Starved Rock to Host Three Day Illinois Centennial Pageant
Starved Rock State Park near Ottawa prepares a three day pageant July 4 5 6 to celebrate Illinois admission to statehood event draws about two thousand participants and marks trails from over a hundred miles LaSalle County hosts events with an Illinois picnic First Settlers Day includes LaSalle County papers and Henry Tonti land grant D A R Day features LaSalle County Chapter as hostesses All cities of LaSalle county involved.
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Starved Rock
Union
Ottawa
Starved Rock Mate Park
LaSalle County
Henry Tonti
Starved Rock pageant to honor centennial amid river scenes
The pageant draws upon Ottawa LaSalle Streator Mendota Peru Marseilles and Seneca for costs and scenes on Starved Rock grounds and the Illinois riverfront. Real Indians from the Three Rivers reservation appear, with fireworks lighting the six o'clock start. The program includes historical and prophetic acts and an allegorical Earth making civilization. The sauerkraut issue is resolved as patriotic, with sauerkraut now tied to domestic cabbage use to aid allies.
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Ottawa
LaSalle
Streator
Mendota
Peru
Marseilles
Seneca
Starved Rock
Wlinois
Marquette
Tonti
Tria Reservation
Honuty Doo
la- Sete
Father Marquette
Fiumre
Great West
Federal Food Administration
Holland
MMI
We Set Tire Standards We Set Tire Standards
U S Tires set new mileage and serviceability records as sales climb. Factories reveal higher construction standards. Tire fabric makers confirm standards for United States Tire fabrics exceed prior levels.
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United States
New Meat Regulations Urge Pork Substitution for Beef
The U S Food Administration imposes rules starting June 7 limiting beef in menus to two boiled meals weekly for eateries, one steak weekly, and one roast weekly. Households may buy at most 1 ¼ pounds of clear beef or 1 ½ pounds with bone per person weekly. Regulations aim to conserve beef for the Allies with pork as substitute until September 15.
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France
McCormick Opens Senate Campaign Tour In Illinois
Congressman Medill McCormick formally launches his Republican bid for the U S Senate, speaking to a large Princeton audience. He outlines a broad itinerary through Sterling Princeton Bureau Spring Valley Granville Menry Lacon Wy omaing Toulon Cambridge Gene seo Moline Rock Island Aledo Bushnell Macomb Carthage Quinney and a general conference, while stressing wartime experiences and European travels that shaped his views. He plans few political speeches, focusing on the war and Allied campaigns in France Italy and the Toul sector, drawing on his firsthand observations and meetings with allied leaders.
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Medill McCormick
United States
Princeton
McCormick
Sterling
Bureau
Spring Valley
Granville
Menry
Lacon
Wyoming
Toulon
Wke- Wanee
Cambridge
Geneseo
Moline
Rock Island
Aledo and
Bushnell
Macomb
Carthage
Quinney
House
Senate
Washington
Europe
France
Toul
Italy
Presidents War Savings Proclamation The Nation Urged to Thrift
President Wilson calls a national thrift campaign urging every citizen to increase production and conserve resources for the war effort. He asks all to buy Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps, pledge by June 28, and join war savings societies for a united home front.
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Treasury Department
United States
Great Volunteer Army
Woodrow Wilson
National War Savings Stamp Day Observed
June 28 marks National War Savings Stamp Day with Kaisers and citizens urged to purchase stamps to support the war effort. The observance promotes thrift and patriotic savings across communities.
Daily coach schedule lists routes to DePue and towns
The notice shows trip times for Marquette Howe DePue Bureau and Princeton with morning departures at 6 06 7 16 9 56 and 11 16 and afternoon departures at 1 31 3 16 3 40 5 40 7 28 9 38 11 33 Daily except Sunday to DePue and a tip to always buy tickets to save money
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Marquette
Howe
DePue
Bureau
Princeton
A. M
P. M
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Smith
Dakota Street
Illinois
Goodyear Tires
Mobilosis
Cenuine Ford Parts
Ghidagl
Peoria RY
Spring Valley Station
Utica
Grand Ridge
Streaa~ Or
Morris
Minootr
Rochdale
Joliet
A. M—el
Joliet-Streater
Lasalle and
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LADD
Chicago
Chicago & Joliet
Wells Fargo Express
Peter Wadzinski’s
John Wishnevsky
Prop
Salvatore
Rathburn’s
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