Local Board Receives Calls for Special Service Men
The 1918 registrants examined at Spring Valley City Hall totaled 108 with 78 accepted, 20 rejected, 6 deferred, 3 transferred, and 1 failed to appear. A July 1918 Adjutant General telegram warns Illinois must furnish 20 blacksmiths, 75 graders, 28 assistant millwrights and volunteers may join until July 23.
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Theity Hall
Spring Valley
Adjutant General’s Office
Springfield
Ill
Illinois
Dickson
Adj
Giants Defeat Ohio In Streaking Season Victory
The Spring Valley Giants beat the Ohio team Sunday in a high pace contest. Jones led with two doubles and a single in four trips with three stolen bases. Other bylines include Sampson Ternetti Beakley Sisler and Sehouc with multiple base hits. Van Schaick struck out 11 and Buckley 4 as the Giants push toward another win. Morris Reds plan a game next Sunday at Hicks Park.
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Spring Valley Giants
Ohio
Jones
Giants
Sampson Ternetti
H. Beakley
Guy Sisler
Sehouc
Sisler
van Schaick
H. Buckley
Morris Reds
Hicks Park
Secret government surveyors probe for possible wartime plant near Spring Valley
Speculation runs high in Bureau county over five government surveyors working one mile east of Spring Valley near St. Bede's College. They previously surveyed Split Rock in LaSalle county and may mark a five mile dry zone for a potential munition plant. Work could span about sixty days under strict secrecy.
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Boreau County
Spring Valley
St. Bede’s College
Split Rock
LaSalle
Bureau County
la Salle County
Spaniard Arrested in DePue Murder Case
About 3 30 Wednesday morning marshal Bansch of DePue arrested a Spaniard at the shelter house of the Mineral Point Zinc Co for the murder of two Spaniards at the mine site in Springfield and DePue authorities pursue charges and possible job connections.
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DePue
Springfield
Bansch
Mineral Point Zinc Co
Spring Valley Gazette Increases Annual Subscription Price
The Spring Valley Gazette will rise to 2.00 per year starting August first due to doubled costs for paper ink postage and help. Subscribers may renew at 1.50 before August first by collector or at the office, but after that date the new rate applies to all.
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Spring Valley Gazette
Sam
Gazette
Newspaper Pricing Crisis Forces Rate Hike to $2 a Year
The Gazette announces a price increase due to wartime costs, warning many country papers may fail without higher subscriptions. Through August 1, 1918 rates rise to $2 yearly, with existing subscribers in Zone 1 offered $1.50 for a limited period. new subscribers outside Zone 1 must pay $2 in advance.
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Gazette
Home Tertiory
DePue Officer Holds Suspect In Murder Case
A DePue policeman received a Springfield police letter requesting a search for two Spaniards implicated in a murder there. One suspect, listed as Manuel Margaridi, admitted his first name was Frank. Springfield officers, matching the description, questioned him and transported him back to the capital city with the prisoner.
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DePue
Supt
W. F. Morris
Springfield
Manuel Margaridi
Frank
Carnival Opens At Hicks Park This Week In Spring Valley
H W Campbell's United Shows opened Monday at Hicks Park and run all week with forty paid attractions including a merry go round ferris wheel and the Whip. The Wisconsin troupe arrived on the Northwestern last Sunday with thirty cars and about four hundred people employed around the midway.
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H. W. Campbell
United
Hicks Park
Spring Valley
Wisconsin
Northwestern
Four Minute Men for August
The Local Four Minute Men will speak during the first two weeks of August on Mobilizing America’s Man Power. The campaign, at the Labor Department’s request, covers wartime employment relations. A trial departure introduces three new local speakers from the recent high school graduates. August 3rd referenced is John Enrietto.
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America
Labor Department
John Enrietto
Baby Week Starts in Spring Valley This Week
Spring Valley begins Baby Week this Friday with a city effort led by Mrs. Houghton, Miss Clara Nelson, and Mrs. A. Pierson. The program aims to record all children under six and provide free aid, with clinics in the city hall from 1 to 5 PM and multilingual citizen outreach.
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Spring Valley
United States
Houghton
Clara Nelson
A. Pierson
Birth Registration in Illinois Promotes Rights and Inheritance
The article urges registering a newborn in Illinois, arguing birth records prove property inheritance, nationality, travel, education, work, voting, marriage, public office, military service, and more. It notes physicians are legally required to register and suggests sending announcements to the local registrar.
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Illinois
Debating honors and enlistment note in Gazette
August llth and August ith list James Mussatti John Bianchi as top debaters with messages from the Government for workers. Editor Gazette: reply lists Ernest E. Reinhart enlisted in Engineers Forestry at Sacra California on July 23 1917.
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Ernest E. Reinhart
Forrestry
Sacra California
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Blaloch
Hicks
England
Childrens’ Bureau
Woman's Committee of National Defense
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Woman’s Committee
Council of National Defense
France
U. S
James Mussatti
John Bianchi
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