1917 Signed Letter Illinois State Senator Albert Clark for Sale

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1917 Signed Letter Illinois State Senator Albert Clark For Sale

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1917 Signed Letter Illinois State Senator Albert Clark:
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Examination of the signature with a loupe shows the signature to have been made with a fountain pen. Whether Clark's was the hand that held the pen or a secretary's, I do not know. The penciled notation on the back was done by the recipient or his secretary.Albert Charles Clark (1868-1937) served multiple terms in the Illinois State Senate, operated a dental & surgical goods manufacturing business.The recipient, Wm. Davis, managed the Illinois Theater in Chicago and had a farm named Willowdale in nearby Crown Point, Indiana. I don't know know why he was concerned about the clay there. There were crops and pasture for livestock.Davis and Clark had an interesting connection. Fourteen years earlier Clark surveyed a chaotic scene at the small John R. Thompson diner on Randolph Street in Chicago and organized dozens of doctors, nurses, policemen, firemen, injured patients, piles of deceased bodies, and frantic relatives. It was the scene at America's worst theater disaster, the Iroquois Theater fire on December 30 that resulted in 600 fatalities and hundreds injured. Davis was the theater manager who failed to make sure his costly new theater was adequately equipped and secured to minimize the chance of such a disaster.Info about Clark during Iroquois Theater disaster: about Davis: