Belleville Saloons Reach Ninety Nine and City Projects
General news item notes Belleville has 99 saloons while Odin plans an elaborate public school building. Kinmundy installs a 4500 electric light plant. Effingham launches a crusade against rowdyism as Alma reports a boom. Vandalia courthouse remodels and Du Quoin area gains free mail delivery. A Freeburg brick yard opens and Belleville allocates 94975 for next year, 20000 for streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odin
Kinmundy
Effingham
Vandalia
State Capitol
du Quoin
Freeburg
Belleville
Pointed Paragraphs of Stray Facts
A collage of brief statistics and claims ranges from medical dosing to world literacy and economic figures. Notable items include 12 000 microbes reaching one inch, Chicago using 41 000 000 pounds of soap annually, one third of the world’s population speaking Chinese, 32 000 recently vaccinated arms in Fall River Massachusetts, and London’s average earnings below five dollars a week. Other notes mention France and Belgium voting on Sundays, Boston City Hospital serving 10 000 people last year, eight tenths of soldiers in Russia and Serbia illiterate, the nation’s estimated worth over 110 00 000 000, Christian Scientist Church membership around 70 000, horse prices vs automobiles, and annual book outputs by several nations. Also cited: 5 000 miles of new railroad and a $150 000 000 investment expected this year in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Fall River
Mass
London
France
Belgium
Boston City Hospital
Russia
Servia
Christian Scientist Church
Germany
Italy
United States
Smooth book agent swindle targets Taylorville women
About 60 Taylorville women signed notes for 9.50 each after a slick sales pitch by EF Culver from Decatur who offered to leave encyclopedias on approval. Sixty men were notified by a local bank to settle the debts, attributed to the wives. A home paper item notes the scheme and warns readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylorville
EF. E. Culver
Decatur
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Alma
Brighton
Herman Lippoldt
Girard
City Council of
Salem
Broadway
Illinois Sugar Refilling Company
Peoria
Springfield
Mississippi Valley Automobile Transportation Company of
East St. Louis
Crosby
O'Fallon
J. A. BR. Elliott
Kansas City
Batavia N.Y
Japan
India
Free Methodist Church of America
Idwingpoaia
Bucklen
Arnica
Kingston
Ubers
Great Britain
British Museum
S. Kingston’s
Boschee
Highland Marble Works
L. L. Eckert
Robert Winter
Prop
Public Square
John Diehle
Odd Fellows Building
Matin Street
F. W. Zanders
L. E. Rawson
Jefferson Ave
St. Louie
KF. W. Zanders
Troy
Theo. Guennewic
Main & Market Sts
Troy, Il
Phil, Eckert
ED Runtzmann
Troy City
John Dmimling
Corner Market
Hickory Streets
WM. Meiners
Main Street
WM. F. Peter
Ziot Aid
Cs—Atil
General Hardware
August Droll
the Star Store
The
Old Reliable
Mlour
M. F. Auwarter
J. H. Stienhans
A. Heddergott
West Clay Street
Blas Dure
Troy Exchange Bank
W. W
D. G. Jarvis
Bankers
Troy, HL
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