Chicago to build massive Merchandise Mart twice size of largest building
Chicago announces a $30 million Merchandise Mart two city blocks long and 18 to 23 stories high. The complex will house Foremost manufacturers wholesalers and importers with freight stations on ground floor and a Merchants Club in the tower. Located on the riverfront near Wacker Drive it will feature vast corridors, showrooms, and modern logistics including private tracks and an inbound outbound freight system. It aims to centralize national commerce and boost Chicago as a Great Central Market with tenants like Marshall Field & Company and extensive warehousing and exhibition space.
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Chicago
United States
New York City
Furniture Mart
River Front
New River
Porn Fe
Wacker Drive
Wella Atreet
Chicago and North Western Railway Company
Kinzle Street
Wells Street
Orients
Franklin Streets
Wells
Franklin
Merchandise Mart
Canada
Marshall Field & Company
Mart
Acthyttlea
Inga
Noo
Chicago and North Western Railway
Treight
Niinofs Tunnel Company
Merchants’ Club
Chicago River
State Street
Michigan Avenue
Cass
Rush
New River District
Engineers
Chicago Evening Peat
Marton Wacker Drive
Chicago Daily News
Chicago Civile Opera Company
Merchandise Mart to Eclipse Size of Largest World Office Building
A comparison of major world business buildings shows the Merchandise Mart planned for Chicago would be more than twice the size of the largest existing structure. Figures list cubic footage for top towers led by Merchandise Mart at 53,000,000 and Chicago Furniture Mart at 25,370,000 with others including Equitable Building New York 24,000,000 and Woolworth Building New York 13,200,000 among ten noted structures.
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WARL
Bulding
Merchandise Mart
Chicago
Chicago Furniture Mart
Equitable Building
New York City
General Motors
Detroit
Local visitors and gatherings fill Cheery Valley area
A long list of residents and guests is noted with many Sunday visits. Adolph Hanson and family joined Mr. and Mrs. Frank Christen in Cheery Valley while others such as Ethel Herman and Henry Mann spent Sunday at Mc Gregor. Visitors from South Dakota, Elkader, Topeka, Kansas, and various nearby towns are named among church and social events.
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Adolph Hanson
Frank Christen
Cheery Valley
Harold
Ethel
Dorothy Herman
Henry Mann
McGregor
Alice Oswald
John Kenyon
Alice
Rachel
South Dakota
Iola
Joe Quigley
Chas. Doty
Will Ebendorf
Marie
Eileen. Beers
Gary
Ed Gehring
Philip Barthelmo
Andrew Yearous
la Fonda Shaffer
Alden Peters
Mitchell
Arlington
Bartlett
Brainard
Will Berger
Chas. Rothlisberger
Wisconsin
Illinois
Jerome
Lena Hunsberger
Cemetery Association
Ladies’ Aid Society
Fremont Ogle
Moff Martha Chapman
Ells
Amelia Muehlenthaler
Rock Valley
Rex Medberry
Albert Colburn
Dora
Beamer's Tire Shop promotes new heavy duty car vacuum
A West Union shop advertises a heavy duty car vacuum cleaner and services including car washing alimit e service radiator repair and power equipment with Beamer's Tire Shop listed as the provider.
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Beamer
West Union
Rye good hog pasture crop from early September rye
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station reports rye sown in September at 11 to 12 bushels per acre provides strong late fall and early spring pasture for swine. Green rye offers high protein compared with rape, about 9.435 pounds per hundred pounds dry matter, making it a valuable feed through spring before maturing into grain.
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Iowa Agriculturs Experiment Station
Inne Cook and Mrs Herbert Fall Calweth Visitors
Inne Cook and Mrs Herbert Fall were Calweth visitors last Saturday. Mr and Mrs Hugh Casper returned to their home in Chicago Saturday after a visit at the cordial Sam Lehman home and others.
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Great Central Market
West
Mercantile Mart
Union Trust
Cleveland
Railway Exchange
Bt. Louie
Ninots Merchants’ Bank
Continental & Commercial Bank
Woolworth
Straua
Aidit Uron
Bill
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