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Rainfall in New England and Pennsylvania for five months before May had been 33% less than normal. In Ohio, rainfall was down 44%, in Indiana 46%. At Monticello, Ill. the Sangamon River had only 10% of its normal flow...
...Sangamon County, Ill. where a tall, gaunt Republican lawyer once practiced his profession, another tall Republican lawyer today collects Lincolniana. His name is Benjamin Savage DeBoice. For five years Lawyer DeBoice has served as probate judge in Sangamon County. He helped to send Springfield's ex-Mayor John S. Schnepp to jail for embezzling money from an estate, won a high reputation for strict, conservative decisions governing administrators of estates. To a Springfield trust company which asked his permission to invest the funds of seven estates in U. S. Government bonds-most famed of all conservative investments-he last...
When the wire-bound corpse of one Dominic Tarro was fished out of the Sangamon River near Springfield, Ill., last year, Corn Products Refining Co. was interested. For the next day Dominic Tarro was to have appeared in court to be tried for conspiracy to violate the Prohibition Amendment. And great Corn Products Refining Co. was to have been a codefendant. having been charged with selling corn sugar to Dominic Tarro for illicit purposes...
...usually reserved by him for stag gatherings. Printed privately several months ago, circulated quietly (chiefly at newsstands), it has achieved wide popularity among people not squeamish at the mention of a "privy" or "backhouse." The speaker is a carpenter who specialized in privy construction, became thereat the champion of Sangamon County. He gives full details of the best design and procedure, with reasons...
Abraham Lincoln was but faintly famed as a newspaperman. Yet his writings for the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, 111. , were the nursery rhymes from which developed the majestic cadences of the Gettysburg Address. The newspaper with this notable tradition, now named the Illinois State Journal, has just passed to the control of Col. Ira Clifton Copley. One newspaper acquisition at a time is normally enough for growing publishers. Not so Col. Copley. He stretched half across a continent and added almost simultaneously the San Diego Union and Tribune to his pack* of papers...