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Tags: 1961, Decatur IL, Herald and Review, League of Women Voters, News Article, Reciprocal Trade, Women Voters Re-elect Mrs. Doubleday

Tags: 1955, Decatur IL, Delegates in Urbana at State Convention, Herald and Review, League of Women Voters, Mrs. Forrest Martin, Mrs. Fred Schudel, Mrs. H. W. Gibson, Mrs. J. W. Hurley, Mrs. John Donovan, Mrs. Robert Phillips, Mrs. Thomas McCracken, News Article

Tags: 1954, Herald and Review, Jaycees Drop Booth Plans on Petitions, League of Women Voters, News Article

Tags: 1955, Decatur IL, Herald and Review, League of Women Voters, More Home Rule Needed, News Article, Women Voters

Tags: 1952, Decatur IL, Herald and Review, Illinois constitution, League of Women Voters, Mrs. Charles Ruedi, Mrs. G. R. Cohn, Mrs. Perley Lupton, Mrs. William Watts, News Article, Women Voters Boost Yes Vote on Blue Ballot

Tags: 1982, Albert Spaulding, Argenta IL, Benny Goodman, Betty Turnell, big band music, Canada, Carol Lawrence, changes to music, Chicago Symphony, childhood, Cincinnati Symphony, clarinet, classical music, dance bands, Decatur IL, Decatur Municipal Band, Dick Coffeen, Doc Severinsen, interview, Jack Benny, junior high school, Kate Smith, Mattoon IL, Millikin Symphony, Millikin University, Monty Mountjoy, Mt. Zion IL, Murray College, music course, music teacher, National Symphony Orchestra, North Dakota, OH85, oral history, recording, Robert H. Kramer, September 1982, sound recording, Symphony Guild, Taylorville IL, Thompson-Kramer Music, transcription, traveling band

Tags: "Personal Recollections", 1978, A.P. Hill, Adlai Stevenson, Betty Turnell, Charles Adlai Ewing, childhood, Corn Carnival, DAR, Decatur Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Decatur IL, Dr. and Mrs. Panhallegon, Dr. H.C. Johns, Eugenia Ewing Johns, fire department races, Illinois Board of Agriculture, Illinois Breeders' Association, interview, J. Petticord, Jane Martin Johns, Johns family, Johns Hill, Judge R.W. Race, March 1978, Miss Mary French, Mr and Mrs. Orlando Powers, Mr. and Mrs. Millikin, Mrs. Corwin Johns, Mrs. Oglesby, Natatorium, OH89, Old Decatur, old High School, oral history, recording, Rev. Fielding Ewing, Riverside Park, Samuel Powers, shorthorn cattle, sound recording, swimming lessons, train service, transcription, Wood Street School

Tags: "Crystal Bird" Club, "Decoration Day", "Frolic", "stock company", 1983, African-American girls club, Al Jolson, Alice Evans, army wives, Art Class, Bachrach store, Barney Fulton, Bijou Theatre, Billy Sunday, block man, bond sales drives, Camp Kiwanis, Carnegie Library, childhood, Christmas store, colored girls, Corn Carnival, cottages, Crystal Bird, Decatur IL, Decatur Public Library, Florence Love, Frank Curtis, Gastman School, Georgia Leaflet, Governor Oglesby Mansion, Great Depression, Greenwood Cemetery, Howard W. Schaub, interview, Jake Latham, Jane Hamand, Jane Hamilton, Kiwanis Club, Louis Nichol's candy store, March 1983, Marietta Street School, Miss Abel, Mrs. Alice Bering Evans, Mrs. James Millikin, new city dam, O.W. Smith, OH90, oral history, Powers Grand Opera House, Powers Grant Theatre, president, recording, Red Cross, renovated YWCA building, Roy Christy, Sam Malleous, social work, sound recording, Study Class, transcription, vice-president, World War II, WWII, YWCA

Tags: "HMS Pinafore", "Little Prince", "Quality Street", "Red Mill", 1990, Alex Van Praag Sr., Armistice Day, Betty Jo Eickenberry, Central Railroad Depot, childhood, classified ad department, DAR, Daughters of the American Revolution, Decatur and Macon County Hospital, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, DHS, DMCH, Dr. Jones, Elmer Nickel, Ethel Parkinson, Fires, Freda Douthit, GAR, Glee Club, Governor Oglesby Mansion board, Grand Army of the Republic, Great Depression, grocery stores, H.C. Schaub, Helen Gorman, Herald & Review, Herald and Review, home birth, Howard Millard, ice block, Illinois Central Railroad, Indian schools, international traveling, Interurban, Interurban station, interview, January 1990, Jeanette MacDonald, Lake Decatur, Lincoln School, Linn and Scruggs, Louise Fyke, Macon County Conservation District, Macon County Hospital, Macon County Newsletter, Marietta School, Moweaqua mine disaster, Mrs. Jane Lee, Mt. Zion IL, OH91, oral history, plays, Poetry, poetry club, recording, Red Cross, Robert Williams, Roosevelt Junior High School, Shellabarger Mansion, sound recording, St. Mary's Auxiliary, stalker, Stephen Decatur Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, streetcar, Switchboard, Toonerville Trolley, transcription, Transfer House, traveling, typing, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Women's Relief Corps, World War I, WWI