Trusts Dominate Bid to Frame a New Constitution
Enemies of the people press for control of the coming constitutional convention. The trust gang backs high price laws and seeks to shape the new basic law. State actions include anti trust amendments sparking farmer gardener and dairyman prosecutions, while milk price conspiracy cases proceed. Bonding power for cities like Chicago rises under Glackin bills as plans for a million dollar theater with a grand organ move forward.
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Trust Gang
Hoyne
Illinois
Illinois Milk Producers’ Association
Assembly
Chicago
Curtis
Senate
Special Counsel Seeks 75000 Fee Over Fare Fight
Chester E. Cleveland former assistant corporation counsel and now city special counsel asks 75000 for blocking a 7 cent fare increase by surface lines and preventing elevated lines from getting one. The council finance committee has requested a cost statement to date and projected completion costs. Alderman John Richert, chair of the finance committee, holds the fee matter.
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Chester E. Cleveland
Council Finance Committee
Ald
John Richert
Questions for the November Election in Chicago
The November election will choose delegates to the constitutional convention and address measures enacted by the Springfield legislature. The ballot promises important decisions for Chicago on several statewide and local questions.
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Chicago
Springfield
Wrigley Teams Trial Five Day Week For Summer
Following William Wrigley Jr. guidance Chicago firms announce Saturday holidays through Sept 13. William H. Stanley of Wrigley Jr. Co says the experiment aims to boost morale and five day work pace. Marshall Field & Co reports a half hour cut, with 8 to 5 week days and noon Saturday close for a 44 hour week.
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William Wrigley, Jr
Chicago
William H. Stanley
William Wrigley
Marshall Field & Co
Chief Tom O Connor Beacons Chicago Fire Department
Articles praise Chief Tom O Connor as the most popular city official in Chicago. The fire department is said to be in peak condition with the board of underwriters and leading citizens giving strong approval. The public wishes a long tenure for Chief O Connor.
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Chicago
Big Tom O'Connor
Chicago Fire Department
Chief O'Connor
Immense New Film Theater Planned in Chicago
Lubliner and Tring announce a new motion picture theater in Chicago with 4,500 seating capacity. The site at Madison Street and Kedzie Avenue was bought from the estate of Devan J. Smith for 987 pounds.
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Lubliner & Tring
Chicago
Madison Street
Kedzie Avenue
Devan J. Smith
Greatest Bank Building in the World
Plans to merge Illinois Trust and Savings Bank with Merchants Loan and Trust Co into one of the world’s largest structures. The building would rise on the former Grand Pacific site, cost about 10 million dollars, and aim for a 21 story height beyond the city 200 foot limit if permitted.
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Illinois Trust and Savings Bank
Merchants Loan and Trust Company
Grand Pacific
Clark Street
la Salle
Jackson Boulevard
Jackson
Adams
Declar B. D. Hulbert
Merchants Loan
Lincoln Park Traffic Rules Call for Auto Exclusion
A letter from Judge John Stelk urges Lincoln Park commissioners to ban automobiles from park drives except the lake shore routes and to enforce traffic rules. He labels motorists as a danger and proposes forming a citizen committee to detect report and prosecute violators while seeking volunteers.
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Lincoln Park Commissioners
Lake Shore
Lincoln Park
Lake Shore Drives
Theater promises nursery care and bank stake in Illinois city
Plans for a new theater include a large nursery and nurse staff for mothers attending performances. Madison Kedzie State Bank may buy land for a permanent home, per president Benjamin Kulp, with construction beginning now for completion by year’s start.
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Madison-Kedzie State Bank
Benjamin Kulp
Motorists' Primer Third Lesson
The driver must not drive a car without the owner's consent. Give warning and slow up when approaching man or beast. Give signal when intending to swerve either to right or left. Give signal when intending to slow up or stop. Exercise care to avoid injury to persons or property.
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John Stelk
Treasurer Gibbons Back At His Post
County Treasurer Harry R. Gibbons returns to his office daily this week and is rapidly regaining strength. Friends express wishes for a full recovery and renewed health.
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Gibbons
Harry R. Gibbons
City Council Reinstates Smoking on L Trains in Heated Session
At a Monday meeting the Chicago city council voted 48 to 11 to restore smoking on the elevated L trains after directing the health department to set aside the order. The session also debated paid vacations for firemen, proposed a new telephone rate plan, and approved turning La Salle Street into a boulevard.
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Health Department
Committee On Schools, Fire, and Civil Service
O'Connor
Thompson
Council Chamber
Chicago Board of Fire
Ohio Street
Chicago Avenue
Lincoln Park Board
Ald
J. H. Smith
Chicago
Judiciary Committee
Hawkeye Fellowship Club
Jackson Park
T. F. Byrne
Ross A. Woodhull
la Salle Street
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Milk Trust
Walter W. Ahlschlager
Public Service Department
Wrigley
Public Spiritec
Tom O'Connor
Merchants Loan & Trust
Illinois Trust & Savings
Edgewater
Edmund D. Hulbert
Merchants Loan & Trust Co
Joseph Tuiner Company
Corn Exchange National Bank
Ilinois and
Merchants Banks
Corn Exchange
James Agar
John Agar
Chicago Board of Aldermen
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