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...Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic artist from Simsbury, Illinois who makes his way to Hollywood to become a serious actor. How could Merton fail in attaining his dreams after finishing a correspondence course from the General Film Production Company of Stebbinsville, Arkansas, cer...

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...A school girl story about two Illinois teens and the adventures they have with family,friends and the chance to go to a boarding school in Michigan in the early 1920's. (Summary by Linda Andrus)...

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... Washington to turn her intelligence to politics and to see what makes her country tick. There she meets (among others) Senator Silas P. Ratcliffe of Illinois, one of the most powerful and influential (if somewhat uncultured) men of the capital, who is considering a run for the presidency, and who needs a wife to act as First Lady, a position that (he thinks) Mrs. Lee woul...

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...hering details for his novel. The Reader wishes to gratefully acknowledge the assistance, and patience, of Professor Giedrius Subacius (University of Illinois) and the folks at Lituanus (www.lituanus.org) for their invaluable support as I struggled with Lithuanian pronunciations. Truly, this audio book would have been far more difficult, and far less authentic, without the...

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...t 1996, 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. Scripture taken from the HOL Y BIBL...

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...ife knowing our urban legend is a living thing but doesn’t speak; though very real and its siblings were found in the Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois. Yes is that time of the year again; as I am sure some of you are out swimming and carefree though one year ago a photographer captured a protruding fin out of the Chicago waters. I will say right now he the ...

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...he role of Malvolio in Twelfth Night in a company set to tour through Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana startin’ in one week. Do you think he’s up to it?... ...with him.” Barbara Scott 112 “Yes. Yes. Oh, I can’t wait to tell her. Illinois in January, I can’t think of a more exquisite torture for her. ...

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... for our species?‖ —―The violence I see is so cowardly. Several youths burn or beat a single homeless person to death in Florida. In Illino...

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...agon fly missionaries who had knocked on her door earlier that week--Nauvoo, Illinois, Mormon flies so succulent and "so fuckable," whom she had relu...

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...nesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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.... The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the... ...ife’s garden and the farmer’s coat. Precious horses painfully brought from Illinois, were drowned in bogs or stampeded by the fear of blizzards. Snow ...

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...ished posthumously. The stories themselves are delightfully anchored in the physical geography of Upper Canada (or in the case of 'Gagtooth's Image', Illinois), and have a mystical and spooky air about them. (Summary by Pipesdreams)...

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...nry S. Burrage, of Portland, Me., and to General Tho- mas J. Henderson, of Illinois. For various courtesies received, the editor is furthermore indebt... ... way until the spring of 1830, when his father “moved again,” this time to Illinois; and on the jour- ney of fifteen days “Abe” had to drive the ox wa... ...have heard him say so often.” Then he lived several years at New Salem, in Illinois, a small mushroom village, with a mill, some “stores” and whiskey ... ...t lack ambition. He dreamed even of making himself “the De Witt Clinton of Illinois,” and he actually distinguished himself by zealous and effective w... ...ide of his State he had attracted compara- tively little attention; but in Illinois he had been recog- nized as one of the foremost men of the Whig pa... ...the first national convention of the Republican party, the delegation from Illinois brought him forward as a candidate for the vice-presidency, and he... ...d the boundaries of his own State. But now it was this local prominence in Illinois that put him in a position of pecu- 18 The Writings of Abraham Li... ...s the ostensible leader and central figure; and Douglas was a Senator from Illinois, Lincoln’s State. Douglas’s national theatre of action was the Sen... ...as’s national theatre of action was the Senate, but in his constituency in Illinois were the roots of his official position and power. What he did in ...

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...subject. When Judge Trumbull, our other Senator in Congress, re- turned to Illinois in the month of August, he made a speech at Chicago, in which he m... ...shall be content. I have before me the bill re- ported by the senator from Illinois on the 7th of March, 1856, providing for the admission of Kansas a... ...nsideration at the conference referred to; but, sir, when the senator from Illinois reported the Toombs bill to the Senate with amendments, the next m... ...ed Scott decision de- cides that they have not that power. If the State of Illinois had that power, I should be opposed to the exercise of it. That is... ...ssed by a Republican State Conven- tion, in October, 1854, at Springfield, Illinois, and he declared I had taken part in that Convention. It turned ou... ...ue that the set of resolutions read by Judge Douglas were published in the Illinois State Register on the 16th of October, 1854, as being the resoluti... ...orgery. The idea that it was done by mistake is absurd. The article in the Illinois State Register contains part of the real proceedings of that Sprin... ...ing to remember at all that he is involved in this dishonorable fraud! The Illinois State Regis- ter, edited by Lanphier, then, as now, the central or... ...instruments at one time in breaking down the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois because it had made a decision distasteful to him,—a struggle endi...

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... and flog negroes in Nebraska was popular sovereignty. SPEECH A T CLINTON, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER 8, 1858. The questions are sometimes asked “What is all... ...ngs of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five TO H. L. PIERCE AND OTHERS. SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, April 6, 1859. GENTLEMEN:—Y our kind note inviting me to attend a... ... as I understand the Massachusetts provision, I am against its adoption in Illinois, or in any other place where I have a right to oppose it. Understa... ...ncoln: V ol Five TO THE GOVERNOR, AUDITOR, AND TREA- SURER OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. GENTLEMEN: In reply to your inquiry; requesting our written opini... ...him. He was one of the few distinguished men of the nation who gave us, in Illinois, their sympathy last year. I never saw him, but suppose him to be ... ...nt of this country, here in Ohio, our neighbors in Indiana, us who live in Illinois, our neighbors in Wisconsin and Michigan. In that ordinance, drawn... ... same process in a few years was gone through with in Indiana, and so with Illinois, and the same substantially with Michigan and Wisconsin. Not only ... ...ve years ago. But last year there was not a Douglas popular sov- ereign in Illinois who did not say it. Is there one in Ohio but declares his firm bel... ... have had recently with you my very distinguished friend Judge Douglas, of Illinois; and I under- stand, without having had an opportunity (not greatl...

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...ES & DEBATES of LINCOLN WITH DOUGLAS In the Senatorial Campaign of 1858 in Illinois SPEECH AT SPRINGFIELD, JUNE 17, 1858 [The following speech was del... ...red Scott’s master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free State of Illinois, every other master may law- fully do with any other one, or one t... ...er master may law- fully do with any other one, or one thousand slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free State. Auxiliary to all this, and working ha... ... and we shall awake to the reality instead that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave State. To meet and overthrow the power of that dynasty is ... ...imes. I have said, as illustrations, that I do not believe in the right of Illinois to interfere with the cranberry laws of Indiana, the oyster laws o... ...ief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, that I am in favor of Illinois going over and interfering with the cranberry laws of Indiana? Wha... ...d in the Union, that he was framing his plan for the pur- pose of going to Illinois to pounce upon and annihilate the treasonable and disunion speech ... ...ed for him. I have been able, by noting his movements since his arrival in Illinois, to discover evidences confirmatory of that allegation. I think I ... ..., as appears by two speeches I have heard him deliver since his arrival in Illinois, he gave special attention to a speech of mine, delivered here on ...

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...e Linder—Daniel Linder, I think, and certainly the son of U. F. Linder, of Illinois, please send him to me by an officer. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO MILI... ...r to effect a special exchange of Lieut. Col. A. F. Rogers, of Eighti- eth Illinois V olunteers, now in Libby Prison, and I shall be glad if you can e... ... TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: 1. The Governors of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Wis- consin offer to the President infantry troops for ... ... ing campaign as follows: Ohio, thirty thousand; Indiana, twenty thousand; Illinois, twenty thousand; Iowa, ten thousand; Wis- consin, five thousand. ... ...or of Ohio. O. P . Morton, Governor of Indiana. Richard Pates, Governor of Illinois. William M. Stone, Governor of Iowa. James T. Lewis, Governor of W... ...t efforts into the work. A. LINCOLN. Same to Governor Y ates, Springfield, Illinois; Governor Stone, Davenport, Iowa; Governor Lewis, Madison, Wiscons... ...dville, Penn. SIR: It is represented to me that there are at Rock Island, Illinois, as rebel prisoners of war, many persons of Northern and foreign b... ...of the districts of Pennsylvania to recruit in one of the prison depots in Illinois; and the thing went so far before it came to the knowledge of the ... ...ANKS TO THE VOLUN- TEERS FOR ONE HUNDRED DA YS FROM THE STATES OF INDIANA, ILLINOIS, IOW A, AND WISCONSIN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, October 1, ...

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...io. Alexander Ramsey, Governor of Minne- sota. Richard Y ates, Governor of Illinois. Edward Salomon, Governor of Wisconsin. THE PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE MA... ...twice as many new troops in the field as all the other States together. If Illinois had got forward as many troops as Indiana, Cumberland Gap would so... ... ASHINGTON, D.C., September 15, 1862. 3 P.M. HON. K. DUBOIS, Springfield, Illinois: I now consider it safe to say that General McClellan has gained a... ...VE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, September 20, 1862. GENERAL KETCHUM, Springfield, Illinois: How many regiments are there in Illinois, ready for service but f... ...re them for en- larging the capacities of the great canals in New York and Illinois, as being of vital and rapidly increasing importance to the whole ... ...on this subject. The mili- tary and commercial importance of enlarging the Illinois and Michigan Canal and improving the Illinois River is presented i... ...a, part of Tennessee, all of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Kan- sas, Iowa, Minnesota, and the Territories of Dakot... ...Y DEAR SIR:—In the summer of 1859, when Mr. Free- man visited Springfield, Illinois, in relation to the McCallister and Stebbins bonds I promised him ... ...ber 26, 1862 HONORABLE SECRETARY OF W AR. Sir:—T wo Ohio regiments and one Illinois regiment which were captured at Hartsville have been paroled and a...

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...come from as much as thirty miles back in the country, and from over in the Illinois bottoms, too, just to look at him — and there they’d stand and ... ...the ship down ‘most to the earth, and had him spin her along so close to the Illinois prairies that a body could talk to the farmers, and hear everyth... ...ain’t.” “What’s the reason we ain’t?” “I know by the color. We’re right over Illinois yet. And you can see for yourself that Indiana ain’t in sight.” ... ....” “What’s the color got to do with it?” “It’s got everything to do with it. Illinois is green, Indiana is pink. You show me any pink down here, if yo... ...now?” “Why, the thing that’s happened is that this old bladder has slid over Illinois and Indiana and Ohio like nothing, and this is the east end of P...

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...Assistant Professor of Religion/Theology , Augustana Col- lege, Rock Island, Illinois. Preface Wenceslas Link to all believers in Christ: The wise Sol...