Booster Day plans spark across Prophetstown echo
Prophets town Echo notes booster committees work on Booster Day plans and reports Roscoe Mathis in Chicago arranging rooster sales for May 23. Editorial voices applaud Governor Illinois veto of state liquor repeal, warning rural areas from Chicago gangsters and praising enforcement actions. Local paper reprints Polo Tri County Press views on law, order, and rural resilience.
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Prophetstown Echo
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Sbore
Polo
Tri-County
Sunday Motion Picture Houses Approved in Erie Vote
In Erie a city election approved Sunday amusements and moving picture houses. The first proposition for operating Sunday movie theaters passed 228 to 79 while the second for Sunday amusements including miniature golf won 199 to 78.
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Erie
Fullon Journal
Work on Route 80 bridge excavation starts
The Savanna Times Journal reports excavation for the Otter Creek bridge piers on Route 80 between Thomson and Fulton has begun. Chester Stratton of Thomson leads two teams as varying soil types slow progress. dredge work may start as the level rises to complete bridge foundations before paving.
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Fulton
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Savanna Times- Journal
Bridges on Route 30 Undergoing Pier Work
Contractors excavate for piers over Otter Creek on Route 30 between Fulton and Thomson. Crews will erect concrete bridges before paving to avoid later gaps, per Fulton Journal.
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Fulton
Thomson
Fulton Journal
Route 30 repair resumes near Weston School
Kruger Pozey Construction, led by Gordon Clarke, resumed work on route 30 between Hanover and highway 65 last Monday. Six to eight men are on site near Weston School half a mile south of highway 5, doing subgrading and shoulder work. One culvert will be rebuilt when weather improves, with completion expected in about six weeks. contract for 3,000 feet by the railroad tracks has not yet been let.
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Gordon Clarke
Hanover
Weston School
Hanover Journal
Jack and Maude Brooks Present Enlarged Show
The Jack and Maude Brooks Stock company rehearses new plays for the 1931 tent season. Manager Brooks claims the production will be the biggest and best in their history and second to none in the entire middle west. A section notes a subway closure for cement work on Route 80, with six weeks of rerouting and guards at the Jackson Street crossing by Milwaukee Road.
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Mbway
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Milwaukee Road
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Six more states vote to take part in Chicago fair
Six more states Utah Wyoming North Dakota Indiana Delaware and Vermont have enacted bills signaling participation in Chicago's 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair. The announcement notes early exhibit contracts including Hammond Clock Company and a Edison Ford partnership demoing rubber extraction from goldenrod.
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Rufus Do. Dawes
Utah
Wyoming
North Dakota
Indiana
Delaware
Vermont
Hammond Clerk Company
Thomas A. Edison
Dearborn
Michigan
John Stephen Sewell
Alabama Marble Company
Sewell
Association of Nations Advertisers
Palmer House
Fragmentary Note on Early Weight Measurement and Costs
A garbled text fragment discusses a mysterious heavy material increasing weight to about 70 pounds per unit and reaching 4250 pounds daily. It mentions a yearly accumulation valued at 11 tons and references Columba and a first expedition with three ships, crew wages, stores, provisions, and a sum of 1157.542 maravedis, about 21 551.
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Columba
Concrete road to Good's motion in Inverness Scotland
In Inverness Scotland a concrete road linked to Good's motion as part of a local transportation note referencing OE Shebbarl ere mene de 1K text fragments. The readable portion points to a civic infrastructure item in the city.
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Scotland
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