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The club authored additional books, including The Beardstown Ladies' Stitch-In-Time Guide to Growing Your Nest Egg: Step-by-Step Planning for a Comfortable Financial Future in January 1996 and The Beardstown Ladies' Pocketbook Guide to Picking Stocks in April 1998. [1] The ladies gained speaking tours and became minor celebrities. [2]
O'Connor entered into a currency joint venture with SBC, in 1989, that proved to be the first step towards a sale of O'Connor to SBC. [ 1 ] Following a 1992 merger, O'Connor was combined with SBC's money market , capital market , and currency market activities to form a globally integrated capital markets and treasury operation.
The Beardstown and Sangamon Canal was a canal plan developed in the mid-1830s, with avid backing by Abraham Lincoln, then an Illinois state legislator, to make large portions of the Sangamon River between Springfield, Illinois, and Beardstown, Illinois, navigable via a canal to the junction with the Illinois River, which in turn flows into the Mississippi River.
Beardstown was first settled by Thomas Beard in 1819; he erected a log cabin at the edge of the Illinois River, from which he traded with the local Native Americans and ran a ferry. The town was laid out in 1827 and was incorporated as a city in 1896. During the Black Hawk War in 1832, it was a base of supplies for the Illinois troops. [8]
The Sangamon River is a principal tributary of the Illinois River, approximately 246 miles (396 km) long, [2] in central Illinois in the United States. It drains a mostly rural agricultural area and runs through Decatur and past Springfield .
The Illinois River (Miami-Illinois: Inoka Siipiiwi [4]) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River at approximately 273 miles (439 km) in length. Located in the U.S. state of Illinois , [ 5 ] the river has a drainage basin of 28,756.6 square miles (74,479 km 2 ). [ 6 ]
Beardstown Township is one of eleven townships in Cass County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 6,719 and it contained 2,716 housing units. As of the 2020 census, its population was 6,719 and it contained 2,716 housing units.
The company was a leader in the application of computer technology to listed derivatives trading. A proprietary and large scale reliable distributed system architecture was developed by company programmers, providing automatic real-time pricing, risk management, market making and interconnection with automated options, futures and stock exchanges as they became available.