List of wartime volunteers with many hometowns and roles
A long roster of names from towns like Princeton Bureau Neponset Walnut Moline Buda Sheffield and more appears, listing many individuals with affiliations to missions in Kansas Missouri Ohio Kentucky and beyond. The document notes meat rationing lifting for thirty days and a France front paper Windy City Echo published by the 13th Engineers with a WWI poem by Ted Sullivan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ora
David Everett
Wyanet
B. M. Hickman
Hickman Mills
Owen M. Crocker
Moline
Leroy Richmond
Buda
H. VandeVoord
Mineral
George Edward Miller
Sheffield
George Wolf
Normandy
Curtis Otto Smith
Louisville
Rufus R. Fundell
Princeton
Adrian Sendeyas
John Lawrence Brown
Tiskilwa
Francis Lawler
Howard
S. D
Spiras Moratias
Ohio
Errold B. Lyon
Rock Island
Chester
Thomas Parry
Chicago
Virgil Francis Anderine
Wm. ©. Barefoot
Dalhart
Texas
Pedro Rodriguez
Samuel B. Gray
Alphonse A. DeCausemaker
Andrew C. Wise
Walnut
Elmer H. Marine
Jesse O. Sauerweine
Tampico
Gust Carlson
Neponet
Anton N. Loberg
Kansas City
Andres Garcia
Bureau
Juan Zavala
Robert H. Renwick
Ralph IE. Hotchkiss
Twan Balaces
Mexico
Amoliner Omelor
Guadalup -Garcina
Robert Morse O’hair
Horace T. Kelgwin
Peoria
Louis H. Eberhart
Plano
James Lartz
Joseph Leo Smith
Raywick
Thomas Cabrera
George J. Osborne
Carl Julius Reichle
John Edward Gridgell
Fred G. Vosberg
Elmer E. Bond
Guy H. Melvin
New Bedford
Joe Diadneck
John A. Peterson
Allan F. Chew
Mast McKeesport
Louis P. Walter
Benjamin IF. James
George Henry Taylor
Earl W. Pulver
Prosper van Meulbroeck
Louis M. Babcock
Bert Elmer Anderson
13Th Engineers
France
Windy City
U. S
Suspension of meatless day lifted for thirty days
The meatless day regulation was suspended for thirty days starting last Saturday, per an Associated Press dispatch from Washington. The move, ordered by the food administration, allows temporary lifting of one meatless day per week while meat production catches up, though other meat conservation rules remain in effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Food Administration
Daylight Saving Time Changes Clocks Nationwide
Early Sunday clocks moved ahead one hour under daylight saving law. For seven months Americans rise earlier by sun time. The extra daylight aims to boost outdoor recreation after work and encourage home gardening to aid food production. Fuel use is expected to drop as lighting needs lessen.
Red Cross sale remembered as a red letter day
The article recalls a Red Cross fundraiser that raised about $3300, including a popular duck sale at Manlius and Wyanet, with bids starting low and total proceeds around $1500 from the auction. The event featured a dinner at Dan Crane restaurant, a patriotic speech by Rev. Carpenter of Princeton, and a handkerchief donated by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson to be auctioned later at Minter barn Ohio Illinois on March 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Red Cross Society
Dan Crane
Carpenter
Princeton
Europe
United States
Manlias
Wyanet
Ohio
F. J. Burke
C. D. Tomeo
Totel
Woodrow Wilson
Local auction on Main Street yields varied sales
Articles of every description were sold from hayracks on Main Street. Horses, hogs, seed corn, potatoes, canned fruit, bird houses, wheat, barley and cot found buyers ready to pay. Powers, McCall, Hewitt and Stephens served effectively at no charge. The Red Cross Society of Ohio thanks these gentlemen for their untiring efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ametioneers
Powers, McCall, Hewitt and Stephens
Red Cross Society of Ohio
Ohio Herald
Fifth District Republican Judicial Convention Deadlocked
The Republican Judicial convention for the fifth supreme district met in Peoria to nominate a state supreme bench candidate. Delegates from Grundy La Salle Woodford and others voted on Eldredge Stone and Graves, 627 ballots without a winner, adjourned to Thursday amid ongoing deadlock and caucus tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Eldridge
LaSalle
Clyde E. Stone
Peoria
Emery C. Graves
Geneseo
Eldredge
Stone
Tena Graves
Sc Tekelee
Republican Judicial Convention
Fifth
Supreme Bench
Fred E. Sterling
Rockford
Republicans State Central Committee
M. E. Zettholm
Knox County
Judge Pritchard
Bureau County
H. Ireland
Woodford
Kldredege—Bureau
Grundy
la Salle
Total
Stone—Marshall
Putnam
Graves—Henry
Knox
Stark
Graves
Jefferson Hotel
Pepys and Matrimony in a Christmas 1665 Diary Entry
Samuel Pepys reflects on a church wedding during Christmas 1665. He observes how married people enjoy watching the young couple struggle and gradually resemble their own state, a scene he finds both curious and revealing.
Train Schedule Fragments for Westbound Ladd and DePue Routes
The notice lists westbound Morris and intermediate stations to Ladd with morning times of 6:21 8:16 10:33 and afternoon times 12:16 2:33 4:38 6:38 8:33 10:23. It covers Marquette Howe DePue Bureas Princeton with morning times 6:40 8 16 9 55 11 16 and afternoon times 1:16 3:16 3:40 6:40 7:16 9:33 11:33. Daily except Sunday to DePue. Always buy tickets and save money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D Morris
LADD
A. M
P. M
Marquette
Howe
DePue
Bureas
Princeton
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Spring Valley
Anhorst Bros. Publishers
Vance
Abed
Ted Sullivan
Uncle Sam
Natrona
Zephyr Fiour
WSS
Daily
Harry Rathbone
Republican Party
Lincoln
Wilson
Sherman
Atlanta
America
Crullei
Oda
Ation
Corn Products Refining Company
Battery Place
New York
Corn Products Refining Co
Illinois Street
Chicago, Illinois
Scenic
Colorado
West America
G. W. Jackson
Ale Bealer
Keeley Institute
Dwight
Iil
Ottawa
Peoria RY
Spring Valley Station
Peru
Utica
Starved Rock
Grand Ridge
Streaner
Marseilles
Seneca
Morris
Minooka
Rockdale
Joliet, Ill
Joliet-Streator
Intrmediate
Joliet
Chicago & Joliet
Wells Fargo Express
Circus Liniment CO
Ohio Street
Chicag
Andrew Barto
R. Pietrosky
I. J. Jagod
Forloff
Peter Wadzinski’s
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