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Daily dose: Local history, EIU enrollment, Tom Cross takes fundraising business to Michigan

Thu, 09/06/2012 - 8:16am | Tom Kacich

Local history

In 1912, there is a shortage of milk hereabouts, due to the heat wave. The near-famine reached its height Wednesday when the milk supply for the city was about 350 gallons short. Hurried calls were made to Chicago, Bloomington, Peoria and Effingham, and those cities were asked to help Champaign-Urbana. But all apparently were in the same boat.

Daily dose: Local history and the Todd Akin 'gotcha' argument

Tue, 08/21/2012 - 8:04am | Tom Kacich

Local history:

In 1912, baseball teams from the Champaign and Urbana city councils will play a charity game at 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5, at League Park for the benefit of Burnham Hospital. Alderman Armstrong urged all members of the Champaign team to meet at 5 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for practice.

Daily dose: Local histor(ies) and pension negotiations

Wed, 08/15/2012 - 8:51am | Tom Kacich

Local history

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Daily dose: Local history, Frerichs/Bambenek, Gill gets boost from DCCC

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 9:24am | Tom Kacich

Local history

In 1912, Chief of Police Keller and Officer Dodsworth arrested Warren L. Smith for keeping a disorderly house and later found that Smith had a quantity of ground opium on him. Smith, of 22 S. Oak St., is supposed to be a confirmed opium fiend. He is smoking the narcotic poison with tobacco in self-manufactured cigarettes.

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