Not a Love Match by Vera Straight
Esther is to marry state senator and millionaire Francis Pryce, but her former lover Harry Goddard returns on the eve of the wedding with five hundred dollars to influence her choice. Pryce reveals he bribed him to stay away, testing Esther’s true feelings, and Esther ultimately chooses Pryce who confesses he staged the test to reveal her true loyalty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vera Straight
Bether Norris
Esther
Francis Pryce
Harry Goddard
Bagen
Ilouly
Harry
Pryce
Goddard
Senator Pryce
W. G. Chapman
Word of Remarkable Origin Quiz Word Story From Dublin
The origin of the word quiz is linked to Daly in Dublin who bet that by next day every man would use a meaningless word. Chalk marks on doors spread the term as people asked about its meaning. It became a synonym for a jest and a puzzle, and to quiz means to ask questions or to jest.
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Dublin
Daly
Right In Style
A ballad line depicts Maulstick facing a drink issue while a Cubiate arrives just in time to save him. The fragment suggests a dramatic turn from internal struggle to external intervention in an artistic setting.
Four Hazers Expelled From University of Illinois
Illinois brief reports four University of Illinois sophomores were expelled for hazing freshmen in the Boneyard Creek. Named as F. E. Bloom, W. F. Nance, E. N. Simison, and L. A. Williford, with Williford allowed possible return after one year. Other items note Universalists pick Los Angeles for 1915 convention, a mysterious death in Princeville, and various regional incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Illinois
Champaign
Boneyard Creek
University of Ilinois
F. E. Bloom
Peoria
W. F. Nance
Urbana
E. N. Simison
Austin
L. A. Williford
Nokomis
Williford
Chicago
National Convention of Universalists
Los Angeles
Illinois Happenings in Brief
Decatur was told by the Macon county grand jury that Thomas Burke is released for lack of evidence in the Wil iam Allen murder case. Elgin voters approved bonds for a municipal power plant and lighting system with 1 064 women voting in the first suffrage ballot. Pana miners will travel by two daily Big Four trains from Pana to Nokomis to reach the Nokomis mines. Springfield will receive twenty five Joliet convicts to work on a road project, per Governor Dunne. Centralia hosts the Marion County Teachers association meeting October 31 and November 1 with officials from Eastern Illinois Normal school and state education staff attending. Decatur saw a double wedding as Alta and Avice Shuey married G A Kramer and J W Hammond, officiated by their father Rev. Shuey. John Trainer’s funeral plans were announced with support from statewide teachers. Joliet heard John Connors seek release after labor board hearing. Connors had cut an ear from a nonunion seaman. Centralia ended a seven day Evangelical Lutheran Synod session focusing on education and district schools. Joliet reported a man killed himself by train after failed attempts, and Peoria men fought an eagle with a revolver after a hand to hand struggle near the Illinois river. Duquoin notes Baptist minister Rev W H Gardner seeks his mother once kidnaped in Kentucky. Mount Carmel reports Andy Stearn’s arrest for concealing matches in wheat shocks tied to a fire, with requisition for return from North Dakota planned.
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Decatur
Thomas Burke
Wiliam Allen
Macon County Grand Jury
Burke
Allen
Elgin
Pana
Nokomis
Peabody
Big Four Railroad
Springfield
Joliet State Penitentiary
State Biological Laboratory
Dunne
BH. M. Allen
Centralia
Marion County Teachers’ Association
Lord
Eastern Illinois Normal School of
Charleston
F. G._ Blair
J. F. Hickman
Salem
Alta
Avice Shuey
H. Shuey
United Brethren
Illinois
G. A. Kramer
J. W. Hammond
Wooster
D. Decatur
John Trainer
Trainer
Central Illinois
Mena
Ark
Joliet
John Fitzpatrick
Chicago Federation of Labor
Chicago
State Board of Pardons
John Connors
William House
Peoria
William Silver
Charles Lowell
Illinois River
Duquoin
W. H. Gardner
Oklahoma City
Okla
Kentucky
Gardner
Iuskey
Mount Carmel
Andy Stearn
Wilson Says U S Will Not Seek New Territory in Latin America
President Wilson addressed the Southern Commercial congress in Mobile Alabama pledging morality over expediency in hemispheric policy. He denounced foreign concessions in Latin America and urged equality and honor in dealings, calling America a symbol of liberty and vowing no conquest in this continent.
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Mobile
Ala
Wilbon
U.S
Southern Commercial Congress
Wilson
Mexico
Huerta
Panama
Latin-America
United States
State Department
America
Kathrine Elkins Weds Billy Hitt in Early Morning Luncheon
Katherine Elkins married Washington man Billy Hitt in Hikins West Virginia after a seven year courtship. The ceremony at the Presbyterian church was performed by Rev Frederick H Barron. The couple left for the east in their private car Graceland. Elkins inherits a large fortune from her late father.
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Miss Elkins
Billy” Hitt
Frederick H. Barron
Presbyterian Church
Graceland
Attorney Gibson Is Freed After Indictment Dismissal
Goshen New York October 29 Judge Tompkins dismissed the murder indictment against lawyer B W Gibson relating to the Countess Szabo case. Gibson was freed and immediately rearrested on the charge of perjury.
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Gibson
Goshen
N. Y
B. W. Gibson
Tompkins
Szabo
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Illinois News
Albert Mansfield
Princeville
Eckert
Illinois Association of ex-Prisoners of War
A. T. Ives
Bloomington
J. A. Cochran
B. H. Baldwin
Janesville
Wis
Aurora
Wheaton
Aurora, Elgin & Chicago
Warrenville
M. G. Whitney
West Chicago
Lydia Linhoff Holstlaw
Tuka
Forrest D. Holstlaw
Mount Vernon
Edward Morris
Benton Harbor
Mich
Morris
Quincy
Quincy High School
Zens Smith
State Federation of Labor
United Mine Workers of Sinois
Springfield Commercial Association
Danville
William B. Sheffer
C. & L.w. Railway
Central States
Charles
Joseph
Charles C. Craig
Fifth Judicial District
Illinois Supreme Court
Cooke
Arthur H. Shay
Leslie D. Puterbaugh
Knox
Henry
Stark
Marshall
Putnam
Bureau
la Salle
Grundy
Woodford
Freeport
Shoemaker Incubator Works
Peerless Machine Works
Wilson Arraighs
Hemisphere
Katherine Elkins
Duke of
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