Government Seizes Whisky Stores in Federal Reorganization
Washington reports 250000 barrels moved from private to government designated warehouses under the internal revenue commissioner with no theft. Governor Pinehat of Pennsylvania addresses prohibition conference claiming federal enforcement has failed and agents are grafting. Coolidge and ex Chancellor Cuno discuss shipping. Cuno abandons politics to focus on shipping. Indictments against Benedict Crowell are under advisement. Foreign ship wreckers appear at auctions for scrapping ships. foreign bids will not be considered.
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Internal Revenue Commissioner
Washington
Pinehat
Pennsylvania
Prohibition Conference
Benedict Crowell
Justice Hibehling
District of Columbia Criminal Court
Notable 1920s Obituaries And Disasters Recap
Personal A. Brook Fleming former West Virginia governor dies at Fairmont. Brig. Gen. Hvan M. Johnson, retired, dies in Paris. Historian Edward Stanwood dies at Brookline home. Big Four train hits car near Fairland Indiana killing nine and injuring one. Search for tanker City of Everett abandoned near Key West after presumed sinking. Train collision and other incidents across the nation detailed.
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A. Brook Fleming
West Virginia
Fairmont
W. Va
Hvan M. Johnson
France
Paris
City of
Everett
Key West
Fla. Te
Berlin Coal Price Cuts and Global Dispatches Mixed
A Berlin dispatch reports Foreign Chancellor Stresemann cuts coal prices by abolishing the tax and intends broad cost reductions. A Tokyo-bound American relief team under Ambassador Woods has left Japan for Manila after completing its assignment.
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Stresemann
Germany
Berlin
Tokyo
Ambassador Woods
Japan
Manila
Illinois News Happenings in October 1922 and LocalActs
Chicago building permits for the first ten days of October total 6.5 million dollars versus 14 hundred thousand for the entire October 1922. Galesburg gains a 100000 dollar building with laundry and refrigeration facilities. Leonard Gibbons and Frank Walker pay ten dollar fines for hair cutting at Carterville High. War Governors statues Yates and Palmer dedicated in Springfield with Gov. Len Small speaking. Geneva hires Rev Harold Feast of Castletown Vermont as pastor succeeding Rev Stewart. Over 600 postal workers added to Chicago forces after authorization from Washington. Carlyle claims Illinois oldest jitney bus driver, George Lacey, 76, with 100000 miles. Taylor Springs coal mine closes due to labor trouble. miners refuse after shifts change. Naval aviation reserve depot authorized for Great Lakes. Ninth district operations centralized. Paris home boiler explosion damages 5000 dollars, family unhurt. Belleville man Menard Stookey, 22, divorced thrice and married four times, marries Opal Nash. Gov Small condemns 100 million road bond tax via Lawrenceville rehearing. Over 14000 barberry bushes eradicated in Illinois summer drive. Patia residents question theft motive after Rev Hartwich’s studio typewriter is stolen. occult motives suspected.
Health survey cites 20000 lost productive years in Illinois
Dr. I. D. Rawlings state health director at Springfield announced a five year survey shows preventable diseases have cut twenty thousand years from Illinois citizens productive life since World War II ended.
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Illinois
I. D. Rawlings
Springfield
Bank Hold Up At Melvin City Nets 1600 Dollars
Three masked men robbed the Melvin State Bank at noon, escaping in an automobile with 1600 dollars. A first Illinois forestry survey report from Urbana proposes a four fire protection system for the timber belt. A Rock Island committee plans a 1924 diamond jubbles program. Sheriff Orr of Kane county died in Geneva after an operation. Fred Newton of Ingleside regained sight after cataract surgery in a Waukegan hospital.
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Melvin
Illinois
Illinois Forestry Survey
Urbana
Wilmer BH. Orr
Kane County
Colonial Hospital
Geneva
Fred Newton
Ingleside
Waukegan
Vandals target monuments in Lawrenceville cemetery
A $500 reward awaits information leading to arrests after vandals overturned 16 large monuments in the Lawrenceville cemetery. Some stones weigh over a ton. motive remains unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrenceville Cemetery
Four survive 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry reunion
Bloomington veterans of the Yates Phalanx, led by Dr. Joseph Hallett, Ed Potts, James Thomas Leroy, and F. M. Patton, attend the 43rd annual reunion. George R. Becker returns to Rockford high school after a $4.89 New York trip begun as a $5 wager, traveling with tourist rides and meals earned, over two weeks.
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Thirtyninth Ilinois Volunteer Infantry
Bloomington
Yates Phalanx
Joseph Hallett
Ed Potts
Heyworth
James Thomas
Leroy
F. M. Patton
Saybrook
George R. Becker
Rockford
New York
Becker
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Cuno
Ouno
Edward Stanwood
Brookline, Mass
Fairland
Ind
Cincinnati
Chicago
Rootstown
Kentland (Ind.) Bank
McCray
Clarence W. Reed
Raritan Valley Country Club
Somerville
N. J
Irvington
Jean Valjean
American Federation of Labor
Portland
Ore
Philadelphia City Councils
Kashwitna
Alaska Railroad
Anchornage
Alaska
Oklahoma
Walton
San Tedro
Cal
H. Kels
Stockton
Edward Meservey
News Ranch
Montrose
Eagle Rock
Glendale
George le Boutillier
Ralph Peters
Mr. Peters
Long Island Railroad
Mr. le Boutillier
Detroit River
Ecorse
Mich
Woodward
Okla
North Canadian
Henry Ford
I. G. Siebold
James Couzens
Detroit, Mich
Ford Motor Company
Juan Lunag
Philippine Islands
Canada
Murat A. de Rothschild
United States
Baltimore
Ernest G. Siebold
Ford
Detroit
St. Paul
Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan
Kamelia
Supreme Justice
Rosche
Albany
N. Y
James J. Doolittle
Redwood
James Moore
Doolittle
San Antonio
Tex
Samuel Gompers
Charles Augustine Robinson
Queen Elizabeth
Wrassels
Antilles
Koenigsberg
East Prussia
Wing Nam
West River
Tengyuan
William P. F. Ferguson
Franklin
Port Arthur
Ont
Isle Royale
Lake Superior
Cossrave
Dublin
Galesburg Club
Leonard Gibbons
Frank Walker
Carterville
Justin Coleman
Richard Yates
John M. Palmer
Statehouse
Len Small
Harold
Castletown
First Congregational Church
Glenn Stewart
Davenport
Arthur C. Lueder
Carlyle
George Lacey
Taylor Springs
Pana
Naval Aviation Reserve
Millinois
Secretary of Navy
Denby
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Ninth Naval District
Alan J. Parrish
Menard Stookey
Belleville
Opal Nash
Lawrenceville
Gordon C. Curran
Department of Agriculture
Patia
Francis Hartwich
First Presbyterian Church
Peoria
Herman Worm
Hmits
W. E. Rosenfield
Rock Island
Division of Highways
Brundage
St. Louis
Middle West
Clinois Department of Health
St. Mary’s Parochial School
Streator
Monsignor
O’kelly
Canaries
ST. Louis Seed Co
Beworlds Baking Powder
Foleys
Seoon
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