Cicero Town Board Passes Several Ordinances and Varies Damages
Cicero town trustees meet April 1 1839 in Austin. They approve March minutes and file several communications. A cement sidewalk ordinance on Willow avenue is ordered. Damages for Robinson avenue viaduct settled with Caldwell and Crowe after releases. An assessment supplementation for Howard avenue outfall sewer is adopted. Various petitions referred to committees on streets and highways, police, and the whole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trustees
Town of
Cicero
Austin
Emerson
Gunthorp
Howell
Traill
MacDonald
Rearden
Utley
F. W. Pringle
C.S. Cutting
Oak Park Avenue
Henry G. Wilson
Madison Street
Austin Avenue
Wenounah Avenue
Harrison
Twelfth Street
Home Avenue
Wenonah Avenue
George Jacob
Committee On Police and Sanitary
F. A. Hill
Clarence Knight
Cicero and
Harlem
Lombard Avenue
W. C. Rigby
Cicera
Prohibition District
A. T. Palmer
Lyman Avenue
Ridgeland Avenue
Fire Company No. 8
Fire and Water
D. T. Brennan
Grant Works
Michael Durkin
Howard Avenue
South Boulevard
Chicago, Harlem and
Batavia
Yeas
Gurghorp
R. H. Traill
Attridge
A. C. Caldwell
Charles ‘Crowe
Charles Crowe
Robinson Avenue
Morton Park
Lyman Bridges
Chicago
Cicero Trustees Adopt Ordinance and Award Sewer Contract
The Cicero town board considers and adopts an ordinance amending chapter ten and votes on various matters. The Oak Park avenue outfall sewer contract is awarded to Nash and Dowdle at 354,253.65, while Home and Wenonah pipe sewer bids are rejected and re advertised. Arc light installations are approved at several intersections, and fire equipment purchases are authorized with staged payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cicero
Peter. MacDonald
L. H. Howell
Yeas
Gunthorp
Howell
Traill
MacDonald
Rearden
Utley
John Lewo
Calvin F. Taylor
Cicero Light, Heat and Power Company
John Lewis
Cara
Peter MacDonald
H. H. Rearden
W. P. Utley
R. H. Traill
Wm. P. Gunthorp
Committee of the Whole
T. N. Vallins
Sergt. Schwedler
Officer Mahoney
Theodore Ludermann
Mahoney
Board of Trustees
Oak Park Avenue
Home
Wenonah Avenue
Nash and Dowdle
Weronah Avenue
R. A. Carpenter
Cicero Light, Heat and Power Co
North Pire Avenue
Chicago Avenue
North 53Rd Avenue
Augusta Street
Austin Boulevard
22D Street
12Th Street
Gunthorp, Howell, Traill
Attridge
Chicago Fire Extinguisher Company
Babcock
Austin
Oak Park
Ridgeland
Adjourned Session Adopts Ordinances and Finances Actions
During the adjourned meeting on Monday April 8 officers present included Trustees Attridge Gunthorpe Howell MacDonald Traill Rearden and President Emerson. MacDonald acted as chair pro tem. reports and ordinances involving Henry C Wilson F A Hill Austin engine house and Yaryan Hot Water Distributing Company were reviewed and recommended for filing acceptance or passage. The board approved warrants for current claims and adopted a license ordinance amendment and a warranty deed for the Austin fire department site with a $1703.25 warrant from the fire and water fund. The session adjourned to 8 p m on Saturday April 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Attridge
Gunthorpe
Howell
MacDonald
Traill
Rearden
Emerson
Utley
Committee On
Henry C. Wilson
F. A. Hill
Austin Engine House
Yaryan Hot-Water Distributing Company
Engine House
Yaryan Hot- Water Distributing Company
Gunthorp
Irving G. Brown
Austin Fire Department
County Recorder
Fire and Water Fund
Gems of Thought Treasured Aphorisms and Reflections
A compendium of moral maxims and quotations from historic authors and thinkers. Extracts emphasize fortitude, truth, forgiveness, self-discipline, noble action, and personal conscience across varied voices from Paley to Whittier and Fuller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paley
Lord Herbert
Petroleum Contaminates Local Well Near Berlin
A nearby well water near Berlin grew increasingly petroleum contaminated. Despite repeated cleaning, the issue worsened with about seventy five percent of the water now tasting of oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Local Austin ads promote coal wood and services
O. J. Roath & Co and C. B. Patrick urge coal wood purchases at 50638 Ohio street and 203 North Park avenue. Thayer offers cabinet photos at $2 a dozen from April 10 for 30 days. Kellogg and Sweep advertise shellfish market at Park avenue and Ontario street with Cicero telephone 227.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. J. Roath & Co
Ohio Street
C.B. Patrick
F. and H
North Park Avenue
Thayer
Austin
C. B. Patrick
Braman
Loomis
Spalding Bros
Kellogg & Sweep's
Corner Park Avenue
Ontario Street
Cicero Telephone
Miller's Drug Store Ad Promotes Cough Syrup and Cold Capsules
Oak Park notice advertises Miller's Drug Store at 206 Lake Street offering a wide range of photo supplies and medicines for coughs and colds with Miller's Columbian Cough Syrup and Cold Capsules designed to stop sneezing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller's Drug Store
Miller's Columbian
Lake Street
Oak Park
Wanek
Lake Streth River Forest
French flashless gun touted as major artillery advance
The Scientific American reports Colonel Humbert’s French rapid fire gun emits no flash or visible fire. If true, it marks a major advance second only to smokeless powder, potentially making land warfare harder by masking enemy positions. Fire rate up to 20 rounds per minute, with plans to reduce battery to four guns and add ammunition wagons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humbert
Santiago
Baltimore & Ohio Introduces New Double Daily Sleeping Cars
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad starts a new double daily Pullman Ordinary Tourist sleeping car service between Chicago and the East. The cars offer wood interiors and gas lighting with bedding, lavatories, and separate toilet rooms. Trains leave Chicago at 10:25 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. and stop over in Washington. First and second class tickets accepted. Address B N Austin for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Chicago
East
Eastern Railway
Pittsburg
New York
Washington
B. N. Austin
Boy heir to vast fortune keeps work ethic says reporter
A 17-year-old New York printing office worker inherits 20 million from his great uncle Frank A Mouritzen in California and estates in Denmark. He remains practical, answering phones and delivering copies despite sudden wealth. He notes he cannot loaf or risk his job.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frank A. Mouritzen
California
Denmark
William Warren Morrison
Polite restraint on crowded streetcar scene
A Golden Days item notes a courteous workman who offers his seat to a well dressed lady in a crowded streetcar. She thanks him and three other men yield seats, highlighting quiet humor and good humor in everyday interactions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erin
Austin Methodist Church Schedule and Protracted Meeting
First M E church of Austin led by Rev. A M White lists Sunday services at 9 30 class meeting 10 30 morning sermon 12 00 Sunday school 3 30 Junior League 6 15 Epworth League 7 30 evening sermon Midweek prayer at 7 45 on Wednesday The morning topic is The Divine Call and the evening is Our Citizenship Mr White will begin protracted meetings at the mission corner Alma and Superior on Tuesday night April 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin Methodist Church
M. BE. Church of Austin
A. M. White
Mr. White
Alma and
Superior Streets
Congregational Church Services Announced in Aus tin Ill
The First Congregation Church at corner Waller avenue and Midway Park Austin Illinois lists Rev. W. L. Demorest as pastor living at 5801 Ontario Street. Sunday worship is at 10 30 in the morning and 5 in the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Congregation
Waller Avenue
Midway Park
Austin
Ill
W. L. Demorest
Ontario Street
Austin Episcopal Service Times Announced
Early communion at 7 30 a m and morning service at 10 30 with Sunday school at noon. Evening service at 7 30. Rev S L Mitchell is rector. 5731 Ohio Street on Waller Avenue and Ohio Street in Austin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waller Avenue
Ohio Street
S. L. Mitchell
Presbyterian Church Sunday Services and First Church of Christ Services
The Presbyterian Church hosts Sunday services at 10 30 in the morning with devotion described as Purity and a 7 30 service referencing Russia led by Rev 8 S M Johnson pastor. The First Church of Christ Scientist meets in Avenue Hall at 10 45 for their services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
M. Johnson
First Church of Christ
Scientist
Avenue Hall
Weak rulers and nations that thrived in history
The essay argues that nations often prosper under weak rulers. It cites Rome under early emperors, Ivan the Terrible and Russia, Louis XIV era France, Charles II England, and the first four Georges, noting rising power or transformation despite weak or vicious leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roman Empire
Rome
Russia
Ivan the Terrible
Peter the Great
Louis XIV
France
Charles II
Contented Idleness on Corfu Island
The Corfu peasantry are famed as the Ionian islands' idlest people. They cultivate no gardens and rely on imported garlic and onions. Gladstone, visiting Greece, confirmed this, recalling three men leisurely driving two turkeys along a road as an example of ease without dignity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corfu
Ionian Islands
Gladstone
Greece
Story of a Slave finds freedom through remedies
George D. Williams of Manchester Michigan recounts his wife’s recovery after using two bottles of Electric Bitters. He praises the tonic for female diseases nervousness sleeplessness melancholy headaches backaches faintness and dizziness. Each bottle 60 cents sold by local druggists Traill Cooling and Chas P Miller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George D. Williams
Manchester
Mich
Traill & Cooling
Chas. P. Miller
Asparagus on Cattle Fodder Rumors on Steppes
On the Russian steppes asparagus is so plentiful that cattle feed on it as foliage. Seeds are sometimes fried and used as a coffee substitute.
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Cicero Town Board
J. R. Drent
I. Robart
Princess de Salim-Duck
Whittier
Catent
Congregational Church
Austin Episcopal
Albert Burgess
Choice Bakery
Tholesale Ani Park
Eds
Cook County
Ini
Presbyterian Church
Arthur J. Kendall
Justices Peace
Houra
Wesley Ave
Cmorrice
Clark St
W. FE. Turner
N. Waller
L. Larson
Austin Av
Park Ave
Bell Phone
E. Lindberg
Marion Street
OAU Tvrs
Undertaker
Earns Wielna
Esas
Nearen
Urareen
Oas AN Ren
Jones
Binghamton
N. Y
Cam Ave
Kent
Case & Paddock
Dearborn Street
A. H. Clement
Geo. B. Burns
S. Prairie Ave
Clicsore
Cornella Sr
North Park
Frank Bratt
Prepeteten
T. G. Irving
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