Parks of Chicago Pride and Garden City Venues
Chicago’s park system is described as a Garden City acclaimed for miles of tree lined boulevards vast green spaces and ornate fountains. Lincoln Park Washington Park Jackson Douglas Humboldt Garfield and other parks offer lakes strolls animals shrines and art monuments while the five principal cemeteries Rosehill Calvary Crystal Greenwood and Island remain nearby with grand monuments and landscaped grounds Myrtle highlights include Drexel Fountain and expansive drives for visitors to enjoy affordable transit and scenic views.
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Chicago
Garden City
Lincoln Park
North Division
Washington
Jackson
Garfield
Douglas
Humboldt
Madison Street
Milwaukee Avenue
Animnal Kingdom
Non
Schiller
German Poel
Lincoln
Bates
la Salle
General Grant
Washington Park
Lake Dark
Irko Front
Michigan Avenue Boulevard
Dyad
Rosehill
Northwestern
Calvary
Criiceland Cemetery
Greenwood
New York
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Flowers at the Fair and Worlds of Bloom at Columbian Exposition
World fair correspondence describes the vast horticultural display on the wooded island at the Columbian Exposition. Acres of sunflowers, roses, pansies, and exotic beds from Austria England Japan Holland Belgium Italy and America fill the Horticulure Building. Gardens feature water cascades, orchid rocks, and a dominant rose bed with 60 000 bushes. Colorful plantings and living scenery evoke a tropical jungle and a lakefront garden offering a vivid panorama of rare varieties and landscapes within the fair.
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Ireland
Holland
Belgium
Austria
England
Scotland
France
Maine
Texas
Island Garden
Thorpe
Ho-o-den Palace
Orient
How the American flag gained its stripes and stars
The article recounts the color choices for flag stripes, noting red preferred for visibility. It explains seven red and six white stripes, with New Hampshire and Georgia represented, and describes the symbolic blue field and evolving star and stripe counts from 1777 through 1818, up to forty-four stars reflecting later state admissions.
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New Hampshire
Georgia
Philaalphia
Howe
Republic
Bradley
Vermont
Kentucky
Ates
Hull
Stewart
Monroe
North
South Dakota
Montana
Washington
Idaho
Wyoming
Honors to the Flag and Crop Outlook Across States
The article notes national observances of the flag’s adoption on June 14 and discusses the flag’s symbolism with 13 stars. It then reports varied crop conditions across states, highlighting army worm damage to wheat and hay, with comments on Illinois Indiana Ohio Michigan Missouri Kansas Nebraska Iowa Wisconsin Minnesota and the Dakotas, and a generally favorable potato outlook outside Kansas.
Favorable to Farmers Crops Promise in Many States
Telegraphed bulletins from Washington report a warm week in the Northwest fueling growth and improved conditions across Missouri Illinois Indiana Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota Kansas Iowa Nebraska California and other states. Winter wheat hay and potatoes face mixed prospects as worm damage and drought concerns appear in places.
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Tnoolana
Ohio
Michigan
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Wisconsin
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Iana
Minnesota
Dakotas
South Atlantic
Agricultural Bureau
Washington
North Dakota
South Dakota
Towa
California
Army Worm Ravages Southern Illinois Fields
The army worm first appeared since 1875 sweeping Southern Illinois and neighboring Indiana and Missouri. Ditches surround fields to check the invasion while hogs chickens turkeys crows and black birds feast on ruined crops. Expected damage looms large as the pest vanishes as suddenly as it arrives.
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Illinois
Indiana
Missouri
Globe-Democrat
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the Parks OF
Thirty-fifth Street
Douglas Park
Crystal Cave
Binos
Donlan
Ean
Uncle Sam
U. 3
Alion
United States
Congress
Unite States
the Netherlands
Farmers’ Review
Florida
Spain
J. S. Clarkson
Grorce B. Letcmer
Cincinnati
Travelers’ Protective Association
Portland
Oregon
Clarence Hopard
E. L. Hall
Joseph Burns
Paudimetta
John Gilbert
Cleveland
Elgin National Watch Factory
Elgin
American Railway Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
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