A D C Rolls Increase Sixteenth Straight Month
Dependent children aid in Illinois rose to 91,680 in November from 90,987 in October. Total assistance reached 2,547,920 dollars, averaging 27.79 per person, with 66,156 children in 26,052 families aided. Southern Illinois counties totaled 10,811 recipients with 262,39 dollars in November, led by Saline and Williamson, while the federal share was 885,083 dollars (34.7 percent) and state funds funded 1,662,837 dollars (65.3 percent).
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Illinois
Alexander
Franklin
Gallatin
Hamilton
Hardin
Jackson
Johnson
Massac
Perry
Pope
Pulaski
Randolph
Saline
Union
White
Williamson
Legion to Collect Toys For Europe Tide of Toys Plan
Illinois will join The American Legion coast to coast campaign to send a Tide of Toys to European children. Merle E. Schaad urged 1138 Legion posts to back the national plan led by National Commander George N. Craig. Posts will collect new extra toys after Christmas and wind up the drive by New Year’s Day. Gifts to CARE will be distributed from Pier 38 Philadelphia prepaid.
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Legion
Europe
Bloomington
Illinois
American Legion
Merle E. Schaad
Princeville
Illinois Legion
George N. Craig
Schaad
CARE
Pier 38
Philadelphia
Southeast District Elks Set Mid Winter Meeting in Olney
Victor L. Smith of Robinson announced the Southeast district Elks mid winter convention will be in Olney January 14 and 15 with delegates from 13 lodges. Robinson later was chosen to host the district convention in April.
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Victor L. Smith
Robinson
Illinois Elks Association
Elks
Olney
Smith
Historic Papers His Hobby Roger Kimmel in Murphysboro
Roger Q. Kimmel, a Murphysboro real estate and insurance agent, has built one of Southern Illinois' largest private historical document collections. His 25+ year pursuit started with Brownsville links and now includes over 500 items from land deeds to old newspapers, letters, and relics.
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Roger Kimmel
Murphysboro
Brownsville
Illinois
Roger Q. Kimmel
Kimmel
Jackson County
Suzanna Kimmel
Conrad Will
Wills
Springfield
Calhoun
Webster
Frank Leslie
Illustrated Weekly
Leslie
Jonathan
Benjamin Day, Sr
New Orleans
University of Maryland
England
Queen Bess
Charles I
Strasburg
County
Lancaster
Pike’s Peak
Kansas Territory
Kansas City
Alco Concern In Receivership Amid Writs of Attachment
Four Alco Lead workers who filed writs against Elizabethtown firm learned a receiver has been appointed at the request of Evansville Ingle Coal Co which claims $1244 owed for materials and holds a $40000 mortgage The receiver Oscar Rice was named by Judge Charles Randolph and will hear further claims while an attorney for Rice says he will contest the receivership with existing claims around 15000.
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Alco Lead Corporation
Elizabethtown
Ingle Coal Company
Evansville
Ind
Ingle Company
Alco Company
Kenneth Ingle
Alco
Justice of the Peace
W. T. Henry
Coal Company
Oscar Rice
Rice
Charles Randolph
Clarence Soward
Jane Barkley Takes Washington Society Spotlight
Washington society continues its pageant around Vice President Barkley’s wife Jane as she arranges her social debut in the capital. Her New York gala and Gridiron weekend draw a who’s who from Democratic circles while reminders of the Truman White House’s social shift unfold.
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Alben William Barkley
Jane
Washington
New York
Pledge of reform marred by partisan jabs and Mt Waialeale rain
The text cites a sharp partisan barb about Democrats and Republicans and notes Mt Waialeale on Hawaii receiving about 42 feet of rain in an average year. The remarks illustrate political rhetoric alongside a geographic fact about heavy rainfall on the summit.
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Mt. Waialeale
Hawaiian Islands
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A. D.C
Soa
Earth
John Quincy Adams
Denver, Colo
Library of Congress
Trated Weekly
Leslie’s
Slick
N. Park
Herrin
Alco Concern
Wurlitzer
Ava
Jane Barkley
Washington, D. C
Ingle
Trumans
White House
Truman
Brannan
McGrath
Chapman
Acheson
Tobin
Trujan
Susie Hook
Covary
Marion
Costello’s
Mendota Creamery
Mendota Ill
NEW Era Dairy
Carbondale
Cnmnaan W. Milligan and Son
NEW Era Dairy, Inc
Bigelow
Beauvais
Helleny
North 14Th Street
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