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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1920
Page
6
An ordinance provides licensing for motor and other vehicles in Spring Valley Illinois with fee schedules from class A to N and O. It sets license issuance by the city clerk, annual renewals, metallic vehicle tags, fund use for street maintenance, penalties up to 100 dollars, and repeal of conflicting ordinances.
The document records signing approval and recording of an ordinance. It notes adoption on June 21, 1920, and approval by Mayor Charles W. Knapp on June 21, 1929, with Clerk P. M. Mahoney attest. The text confirms legal formalities for enactment.
The ordinance imposes an annual charge of one dollar per street pole over eight feet used for signs within Spring Valley. Rental runs July 1 to July 1, paid in advance. penalties range from 20 to 290 dollars per offense. Ordinance repeals conflicting laws and takes effect after passage and publication. Adopted June 21, 1920.
Chicago reports Inter-American Aircraft of Peoria has bought a three seat flying boat to operate Chicago to St Louis service. The craft will follow canals and the river at 75 mph, covering Joliet Ottawa LaSalle Peru Spring Valley De Pue Peoria Pekin Havana Beardstown Alton in four to five hours, signaling suburban commuter flights.
In Australia butterflies, abundant in the region, are reportedly suffocated in mil lions and the bodies pressed into cakes after removing their wings. The text describes a disturbing practice tied to indigenous populations and food preparation.
An essay traces the hare as an ancient earth inhabitant with roots traced through thousands of years. It notes Jewish dietary rules once excluded the hare and coney, then describes how hare flesh proved nutritious and led to its domestication for food.
A gentle town resident living a sheltered life died after a branch from an elm fell on her during a morning walk. The accident, attributed to providence and quiet surroundings, resulted in fatal injuries days later.
Iron three story bedstead designed to save space in crowded housing. It disassembles into five parts with wire mattress frames and pins fitting into slots for quick setup. Ideal for camps apartments steamers or any area with limited space.
In Kyshtim the workers form a soviet after Soviet control arrives. They escort the American mine staff to a farewell train, decked with flowers, then present the special train as a gift to the Americans. The moment marks a symbolic transfer of ownership and lasting goodwill.
Two Danish carriers apply to the Danish government for permission to run a regular passenger and mail air route from Copenhagen to Warnemunde Germany. The present common route uses train to Gedser, ferry to Warnemunde, then rail to Berlin, with trains crowded. The new air service would operate with a German partner and connect Warnemunde with Berlin, improving Nordic Baltic traffic.
Victoria plans a pioneering electric plant built directly over Morwell coal seams to supply Melbourne. A 40 000 to 50 000 kilowatt station is to be constructed first with open cut brown coal at Morwell eighty miles away and later expansion to use Kiowa river and other water powers for generation.
The text notes U S yearly corn production of 2 5 to 3 billion bushels yielding 18 to 20 million tons of cobs, with many scattered on farms. A planned Ohio Valley cob products plant would obtain 24 000 tons annually from three shelters, run 100 tons daily, and produce cob adhesive furfural acetate of time and cellulose.
The Philadelphia wireless school broadcasts a concert between 9 45 and 10 each night to all devices within Wireless range. People in homes across the region, including New Brunswick New Jersey, hear the music regularly. A Chestnut Hill resident built a receiver costing about seven dollars and fifty cents.
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