Campaign turmoil as Chicago politics loom in 1908
The piece depicts a packed Chicago political scene with a looming hard campaign for 1908. It notes Democratic reorganization, Republican leadership changes, and the role of the Independence League, while naming Charles W. Andrews as Republican County Committee chairman and detailing city council actions on infrastructure, governance, and liberty themes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Andrews
Republican County Committee
Chicago
Independence League
James Reddick
Andrews
Twentythird Ward
Busse
Iinois
Elty Oll
County leaders push plan to expand contagious disease care
President William Burse told County Commissioners of a tentative Chicago accord to convert the city's Isolation Hospital into a contagious disease facility and add a smallpox building. The plan would free county beds, with at least 200 additional beds expected, while Busse lamented separations of aged indigent couples and urged keeping families together. Louie H. Mack was reappointed chairman of the public committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Burse
Chicago
Buane
Busse
Louie H. Mack
Drainage Board seeks Congress river and harbor funds
The Drainage Board urged Congress to provide adequate river and harbor appropriation at its current session. President McCormick announced yearlong committees on Judiciary State and Municipal Relations Finance Labor Health and Public Order Real Estate Development North Shore Channel Calumet Channel Electrical Development Engineering Rules. The piece criticizes meat packers for influence over Chicago health and county boards and calls for three new provisions to the meat inspection law: packers pay inspection costs, print canning dates on labels, and government inspection of goods in transit.
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George E. Roberts
Commercial National Bank
United States
Germany
France
John V. Clarke
Hibernian Bank
Waukesha Lime and Stone Company
Monticello Avenue
Commissioner of Public Works
Orleans-Franklin Street
Chicago Suburban Water and Electric Light Company
Metropolitan Elevated Railroad Company
Austin Avenue
Board of Education
Farragut
Clinton
West 12Th Street
Tasman Avenue
40Th Avenue
Edward Payson Weston
105Th
107Th Streets
Michigan
Indiana
Finance Committee
California Avenue
Chicago & Northwestern
Republican National Committee
Chicago
Gustav Chapin
Charles P. O'Brien
Drainage Board
Congress
McCormick
Judiciary
Paullin, Baker and Healy
Baker
Novak
Paullin
Bergman, Healy and
Williams
Eidmann
Clark and
Bergman
Healy, Willams and
Eidman
North Shore Channel
Bergmann and
Calumet Channel
Healy, Eichmann and
Paulin
Clark, Williams and
Healy
Milk Trust to Jail and Beef Belts Chicago Opinion
The piece lashes the Milk Trust for raising milk prices harming infants and calls for harsh punishment, including Joliet penitentiary, while linking banks’ strength to anti trust sentiment. It also condemns Beef Trust meat and explains appendicitis as linked to tainted meat, citing historical census data and public health concerns.
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Chicago
Milk Trust
Mik
Beef Trust
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Democratic Executive Committee
Democratic County Committee
Democratic Party
Cook County
Springfield
Roosevelt
Bankers of
Burne
FE. J. Brundage
George E. Cole
Legislative Voters’ League
Northwestern University
Fisk Hall
Evanston
AIL
Cole
Clifford H. Barnes
League
Col
James Hamilton Lewis
Park Board
Union League Club
Jena Jensen
W. Carbus Zimmerman
West Park System
B. A. Eckhart
West Park Board
MK Trust
Joliet
New Tinels Athletic Club
Bonaparte
Lane
California
Patrick H. O'Donnell
Samuel Alschuler
Congressan Lowden
Nicholas R. Flon
Billy Lorimer
Minds
Sons of the American Revolution
Edgar B. Tolman
Twenty-seventh Ward
An All
Parks Commission
Daniel A. Campbell
Washington
West Side Post Office
Albert J. Hopkins
Illinois
Packers
Chicago Health Department
Illnois Pure Food Department
Board of Assessors
Board of Review
National Banks of
State Street
Goodrich
Saratoga Hotel
Madison
Monroe Streets
Dearborn
State Streets
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