Illinois News Index

Highland Park Press, 8 Dec 1927, p. 19

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_ fulled, it was followed, in 1878, by the | £2® .. organization of the Bell Company of | Y°8": ‘~$ _ New York, with Edwin Holmes as its | th* ; \"*â€"_first president. A determined effort | »*"5 p was then made to have New York . _ take the telephone seriously, but most | | Pr * people refused to consider it, even| the i iE with the inducement of one month‘s| of se / â€"> â€" twial free. A striking example was| mote the A. T. Stewart department store,| dow? E. â€".whith is now the John Wanamaker | tenti _~. ~store. store finally gave permisâ€"| depo â€"..â€". sion to m telephone put.in the| one _ store, but it was specified that it was | gion /. Says Destruction giwuaf Creaâ€" tures by Man Longer £. James Oliver Cur s final plea for the protection of the wild life, } scoring man for his for the blood of living things, is orlynow reaching the public, several moriths after the 4 great conversationist‘s fleath. 6 Accompanying the icle entitled #1 *Thou Shalt Not Kill," American . Magazine states that while y preparing it, said he bel it would ~ * be the finest thing he ever writâ€" FIRST ORGANIZED IN 1877] HOW COAL Charles A. Cheever and Hilborne I,| F#leotolc seas covere? /linois and M-Awll.ufl.ndmm&flha-\ v--fldthmmrdflwdbhhflu- of New !«;&. hfi.'ufi:‘-:s-:{n!l-wu-run: agreement it was specified high schools colleges for in oy it mt 107; mss tared: e s S 6 a imindly l in nate on the Sist day of August, 1927.| _ "The Story of the Geologic Makâ€" MHowever, the company which set out ing of Southern Illinois," by the late for fifty years, died within tep | Dr. Stuart Weller, professor of geolâ€" months. ogy at the University of Chicago, who ‘When fi*ml i m:‘ ny ;:hnudhd-l m‘&“ â€" When this first telephone COMPSDY| ~__;_stion in 1905 until his death this the‘ new invention, and with the esâ€" tablishment of a central office at 518 with the result that not long afterâ€" wards, New York‘s first telephone directory appeared. This first direcâ€" tory consisted of a single page card and showed the names ‘of 252 subâ€" book of the Bell Telephone company in New York was published. This contained 47 pages and listed 800 names. Byâ€"1883; the number of subâ€" scribers had grown to 4,000, by 1886 to 9,000, andâ€"at the beginning of the present century there were almost 50,000 telephones in use in New York serving at that time a population 8,500,000 people. In other words, in 1900, New, York City had only about 1900, New York City had only about as !éan;‘gleplpogu as th:r%l_m toâ€" day in either of the cities of Houston, Tex., or Toledo, 0. _ _ Situation Today Greater New York today, however, has a telephone system that serves 1,580,000 telephones in five borqnch, more telephones, in fact, than there are in the whole of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and that area inâ€" d-u% London, the largest city‘in the wor , CURWOODS LAS’:JV;VORK PLEA FORK WILD LIFE In his last article Curwood praised the conversation movement in Michiâ€" gan and expressed the belief that the wanton slaughter of game and fish will be much curtailed in the coming generation, not by laws, but by the dying out of man‘s desire to kill. fore the manuscript.had‘been put inâ€" through the few years of our known mfikfldbnufi:hm on earth. He killed to feed and protect himself until the running of red blood wave him the igreatest thrill and pleasure. Wars and interâ€" necine strife were not sufficient to quench â€" his thirst ‘during his early history. The bloodâ€"lust called for the sacrifice of girls and young men Mfi-&tâ€"lfl.dfl-m bors. When he ‘got religion‘ he ed to kill off people of other religions. In the name of God he slaughtered his way through two thousand years. Then came the soâ€"called civilization of today. When man could no longer killâ€"his enemics indiscriminately ~he began to seek other outlets, and huntâ€" ing censed to be. a labor devoted to -rn.m«-ium-l by man has ceased to be a necessity: Other fiélds to conquer are offered to him.‘The old fashioned bunters and killers are being thrust into the backâ€" ground by vibrant youth, which is vh-a-hu&u-mm-l‘ good right eye of egoism the T ast tok yout than %hy ither influ< the gnest for food and became a the formation of the rock foundations of southernâ€"Illinois from the more reâ€" mote periods ‘of the earth‘s history down to recent times, with special atâ€" tention to the coal beds and fiuorspar deposits which make "Little Egypt" one of the world‘s richest mineral reâ€" sin, and the process of coal making was When the sea again spread over this region, the forests were buried under layers of sand, mud, and limeâ€"mud. ‘The peat beds where the forests had stood were compressed and preserved by the materials §hateom:odthcn_l. ‘The fact that there are several beds of coal, ond~ abové another, with inâ€" tervening layers of shale, limestone, and sandstone, shows that these events. were repeated again and again through a long period of time. Whenâ€" ever the sea withdrew, new forests ;gwhthmonlytobebur- ledagainwhen‘themretmed. ‘The great weight and pressure of the accumulated layers gradually changed the peat into ceal, . Fossils found in the coal when it is mined show the kind of vegetation Golden State _ Limited ous train sppointments â€"Tourted service anticipating every wish. Low altitude routeâ€"and "low altitude" Only 634 hours Chicago Los Angeéles. Shortest and quickest to Phoenix and San Diego. From La Salle St. Station daily 8:30 p. m.â€"â€"Englewood 845 p m includes also the Apacheâ€"popular68 Rock Island ~+~ULines The Easy Way to California t . that fourished in those ancient forâ€"| DATES iclee Br iss Â¥. 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