Cashier in Crete Bank Hid Embezzlement, Suit Filed
Chicago April 24 The $125 a month cashier of the $25,000 State Bank of Crete Will county who defaulted last November for nearly $200,000 has worked ten hours a day for three months preparing data for creditors. Receivership suits filed in Joliet seek over $400,000 against stockholders and directors. G H Kracke admitted doctoring books to mislead examiners and recover $90,000 never recorded. Directors named include Henry Kracke Louis Rathje William Saller Fred Saggebruch Fred Holmke William Meier Henry Meijer John Seggebruch.
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Kracke
Louis Rathje
Rathje
Mr. Rathje
Ienry Kracke
William Saller
Fred Saggebruch
Fred Holmke
William H. Meier
Henry E. Meijer
John G. Seggebruch
Pontiac Michigan plans for rapid housing growth reveal shared investment scheme
Pontiac with eight to nine hundred business leaders created the Pontiac Mortgage and Investment Co to fund homebuilding. Builders sell contracts to the company after taking small down payments, enabling quick capital recovery and wider participation by small contractors. The project aimed to complete hundreds of houses as part of a civic plan, with a target of 2,500 houses in a year, and notes recent totals reaching around 760 homes built locally.
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Freeport, II
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Ana Jauges
Ponifar
White and Cherry Stucco Story and Half Cottage design
A period cottage model by Charles S Sedgwick features abundant windows for sunlight and cheer. The plan opens from a glazed porch to a living room with diamond-paned fireplace, built-in storage, and an arched doorway leading to a bright dining room ideal for flowers and sunshine. a sunny terrace and decorative details complete the inviting home.
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X Family
Waterloo housing crisis pushes summer cottages into year‑round homes
In Waterloo a tent plan to ease a housing shortage is overshadowed by near full occupancy of riverfront summer cottages. Families, city-bound by high rents, convert Chautauqua and Sans Souci parks into permanent homes. Builders face delays as residences drop from a typical 30 percent share of contracts to as low as 14 percent in some regions, underscoring a nationwide shortage with slow residential construction.
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Eastern miners cut pay raise asked in half
By the Associated Press New York April 24 a reduction in wage demands of about 50 percent was made today by representatives of anthracite mine workers on the sub committee of miners and operators negotiating a new contract. Demands for shorter hours were also reduced and adjournment was taken until next Monday for consideration. The miners replaced their six hour day demand with a bank to bank extension of the eight hour day for all labor with time and a half for overtime and double time for Sundays and holidays.
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Associated Press
New York
American Defeats Swiss in Olympic Hockey Match
Antwerp April 24 the American hockey team crushed Switzerland 29 to 0 in the Olympic tournament. The report notes a single enlistment this week, Nitelas Steiner of Worthington Minnesota, assigned to the quartermaster corps at Camp Dodge. Enlistments for three years in medical assignments and motor transport corps are open through June 30 for eligible men over 21.
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Associated Press
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Switzerland
Army
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Worthington
Minn
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Camp Dodge
Medical Department
U. S
Motor Transport Corps
Brewers Raise Wages and Hours Amid Prohibition
The Brewery Workers union announced wage increases of five dollars weekly and a one hour shorter workday despite prohibition. The union sought ten dollars more per week, while some breweries granted eight dollars extra weekly.
Caillaux Freed After Conviction Banished Five Years
Paris reports former premier Joseph Caillaux, convicted by the high court of commerce and correspondence with the enemy, has been freed and returned home with his wife and friends. The sentence includes three years in prison, costs, five years banishment, and ten years loss of civic rights, with plans to go to South America.
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Paris
Joseph Caillaux
High Court of Commerce
Ifie
High Court
Caillaux
M. Caillaux
South America
Old Testament Women in Tableaux Sunday at East High
East High Friendship club leads vesper service with two series of tableaux depicting Old Testament women. West High hosts social hour after. This concludes six weeks of Bible study glasses with a final meeting Monday at 4 p.m. at East High School.
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East High Friendship Club
East High
West High
East High School
Death in Clarksville details Chestnut family notice
Il mer Chestnut aged 33 dies at 12 20 a m at home in Clarksville Iowa The funeral is set for 2 p m Monday at the Presbyterian church Survived by parents Mr and Mrs James Chestnut his widow formerly Miss Ethel Walrath three sisters and two brothers Mrs Homer Coe Waverly Mrs Berne Van Slyke Anna Samuel and Edward this place
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Ilmer Chestnut
Presbyterian Church
James Chestnut
Ethel Walrath
Homer Coe
Waverly
Berne van Slyke
Anna
Samuel
Edward
Army Navy pay bill agreement raises service pay
Washington April 24 conferees agreed on a bill boosting pay for all enlisted men in the army and navy and for all officers up to colonel in the army and captain in the navy. The accord covers both services in a single pay scale.
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Washington, D. C
House
Senate
Army
Navy
Average American minimum wage revealed by interchurch survey
Chicago April 23 The interchurch world movement reports an average annual salary of 937 dollars for American miners and shows that more than half earn less than the minimum workman's wage. R D Jenkins, Chicago director, announced the finding today.
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Chicago
Interchurch World Movement
R. D. Jenkins
Kansas Mines Stand Still Amid Weak Production
Kansas coal fields report virtually no production with only a few mines active. In Pittsburg, Anxocratet Press notes nearly twelve thousand miners affected as operators in the region tally minimal output and shutdowns persist.
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Anxocratet Press
Pittsburg
Kan
Kansas Mining Field
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