Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, Ill...
...used to practice medicine in Colorado. No one ever accused him of being ostentatious. He, a widower, has lived quietly in Washington. Last week it became his turn to give a Cabinet dinner in honor of the President and Mrs. Coolidge. His daughter, Mrs. A. W. Bissell of Evanston, Ill., acted as his hostess. Who were the guests? It may safely be said that seldom have the President and Mrs. Coolidge sat down to dinner with so many bigwigs: British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard; Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon; Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover; Associate Justice Harlan...
...night of Dec. 12, 1926, two men rang the doorbell at the home of Joseph Adams, 300-pound mayor of West City, Ill. The mayor, incautious, unsuspecting, opened the door. His callers took hasty shots at the 300-pound target, ran for their machines, left Mayor Adams dying across his threshold. Now the State of Illinois holds Charles Birger, gunman, gangster, as accessory to the murder of Joe Adams...
With the imprisonment of Charles Birger, the two gangs which have for ten months terrorized the district in and around Williamson County, Ill.-"Bloody Williamson," ill-famed for Herrin killings-are leaderless. Birger himself captained one gang; now he plays pinochle with himself in a jail cell at Benton, Ill., while eight armed deputies patrol the corridors. The other faction, led by the three Shelton brothers, also "mourns leaders' absence," for recently, Carl, Earl and Bernie Shelton entered Leavenworth Penitentiary, began 25-year sentences for robbing U.S. mails in Collinsville, Ill., on Jan. 27, 1925. Perhaps there...
Died. Mrs. Nancy Baker, 101, able gingersnap-maker, at Galena, Ill. Her snaps were sampled and praised by Presidents Grant, McKinley, Roosevelt...