Chicago Mayor Busse Ambitious Plan for City Growth
Loyal supporters hail Mayor Fred A Busse as driving Chicago toward greatness. Under his leadership subways, an outer harbor and a boulevard link aim to ease congestion and unite the South and North Sides. A new harbor committee expands prospects for shipping revenue and city upbuilding. The article also notes alliances in public health reform and critiques of press and prohibition debates.
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Chicago
Fred A. Busse
America
Busse
Great Lakes
Management Burden Leads to Executive Reshuffle at Telephone Co
The company shifts duties between Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Sunny as an 80 city improvements program and new franchise broaden responsibilities. Sunny is praised for practical expertise in electrical matters and Chicago needs. Mayor Buase lauded for long service and progress.
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EB. Sunny
General Electric Company
Chicago Telephone Company
Arthur D. Wheeler
Chaiman
John M. Clark
Clark
Sunny
Wibeeler
Wheeler
Chicago
Chicago Mounted Police banner presented at Bra marck Hotel
George W. Jackson, famed contractor, presented the Chicago Mounted Police with a banner in honor of their traffic control downtown. The five by four foot banner bore the city seal and inscription Chicago Mounted Police and will lead parades and special events. speakers included City Clerk John R. McCabe and Aldermen Moreman Bennett. Memorial Day plans move forward with veteran posts assigned to cemeteries for graves decoration.
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George W. Jackson
Chicago Mounted Police
Bramarck Hotel
John R. McCabe
Healy
Milton J. Moreman
Frank I. Bennett
George M. Whippy
Schuettler
James Horan
Bernard J. Mullaney
William Fields
Mr. Jackson
Grand Army Memorial Association
Michigan Avenue
26Th Street
Jackson Boulevard
Market Street
Chicago Public Life Leaders and Club Nominations
Reports list Governor C. B. Deneen Mayor Fred A. Busse and General William H. Carter at Buren street Michigan avenue as 15 000 expected to attend. Includes Houthton Club regular ticket nominees with election set for May 18 and notes on public reform measures such as meat inspection funding, municipal judge election timing, and wheel tax issues involving Armour Swift and other corporations.
Five residents seek voiding of wheel tax ordinance
Five hundredory men filed a petition in Circuit Court on Tuesday asking that the wheel tax ordinance be declared void unreasonable and unconstitutional. They charge the ordinance by requiring them to pay all
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Armour
Circuit Court
Slatemaking in Cook County shaping up for May 25
The article details Republican slate planning in Cook County with a May 25 deadline for listing all candidates and a likely replica of the prior slate. It notes hopes to include drainage trusteeships and municipal bench positions, with nine current municipal judges retiring and several incumbents not seeking renomination. It lists meeting attendees including Mayor Busse and John J. Hanberg, and cites concerns about qualified candidates and avoiding political padding on the slate.
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Busse
Fred A. Busse
Charles W. Andrews
William Weber
Fred M. Blount
Daniel A. Campbell
James Pease
John J. Hanberg
E. J. Magerstadt
Joseph FP. Tuas
Rey C. West
Charles W. Wall
William Lorimer
Cook County
Beitler
Sadler
Eberhardt
Puke
Petit
Goodenow
Torrison
Wells
Lantry
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Chicago Association of Commerce
National Public Health Association
Ways and Means
Association
Great Northern Hotel
W. A. Evans
Department of Health
Daily Press
Paper
The
Lyons
Chicago Tribune
Welsbach Street Lightning Company
Mghting Company
Lcense
Fred Zhomermay
Fred A. Buase
Brundage
John J. Thanders
Houthton Club
Frederick A. Rowe
J. C. Ruetting
W. L. Clark
Albert G. Frost
James T. Plumsted
T. O. Bunch
Charles D. Richards
Edward P. Eastman
A. W.glessner
George I. Fielder
Political Action Committee
Andrew L. Winters
Charles T. Farson
Congress
Lawyers’ Association of
Hlinois
Springfield
Shippy
Schneider
Board of Education
Whitman
Bridewell
John Worthy School
Beef Trust
United States Supreme Court
Witneses
80Th Street
People's Treasury
Armour, Swift
Armour, Swift and Company
Public Works
Chicago Harbor Commissioners
Polke Street
Harbor Commission
Chicago Health Department
Union Stock Yards
Swift
McRoberts
Board of Review
Mr. Armour
Boot Trust
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