Cairo library contains rich Americana collection and study
The Cairo Public Library, 84 years old and among Illinois’ oldest, holds extensive Americana materials including 1848 newspaper files. Researchers Lantz and Alix from Southern Illinois University examine Cairo’s 19th century mobility, noting rising professionals but stagnant masses, while a separate police report states William Prather was charged with malicious mischief after being found with a campus stop sign.
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Pete Brown
Southern Illinoisan
Cairo
Midwest
Herman Lantz
Ernest K. Alix
Southern Illinois University
Harvard University Press
Cairo Public Library
William C. Prather
Mt. Pulaski
Prather
Jackson County
Hurst approves 1968 69 tax levy and city actions
Hurst City Council adopts a 1968 69 tax levy of 28500 a $3000 cut from last year with funds trimmed by omitting bond payment levies. Breakdown includes salaries lighting maintenance and offices plus public benefits and civil defense. Actions also include audits acceptance and adoption of the official map and standards ordinance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hurst
Jack Calvert
Gray-Hunter- Stern & Co., Certified Public Accountants
Irvington Man OEO Appointee Named Technical Assistant
Irvington resident Charles H. Holloway has been named a technical assistant for the Illinois Office of Economic Opportunity in the Southern Illinois region, effective September. He replaces Bailey Williams, who becomes executive director of the Illinois Corp., overseeing eight area community action agencies. Holloway, 39, brings prior work with Kaskaskia Community Action Agency, Head Start, legal aid, and rural health programs, plus a background in ministry and business. He holds a bachelor’s from Southern Illinois University and a master's from Simmons Theological Seminary. Holloway is married with four children and plans to relocate to the Carbondale area.
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Charles H. Holloway
Irvington
Southern Illinois
State Office of Economic Opportunity
James Rea
Carbondale
Holloway
Bailey Williams
Carterville
Williams
Illinois Corp
Kaskaskia
Marissa
Southern Illinois University
Simmons Theological Seminary
Cleveland
Ohio
St Louisan fined on three charges
Willie Lee Williams a 22 year old resident of St Louis Missouri was fined ten dollars and five dollars in court costs on each of two charges illegal transportation of alcohol and driving on the wrong side of the street in Jackson County Circuit Court Monday.
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Willie Lee Williams
St. Louis
Jackson County
Pole Fire on Vicksburg and Central Streets
Fire crews responded to an electrical utility pole fire at Vicksburg and Central streets in Marion at 8:20 p m Monday. A bedroom fire at 911 S Future St Marion, caused by unknown, badly damaged Edward Carter's residence at 8 50 p m Sunday. A grass fire Sunday at Cemetery Road near Lake Murphysboro caused no damage.
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Marion
Vicksburg
Central
Edward Carter
S. Future St
Murphysboro
Cemetery Road
Lake Murphysboro
Psychologist Hargis Joins Southern Illinois Mental Health Clinic
Lloyd David Hargis accepts a psychologist position at the Southern Illinois Mental Health Clinic in Murphysboro. He will receive a master of arts degree in rehabilitation counseling from SIU Friday. Hargis earned a 1965 SIU bachelor’s degree and worked as a social worker at Menard Security Hospital before graduate school. He and his wife Shirley Frakes of Carbondale and their two children live in Southern Hills, Carbondale.
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Lloyd David Hargis
Southern Illinois Mental Health Clinic
Murphysboro
SIU
Hargis
Menard Security Hospital
Shirley Frakes
Carbondale
Southern Hills
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Lantz
Southern
Illinois
Cambria
Herbert Garner
Vickie Boyt
West Frankfort
Bruce Horsley
OEO
Methodist
Richview
St. Louisan
CIPS
E. Adams St
Springfield
RFD
City & State
Zip
Eips
Central Illinois Public Service Company
Westingho Washers
Severs Service
LER
Trbondale
Ce Tet
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!