Illinois news in brief from Chicago to Galena
Re elected head Miss Helen L Hood of Chicago presides seventh term of Illinois WCTU and Blooming ton to host next year. Five hundred men leave Camp Grant for Camp Logan Texas. Coal shipments jump to ease shortage. Beekeepers report poor honey stores and late winter. Fire destroys a wholesale beerhouse near Morrison. Two youths run away from home and hide in St Charles. Snowfall coats Chicago and suburbs. Legal rulings and accidents thread a busy day across the state.
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Helen L. Hood
Chicago
Ilinois Woman's Christian Temperance Union
M. G. Owen
Springfield
Central Illinois Womeopathic Asociation
Bloomington
Camp Grant
Camp Logan
Houseton
Tex
Clark Griffith Baseball Fund
Hoyne
William D. Sallee
Galesburg
Lincoln
South Coal Mine
Wisconsin
Beekeepers
Morrison
Kenton Letts
George L. Letts
Warren Public
Freeport
Louis Strahammer
State School For
St. Charles
Edward Popkess
St. Louis
East St. Louis
National
Theodore R. Gerlach
Joliet
Angelo Chignoli
Gerlach
State Supreme Court
Edgar County
Edward Hamill
Dixon
T. P. Long
Hquor
Mississippi
Galena
Walter C. Hayes
Belvidere
K. of P
Peoria
Rock Island
Blue Island
John Fay
A. C. McClurg & Co
John M. Glenn
Hlinois Manufacturers’ Association
E. L. Chapin
Tlingis State Baptist Convention
Kewanee
Francis Lowden
Nellie Saunders
Galva
Pythian Sisters
War museum tale shows German greed and cultural claim
A German magazine report portrays a Peronne to St Quentin art collection packed under fire and moved to Maubeuge for a new museum. It claims the display serves German soldiers and French viewers, praising culture amid destruction while condemning barbarity.
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Peronne
Bapaume
Lens
St. Quentin
France
Germany
Indianapolis Star
Copper-Toed Boots Inspire Old Footwear Memory
A Toronto Star writer notes copper-toed boots born from Newman Silverthorne who ideated while trekking in the wild. Bootmakers resisted a cheap, durable shoe, yet he built a market through advertising. His patent lasted six years before manufacturers shelved it, and he now enjoys old age under his daughter’s care.
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Toronto Star
Newman Silverthorne
Silverthorne
Meteors From the Moon Theory Revisited
French astronomer Emile Belot argues meteors may originate from volcanic eruptions on the Moon and other satellites. He proposes initial projection speeds comparable to Cotopaxi eruptions and twice wartime artillery could send material beyond the Moon to become lunar, Earth, or solar satellites.
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Emile Belot
Cotopaxi
Earth
Italian candle making elevated to an art form
Italian craftsmen create votive tapers from pure bees wax kneaded and tempered with a secret additive to slow burning. Egyptian cotton wicks are chemically treated to control feeding, with small candles molded and large ones rolled from wax sheets.
Never Talks Business at Home Golf Joke
A humorous exchange reveals wives noting husbands keep business at the office and a wish for men to likewise leave their golf at the links, turning on a light domestic gag about balancing work and leisure.
Noted Duty of Civility Attributed to Charles Barton
A quotation attributed to Charles Barton states that true duty includes being pleasant. The remark underscores manners as a core obligation alongside competence and responsibility.
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Charles Barton
Senator Chamberlain Advocates Measured Restraint in Food Bill
In Washington Senator Chamberlain defends the food control bill comparing critics to filmgoers overreacting. He says he favors restraint and cites a humorous boyish analogy about crying at a movie to illustrate controlled emotion.
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Senator Chamberlain
Washington
Bill
War Declared on Rats by U S Gov t Exterminator Ad
Washington launches a campaign to kill rats seen as a major threat to lives and property. It cites food losses of over two hundred million dollars annually and promotes Stearns Paste as the recommended remedy at thirty five cents per box.
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Washington
Women Run Banks as War Shifts Labor Force
The article notes no current women officers at New York banks and few in New Jersey, yet during wartime women rapidly fill roles. It cites 20,000 women hired in Wall Street since the U.S. entry into the war, with Mechanics and Metals bank praising accuracy and cost savings from female staff.
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New York City
New Jersey
Canada
Wall Street
United States
New York Evening Post
Mechanics and Metals Bank
Why stuffing is not taxidermy for cooks
The question notes that cooks who stuff birds use culinary stuffing rather than preserving skins. Taxidermy preserves an animal’s form via skin mounting, hair, and mounting techniques, not culinary preparation.
Learn Every Day Prompts Steady Lifelong Education
A short aphorism emphasizes daily learning as a path to wisdom. It frames life as an ongoing education and cautions against dullness that forsakes growth and better methods.
Florida land belt opened for settlers on easy terms
Suwannee River land belt now open to settlers offering fertile land for farming stock raising dairying fruits and vegetables pecans and more. readers are invited to write J B Clark Land Commissioner Live Oak Perry Gulf Railroad Co Box 1 Live Oak Florida for particulars.
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Suwannee River
J. B. Clark
Live Oak
Perry & Gulf Railroad Co
Pmlorida
Ady
Gompers Opposes Plan On Women in War Work
President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor opposes using women in war work, signaling a stance against gender roles in wartime labor.
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Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Now Rides In an Auto
Mrs. Russell Sage, aged over eighty eight, has only recently consented to ride in an automobile.
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Russell Sage
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