Congressional tariff clash dominates Ashington letter
The Ashington News Letter reviews the upcoming congressional session and the fight over tariff revision. Beets sugar, wool and lumber loom large as senators from beet states face pressure for free trade, while civil service patronage and postmaster orders stir party battles. The piece notes U.S. beet sugar capacity, canal tariffs, and Reclamation Service bids amid broader political maneuvering.
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Congress
Amer‘mers
Busiwry
Sugar Trust
Feres
Mt of Agricultural
United States
Wilson
Washington
House
Ways and Means
Tariff Board
Underwood
Slapstick Man and Quips In a Humorous Column
A dated humor piece favors the quick punch of slapstick over refined wit. It praises the slapstick man who drives laughter with pratfalls and shouted gags, then shifts to a string of light exchanges about theater life, a hay question, a dermatology bill, and a streetcar service joke.
Kansas Farmer Telegraph Idea Sparks Quick Debate
A fragmented quote shows two Kansas farmers debating a telegraph idea. One says it is pretty good. the other agrees but notes it lacks carrying power. The garbled text hints at early rural discussions on rapid communication invention.
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Almoat
Kansas
Farmer
Isa
0.0 F elects Pease grand warden in Illinois lodge
Peoria Illinois The grand lodge of the I O F elected W H Pease Hervey as grand warden. Nine candidates were nominated. Other officers elected include Grand Master John E Jennings Sullivan deputy grand master Warren C Darnell grand secretary Jo m H Sites Springfield treasurer T B Needles Nashville grand representative for two years W A Hubbard Carrollton. Next year’s meeting site undecided Peoria and Springfield contenders. The sixty third annual grand encampment session concluded with officers named George B Rose Canton grand high priest A J Mourer Eureka grand scribe S J Baker Olney and Samuel Watson Champaign as grand treasurer Norman Waltrip Whitehall grand senior warden Mark Jardine Rockford. A proposed split of future encampment and grand lodge meetings failed.
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Peoria
Iinois
W. H. Peasey Hervey
John E. Jennings
Sullivan
Warren C. Darnell
W. H. Pease Hervey
Jom H Sites
Springfield
T. B. Needles
Nashville
W. A. Hubbard
Carrollton
I. C.0 F
George B. Rose
Canton
A. J Mourer
Eureka
S. J Baker
Olney
Samuel Watson
Champaign
Norman Waltrip
Whitehat
Mark Jardine
Rockford
Grand Lodge
Professor and 10 Indicted in Illinois Voting Probe
Champaign reports indictments of Professor L D Hall and ten university students for illegal voting in a campus election inquiry. Indictments charge perjury and illegal voting. twenty more expected. Hall, an associate animal husbandry professor, allied with reform efforts against saloons.
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Champaign
L. D. Hall
University of Illinois
James Noon
Everett
Mass
Haley M. Butt
Gibson
Walter J. Blum
Chicago
Lester C Barber
Lafox
Earl P. Shapland
Sauneman
Leslie S. Dole
Manteno
Fay C
Slayer's Last Appeal Denied by Supreme Court
Springfield supreme court affirms Cook County criminal court judgment convicting Maurice Enright, serving life for murder of Vincent Altman. Also reports: Cow triggers farm death near Tower Hill, five passengers set aviation record at Joliet, Illinois ex prisoners of war meet in Charleston, first scarlet fever death in Duquoin, and James Mann pays 4444 dollars for re election.
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Slayer
Springfield
Supreme Court
Cook County Criminal Court
Maurice Enright
Vincent Altman
Charleston
Illinois’ Association of ex-Prisoners of War
A. T. Ives
W. G. Cochran
Sullivan
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Ashington
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Pacific Telephone Magazine
I. R. Huffendick
Geo. E. Patterson
Bank
Atock
Lee
Conigoer
WILBUR _D.NESBIT
Slapstick
Soenyn
O. F
Pease
Minois State Lodge
Harvey Man
Illinois Editors Elect
Illinois Daily Newspaper Association
Thomas Rees
Illinois State Register
A. 5. Leckie
The
Joliet Herald
H. K. Kendall
Mattoon Journal
Gazette
H. W. Pollard
Rockford Republic
Golden
Henry Jansen
Quincy
Dunne
W. Carbus Zimmerman
Huntington
T. H. Ennis
Virginia
Minnelson
Taylorville
Odeleon
Brown
Assumption
Canada
Christians
SGI
Auwarter’s
Hagle
Shelbyville
Thomas Lowe
Tower Hill
Flyer
Joliet
Earl Dougherty
Dougherty
Coal City
Duquoin
Ferdinand Deutschman
Mann
Washington, D. C
House of Representatives
James R. Mann
St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
Globe-Democrat
Republic
Times Or
Daniel Peterman
I Brown
Brown's Business College
East St. Louis, Il
Harlan Eugene Read
Business Book Company
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St, Louis
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