Meet in Capital City Promotes Fire Safe Media Devices
Springfield Illinois electrical contractors gathered at the Leland assembly hall for their annual session and endorsed using mechanical contrivances approved by underwriters to curb fire waste. Mayor Schnepp opened the meeting and Ernest Freeman replied. In Dixon a fall delivery was thwarted when jail inmates scraped plaster from a wall using spoons, rope ladders, and sacks hidden by towels.
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Springfeld
Illinois
Leland Assembly Hall
Schnepp
Ernest Freeman
Dixon
Reid
Havana Votes On Saloon Status In Spring Election
Havana plans another vote on remaining a wet town at the spring city election. Temperance advocates have petitions with signatures likely to be in place before week’s end to trigger the vote. Havana has long maintained wet status despite prior efforts to end saloons. Burch Head, Perry County Doctors. Duquoin reports Perry County Medical Association electing officers: President E J Burch, Vice President J R Templeton, Secretary Rolla D Pope, and Delegate B J Burch. Next session set for Pinckneyville February 15.
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Havana
Burch
Perry County
Duquoin
Perry County Medical Association
E. J. Burch
J. 3. Templeton
Pinckneyville
H. W. Wolfe
Tamaroa
Rolla D. Pope
Franklin county to build rock road between Ewing and Whittington
The Franklin county board of supervisors votes to use state road funds assisted by 1700 dollars donated by citizens of Ewing and Whittington. The project totals 13000 dollars for a rock road two and a quarter miles long, with state supervision overseeing construction.
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Alda Ewing
Whttington
Ewing
Board of Supervisors
Franklin County
State
Citivans
Ewing and
Whittington
Masons of State Meet in Springfield Midwinter Reunion
Springfield hosts the midwinter reunion for the Springfield consistory with Rita Masons from central Illinois attending. Degrees are conferred by multiple local lodges and associated bodies including Sangamon lodges of Perfection, Springfield Council, Prince of Jerusalem, Knights of Rose Croix, and Springfield consistory. Guards Gone, Thieves Take Wire. Cairo wire thieves remove 18 spans weighing 1,200 pounds from American Telephone poles while officers attend Thomas C. Logan’s funeral in Murphysboro. several arrests made but no clues yet.
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Masons
Springfield
Umnels
Sangamon Lodgs of Perfection
Springfield Council
Prince of Jerusalem
Knights of Rose Croix
Springheld
Cairo
Murphysboro
Thomas C. Logan
American Telephones & Telegraph Company
HOUSEKEEPERS SCHOOL OPENS IN URKANIA
Urkania hosts a ten day housekeepers school under the University of Winois department of household science. Women from across the state attend the program though Illinois teaches do not appear on the schedule.
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Leta
Department of Household Science of
U. of 1
Urkania
Department of Household Science
University of Winois
University of Illinois
St. Louie
Champaign
University of Mingle
St. Louis
P. I. Winsor
Lessons From Following Jesus In Three Classes
A compact religious study notes three follower types in Matthew 8 19 22 and Luke 9 57 62. It contrasts impulsive and procrastinating commitments with those ever ready to serve like Martha and Mary highlighting the costs and duties of discipleship within the Perean period context.
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Jesus
Jericho
Bethany
Martha
Mary
R. V
John
Jeston
Imperial Mausoleum and Tombs Near Mukden City Tour
A travel note describes a two day visit to the Manchu sacred city near Mukden. It highlights the Japanese hotel, the grand yet cared for Manchu palace, the bustling outer city, and the Im perial Mausoleum set in a wooded ridge with a ceremonial gate, treasure houses, and a monumental stone tablet. Visitors experience strict guards, processions, and rich historical displays including jewels, robes, porcelain, weapons, and tortoise-supported tablets. The route includes the imperial mausoleum hills, gateways, and a high gatehouse en route to the burial sacred place.
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Ukden
Peking
Mukden
China
Pekin
Shoes Boots Factory
Ming Tao
Imperial Mausoleum
Nurbaah
Dyziasty
Eho
Essan
Ander
Child Health Ads for Teething and Sickly Children
An old advertisement describes Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup for teething, claiming gums soften and pain eases, and Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for children promise to break up colds in 24 hours and relieve fever headaches and stomach troubles. It notes the products are pleasant for kids, used by mothers for years, with samples mailed free from A. S. Olmsted in Le Roy, New York.
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Gray
Olmsted
le Roy
Ady
Still Unsatisfied Town Topica Quote Exchange
A Town Topica line features a sharp exchange where one figure mocks his wife as statesman and the other counters by alleging she authored an excess of pills in the bouge. The fragment hints at satirical social commentary with political overtones.
Close Enough Discusses Cruel Acquaintances
The dialogue notes Saunders and Harris as gossip pals unable to borrow from each other, reflecting social friction and mutual caution among friends.
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Cruin
Flinting Sc
Saunders
Harris
Goss
Ups and Downs in Librarian Campaign Talk
Miss Belle de Costa Green of the Morgan Library campaigns in Newark urging reform among women librarians. She argues women share blame for underpayment and must change attitudes, noting past pretensions of helplessness to flatter men.
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Belle de Costa Green
Morgan Cations
Newark
Franco-Prussian Veteran General McAdams of Cannes
General McAdams, born Scots or Irish, led Irish volunteers in the Franco-Prussian war and gained the field rank in France. He later lived quietly in a Cannes villa. Elected to the chamber of deputies about twenty years ago, he could not prove birth Francs or naturalization, but the chamber waived the issue and kept him in office.
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McAdams
France
Cannes
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
Where Twins Are a Disgrace in Nigerian Tribes
A special study by Mrs. P Amaury Talbot and family documents West Africa travels and the cultural fate of twins among Thibios and nearby tribes. In many communities twins are deemed devils’ offspring and are killed at birth. women endure a year in Twin Town with purification rites while husbands may abandon them until allowed to reunite.
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Thibios
P. Amaury Talbot
West Africa
Caffeine in Coffee Linked to Ill Health Says User Testimony
A reader recounts years of pale weakness tied to coffee use and credits giving up coffee for Postum. The testimonial claims rapid improvement after switching to Postum, detailing better appetite, sleep, fewer headaches, and weight gain to 148 pounds.
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Balls Creek
Mich
Weilville
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