Illinois News Notes Highlights From Illinois Local Scene
An explosion at Paratol Chemical in Calumet City killed laborer E. L. Coalwell aged 24. Mrs. Mamie Gale Herman faces trial December 1 in Moline for murder of Frank Andrews with a self defense plea. Chicago elected officials in focus as Illinois League of Women Voters chose Mrs. James W. Morrison as president. Burglars stole over $1,000 in Wilmette. Nine-year pension law outreach reached 6,758 teachers under and 42,000 others via compulsory features, per R. O. Claride. Three men died when an airplane from St. Louis crashed near Greenfield. victims included George Walker, H. G. Tilley, and Ole Hagen. Official Cook County returns show Haas ahead for recorder and Emmerson for secretary of state. Coolidge leads county race. Tax delinquency in Cook County cited at over $10,000,000 by Hubert Butler. Final settlement in the Moline Plow case awards $280,000 to plaintiffs including former Moline Plow officials, with payment schedule set.
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Illinois State Teachers’ Pension and Retirement Fund
R. O Claride
Pension Board of Trustees
Springfield
St. Louis
Greenfield
George Walker
Jerseyville
H. G. Tilley
Ole Hagen
Farm conditions and coal theft protests surface in Springfield and Chicago
A federal agricultural statistician reports 58 percent of Tilmore area crops matured, 29 percent in dough, and 18 percent in milk stages as farm work progresses. Meanwhile railroads protest municipal court leniency in coal theft cases, with Chicago officials urged to crack down after complaints of juvenile offenders and poverty pleas.
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Tilmore
Springfield
A. J. Surratt
Federal Agricultural Statistician
Resignations and midwestern civic notes in Joliet and beyond
Reverend P A Sorenson resigns from First Lutheran Joliet to lead St Mark's Lutheran Auburn Indiana. Prohibition Agent Archie Benson touted as first dry sleuth to pose in dress suit signals looming crackdowns on Chicago nightspots. A Dowell child dies from a balloon swallowed during a candy given accident. Census estimates list Illinois cities 25k to 100k as of July 1 1924 including Decatur Iuast St Louis Elgin Peoria and Springfield. Mayor Shouse of Danville fights street Sunday closing. Marion sheriff denies martial law rumor. Holstein bull tears sign then terrorizes Stockton before lassoed. Judge McGoorty named major in reserve corps. Robertson pleads guilty seeks probation for July 4 home fire. Scarlet fever and diphtheria rise in Illinois with Cook County leading. a Peoria man dies by self-inflicted gunshot with a tied car door and a note to his sister. A daughter’s poisoning linked to bobbed hair closes the list.
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Illinois News Notes
Paratol Chemical Company
Calumet City
E. L. Coalwell
Mamie Gale-Herman
Frial
Moline
Frank Andrews
Illinois League of Women Voters
Chicago
James W. Morrison
Julia Lathrop
J. D. McGuire
Greenwood Circle
Wilmette
Cook County
Joseph F. Haas
Recorder
L. L. Emmerson
Coolidge
Davis
la Follette
Hubert W. Butler
Glencoe
Cook County Township Highway Commissioners and Good Roads Association
Mr. Butler
Moline Plow
Federal District Court
George N. Peek
Frank W. Edlin
Charles B. Rose
Moline Plow Company
L. J. Benson
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Justice Olson
Olson
P. A. Sorenson
First Lutheran Church of
Joliet
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
Auburn
Ind
Prohibition
Archie M. Benson
William Yaselli
George Germanovich
Dowell
Census Bureau
Werrington
D. C
Mlinois
Decatur
Iuast St. Louis
Elgin
Peoria
Thurman F. Shouse
Danville
Grace Methodist Church
George Galligan
Marion
Small
Williamson County
Stockton
Twe
John P. McGoorty
War Department
Sixth Corps
Ben Robertson
Rio
Walter Frank
Galesburg
Archie Stoits
Frank
Robertson
HO. H. Cleveland
William F. Bradley
Looney
Rock Island
A. W. Billbury
George Tlolsapple
Billings
Holsapple
Walter Stark
Lake County
Elfreda Schael
Evanston
Starks
Illinois
Adams
Franklin
Kane
Kankakee
la Salle
McLean
St. Clair
Sangamon
Will
Willamson
Madison County
John Gass
Gass
H. L. Pearson & Go
Ernest A Malmstrom
Prop. Jewelers and Optometrists
Michigan Ave
Roseland
Rm. Lor
Eist Ctiec
Waldemars
Calumet Concrete Construction CO
West
115Th ST
Phone Fullman
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Miles An Grenston
Bell Telephone Company
Bell System
Waffie Irons
Mazda
Public Service Company OF
Northern Illinois
C.l.hyatt
Public Service Co. of
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