Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million Illinoisans who went to their 90th State Fair in Springfield last week had fun. They squished happily through the straw-covered mud of the midway, saw a cow sculptured in 500 Ibs. of butter, ate prodigious quantities of hot dogs, drank gallons of sickening sweet orangeade, bought ''chameleons from Cuba," had the Lord's Prayer engraved on pennies, and knowingly appraised prize livestock...
...home in Springfield, Vt., he is the progressive chairman of the board of the crack Jones & Lamson Machine Co. His labor skirts are clean. The United Electrical local at J. & L. is on record to the effect that he has given it "absolutely fair treatment." The natives know he is a sound, hardheaded Vermonter...
...next election, and later could not even get elected Mayor of Chicago. He died a relatively poor man at a relatively early age (55) in 1902, of locomotor ataxia. He was mourned by thousands, among them Poet Vachel Lindsay, who as a boy had known him as governor in Springfield...
When the call came through to her Louisville home last week, Emma Clarissa Clement was off at a district church conference in Springfield, Ky. Her daughter took the message. Mrs. Clement had just been elected American Mother of 1946 by the Golden Rule Foundation. Said the citation: "A mother of children who are devotedly serving their country and their people, a partner in her husband's ministry in his lifetime, a social and community worker in her own right...
...took a little while to get the call relayed to Mrs. Clement. She had to get the news of the honor that had come to her, and to her race, at the telephone office. There is only one telephone in the Negro section of Springfield...