Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasury Department in Washington characterized as a "wide de- parture," what many a Wet construed as a reduction of the law to an absurdity, what many a Dry welcomed as a solution of the problem of punishing liquor buyers occurred last week in the U. S. District Court at Peoria, 111. There Federal Judge Louis Fitzhenry laid down a new and startling interpretation of the Jones...
...Peoria, Ill., a drugstore advertised dollar bills on sale at 89c each. Four hours elapsed, many saw, passed by. A Scotch barber, on his way to church, entered, bought...
...Sullivan, Ind. ; by Will H. Hays, 49, of Manhattan, famed cinema-arbiter, U. S. Postmaster-General in the Harding cabinet. Grounds: incompatibility. They were married in 1902, have been separated for several years. Mr. Hays asked custody of Will H. Hays Jr., 14. Died. William L. Strong, 44, of Peoria, Ill., famed lightning calculator; on a rail-road viaduct in Bartonville, Ill., where he was mentally adding the figures on passing box cars for practice. Calculator Strong told builders the number of bricks needed for walls, computed cube roots in his head, invoiced store stocks from memory. Always he said...
WALTER J. BECKER Peoria...
...Willebrandt's Ohio speech was handed out for circulation at the national Hoover headquarters with the explanation that Hooverism was not officially responsible for anything Mrs. Willebrandt might say. Senator Borah, one of Hooverism's biggest voices, was invited to address a Methodist gathering at Peoria, Ill. He declined. Mrs. Willebrandt's name was left off Hooverism's official list of campaign speeches for the near future and it was stated that the next Willebrandt speech would not be distributed from official headquarters...