Poet with a Treasury Watchman Uses Fame to Safeguard Funds
Byron R. Newton, assistant secretary of the treasury, is portrayed as a poet and newspaperman who guards public funds. The piece traces his career from cub reporter to war correspondent, his verse and fiddle past, and his role promoting publicity and information to ensure proper site selection and efficiency in public building projects.
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Yron R. Newton
United States Treasury
Mr. Newton
Uncle Sam
the Treasury
Newton
Washington
Treasury
Frank A. Vanderlip
Great City National Bank of New York
Robert O. Bailey
Mer
Financial Structures
Alley
Newton Allewspaper
Vanderlip
Bailey
Remenyi
Burns
Great Press Association
Havana
Santiago
Winslow
Ensign Worth Bagley
Byron R. Newton
New York
Illinois News Briefs Tightly Woven Across State
Recurring items report Rev. W J Sparks completing a 40000 campaign for a new university church. Rev G E McCammon raising funds for a Chicago Methodist church. R R McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, a Russia war observer, elected major in the Illinois National Guard. Springfield hosts 1916 synod meeting with four locals elected to roles. Danville debates saloon injunctions as 65 licenses contested. Elgin reports 250 workers displaced by St Charles plant fire. Lake County placed under closed quarantine for foot and mouth disease with broader containment.
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Chicago
R. R. McCormick
The
Chicago Tribune
Russia
First Cavalry
Illinois National Guard
Fort Sheridan
Fen Sheridan
National Guard
Springfield
C. F P. Diesing
A. C. Maurer
Trinity School
Edward C. Beck
Concordia Seminary
Brand
Trinity Church
Danville
de Selm
Kankakee
State Livestock Commission
Lake County
Illinois city notes and accidents across the state
Reports from Oneida to Decatur recount a mass of local incidents. Auto day set for September 15 in Oneida. deaths and senates include Mount Carmel weather observer Phil lips. Cleo Meechem killed in Galesburg. jailbreaks near Joliet. various fatal and injurious accidents across Danville Sterling Dixon Rochelle Mount Vernon Hoopeston Bloomington Springfield Duquoin Decatur. Multiple retirements, marriages, and honors noted. Demolitions and demonstrations at Bloomington. Governor Dunne commutes three Chicago murderers.
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Oneida
Mount Carmel
L. T. Phillips
Galesburg
Cleo Meechem
Greenbuch
Dog
Chicago
Joliet
Frank Miller
Otto Riedle
James Morison
Anna
William West
George W. Norris
Mount Sterling
Ellen Phillips
John Jones
Jones
Benville
Chicago & Eastern
Ilinois
Peter Brim
Altice Halk
Here
Vesailles
Duquoin
Marion
Henry Webb
Clara Popham
R. L. Hopkins
Sterling
Rochelle
Harold P. Valentine
Burlington
Aurora
Mount Vernon
Jefferson County
Teachers’ Institute
W. H. Hostler
Olney
Davis
Houston
Tex
William Miner
Lewis Ovilvie
Vandala
Florence Lyon
Charles P. Lee
Hoopeston
Bogart of
Springfield
Dunne
Decatur
W. J. Chenoweth
J. Edward Bering
Bering
Chenoweth
Doctor Chenoweth
Wilson Af. Bering
ASSERT LIGHT IS WASTED IN LONDON ILLUMINATION
The article argues that after London dimmed lights for safety, wasted illumination extends beyond the city. It notes shop windows fail to concentrate light on wares, wasting energy and harming passersby. It calls for engineers to focus on consumer benefit and better street lighting distribution.
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London
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Edward 8. Clark
Byroy PR. Newltonv
Illinois
W. J. Sparks
Illinois Baptist. Convention
Elgin
Moline
St. Charles
St Charles
Geneva
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