Chicago Officials Move On Erecting Five Story School
The council considered granting a permit to build a five story brick school at 27 and 43 Bradley Street replacing a recently destroyed structure. The motion was reconsidered and sent to the building committee. A graded system for police operators was proposed, and various budget and ordinance actions were discussed, including wage increases for fire department mechanics, bell restrictions for street peddlers, and emergency fund adjustments.
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Chicago
Bradley Street
Connell
Police Department
Fick
Council
Shippy
Couns Brundage
Hinself
James Tignilton Lewis
Commissioner of Public Works
Citizens
Coughlin
Supreme Court
Humboldt Boulevard
Evergreen Court
Jones Street
Alderaan Connery
The Reef Tries Novel Nail Care Plan in Chicago
The Reef reports a bold push to manicure nails of its workers, promising a fresh corporate image. In a separate note, the firm claimed it shipped over four million pounds of meat from Chicago in under four months.
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Reef
Chicago
Market notes on livestock prices in Chicago papers
In Chicago market reports livestock prices are quoted, with packers paying about 1 to 2 cents per pound for cattle meat. The term earning cows appears in the listings, reflecting the low buy price per hundredweight.
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Chicago
Hogs sent abroad escape trichina tests
The report states hogs sent to England and the United States avoid trichina examination while those for Germany France and Austria are tested. It claims the Beef Trust floods Chicago with odors from rendering and glue plants, robs residents via food and leather prices, and links tuberculosis to bad meat. The piece criticizes the Beef Trust as worse than ever and warns of action by the cattle barons and The Eagle.
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England
United States
Germany
France
Austria
Beef Trust
Chicago
Boet Trust
Beet Trust
Heet Trust
Chicago Health Department
Union Stock Yards
St. Louis
Kansas City
Europe
America
Charles Edward Russell
Cincinnati
Roosevelt Hospital
New York
Perera
IDOE
Pennsylvania Hospital
Ces
Trust
London Lancet
Jamestown
N. Y
Beef Trust Exposed as Water and Meat Monopoly Scourge
An editorial attack decries the Beef Trust for stealing water via blind pipes from Chicago residents, inflating meat and food prices, and corrupting health inspectors. It argues private slaughtering hides disease risks such as tuberculosis and cancer, calls for state run slaughterhouses, and cites health department reports showing widespread condemnation of diseased meat.
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Chicago
Chicago Health Department
C. J. Whalen
Whelan
Beef Trust
Health Department
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Lehemann
McCabe
Chicago City Hailway Company
T.E. Mitten
J. P. Hogarth
Chicago City Railroad Company
London
House of Commons
William Bull
Lloyd-George
Board of Trade
Sir William
Burns
the Beef Trust
Chicago Daily News
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van Buren Street
Wabash
Fifth Avenues
Pererrier
Arnold C. Klebe
Chicago Medical Society
Bome
Chicago Trust
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