City Council weighs sewer costs and sidewalk work
Monday night the council reviewed a State street sewer line plan estimated at 6 883 feet and 43 579 in cost. Licenses, sidewalk petitions, and bids for manhole cleaning were discussed while finances prompt pace to August 15 for sidewalk payments.
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Brown
Courtright
State Street
Linden Street
John Beans
G. A. Briegel
George Perrett
Shepherd's Market
W. B. Mead
Mansion Street
Bida
John Gray
W. H. Etta
Mr. Gray
W. E. Bosley
M. Mann
Sarah Townsend
A. R. Phelps
Wm. Blankenhorn
B. Wetmore
George R. Perrett
I. A. Stuart
Feim Amttee
Ald
Savas
Medina
Court
Bean
Ald. Miller
Lamson & Crowley
Dean
Page
Mack
Miller
Zanger
Alonzo Howell
Will Gillfox
Personal news notes from Battle Creek and vicinity
Theodore Closser moves to Battle Creek and many residents linger at nearby towns. Travelers, visits, and family connections fill the week with social calls to Battle Creek, Albion, Lansing, Freddonia, and surrounding areas. A planned late month gathering closes the list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Closser
Battle Creek
Earl Page
Ella Williams
Frank Doane
Holly Cook
Albert Pattison
Albion
Strike Decided by St Louis Transit Employees
At two o'clock Tuesday morning a mass meeting of the St Louis Transit Company employees, with no dissent, voted to strike immediately. Twenty six hundred workers took part in the meeting.
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St. Louis
St. Louia Transit Company
Dewey Arrives in Memphis for Grand Floral Parade
Admiral Dewey and wife Mrs. Dewey arrived in Memphis with Lieuts Caldwell and Crawford last Sunday evening. The city hosts elaborate decorations and a full evening program including a morning breakfast at the Peabody, a series of receptions, a grand floral parade, and a grand opera house ball that tops prior social events.
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Memphis
Tenn
Dewey
Caldwell
Crawford
Adworel
Peabody Hotel
Admiral Dewey
Admiral
Mrs. Dewey
Grand Opera House
Directors Resign From American Steel and Wire Board
New York May 6 at a meeting of the board of directors of the American Steel and Wire company Henry W Seliyinga and Frederick W Strauss resigned from the board. They state they retire from the directory because John W Gates did not retire from management as expected.
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New York
American Steel and Wire Company
Henry We Seliyinga
Frederick W. Strauss
John W. Gates
British Movements Press Forward Toward Kroonstad
London May 8 Lord Roberts reports crossing the Vet River and encamping at Smaldeel Junction with the enemy retreating toward Yand river and Kreonstad. Canadian New South Wales New Zealand rifles and Queensland mounted infantry push to engage. Capture of Winburg confirmed as the Pretoria advance continues with rapid, rail-linked movement.
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London
Natal
Mafeking
Lord Roberts
Smaldeel
Kroonstad
Ladybrand
Free State
Warrenton
Croanen
Vet
Lowton
War Office
Vet River
Smaldech Junction
Yand River
Kreonstad
New South Wales
New Zealand Rifles
Queensland Mounted Infantry
Anley
Essex Regiment
Winburg
Pretoria
Hse
Winburyg
bin Sarailton
Vailus Eaat
Ward
Avtile
Winburg Rand
Winbury
Lord Luberts
The
Hiermfontein
Sparty reports fruit trees and oddities across Michigan
The Sparty column highlights heavy fruit shipments and an eight foot ten inch apple tree in Quincy, Ontonagon’s prosperity, a large rainbow trout caught near Traverse City, a Kalamazoo colt with two bodies, and a Kalamazoo farm spectacle. It notes Battle Creek hotel plans, a Pythias meeting in Lansing, a Barry County pole dispute, and other regional curiosities.
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Sparty
Jacob Talbot
Quincy
Calumet
State Tax Commission
Michigan
Geo. Init, Jr
Raff
Traverse City
Boardman River
Battle Creek
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Knights of Pythias
Grand Lodge
Lansing
Kalamazoo
Saji
Davis
Supreme Court
Barry County
Phornapple Lake
Hastings
Aguinaldo Heard From In Philippine Rebel Activity
Report from May telegrams indicates General Aguinaldo rejoined the rebels in the north and rebuilt forces. Generals Young and Avaipaldo are believed planning to resume fighting during the rains. Recent clashes on Samar and Leyte leave hundreds of rebels dead and two Americans wounded in the fighting. Congressnom Bartheldt renominated by acclamation in Missouri.
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Musil
Gyn
Ulat Aguinaldo
Young
Avaipaldo
Tino
Visayadn Islands
Catarman
Saoyar
Catubig
Forty-third Regiment
Baguan
Estes
Ersee
Destructive cyclone hits San Antonio area
May 8 reports describe a devastating cyclone in San Antonio Texas damaging the San Antonio Loan and Trust five story building uninsured with losses near 70000. Fort Sam Houston galleries and quarters demolished trees down bridges damaged homes and crops suffer, totaling over 100000 in city damages with no reported deaths.
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San Antonio
Tex
San Antonio Loan and Trust Company
Hite
Fort Sam Tronston
Bexar County
San Antonio Loan and ‘Frust
Compar
Gompers Urges Strikers to Ignore Injunction
New York May 8 Samuel Gompers of the Federation of Labor addressed striking cigarmakers in Hobemia hall urging disregard of Judge Freedman’s injunction that bans picketing and aiding the strike. He argued the injunction is unconstitutional and said strikers should continue the fight for principle, noting manufacturers’ wealth and court influence.
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New York
May
Samuel Gompers
Tuysttent
Federation of Labor
Hobemia Hall
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Sam Ford
J. A. Drum
Mr. Evad
W. Lupo
Jackson
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J. H. Nye
G. A. Burt
O. J. Reniger
Laura Bates
M. P. Green
A. Watson
Family Sunday
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Fredonia
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Callamtoignua N. Y
Martha J. Dole
Louise Powers
Edna Cognwell
Burlington
B.A. Snyder
Ada Hirth
Ann Arbor
Amelia Hirth
Miss Hirth
Nurge
University Hospital
Charles Ederle
Bedford
Maude Pringle
Gage& Sons
Ernest Boyce
Battle Creel
Dell Hinkle
West Mannsion Street
David Collins
Tandy
Nellie Collins
Waterloo
J. M. Hibbard
Stephen Riley
Mt. Clemens
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Harry Hulett
Charley Gronin
Frank Stuart
Will Church
Guy
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Kroonstad Hills
Loch Roberts
Hingis
Los Ghishes
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Kennemon le
Chics Board of Trade
Proll
Jagsador White
Berlin
McKinley
William
Pence
Michigan Central Geight House
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Wilfrid Laurier
Ottawa
Neuss
Arth Eighth Street
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Four Courts
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John W. Moore
Grand Avenue
Ontonagon
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Knill’s
Red, White & Blue Pill Co
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Jolae
Ting Fu
Ieland
Lozun
Union
Richard Bartheldt
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Store On Earth
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the Marshall News
Dwiewa Week
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Michigan Farmer
New York World
Chicago Weekly Dispatch
Marshall, Mich
LION
Eagle
Berry & Beaton
Gompers
Strilerk
Buffalo
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
East Buffalo
Heluit
Wiss
Paul Robinson
Gisciunall
Marshell A
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T. C. M. Behindler
Gen. Pass
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T.O
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Marshall
News Express
Boston
BiWay
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Atlantic Repress Express
Braight
O. W. Boggles
G. P
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Calsaga
Tekeb
Azo
Findenach
Msch
Ibis
Fred Hindenach
W. H. Rowland
Ofttea
Grace Brown
Shepherd’s
Catarket
Greene’s Drug Store
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