OUR CHICAGO LETTER FROM AROUND THE CITY
A lively column reports weather swings in Chicago and notes on local crime trade and city life. It covers Olsen murder intrigue, body discoveries, pauper debates, and police activity. It visits South Side growth, groceries, churches, theatre scenes, and library board updates with details on residents and businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dakota
Olsen
Atlantic
Shea
Barrel
Baltimore
Weat Lake Street
Jeliet
Board of Commissioners
Forty-second Street
Chicago
John A. Fish
James Shaw
Wells Street
Forty Second Street
Cottage Grove Avenue
John A
William Clark
Hampton
Clark
Lingley &Co
Park Avenue Methodist Church
McVicker
Patti
Gerster
Margherta
Valentina
Semlovich
Abbey Company
Chrisine Nilsson
Nilsson
Fool
Irving Company
Hamlet
Shylock
Mathias
Moline
Louis the XI
Wm. G. MoRnis
Uniform train signals urged for safer rail travel
Mr Allen, secretary of the railway timetable convention, seeks adoption of a unified signal system across roads to prevent collisions at crossings. Other items mention rate adjustments after a trunk-line breakup, expanded freight trains due to corn shipments, a new Minnesota St Paul to Lake Minnetonka rail line, and a baggage check system aiding traceability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Allen
Asme
Allen
Chicago,Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
Council Bluffs
Omahé
Trunk Line Association
B. P. Ripley
Burlington
East
Iowa
Ripley
Peoria
Rock Island
St Paul, Minneapolis
Ugg
United States
Savanna Times
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Chicago & Northern Wisconsin Railroad Company
Clark
Illinois Central
St. Paul
Minnesota & Northwestern
Central
Savanna
Northern Pacific
North Wisconsin
Third Street
Chicago Street
Funeral of the Hon. H. O. Sleight at Congregational Church
The funeral service for the Hon. H. O. Sleight took place this afternoon at the Congregational Church after a private house service. Rev. C. L. Morgan and Rev. Samuel F. Dickinson spoke, with scripture readings and hymns, as floral tributes and a large procession of carriages accompanied the burial at Riverside Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. O
Congregational Church
C. L. Morgan
Samuel F. Dickinson
Cambridge
Mr. Sleight
Jesus
C. L Morgan
Christy
Hemenway
Wm McKeever
Sarah Reed
Ells
Frank Gould
A .L. Carson
Ruthie Ferguson
Riverside Cemetery
Miss Agnes Montgomery in Critical Condition After Injury
For some time Miss Agnes Montgomery with a broken limb from a skating rink accident has been considered in danger. In the last day her condition worsened rapidly with grave doubts about recovery. She is staying at Mrs G W Brooks’s home in the city due to injury severity and advisability against moving her inland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnes Montgomery
G. W. Brooks
Felepho O
Library fund boost eyed with lecture plan in town
The February 1 treasury shows 22.20 with a 350 donation from C W Lobdell bringing funds to 72.20. Running costs run about 100 monthly and a community drive or Tiwo-bi Boxee is proposed to bolster the library fund as locals discuss a Congregational church lecture to draw support. A note from Cedar Rapids Gazette reports a watchman Hutchinson shot by a tramp near Covington. he survived after a revolver wound to the back as pursuers search for the assailant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Lobdell
Messrs. Sloan
Dunn
Grimes
Treasury
Congregational Church
The
Cedar Rapids
Hutchinson
CM & St. P
Covington
Casas
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Messrs
Mack
Browning
Sloan
Velie
Central School
Wees Case Ee
Ee Ee
Enema Ewceeres
West Ward School
Meneocetes Emacs
East Ward School
Third
Ave
Brown
Brown Chemical Co
C ‘Wed
Lierbert D.‘Blakemor
Pat
P. O. Box
Rook Island, Ill
Cook
M.D
P.O. Block Moline Hil
Bright
Hie
Moliné
N. Wiltamuth
California
Bartlett
Beat Plug
J. H. Wistrand
Fifth Avenue
Sixth Street
West Tenth Street
New York
Seabury & Johnson
Bensons
Ty Ty Tor HL. Kane
M. D
De-Guincy
Seabury & Johnson, Chemists
New. York
Burgston
17Th ST
Moline, Ill
Railroad
Elsapra Ae
L. H. Whitson
Perry Strost
Yri
J. H
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