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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1923
Page
3
Official health department data show higher school absences due to illness among children with defects by 22 percent. 1922 marks a peak year for bootlegging traffic and prescription writing in Illinois with 194 alcoholism fatalities, up from 158 and 47 in the prior two years.
State health officials warn that unsafe cross connections between water supplies have caused epidemics in Illinois. Prohibition commissioner Roy Haynes cites 2,168,785 whiskey prescriptions filled last year, costing about 10.84 million dollars. Diabetes deaths totaled 1,367, and insulin treatment could reduce mortality in 1924.
Officers respond to a report near the C. B. & Q. tracks in Princeton to find Theo Johnson, about 45, a Princeton laborer, lying in a ditch four feet deep. He was soaked from rain and near an alcohol bottle. He was taken to City Hall and then to a hospital after Dr. Nix examined him.
The article recalls festive customs in rural areas during Christmas and New Year. It describes winter work pauses, preparations of straw and grain, brewing of ale, baking of cakes and bannocks, and stored fish. An omen tradition tied wort bubbling and cake outcomes to fortunes for the year ahead.
Dickens reflects that Christmas encourages open and forgiving hearts. He asserts the season brings personal good, though not wealth, and wishes blessings on the time itself.
Three poor girls walk home from school and discuss presents at Christmas. Tilly stays cheerfully hopeful despite their poverty, while her friends pity her lack of gifts and the harsh Christmas reality implied by Louisa May Alcott's prose.
Resolutions adopted by the Association of Drainage and Levee Districts of Illinois at Beards town declare the Illinois river valley farmers oppose any further diversion of Lake Michigan waters into the Illinois river by the Chicago Sanitary District until full compensation is provided for past damages and future losses. About 150 members from the valley attended. Edward Boyle of Greene county condemned Chicago sewage impacts. Representatives urged payment of damage claims and warned against ongoing refusals amid nationwide waterway debates.
A lighthearted exchange notes Christmas comes but once a year while joking that monthly mail would hinder business letters. The witty dialogue highlights seasonal cheer and practical frustrations with postal timing.
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