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Illinois News Brevities Briefs Highlight Local Events
This compilation reports various Illinois items including a jail death in Chicago, parcel post chick losses, elections in anti horse thief groups, a homecoming for Horace Eller, dance bans and schooling health exams, quail and rabbit surpluses, and university health mandates among many short notes on local politics, industry, and community happenings across towns like Peoria, Springfield, and Rockford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ole
Janet Wilkinson
Chicago
Peoria
Abbot Laugh
Griggsville
Travis Division
Anti-Horse Thief Association
Jacksonville
Horace
Eller
Danville
Cincinnati Mets
Springfield High School
University of Illinois At Urbana
Wabash
Lowden
Grant and
McClellan
General Logan
McArthur
Smith
Vicksburg Miss. National Military Park
John Alves
Mary A. Smith
Springfield
Williamson County
Robert I. Bopes
New York City
Bopes
Export Coal Company
Charleston
Box Gar Jane
Elizabeth Tucker
Southern Illinois Fox Hunters’ Association
Ava
W. T. Milner
Eldorado
Charles Green
Equality
W. R.turner
Marion
W. R. Burkhart
Dixon Springs
Illinois
Centralia
Southern Illinois
Rockford
Northern Illinois
William W. Pearce
Waukegan
Mary Long
Tiarmon
John Watt
Thompson
Miners’ Convention
Virden
Lincoln
Samuel A. Ettelson
Garrity