City Council Proceedings August 4 1879 Regular Meeting
The Mayor presided with Aldermen Irvin Zartman Crane Porter and Wagner present. Minutes from June and July meetings were read and approved. Petitions ranged from dram shop license reform to medical liquor sales, cemetery funding, and tax refunds, all referred to respective committees. Reports from Street Commissioner, Weighmaster, Sexton, and City Treasurer accepted or referred, and bills approved after debate. Several road and sidewalk projects recommended, including a Tutty street bridge and Walnut street grading, with curbstone for a church. Fire department needs noted including new gear and hose stock. engine movements to Beloit and Lanark discussed with hours constraint. The council adjourned.
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Ald
Irvin
Zartman
Crane
Porter
Wagner
H. D. Jenkins
Rowell, Colby
Emmert & Burrell
Swartz & Stocking
H. L. Wagner
Col. Stephenson Steam Fire Engine Company
Beloit
Wis
F. Ruthe
L. Propp
Orton
Clay
Foley
Sexton
A.T. Green
J. P
Finnce
Tutty Street
Walnut Street
Stephenson
Bridge
1St Presbyterian Church
Ann Street
Galena Avenue
Ringold Street
Department
Schlott & Co
John Wareham
F. Taylor
Gates
Smith
Adj
Stillard
Zirtman
A. Linder
Jacob Mherle
inWderman Irvin
Comittee
Aso
Dwarshad
Torrent Engine Cumming
Lemark
Wigner
Special Meeting on Liquor Petitions Aug 30 1879
City council met at the mayor's call to receive liquor sale petitions and bonds. Alderman Porter moved to grant the petitions and approve the bonds. all voted aye except Alderman Zartman who abstained. Meeting adjourned.
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Zartman
Scuehner
Crane
Porter
Wagner
John Trautwein
O. Ziegler
W. P. Mal
Grand Lodge officers elected at Illinois session
The Grand Lodge of Illinois LO G T held its annual session in the city last week. Officers elected and installed include W C T J W Nichols Bloomingto n and other grand line positions with names across Blooming ton Uriah Copp Jr Loda Eunice Hooper Pana Sarah Barnes Freeport C W Bassett Abingdon J Hi Sprague Bloomington S Lane Rockford 8 Fuller Chicago Ira n Lesa Buda W H Hubbard Decatur Ed Bristol Dongola E T Gilbert Chicago Jeanne A Stafford Chicago Kate Camp Yates City Supt Jur Temples.
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Grand Lodge
Illinois
LO. G. T
PG. W.C. T
J. W. Nichols
Bloomington
Uriah Copp, Jr
Loda
G. W.C
Eunice Hooper
Pana
Sarah A. Barnes
Freeport
G.W.S
E. T. Gilbert
Chicago
Kate Camp
Yates City
Temples
Jeanne A. Stafford
Queen’s heavy dispatch load at Balmoral revealed
London correspondent notes the Queen handled about 17 000 boxes of state dispatches in six months before leaving for Baveno. He cites unprecedented daytime telegrams to the Foreign Office and huge dispatch inflows from Indian, War, and Colonial Offices, with hundreds awaiting her signature.
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London
Liverpool
Baveno
Balmoral
Windsor
Foreign Office
Europe
Indian Office
War Office
Colonial Office
Chateau
Fancy for the alto in a Louisville church circle
A Louisville youth teaching Sunday school and active in the choir harbors affection for the alto singer. During a call he endures awkward small talk with the minister and family, as the minister recounts travels in Brail and even the child chimes in about Lapland, revealing the lively church social scene.
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Louisville
Flory
Mr. John
Lapland
Well Enough Alone Difficult Marriage Askew
A young man resists his rich uncle’s arranged match with a girl the uncle deems “well enough.” The nephew retorts that the uncle has long taught him to leave well enough alone, challenging the superficially acceptable union.
Town boy’s quip on aging dad spurs chuckles
A local boy teased his grandfather by mishearing a joke about aging. The exchange prompted playful remarking and lighthearted family banter across the up-town household.
How the Prehistories Made their Arrowheads
Smithsonian scientist Cushing publicizes a method to make prehistoric stone and obsidian arrowheads daggers knives and axes by pressure flaking with a stick. He argues prehistories were right handed, evidenced by grooves and occasional left to right flakes. The finding implies they could craft sharp weapons without iron or bronze.
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Smithsonian Institute
Cushing
Cleveland
Sumner and Lord Brougham at a Breakfast Shock
Boston correspondent recounts Charles Sumner recalling a breakfast abroad with Lord Brougham. Brougham read a newspaper attack, unleashed a volley of curses on its author, shocking Sumner she kept a calm, unmoved expression his mother present. The scene ended with an agreeable breakfast.
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Charles Sumner
Boston
Hartford Courant
Sumner
Lord Brougham
Mr. Strumner
Brougham
Drying Advances Raise Value of Cold Desiccation
The Scientific News notes new drying methods reduce heat needs, enabling color and flavor retention in fruits. Steam drying accelerates desiccation of vegetables and fruits, with desiccated potatoes becoming common. Improved beet sugar extraction in large, year round facilities may ship sliced beets as a standard trade item, suggesting a bright future.
Bayard Taylor Meets Prince Bismarck on German Train
While traveling in Germany last summer Bayard Taylor stepped from a southbound train and was greeted by Princess Bismarck who said her husband was aboard reading Joseph and his Friends. Taylor joined the Chancellor's car and Bismarck praised the novel but faulted its villains escaping too easily.
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Bayard Taylor
Germany
Bismarck
Joseph
Taylor
Mr. Taylor
The Emperor of Austria at Ischl A Simple Summer Home
The Austrian emperor’s Ischl lodgings are starkly simple two large plain rooms with dark walnut furnishings. A silver ivory crucifix gifted by Archduke Franz Karl sits by the bed near a prie dieu. His desk holds coarse Virginia cigars, a military cap, and multilingual books, reflecting his role as a linguist.
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Emperor of
Austria
Ischl
Archduke Franz Karl
Partial demolition of Doge's Palace in Venice storms south west corner
A section of the Doge's Palace in Venice was demolished after rapid decay made preservation impossible. The southwest angle was found dangerous with columns out of alignment and arches slipping. The entire side up to the second-story cornice, about twelve metres high, was removed for reconstruction while the group of Ada and Eve was preserved.
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Venico
Ada and Eve
Separate battalions by hair color in Russian army
A historic note mentions divisions by hair color in the Russian army, with blonde soldiers placed in one company and brunettes in another. This terse arrangement highlights selective grouping within units.
Pointed Note From A San Francisco Bride
A newlywed San Francisco woman discovers her husband is a stable helper rather than a Mexican grandee. She writes a sharp farewell letter, insisting he provide real meals and a bill of fare, threatening to cut him if encountered on the street. The epistle mocks the lavish pretensions of a mysterious but poor-spoiling match.
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San Francisco
A New Breed of Geese
A foreign agricultural journal advocates the Japanese goose for poultry yards praising its beauty, adaptability to land and water, cold resilience, and high prolificacy. It lays midwinter and rarely sits before June or July, with Cochins recommended for hatching under other fowls. Feathers and down yields are noted as exceptional.
Japanese method of meat preservation gains European notice
The article describes a Japanese technique for keeping meat moist in hot weather. Raw flesh is placed in porcelain vessels and covered with boiling water to coagulate albumen, forming a protective surface. Oil atop the water excludes air to prevent putrefaction, praised as superior to the common practice of extended boiling that ruins flavor.
Compressed Flour Proves Superior For Baking
A French chemist compressed flour under 300 tons hydraulic pressure reducing volume to a quarter. After three months both pressed and unpressed were sealed in tins. pressed flour kept better and baked bread showed superiority. A year later unpressed flour spoiled while pressed flour remained fresh and sweet.
French senator’s widow attends Prince Imperial funeral
Mme Thayer, widow of a Massachusetts senator, traveled from France to England for the Prince Imperial’s funeral. She is General Bertrand’s daughter, once with Napoleon I at St Helena, and heard the emperor’s last words as a girl before his death.
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England
France
Prince Imperial
Mme. Thayer
James Thayer
Massachusetts
Paris
Durin
Bertrand
Napoleon I
St. Helena
Artificial Ivory Patent Outline from Bohlen Hatthe
A patent outlines making artificial ivory using a process with 100 grams of a gelatinous substance and 60 parts water, mixing 59 grams of bleached cellulose in water, and preparing plaster moulds. The method includes oiling moulds, mixing gypsum and iron with cellulose, removing air bubbles, and curing with wax and stearine. A dressmaker who was at a death scene recovered and led the item titled Survival test.
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Bohlen
Info Man
Luce
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City Council
Lanark
W. M. Polk
Sumner and
Cesses
Mary
GEO. T. Lewis & Menzies
Adelphia
He Sima Iy
Excelsior
Manuel
Main Street
ST. Louis
Inos
DR. Paige
Mer
Price
Steele & Price
Jamaica
E. Manfrs
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