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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1923
Page
7
Reliable Bus Line proposes service from Peoria to Princeton via Kewanee after completing road work. The company seeks Illinois Commerce Commission approval for a new route with modern buses between Kewanee Toulon Wyoming Princeville Dunlap and Bacoria.
Louise DeDecker a 16 year old Sheffield girl left with married man Joe Kildow 33 of the drayage business after being seen together early Wednesday. Kildow and DeDecker departed Sheffield for unknown points and Sheriff searches continue as Mrs Kildow seeks her husband’s return.
Roosevelt praised Yellowstone as a world unique marvels including geysers hot springs lakes mountains canyons and waterfalls. The Burlington tour through Gardiner Cody country features a ninety mile motor trip and stops at Colorado glaciers Estes Park Royal Gorge and more with round trip tickets to Yellowstone and optional side trips across the West.
In Shenandoah Iowa a bride’s determined campaign backed by a former state senator led to an unconditional pardon for Clifford Solon twenty four who had a ten year sentence tied to a parole breach. The bride quit her Omaha bank job and convinced authorities and locals to reexamine his record. The governor granted the pardon and Solon’s former employer offered him his job back. The source notes the mysterious tip that sparked the inquiry remains unidentified.
J R Sapps aged 70 and Mary Smith aged 69, both blind, wed in Columbia after a courtship of nearly fifty years. They had met as students at a St Louis blind school and had exchanged letters for 64 years. Miss Smith traveled from Coffee to Columbia for the ceremony and agreed to marry after regular correspondence since leaving school.
After 89 years of wandering John Oberg shows up in Salem Oregon. He writes to the James town New York postmaster, learning that his parents are dead and his siblings scattered.
St Louis officer W Harris, newly appointed, collapsed and died after pursuing a thief for about half a mile during his first arrest. He collapsed at the scene and died soon after.
Scranton Pennsylvania reports Dayton Ellis principal collapses dead in front of about 800 pupils as he was about to lead the morning exercises. Doctors say heart disease caused the sudden collapse.
In Hardport the self styled oracle Jotham Peabody disdains rivals and profits by usury while plotting to trap Solon Amazeen with a fake courtship. Solon survives by marrying a well off woman, prompting Peabody’s stunned exit as the crowd laughs at the schemer.
A compact quotation urging swift love and kindness to others on life’s journey. Emphasizes short time and the duty to cheer those we travel with. A reflective moral reminder in period tone.
Despite 19th century NY Court of Appeals rulings against the Anneke Jans heirs, descendants still press their case to the Trinity Church tract in New York City. The disputes centered on conveyance irregularities and contrary title claims, with defenses based on adverse possession and statute of limitations. Streets laid out by Trinity Church bore names of Vesey Barclay Murray Warren Chambers.
The article traces the gaucho as a full blooded Indian in Uruguay and as a broader term in Argentina for halfbreeds and creoles. It notes the gaucho’s romantic cowboy life, his clash with Indians, its peacetime turbulence, and his evolution into a civilized figure central to early Argentine rural society.
The crescent, now the Turkish national emblem, originated as a Christian symbol used by early Constantinople to signify Christianity's growth. After Constantinople fell in 1453 Turks adopted the crescent as a national emblem despite the Koran forbidding religious imagery. The exact reason for this adoption remains unclear.
A Montana fire marshal lists superstitions about bad luck and danger. Crack in a chimney signals moving. dreaming of smoke means wake up. wallpapering a flue-hole predicts loss. shadow from an oil lamp foresees a crowd at home. wind moaning warns against burning trash. smelling gas and seeking it with a light predicts a long journey. burning on Friday the 18th is said to be extremely unlucky even with insurance.
The Rockefeller Foundation, endowed by John D. Rockefeller with over 100 million dollars, received its charter from New York in 1913. Its mission aims to promote well being, advance civilization, acquire and share knowledge, prevent suffering, and foster human progress worldwide.
A brisk promoter recalls being ordered from a western town by a notorious gunman twenty years ago. He says he stayed alive by buying the man drinks and selling him the suit, reflecting on daring experiences.
Three masked men robbed the C B and Q passenger station at Kewanee last Friday. They forced night agent Ray Benedict to open the office, bound him, and locked him in a box car. The thieves escaped in a black car with about 5100 in cash and clerk’s funds, then headed toward Peoria.
A critical portrait of Mr Average Citizen as a queer fellow who complains about biased law enforcement yet chooses political figures shaped by bosses. The piece mocks his lack of initiative to understand political systems and his tendency to elect shiftless, unscrupulous candidates.
Michael Kwiatek a 15 year old from Roetwell was detained by La Salle authorities after allegedly stealing a bicycle and a Ford speedster for joy riding. A commission of physicians in La Salle County court found him feeble minded and Judge B Harry Beck committed him to the State Institution for feeble minded persons at Lincoln.
Ford officials visited Ottawa last week to survey potential factory sites here. Accompanied by Charles P. Brevoort, Ottawa silica sand pioneer, the visitors did not reveal names or factory type but hints suggested a glass or steel molding plant as possibilities.
Chief Deputy Edward Ryan and Deputy Rasmus Bensen halted a poker game at the Clifton bar in Ottawa where 10 players were seated. No arrests were made, but proprietor Frank Anderson faces gambling house charges. A money machine and a dice wheel were seized as evidence. The game occurred in a room behind the bar with a curtain drawn.
James J Hurley named executor of Mary S Jones deceased of Bureau County Illinois gives notice to creditors and claimants to appear at Bureau County Court House Princeton for September term to have claims adjusted. Creditors must present claims and debtors should make payments promptly. Dated June 25 1923.
Advertisement notes cold prone people are run down and offers Hall's Catarrh Medicine a local ointment and a blood-acting tonic. It claims to build up the system and reduce susceptibility to colds. Sold by druggists for over 40 years by J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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