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...about to spend a quarter-billion dollars on new public buildings. Chicago is to have a $14,000,000 post office. Federal court houses and post offices will soon sprout throughout the Mid-West. Chicago builders hunger for these fat federal contracts. Charles Curtis is Vice President of the U. S. Harry King Curtis, his son, is a Chicago lawyer. Last week Assistant State's Attorney Richard Jackson at Chicago began to investigate charges that Son Curtis had taken some $10,000 in "fees" from Chicago builders on promises to obtain for them federal construction contracts, presumably through...
...Mid-West Refining .. 9,388,179 5,743,670 Prairie Oil & Gas... 14,331,643 10,541,597 Producers & Refiners...
...citizen is, of course, zero. As if any confirmation of the dismal aesthetic condition of Boston were necessary, after Chicago's opera company came and conquered when Boston had earlier thoroughly snubbed two trembling representatives of its own in that field, Chicago intends to ship east another carload of mid-west Kultur, in the shape of its Civic Shakespeare Company. Boston, too, discovered Shakespeare for a time this autumn, but hurriedly let him drop and went back to the talkies. But perhaps the dominant mid-west will mark up another triumph. It suffered an apparent defeat a year...
...during the panic of 1907 a member of the congregation made a proposition, he was able to secure some stray public utilities in Iowa. No slow-growing oaks sprang from these little acorns. Within eight years he was estimated to control $2,000,000,000 of invested money in Mid-West gas, power, light and traction companies. Now he is one of the foremost U. S. utility men, has been especially active in developing the United Power & Light...
...Detroit went 56 bodies, where Governor Frederick W. Green received them in an arctic snowstorm; accorded them a state funeral. Others were scattered among a half-dozen Mid-West cities; four went to Arlington...