No Truce in War on Rum or Gambling
La Salle county state’s attorney Russell O Hanson declared there will be no armistice in the fight against illicit liquor gambling and vice. Speaking before about 200 at the Congregational church in Peru he urged enforcement of all laws and warned promoters of gambling they face criminal charges with no compromise.
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Russell O. Hanson
la Salle County
Peru
Brotherhood of the Golden Rule
Congregational Church
Hanson
Maxwell
Bureau County School Notes Short Items
Closing exercises scheduled in Hollowayville May 18 Ladd Grade School May 22 Spring Valley Rural Schools May 26 Dalzell Grade School May 27 Cherry Village May 29 Arlington Village June 3 and reports mailed this week on eighth grade finals Census Pension and Levy blanks distributed to clerks High School expenditure forms sent to boards Teachers reminded that eighteen weeks of training required before second renewal of a second grade certificate Six schools Walker Gross Central Lloyd Marriott and Truckenbred in Clarion Township held a joint picnic in the Grove May 10 drawing a large crowd and good weather.
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Hollowayville
Ladd
Spring Valley
Dalzell
Cherry Village
Arlington Village
Walker
Gross
Central
Lloyd, Marriott and
Truckenbred
Clarion Township
Strength in Calmness Quote
A concise quote on arguing with calmness warning that fierceness breeds errors and discourtesy. The author attributed as Herbert emphasizes restraint and clarity in dialogue.
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Herbert
Sanitary district faces flow of bottom land claims
Three county judges appointed to the Sanitary district claims commission reviewed 400 pending damages claims from overflow of waters after the drainage canal. twenty plus involve Bureau County lands at Spring Valley DePue and Bureau. Public hearings will be held in Chicago Henry Peoria Beardstown and Whitehall with arguments allowed for any county at the Chicago session late in June.
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Sanitary District Claims Commission
Speaker Scholes
Illinois House of Representatives
Illinois Valley
Bureau County
Spring Valley
DePue
Bureau
Sanitary District
Claims Commission
War Department
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Mississippi
Henry
Peoria
Beardstown
Whitehall
Cook County
Governor blocks Chicago Sanitary District grants in protest
Illinois valley residents and Chicago officials watch a dramatic shift as the governor demands that any bill granting special privileges to the Sanitary District include funding for damages caused by Chicago sewage. The move marks a confrontation with decades of district influence and tests state authority over local drainage issues.
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Ilinois
Chicago
Springfield
Illinois River Valley
Sanitary District
Illinois Valley
Reverend Williams
Williams
Washington
Americ ans Elevate Shakespeare in Stratford Comment
A Stratford correspondent recalls asking an aged resident who Shakespeare was and receiving this reply. The old woman says she once thought him unremarkable but now credits Americans with making him famous.
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Stratford
Shakespeare
Trumpeters Get Road Job North of Ottawa
The state highway department announced start of the Ottawa to Earlville road project. Trumpeter & Sons of Peru won section 3 for eight miles at 165,084 dollars with cement supplied by the state. Zolper and Company of Mendota bid to connect sections. injunction efforts by Leland residents seek to reroute via the Plank road.
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Wallace Township
State Highway Department
M. J. Flemming
Ottawa
Earlville
Trumpeter & Sons
Peru
Zolper and Company
Mendota
Trumpeter
First Aid for Neuralgia From Bread and Cayenne
A home remedy describes using a thick bread slice soaked on one side in boiling water and sprinkled with cayenne pepper. The hot, dry side is applied to the face, claimed to be better than a mustard plaster since it does not blister the skin.
Master in Chancery Sale in Bureau County Illinois
Public notice from the Bureau County Circuit Court states Master in Chancery Louis A. Zearing will sell at public auction May 29 1925 at 2 PM at the east door of Princeton Court House the real estate Lot 12 Block 1 H. J. Miller's Addition Spring Valley Illinois to the highest bidder following a May 2 1925 decree in the case Chel tre New Clara Posetto v Mary L. Moore and Foreclosure Elmer King.
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Mary L. Moore
Elmer King
Louis A. Zearing
Bureau County
Princeton
Bureau
State of Illinois
H. J. Miller
Spring Valley
Sale of mineral rights in Bureau County Illinois
Notice lists a court sale of mineral rights in a platted property in Bureau County Illinois with coal rights reserved and cash terms. The sale, dated May 4 1925 at Princeton, is conducted by Louis A Zearing Master in Chancery, with C N Hollerich as complainant's solicitor.
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Bureau
Illinois
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Chas. Fehr & Son
Spring Valley, Ill
Bureau County School Notes
LA Salle
S. & H. Green
Ilinois Valley
Leland
Master IN Chancery’s Sale
Circuit Court
Chel Tre
Clara Posetto
C. N. Hollerich
Nature
Toledo
Ohio
A. Andra
Dry Goods
West St. Paul St
Chevrolet Sales and Service
Spring Valley, Illinois
Maxw
F. O. B. Detroit
de Filippi
Leimbach
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