Lennington Small correspondence, 1921-1929.

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Lennington Small correspondence, 1921-1929.

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Correspondence primarily concerns problems involving the national government such as federal land in Illinois, presidential electors, railroads, immigration, Spanish-American War Veterans' Fund, extraditions from foreign countries, and Interstate Commission Commission. State and local topics include insane asylum or jail escapes, urban riots, reform schools, state's attorneys' duties, status of aliens, roads, State Primary Canvassing Board, civil service, state militia, and an inventory of state property. The file also contains executive orders and proclamations, presidential executive orders and addresses, Illinois Supreme Court decisions, state and federal maps, newspaper clippings about politics and affidavits from law enforcement agencies. Most of the incoming and outgoing letters are between government officials on the local, state and national levels.

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