Items of Interest

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Hundreds of saloons have been closed in Illinois as the result of the local option voted at the last election in fourteen counties.
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Delegates from seventeen States met in convention at Philadelphia Nov.
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In England bill-boards are coming to be regarded as a nuisance, and the sentiment is also growing apace in this country that offenses to the eye are as proper subjects for control as those to hearing and smell.
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AT The Hague Conference just held forty-six powers, occupying the territory of the entire globe, came together with more or less of their historic prejudices, ill-feeling, and suspicions, their various local interests, their racial differences, and their diversified constitutions and legislative methods, and for four months continued in the serious and thorough discussion of problems which concern them in common.
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Governors of six States and about two hundred and fifty delegates were present at the opening, at Columbus, O.
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March 3, 1891, Congress passed an act which gave the President the power to "set apart and reserve in any State or Territory having public lands bearing forests, any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations.
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For two years a committee of twenty appointed by the National Civic Federation has been investigating the question of municipal ownership at home and abroad.
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An official call has been issued for a meeting of the National Drainage Association, to be held at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, the last week of November.
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Contracts were recently let for the erection of a splendid trade-school building in Boston, to be paid for with the fund which has accumulated from the five thousand dollars Benjamin Franklin bequeathed to the city at his death.
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The new charter for the city of Chicago, authorized by the State Legislature at its last session, was rejected by the voters at its recent special election, by a majority of more than sixty-two thousand.
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The joint Champlain Tercentenary Commission of New York and Vermont have authorized Governor Hughes of the New York State Commission and Governor Proctor of the Vermont Commission to each appoint a sub-committee to act jointly as an executive committee to take charge of the arrangements for the celebration which will be held, beginning July 4, 1909, to commemorate the discovery of Lake Champlain by the man whose name it bears.