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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1927
Page
6
Illinois department of labor data show a 0.2 percent rise in employment in September over August driven by gains in building and milling. Coal mining also up 70.3 percent before a miners strike settlement, with seven of fourteen leading industrial centers posting factory job gains.
A Cochran died at his home in Decatur at age ninety. He was one of Macon county's oldest residents and a Civil War veteran. At the end of the war he served as flag sergeant at the state house.
At the Illinois Chamber of Commerce closing sessions in Chicago John H. Camlin of Rockford was re-elected president. The waterways committee focused on the Mississippi valley flood problem with remarks from Senator Charles S. Deneen Col A E Schulz US district engineer Chicago member of the Mississippi river commission Congressman Frank R Reid flood control chairman and Chicago Mayor Thompson.
The plan asks state approval for four road improvements using gas tax funds and Beardstown road refunds. Projects include paving Buffalo to Mechanicsburg and Bates to Loami, both 16 feet wide, Sangamon Avenue Peoria to Decatur 18 feet wide, plus a new reinforced concrete bridge over the south fork Sangamon River north of New City on the Rochester road. Allocations total $90,500 for Beardstown refund, $90,000 for the two 16 foot segments, $90,000 for Sangamon Avenue, with $24,000 Beardstown refund and $40,000 gas tax for the bridge.
The 1920 defense act gains traction as Illinois reserve officers at the annual Chicago convention push a statewide replacement or understudy program. Each officer will sponsor a CMT or ROTC student to advance military education, aiming to train 240,000 officers in wartime and strengthen citizenship duties.
Summary of bills signed into law or enacted without signature. House 553 shifts warehousing enforcement to the Illinois commerce commission, limits conflicts of interest for class A grain warehouses, and covers flexible unit plan operators. House 469 requires four year high school completion for embalmer certificates or apprentices after 1929. House 419 creates mutual benefit associations on an assessment plan, governing structure, benefits, and regulatory oversight by the department of trade and commerce.
In Houston Texas Senator Caraway and allies pressed the American Bankers Association to back the McNary Haugen farm relief bill. Bankers denied blocking the measure citing a prearranged program. The convention discussed overbanking and urged consolidation to curb failures while naming Philadelphia as the 1928 meeting site.
Wisconsin dairy men shipped 73 680 head of cattle out of the state during the year October 1 1926 to October 1 1927. A O Collentine of the Wisconsin College of Agriculture notes this is 2 192 more cattle than the prior year.
The Twenty third Annual Convention of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress will convene in Washington D C on December seven and eight. The official call has been issued for the event.
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