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Foreman First Cavalry Strain on Public Patriotism in Chicago
The piece charts concern over Colonel Milton J. Foreman former quartermaster and now colonel of the First Cavalry. It details his effort to find a stable home for the regiment and horses amid local resistance by property owners while praising his devotion to youth reform. It also covers legislative hearings over armory site proposals and related park land conflicts along with political maneuvers surrounding local judicial races.
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Chicago
Milton J. Foreman
First Cavalry
Colonel Foreman
The
Daily News
City Club
Foreman
Chicago Record-Herald
Samuel A. Ettelson
Third Ward
Cavalry
Chicago Avenue
H. N. Cooper
Grant Park
Lake Shore Drive
Municipal Pleasure Pier
Lake Michigan
Armory
Bryan Lathrop
John V. Farwell
W. J. Chalmers
R. Hall McCormick
George F. Porter
Stuart G. Shepard
Ogden T. McClurg
Potter Palmer, Jr
Adrian C. Honore
Louis Guenzel
Nels Gross
DeWitt
State Committee
Shepard
Chalmers
Cregier
Cooper
Bush
Amr. Walker
Benjamin Mitchell
T. D. Hurley
McKenzie Cleland
Edward Maher
Daniel J. McMahon
John D. Farrell
Cleland
A. B. Hulit
Chicago Business Men’s Committee
Hulit