Jerked to Glory in Chicago Politics Banquet Skits
A chaotic Chicago sea of factions rallies around lunch route politics and a Merriam banquet led by Boy Scouts and Seven Peoria Sisters. Rainey for Governor backed by Jacksonville Giants, while critics rail at public meals, forester fees, Lane Tech nuisance, and the city’s reformers clashing with the status quo.
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Chicago
Boy Scouts
Peoria Sisters
Merriam
Jacksonville Giants
Dunlap
Thompson
Rainey
Bellfuss
Bollfuss
Lane Technical School
Division
Sedgwick Streets
John Worthy School
Lane Tech
Taxicab Rates in Chicago Spark City Council Clash
The piece denounces hotel owners for renting street frontage to taxi stands and advocates a proposed fare increase. It details the new scale from 40 to 60 cents for the first half mile, extra charges per passenger and for packages, plus opposition from independent cab operators. The article also covers debates on the Aldrich banking bill and city redistricting efforts. It notes Mayor Harrison urging ward reform and endorses the Glackin bill to let the city buy its own tax warrants to save money, with several aldermen traveling to Springfield to push the measure.
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Chicago
Paris
Trust
Committee On Elections
Cermak
Elections Committee
Harrison
House of Representatives
Sitts
Kearns
Beilfuss
Richert
Lawley
Derpa
Reading
Springfield
House Committee On Municipalities
Michael C. Buckley
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
Thomas Moynihan
Wessels
Owen J. McMahon
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Peorin
Professor Merriam
Chicken Fighters’ Union
Webster Avenue
Clyborne Avenue
Larrabee Street
North Halsted
Ewing Avenue
Charles V. Standish
See
Board of Local Improvements
Board of Local Improvement
Chicago Daily Papers
the Taxi Trust
West Side Market
Cubs Ball Park
Glennon
Superior Court
Supreme Court
Massachusetts
Illinois
Twelfth Street
Ickes
The
Merriam Boy Scouts
United Societies
van Buren Street
Miles J. Devine
James H. Wilkerson
Brundage
HB. W. Sims
United States
Taxicab Trust
Taxi Trust
Charles G. Dawes
David R. Forgan
E. 8. Lacey
Orrin N. Carter
State Supreme Court
Mr. Dawes
Forgan
Dawes
William L. O'Connell
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