Caption: Dedication - Smith Music Hall Invite
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Captain Thomas J* Smith donor of the Tina leedon Smith Memorial Building" for Music, the Corner stone of which will be laid today at the University of Illinois. To Captain Thomas J. Smith, a lawyer of Champaign, belongs the distinction of having a de the largest contribution of any private citizen to the State University. la 1914 Captain Smith gave §£15,000 In Illinois lands to the University of Illinois for the purpose of erecting a memorial building that should be dedicated to music and that should be In memory and honor of his wife who died In August 1903* Part of the dream of Captain Smith is being made real today in the laying of the corner stone of the "Tina *eedon Smith Memorial Building" on the campus of the University of Illinois* Appro- priate exercises will be held at 4:00 P.M. In the University Auditorium.
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