Busse Stands for Liberty Amid Chicago Election Battle
The piece defends Mayor Busse’s liberal stand against closing saloons on Sundays and his fight with anti-saloon factions. It notes petitions, referendums, and political tensions ahead of city elections, including bond plans for a new city hall and discussions on the Consolidated Traction Company. It highlights praise for Busse’s efforts against vice and calls for reform while critiquing opponents and press.
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Busse
Anti-Saloon League
Arthur Burrage Farwell
Chicago Daily News
Chicago
Bartlett
1St Ward
Dr. Bartlett
Wilson
Law Department
Consolidated Traction Company
Consolidated
Railways Company
Chicago Heights council costs rise over water plant plan
A Chicago Heights letter accuses the city council of wasteful spending on a municipal water pumping turbine and meters. It argues the North Shore Electric Co would have supplied cheaper, warns of future boiler and maintenance costs, and urges studies of underground water and canal connections to Lake Michigan.
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the Heights
Chicago Heights
Chicago Eagle
City Council
North Shore Electric Company
North Shore Electric
Terry Steam Turbine Co
Terry
Weatinghouse General Electric
Allis-Chalmers
North Shore
Waukegan
Maywood
Harlem
Sanitary District Trustees
Lake Michigan
South Chicago
M. H. Kilgallen
G. F. Schreiber
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Friends of Freedom
The
Bar Association
Harrigan
Daily Press
Chicago Woman's Club
Democratic Harmony Committee
Peoria Conference
Halifax
Springfield
Evanston
North Avenue
Austin
Halsted Street
Twelfth Street
Chicago Avenue
Fullerton Avenue
van Buren Street
Ald
A. W. Bellfuss
Fifteenth
Ald. L. D. Sitts
Seventeenth
Board of Education
Illinois
State Civil Service
Downstate
la Salle
Wella
Wells and Columbus
Mitchell and Hayes
Cook County
Joseph Downey