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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1924
Page
2
Chicago Motor Club urges motorists to aid visitors by giving clear directions to city points and routes through less congested streets. The bulletin emphasizes offering guidance on speed limits and prohibited turns to ease tourist traffic and reduce overall congestion.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover forms a federal effort to curb highway crashes. Frank E. Jack of the Chicago Motor Club is named to the traffic control committee, which will study laws speed limits markings one way streets pedestrian travel parking illumination and related topics. The group met in Washington on June 20 to plan a comprehensive accident prevention program.
Summer school students from National Kindergarten and Elementary college take an extended bus ride through the north shore suburbs on Saturday July 12. The trip includes a stop at the Sheridan road site of the new college buildings in North Evanston and ends with a beach supper in Wilmette.
Illinois reports the lowest average death rate among 27 leading states for the year ending 1923, at 11.4 per 1000, with Ohio and Michigan next at 11.6 and 11.8. The figures, from the U. S. Bureau of the Census, credit declines in contagious diseases and tuberculosis to the state’s health efforts.
Near East Relief plans an agricultural college in Armenia linked to its orphanage program and funded by Armenian Americans. A scientific study of American relief workers during famine years highlighted the need for such an institution.
The program promotes scientific farming to develop agriculture in the Near East while training 60,000 orphans in Near East Relief orphanages. It argues native races should stay in their countries and help establish independent, self-sustaining nations capable of solving their own problems.
Fragmentary text notes Armenian Americans aiding agriculture. It suggests a focus on national Armenian farming efforts and community engagement, but details are unclear from the damaged passage.
Readable fragments show residents visiting relatives and attending events across Illinois Wisconsin Missouri and Massachusetts. Names include McKlintock Hannah Pope Roth Rathbor Hamm Ling Skeelan Littell and St Sheriday. Dinn plans near Camp Indiana and Garden City surface among scattered references.
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