Murphysboro Takes Action Against Eyesore Properties
Murphysboro fights dilapidated buildings after 1957 tornado damage. City officials led by Claud Hiser and with Fire Chief Chester Steele move to clear nuisance properties via court orders affecting nine parcels and ten more under review. Owners unpaid taxes or untraceable prompt city action to abate blight.
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Murphysboro
Jackson County
Claud Hiser
Chester Steele
Roy McGee
Jackson County Health Department
McGee
Hiser
Steele
Richard White
White
Percival Percy Welcomes New Doctor Vidal in Rural Welcome
Dr David Vidal 33 arrives in Percy after 10 PM Tuesday with furniture to start practice. He tends a 66 year old Willisville woman at 1 AM and treats five patients by noon next day as the town marks five years without a local physician. Vidal, born in Peru, trained at St Marcos Lima, interned at St Francis Wichita, and worked in St Louis before moving to Percy under community effort by the Percy Area Betterment Association.
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Undsan
Percy
David Vidal
Vidal
Cuzco
Peru
St. Marcos University Medical School
Lima
United States
U. S. Air Force
David Thomas
Philadelphia
Ois
St. Louis
Bethesda Hospital
Ilinois
U.S
Christine
Tindal
Adugaver
Faandia
South America
Virginia Vuletich
Tnivercity
Randolph Conn
Perc
C. M. Barr
Percy Area Betterment Association
Edmund Willis
Sears Foundation
Barr
Donald Howard
Everett Rickenberg
Roy Hickerson
Francis Waters
Association
Howard
Southwestern Illinois Coal Corp
Peoria
Spartan Printing Co
Sparta
Menard Penitentiary
State Security Hospital
Chester
Chester Memorial Hospital
Sparta Community Hospital
Logan at Vicksburg A Civil War hero profile
A historical account tracks Benjamin Logan's Civil War service from Congress to leading the 31st Illinois Infantry. It recounts his role in the Vicksburg campaign under Grant, the siege’s grinding 47 days, and his later duties as military governor before rising to prominence as a Republican senator and supporter of the Grand Army of the Republic. It also notes his early career, battles at Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, and Bull Run, highlighting his reputation as a persuasive Union advocate.
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Neno
Gulf
Logan
Vicksburg
Miss
31Stlinois
Ulysses S. Grant
Bruce Catton
Marilou Stuebeed
Southern Illinois
Lincoln
John A. Lo
South
Gan
Illinois
Mississippi River
Northwest
Ilinois
Galena
Ulysses
Grant
Mississippi
Tennessee
Ft. Henry
Ft. Donelson
Acy
Adm
David Porter
Port Gibson
J. E. Johnston
Jackson
Pemberton
Champion's Hill
17Th Corps
James B. McPherson
Black Bear River
Michael Lawler
Gallatin County
Murphysboro
Egypt
Congress
Stephen A. Douglas
Gettysburg
Army of Tennessee
William Sherman
Grand Army of the Republic
Irin
Bheing
William Clarida
Grover Cleveland
James G. Blaine
St. Mary's School
Herrin
Arete
Clarida
SIU Cellist Arthur Hawkins to Perform Evening Recital
Arthur Hawkins, SIU music faculty cellist, schedules an 8 pm recital Monday in Shryock Auditorium Carbondale campus. He will perform Haydn, Beethoven, Faure and one original composition for the free public event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Hawkins
Southern Illinois University Music Faculty
Shryock Auditorum
Carbondale
Haydn
Beethoven
Faure
Area Soldier's Report From Vicksburg Letters
Southern Illinois soldier John P. Mann writes from Vicksburg that the Rebs cannot move Union troops. In June 1863 he notes Grant’s pressure, encampment near Haynes Bluff, and deserters starving in the city. He reassures his wife Nancy about bodies, describes plantations leased to white landlords and freed slaves, and recounts the surrender and troop movements after the fall.
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Vicksburg
John P. Mann
Mildred Midlans
First Presbyterian Church of
Carbondale
Mann
Nancy
Grant
Southland
Talien
Mississippi
Hayne's Bluffs
Joe Johnson
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Tony Stevens
C. E. Wright
Kansas
Jungle
S St. Francis Hospital
Wichita
Joe Caldwell
Dr. Vidal
First Baptist Church
Pleasant
St. Laur
Ferris
Bandhii
Memphis
Tenn
Lena
John Pemberton
Raymond
Champion’s Hill
Johnston
Siu
Rebs
Liberty
Rockwood
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