Smallpox Vaccination and Local Parish Changes
Plainfield reports no Joliet smallpox scare but notes increased vaccination, especially among workers traveling daily to Joliet. Community updates include church furnace repairs, a new barn and garage planned for the parish grounds, and social events across town.
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Plainfield
Joliet
Southern
St. Mary’s Parish
Goodson Bros
Father Epstein
Illinois
Congregational Missionary Society
L. H.darling
J. E. Alder
Hatch
G. F. Kersten
Chicago
Kersten
H. Scheidleman
Levi Hill
Bartlett Ave
C. Steiner
Icago
oHrs. E
Emma Wright
Mission Band of the
Congregational Church
Jean Beddoes
Young Ladies Guild of Congregational Church
E. Foster
Wm. McLaughlin
Bride
Pretty quiet wedding ties Miss Mabel Johnson to Willis H Hughes
In Lockport at 4 pm Miss Mabel Johnson daughter of Mr and Mrs M P Johnson wed Willis H Hughes in a ceremony attended by immediate relatives. A reception and dinner followed. The couple will travel briefly then settle in a newly furnished flat at 3945 Koestmer Ave Irving Park. Mrs Hughes led the local library work at the Steel Works club, and the groom is noted as a Chicago railroad man.
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Lockport
Mabel Johnson
Koestmer Avenue
Irving Park
Hughes
Joliet
Steel Works Club
Chicago
Justrium Liberorum Three Children Privilege in Rome
In 9 AD Lex Papia Poppaea granted offices to fathers with large families. Eligible before twenty five, they outranked childless or small families. The rule varied: three children in Rome, four in Italy, five in the provinces. The system never functioned well.
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Augustus
Rome
Italy
Snow hurricane of the Pamirs and a Jamaica mission
The text notes a Pamirs snow buran with sudden formation and extreme cold in January and mentions Sir James Crichton Browne on a British colonial office mission to Jamaica. Browne asks a Kingston official about Scots on the island and the official replies in a paused, ambiguous manner.
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Pamirs
James Crichton Browne
Jamaica
Kingston
James
Darky
E J and E fined ten dollars for blocking street
The Elgin Joliet and Eastern Railway company was fined ten dollars and costs by Justice F M Hawk for blocking the thoroughfare in front of Mary G Seland at 1700 Jackson. The judge warned of further action if the obstruction was not removed. Seland acted as the complainant.
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Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Company
F. M. Hawk
Mary G. Seland
Jackson
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Country Club
5Th Ave
Richards. St
Richards St
Rockers
Bae
W.G. Wilcox
Joliet Sts
J. Bowman
Prutsman
Water Department
Sanitary District
Public Service Company
Methodist Sunday School
G. ¥. Courier
Alfred Livingston
Warren Caffrey
Louise Deeming
Fred Chamberlain
Kate Deeming
Margaret Chamberlain
L. Nv Sager
Alton
George Barnes
Edward Riley
Thomas Riley
Free Press
Volz Brothe
Majestic
Chicago, Ottawa & Peoria
Rochdale
Minooka
Morris
Seni
Marseilles
Ottawa
Starved
Utica
LaSalle
Peru
Spring
Ladd
Marquette
Howe
Grand Ridge
Streator
F.E. Fisher
Joliet Street
Princeton
Rockdale
M. Ladd
Joliet’s
New Enterprise
Bell Heath
Accident Association
F. G. Brum d. Bell
Clement
Ottawa St
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