication and city news briefs
Nearly 1,000 Oak Parkers attended the dedication of a war monument at Harvard and Kenilworth, funded by a $1,200 subscription. A mob of six bandits fled after a failed Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul train robbery near Kirkland amid gunfire from trainmen and detectives. Chicago authorities moved over $25 million in valuables to a new Washington Park bank building under heavy guard. Insect damage in Illinois farms reaches 30 to 35 million dollars annually, with farms losing over $100 yearly despite ongoing control efforts. Two duck hunters from Pontiac drowned when their boat capsized at Lacona, and four men from Atkinson died when their auto collided with a Rock Island train near Tiskilwa. Illinois fish hatcheries expand in Rockford, Yorkville, East St. Louis, Peoria, Carlisle, and near Kankakee, with Rockford nearest completion. The U.S. government raided Cicero to drain it of vice, seizing whisky, beer, and wine from 32 establishments. West suburban towns face rising vice activity. raids increase under federal agents and local cooperation.
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Harvard
Kenilworth Avenues
Pneumonic plague cases reported in Williamson county towns
Williamson county health officials await state board of health findings on 14 suspected pneumonic plague cases traced to Hurst and Bush. Dr. A W Springs notes all symptoms. 12 cases in Hurst with 2 deaths in sisters in the same house, and 2 cases in Bush.
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Williamson County
State Board of Health
Hurst
Bush
A. W. Springs
Dewmaine
Clinton D Smith Sentenced for Dynamiting Lawyer Home
Clinton D. Smith received a sentence ranging from one to twenty years in the Chester penitentiary for dynamiting the home of C. C. Lee, a Charleston lawyer.
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Clinton D. Smith
Chester
C. C. Lee
Charleston
Judge overrules demurrer in Small slander case
Judge Joseph B. David of Chicago overruled the demurrer of Gov. Len Small in the $50,000 Hbel and slander suit filed against the governor by State Senator Barbour of Chicago. Commemorating the Cherry mine disaster fifteen years ago miners gathered in Cherry for an address by state president Frank Farrington. Nearly 5,000 chrysanthemum plants were shown at the University of Illinois chrysanthemum show, the collection including 251 varieties. Rainfall was deficient across the state last week, with moisture needed for wheat, especially in southern counties. The Chicago Association of Commerce executive committee voted unanimously to approve purchasing the house of correction for a new county jail and criminal court building.
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Frederick Sidney Fleming
Episcopal Church of the Atonement
Chicago
Edgewater
Father Fleming
Indiana
Olympia
Wash
Joseph B. David
Len Small
Barbour
Cherry
Tlineis
Frank Farrington
University of Illinois
Clarence J. Root
Citizens’ Committee
House of Correction
Chicago Association of Commerce
Danville Petition Drive Aims At City Government Change
Petition drive in Danville led by Frank Schecter seeks voter approval for a commission form of government. If approved, 14 aldermen would resign and a mayor plus four commissioners would be elected. In Chicago, $12,000 from the Chicago Federation of Labor supported Senator LaFollette’s campaign fund per a machinists union report. Probate court in Chicago administered over $91 million in estates in fiscal 1924 with 14,581 cases disposed and taxes over $4 million collected.
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Danville
Frank Schecter
Thomas A. Graham
Chicago Federation of Labor
Senator LaFollette
Charles F. Willis
Machinists’ Union At
Chicago
John F. Devine
Circuit Court
Right Course and Straightness in Action
Philosophical remark on ethics and geometry equating moral action to straight lines. Asserts that only one proper course exists and two kinds of right action cannot exist, drawing a parallel between moral conduct and straightness in lines.
Egyptian bunk found on Nile boat from four millennia ago
An Egyptian archaeologist reports a bunk used on Nile boats 4000 years ago, noting it differs little from modern liner stateroom berths.
Population of Ant Nests Exceeds Early Estimates
Lord Avebury once estimated a nest held 400000 insects. New research shows those figures were high yet astonishingly accurate in suggesting large colony sizes.
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Avebury
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Illinois
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Kirkland
Washington Park National Bank
East Sixty-third Street
Evans Avenue
East Sixty-third
Cottage Grove Avenue
W. P. Flint
State Natural History Survey
Urbana
Lacon
Ralph Tippet
L. R. Morris
Pontiac
Charles Newell
Newell
Miller’s Crossing
Tiskilwa
Rock Island
Harley Pack
Henry Deroo
Earl
Gus Desuiter
Atkinson
Tiskliwa
Ilinois
W. J. Stratton
Springfield
Rockford
Yorkville
East St. Louis
Peoria
Carlisle
Kankakee
United States
Cicero
Charles W. Wursell
H. C. Hoover
Ministers’ Association
Federal Crop Reporting Service
Charles H. Slack
West Adams Street
Atwater Kent Radio
Dolton
Twin City Garage
Dolton,, Ill
Radio
Roseland
S. Michigan Ave
Buick Sales
Michigan Ave
Accommodazion
Riverdale
Silvertown Cord
Commander Cord
Goodrich
Lee and Goodrich
Prompt Tire and Battery Service
Mobile
Veedol Oil
Texaco
GLOBE
G. J. Vulcanizing & Battery Shop
Garret Jacobsma
Washington Ave
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