Sanitary District Power Fight Over Joliet Waterways
Isham Randolph, chief engineer, argues for Sanitary District authority to develop water power below Joliet Dam No 1, detailing Joliet's early hydraulic history, the public benefits, and the clash with Economy Light and Power over a potential 61000 yearly profit and a deep navigable waterway amid legislative consideration.
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Springfeld
Joliet Lake
Joliet
Will County
John H. Garnsey
Chicago
Thirty-ninth Street
Calumet Channel
Economy Light and Power Company
Sanitary District
Garnsey
Beelon
Sanit Mary
Isham
Randolph
JoHet
Desplaines
Adam
T. and M. Canal
Michigan
Twlineeis
Fem
Basboier
Dtliqueys
Sanitary
Sifp
Catiat
Lake Michigan
Desplaines River
Sanitary District of
Senate
A. C. Clark
Illinois and Michigan Canal
Brandon Road
Lake Joliet
Tenois and
Michigan Canal
Lockport
Lake Jo-liet
Eeconomy Light and Power Company
John L. Norton
Uinois and Michigan Canal Commissioners
Dam No. 1
Illinois and
Michigan Commissioners
South Street
Tuake Joliet
Economy Company
Thane
General Assembly
Patrons Urged to Notify Office on Paper Delivery
And notice asks readers who do not receive their paper regularly to inform the office of the missed delivery.
The Modesty of Women and Favorite Prescription
The article extols women’s modesty and favorably promotes Dr. R V Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a cure for grains irregularity and female weakness. It touts non alcohol content and printed ingredients with endorsements from medical schools, plus offers free pamphlets and advice from Buffalo New York.
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Pomeé
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Pierce
New York Boy Shows Curious Teeth Count
A twelve year old in New York is said to have five rows of teeth totaling sixty. The item notes odd dental facts alongside other quirky notes from the era.
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New York
Hfe
Thomas Darlington
English Etchings and Historical Snippets
Notes on London milk shops tolling tithes from King Egbert around 600 A D cholera history in Europe since 1866 England navy costs about 670 million dollars first cost and 890 million spent in ten years a London court remark about a laundry owner dead eleven years Yorkshire and Sussex county cricket introduced a towel wiped ball handled by the umpire during play
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London
England
Egbert
Europe
Liverpool
Yorkshire
Sussex
Shefferd
Plays and Players in Jazzes of Stage History
Shakespeare translated into Japanese spurs mikado era popularity as vaudeville traced back to Ellen Terry in the sixties. Burr McIntosh returns to star in Pudd’nhead Wilson and more. Boston approves Richard Carle’s new The Hurdy Gurdy Girls with bright music and lyrics. A. N. Woods lists twenty two attractions for next season including ten new melodramas.
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Ellen Terry
Burr McIntosh
Lfe
Boston
Richard Carle
A. N. Woods
Home care tips for household fabrics and cleanliness
Practical guidance on managing kimono sleeve fays, drying clothes, airing piles, treating kerosene spills with fuller's earth, buckwheat and other powders, and protecting surfaces with a heavy glass slab. Emphasizes slow brushing after waiting and safe handling of fragile glass to avoid breakage.
Weill Qualified Sail the World's a Stage
Readable lines present a quotation about acting and speaking parts attributed to Chicago Mews. The fragment hints at a discussion of performance and gender expectations without clear news context or identifiable events.
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Weill
Chicago
Strange tale told by Sandusky missing girl
In Sandusky Ohio a girl identified as Mabel Kirk age TL says a stranger urged her to travel with her father William Kirk to Sandusky after a woman visited her Indianapolis home on LaSalle Street. The girl rode the train alone to the Pleasure resort and slept under the boardwalk three nights with only a apple and sandwich. Her father has been notified.
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Sandusky
O. Any
Mabel Kirk
LaSalle Street
Indianapolis
William Kirk
Money for a Great Cathedral Crossing Funded
New York August 27. The crossing of the Cathedral of St John the Divine on Marine Heights will be completed with a $100,000 gift from J Pierpont Morgan and $875,080 from George Bowdoin. The crossing will serve up to 5 000 worshippers, almost ready and planned to finish within seventy five hours.
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New York
Protestant Episcopal Diovesan House
St. John and the Divine
Marinae Heights
JF. Pierpont Morgan
George 8. Bowdoin
Santos
Japan
Nelson Morris Critical After Heart Attack at Home
Nelson Morris the packer lies critically ill at his residence 2453 Lodian avenue after a four day bed confinement due to heart disease. Dr Arthur Edwards says Morris shows some hope for recovery despite increasing weakness.
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Nelson Morris
Lodiaan Avenue
Arthur Edwards
Morris
Ship Turna Turtle in Dock Near San Francisco
The Paedule Coast Steamship steamer Nenpulco sank at her dock in San Francisco just before departure for Panama and west coast ports. The vessel was heavily loaded and much cargo was ruined though no lives were lost.
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Turna Turtle
San Francisco
Aus
Paedule Coast Steamship Company
Nenpulco
Panama
Italians Sentenced to Hang on October 3 in Febrew Murder
In Tamcaster Pennsylvania on August 27 four Italian men were sentenced to be hanged together on October 3 for a murder from over a year ago. They listened to their death warrants read by the sheriff, with two showing evident emotion.
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Tamcaster
Eurmtien
Chicago Markets Report with Wheat and Livestock Prices
Chicago Board of Trade quotes show wheat ranges with August and September figures, and mixed grain numbers. Live stock in Chicago and East Buffalo receipts and bids cover cattle hogs sheep and lambs with prime and choice levels noted.
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Chicago
Timois
Indiana
Wisconsin
Prafrie
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
N.Y
Kodo for Indigestion Offers Digestive Aid
A vegetable acid preparation called Kodo for Indigestion and Dyspepsia claims to digest what you eat. Sold by Wm F Jungkunz at 85 Stephenson Street. Vacation readers may forward Journal issues by leaving their address at the office with Callphone 25 for forwarding.
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Wm. F. Jungkunz
Stephenson St
Journal
Old Time Yorkshire Pies From A Curious Cookery Note
A Victorian recipe extols Yorkshire pies with a standing crust and a mix of fowl and game layers. It details boning multiple birds, seasoning with mace nutmeg cloves and pepper, packing four pounds of butter, and baking in a very hot oven for four hours. A footnote mocks copying another writer’s language word for word.
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Chambers’ Journal
Interview on Curriculum Change Sparks Debate
A local reporter records Mr. M. T. Swelhead weighing a proposed school curriculum change. He notes Swelhead has studied curricula at home and abroad and states he does not seek to force opinions but has given the question long and studious attention.
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George
Jiminy
Swelhead
M. T. Swelhead
A London Lad's Prayer by W Pett Ridge
A London writer W Pett Ridge notes a boyish prayer asking for growth and wealth of words. The tale shifts to Elfred Martin of 53 Castle Street near Southark Bridge as a key memory emerges.
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London
W. Pett Ridge
A. Martin
Elfred Martin
Castle Street
Surrey
South‘ark Bridge
Water Transport Cheaper Than Land Travel Says Century
Charles D. Stewart argues in Century that water transportation remains far cheaper than land travel, pushing most domestic tonnage to water. He notes railways control the largest lake steamers and laments Mississippi commerce decline above Cairo due to accessibility issues and lack of tributary commerce.
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Mississippi
Cairo
Charles D. Stewart
Reporter’s Stradivarius Not Noted in Paper
Nothing Doing and Thermushiqi clash over coverage of a violin claim. The editor mocks the reporter for omitting the alleged Stradivarius detail in this morning’s issue.
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Thermushiqi
Stradivarius
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