Mail Driver Confesses to Frame-Up in Kewanee Pouch Robbery
Joe Jackson a 30 year old mail truck driver confessed after an all night grilling that the robbery of a payroll pouch at Kewanee was a frame up naming Phil Robinson of Casper Wyoming as the accomplice who escaped. Robinson allegedly discussed stealing registered mail from the CB&Q train but reportedly refused before Thursday’s incident. Authorities will check Chicago records to determine the pouch value. Jackson’s personal situation includes a divorced wife and a child in Casper and an imminent marriage prior to the robbery.
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Joe Jackson
Kewanee
Phil Robinson
Casper
Wyo
Jackson
W. C. Baumgartner
Chicago
Robinson
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Wyoming
Colorado
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Wheel tax wins at La Salle in special referendum
La Salle approves a wheel tax ordinance by 58 votes in a 2229 ballot special election. The levy, backed by Mayor Coleman and most city officials, aims to bolster lagging city finances after a months long dispute and petition-driven push for a referendum.
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la Salle
Commission
Levy
Coleman
Bureau County Fair Exhibits and Scholarships Update
The Bureau County Fair lists Independent Exhibits in the Educational Department with categories from watercolor to furniture and sewing. Winners of Normal School Scholarships from townships are named with districts and pupils, including Helen Englehardt and Lee Feldges, among others.
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Bureau County Fair
Clarion Helen Englehardt
LaMoille Lee Feldges
Ohio
Milne Boyd
Walnut Tevin
White
Greenville
Inez Wilson
Edith Smith
Manlius Francis Dabler
Bureau
Leslie Becker
Dover
Helen Steele
Ae Berlin
Inez Gustafson
Westfield Angelo Giacomi
Hall Frances van Tress
Selby Alice Smith
Princeton
Ruth Bohman
Wyanet
Norma Davis
Concord Chemia
Christoe
Mineral
Kenneth Moore
Neponset
Elinor Russell
Macon
Kathryn Carper
Indiantown
Ernc Schrader
Aristie Helen Walton
Leepertown
Helen West
Wheatland
Lawrence Wooden
Milo John Kaufman
New Parcel Post Ruling Requires Return Postage Guaranty
The post office announces a new parcel post rule effective August 1 requiring insured and collect on delivery parcels to bear a return postage guaranty. The label must read Postmaster Return and Forwarding postage guaranteed, marked on the address side. If undeliverable, the sender is not notified and postage is collected. parcels may be held 80 days unless the sender requests return.
Reopen Six Mines in Southern Illinois
Six large mines in the southern Illinois coal field were ordered to resume work, bringing 5000 to 6000 miners in Williamson and Franklin counties back within a week. Illinois miners officials denied William Mc Crystall’s claim of a planned sympathy walkout with the anthracite strikers in September.
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Illinois
Williamson
Franklin Counties
Illinois Mine Workers
William Mc Crystall
Mc Crystall
Chicago Federation
Illinois Miners
Frank Farrington
Indianapolis
Harry Fishwick
Springfield
Facts About the Making of the Ten Commandments
The outdoor set at Rameses stands 109 feet high and 750 feet long. Production tallies show 15 tons clay and 300 tons plaster used, 550000 feet of lumber, 25000 pounds nails, 75 miles cable and wire, while Sphinxes weigh about four tons each and Pharaoh’s stone colossus rises 35 feet. Camp Cecil B De Mille accommodates a 36000 gallon daily water system, 1000 kilowatts daily, two dining halls seating 1000, 2500 cots, 5 meat animals and 3.5 tons other food, 47 miles of sidewalks, 850 cooks and assistants, 125 police and soldiers, and 250 mechanics, with 16 miles of cloth for 3000 costumes and leather harness for 250 chariots. A large animal and grain operation includes 900 horses, 200 burros, 50 camels, 1000 cattle, 500 sheep and goats, 300 fowl, 10 tons hay daily, plus 200 pounds safety pins and tonnage of cosmetics and greases.
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Rameses
Colossa
Camp
Cecil B. de Mille
Conscience Licks Them The Man Who Is Conscious of Crime
A pithy quotation from Menander notes that awareness of crime breeds cowardice, reflecting on moral self-awareness and bravery.
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Menander
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Joseph Jackson
Red Crown
Coveny Keegan Garage
Fehr & Son Swanson & Balestri
Vogel & Zicker
de Pue Bryant Hdw. Co
de Pus Ranch
Elec. Co
de Pue M. Barto
Seatonville
Standard Oil
Standard Oil Company
Spring, Valley Fl
Diana
Bureau County School Notes
Walter P. Chrysler
Chrysler
Phaeton
Ster
Watson
Chrysler-Lockheed
Spartan
Duco
Ask
Aboi Superior Chrysler Service
DE Filipp
Leimback
Chryswhere
Dakota Street
Spring Valley, Ill
Princeton, Illinois
Hodgins
St. Onge
Zeleas Sisters
Adair
Ada
Duffield
J. H. Beckep
John S. Skinner
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