Women Succeed Men in Hotels In Key Posts
A survey of hotel staffing across the country claims women are displacing men in mail departments wine closets and storerooms and may soon hold senior duties. Proponents cite accuracy honesty and better stock control attributing current shifts to rising hotel workloads and a view of women as lifelong workers.
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Springfield
Baggage Department
Biore Sore
Higtare
Mail
Checker’s Department
Finishing touch: well cut smart trousers
A vintage note from Golden Fagle highlights that the perfect dress finish comes with two trouser styles, a conservative cut and an extreme peg top, offering versatile options for immaculate attire.
Fresport Conservatory catalog offers courses and diploma requirements
The notice advertises a new illustrated catalog for the Fresport Conservatory of Music Incorporated. It outlines courses of study, graduation and diploma requirements, and a preparatory program for beginners. Located at No 401 Wilcoxon Building, with fall styles for boys caps priced at 25 and 50 cents by Golden Eagle.
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Fresport Conservatory of Music, Incorporated
Wilcoxon
Golden Eagle
Big Four Cairo division upgrades push ahead with year-long completion
Rail and line projects dominate the page. The Big Four’s Cairo division will take about a year to finish 8-10 percent grades and massive earthworks to cut grades from 66 feet to 16 per mile, enabling locomotives to haul far heavier loads. Courts may block rice rate tariffs, while Danville to Indiana Harbor work advances to connect with Chicago tracks by January.
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New York
Cairo
Big Four
Danville
Indiana Harbor
Chicago
Lake Shore
New State Map Project Aims to Chart Illinois
Surveyors sent by the government begin a topographical map of Illinois with Champaign county active. The plan covers quadrangles twelve and a half by seventeen and a half miles, eight surveyors per team, and details like homes, roads, and streams. Maps cost five cents per quadrangle, with a geological layer of soil strata to eight thousand feet.
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Illinois
Champaign County
United States
Poinsons in Food and Health Claims in Ads
A fragmentary ad warns about poisons in food and promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills with a money back guarantee for cures of undigested-food sickness. It mentions 25¢ and a drug store, plus unrelated lines about hats, licensing, and garbled text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
Joseph Emmert
Laws In Jail Cell Expose Postoffice Robber Escape Plan
In La Crosse Wisconsin investigators found four eight and a half inch steel saws hidden in jail cell door locks, undermining a banana smuggling theory. Turnkey Childers and Trainor and Cunningham are linked to a postoffice robbery plot. Cunningham is jailed, others await grand jury action. meanwhile no truth to a ransom claim involving Eddie Fay.
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la Crossé
la Crosse
Wis
Childers
Trainor
Cunningham
Postoffice
Fraser
Post Office
United States Grand Jury
Madison
United States
Lewiston
Eddie Fay
Jonas
Illinois game laws overview and season dates
The Illinois hunting rules outline season dates for quail, prairie chicken, woodchucks, mourning doves, squirrels, snipe, plover, waterfowl, deer, turkey, pheasant and partridge. It lists unlawful acts, including netting, trapping, or killing at improper times or with certain methods, bag limits, breeder permits, and license costs for residents and non residents. It also notes legal hunting on one’s own land without a license and prohibits ferret use.
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Dee
Turkey
Many Come From Rockford Labor Day Parade Plans
Rockford reports union men scarce for Monday as members prepare to attend the Labor day celebration in Freeport. Organizers anticipate a few regulars will stay behind, while most locals arrange travel by special Northwestern train or interurban to ensure strong parade participation.
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Rockford
Freeort
Ocal
Freeport
Grave Trouble Foreseen and a Remedy Found
Mrs. John A. Young of Clay New York suffered neuralgia of the liver and stomach with a weak heart and loss of appetite. She credits Electric Bitters with quick relief and cure, calling it the best medicine for weak women. sold by Joseph Emmert at 50 cents a bottle with guarantee.
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John A. Young
Clay
N. Y
Joseph Emmert
Excursion Tickets to Old Soldiers and Sailors Reunion
Excursion tickets to the Old Soldiers and Sailors Reunion in Ashton TL via the North-Western Line will be sold at reduced rates on September 5 and 7, limited to return until September inclusive. Apply to agents Chicago and North-Western Ry, 8-80dlw.
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Ashton
Eago
Town Board Meeting Set for Tuesday Evening
Town board holds a regular meeting Tuesday evening September 5 at 7 30 p m to audit bills. Citizens with town bills should present them at the clerk’s office promptly. Thos Lawless Town Clerk.
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Thos, Lawless
Very Low Rates to Kansas City Excursion Ticket Sale
Excur sion tickets to Kansas City via North-Western Line available August 28 to 31 with favorable return limits. Offered to agents of Chicago and North Western Railway for the annual convention of the National Firemen's Association.
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Kansas City
Ala
North-Western Line
National Firemen’s Association
Chicago & Northestern R'y
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Loney On
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Drs
Hettinger Block
Sawdead
Southern Pacific
Louisiana Railroad Commission
Railroad Commission
Pittsburg
Lake Erie
United States Steel Corporation
Japan
Great Northern Railroad
Seattle
Northern Pacific
Tacoma
Pacific Coast
James J. Hill
Island Empire
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Pacific
Yokohama Bay
Korea
Yalu
Land of Contention
Manchuria
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Youngstown
Oregon Navigation
Spokane
Missouri
Missouri River
The
Great Northern
Republic
Washington
Ilinois
Golden Rage
Geo. BE
Mauel
Laws
Game Laws OF
Sister City
Newman's Sanitary Dairy Co
Newman’s Sanitary Dairy CO
Freeport Gaslight & Coke Co
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Melrose
Panama
Poplins
Prunellas
Serges
Batiste
Albatross
Paris
Ste
Stephenson
EL Pronto
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Roy Melnick
A. W. Place
A. H. Reiger
George Wolf
Edward Emrick
Dr. Matter
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F. Roche
William Keeler
Co. W. Harden
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