Chicago Fire Devastates City Across South and North Sides
The Great Fire roars through Chicago destroying waterworks and key depots. It scorches the South and North Sides, wiping out post office, courts, various banks, churches, theaters, and multiple elevators. Officials order freight and passenger depots closed. Firefighters struggle as water supply fails and casualties rise.
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Mall
South Aide
Harrison Street
Post Office
Custom House
Chamber of Commerce
New Jerusalem
Adams Street
Catholic Church
Des Plains Street
Journal Office
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Times
McVicker’s
Hooley’s Opera House
Dearborn
Wood's Museum
Fifth Union Northwestern
Cook County
Illinois National Banks
Second Presbyterian Church
St. _Paul’s Universalist church
Episcopal’ Church
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Michigan Southern Railroad
van Buren
Illinois Central
Illinois
Tremont
Sherman
Briggs House
Metropolitan
Palmer
Bigelow
European
Burk’s
New Pacific
Clark and
LaSalle Streets
E. J. Quyler
Galena
C. Dn. W. Railroad
Michigan Avenue
Chipatsin
Court House
Revere House
Field, Dimen
Merchants
Trekee
Menee
Iowa
Chicago
Freeport
Chamber'at
Commerce
Burvaig
Lake Street
Fragmentary insurance notice from Culver Page era
A damaged text fragment mentions Turner and Brawley Turner and a large library loss. The American Insurance Company reportedly saved installment notes and books. Whirlordor was brought to a port, and RayMtt Road faced losses. One supervisor saved a site while others faced suits and a Sherman House relocation.
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Culver Page & Hoydey
Baverkt
Thresport Ipidbold Ware
Chadten
Tata 'Ors
Turner
Toekday
Sherman
Chicago Mayor Advises Public Not To Visit City
Official order from Chicago mayor directs residents to avoid coming to the city. Message, sent Tuesday morning, instructs people to stay away and warns about public food distribution by O. Gaul t, general superintendent of the rail line.
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Vista
Jony Miller
Plae
Henry Eneppar
Winnebago County
A. B. Cross
Mass Meeting in Free Port Rallys to Aid Chicago Sufferers
A large mass meeting convened at Het tinger's Hall in Freeport Tuesday forenoon. Committees were appointed and actions taken to forward food to Chicago famine victims at once. Citizens were urged to send cooked provisions to the depot before 10 o'clock Tuesday evening.
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Hettinger
Chicago
Freeport
The Coming Election Promotes Republican Victory
A post urging Republican turnout on the first Tuesday in November argues a Republican majority is likely in the state and Stephenson races. It cites General John L Beveridge and Captain R T Cooper, praising incumbents and urging citizens to exercise suffrage as a duty to preserve free government.
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John L. Beveridge
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R. T. Cooper
Cooper
J. Dodds
Lena
O. T. Dunham
New York Democracy under Tammany influence questioned
The piece critiques Democratic control and Tammany Hall in New York, arguing widespread fraud and corruption. It contrasts Republican debt reduction with Democratic growth, citing figures and citywide impacts while urging voters to consider party accountability.
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Democratic Party
New York
Democratic State Committee
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Tammany
Sam Tilden
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Williams residence listing in Waddams Illinois 30s ad
An aged resident details market prices for staples and livestock in Stephenson County Illinois. The notice lists wheat rye oats barley butter cheese potatoes turnips onions and various flour meal and grain products along with meat and poultry prices and hides. The fragmented OCR shows October 1 and references Mr Thomas Train aged 70 with Freeport market data.
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Stephenson County
Inois
Pr. Thomas Train
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