Cicero Town Board Approves Major Contracts April 11 1896
Cicero trustees meet in the town hall with most members present. The session awards several contracts totaling near $40,000 and authorizes street, sewer and sidewalk work while planning a cigarette ordinance and new taxes.
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Board of Trustees
Town of
Cicero
Austin
Frankland
West Fifty Feet
Ridgeland
C. B. Scoville
Charles B. Scoville
Scoville
Andrews & Piper
Stanley Avenue
Ogden Street Railway Company
Cheney
Ogden Street Rail Way Company
W. G. Schultz
Schultz
Oak Park
P. B. Weare
Morton Park
Jefferson Jackson
C. T
Jane Wrigley
P. A. Downey
Clyde
Paul G. Biggs
Gunthrop
Merrick
Mary L. Niles
Pr. B. Weare
Robinson Avenue Viaduct
Brown
Robinson Avenue
Mandell
Antony Ludzak
P. O. Reifsnider
Washington Boulevard
Austin Avenue
Attridge
Lombard
Ridgland Avenue
Harvey
Ridgeland Avenue
The Passion for Athletics in Ancient Festivals
Ancient stadium crowds of up to forty thousand gathered for athletic contests. The scene blended commerce, culture, and philosophy with sport, uniting Greeks across vast regions. Lucian and Solon are cited praising athletes’ bravery, beauty, and relentless effort.
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Lucian
Greece
Solon
Allan Marquand
Public expenditures list from the House of Correction board
The board approved payments to multiple suppliers and services including coal from Hull & Co and Berwyn & Clyde, printing by Wm. Halley, street lighting by Globe Light & Heat Co, inspections by numerous contractors, expert witness fees, cleaning and maintenance charges, and cash advances totaling several hundred dollars, then adjourned.
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V. Oblinski
Morton Park Fire Co
W. P. Dunn Co
S. D. Attridge
A. J. Cheney
Wm. Halley
W. G
E. UL. Co
J. Herr
Elec
Wm. Williams
T. W. Gale
Berwyn & Clyde
Hull & Co
Bas John Cline
Traill & Robinson
D. Oliphant
Treas
Jones Stationery Co
Kenwood Bridge Co
S. Af. Baker
C. J. Lindgren
W. W. Owen
John Clark
D. N. Gordon
Channing Taylor
Berty&. Betts
H. C
Ugly ducklings who became swans in history
Ruth Ash notes that beauty can be forged by effort in Ladies' Home Journal. The piece cites Rachel who blossomed from an ugly child to a charming woman, Adelina Patti once seen as the ugly duckling, Mary Anderson valued for intellect over looks, and others who proved beauty evolves with time.
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Ruth Ashmore
Ladies’ Home Journal
Rachel
Adelina Patti
Carlotta
Mary Anderson
George Knot
Pathans of Peshawar Train Thieves For Youth Education
Reported in a praise filled note, mothers in Peshawar educate children to become successful thieves as a primary aim. The method emphasizes physical strength and daily prayers for future success in crime. Travelers attest to the effectiveness of this education system.
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Peshawar
Ifin
Gifted Divine Rev Frank J M Vrooman Called by Kenwood Church
Rev Frank J M Vrooman of Boston, Harvard educated and Oxford Berlin trained, has been extended an informal call by Chicago’s Kenwood Presbyterian church. His career spans Holloway London Beecher Elmira and Salem Street Congregational posts. He studied sociology at Toynbee Hall and taught in Oxford.
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Frank B. Vrooman
Boston
Kenwood Presbyterian Church
Chicago
Mr. Vrooman
Harvard
Oxford
Berlin
London
Toynbee Hall
Holloway Congregational Church
Beecher
Elmira
N. Y
Thomas K. Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Vrooman
Tendency of humor in American life spurred by adversity
The article quotes H. L. Wilson of Puck on how Americans turn to humor when facing job loss and strikes. It notes many men improvise for the humor press, often with death or coffin imagery, and that popular song titles tempt beginners to create cartoon captions.
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H. L. Wilson
Puck
Funny Papers
Vrooman's Lineage and a Clock That Stopped at Lincoln's Death
Worcester residents note Mr. Vrooman here, a descendant of Count Egmont and a strong speaker, while Atlanta observers recall the Whitehall street clock that halted at 8 18 the night Lincoln died. The piece also surveys jokes, parodies, and editor attitudes toward humor in newspapers.
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Whitehall Street
Alabama
The
Atlanta Journal
Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Mark Twain Lecturing in Egypt Amid Health Rumors
Mark Twain is currently giving lectures in Egypt. Earlier reports claimed he was dying in Bombay, India, but those rumors were proven false.
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Mark Twain
Egypt
Bombay
India
Kentucky Oldest Club Members Impress Lexington
In Lexington Kentucky an old people’s club lists its members with surprising ages. The youngest is 139 years old, with members aged 99 two at 83 and two older, highlighting remarkable longevity among the group.
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Lexington
Pleete
Sledge and Anvil: Reflections on Reform and Duty
A sequence of aphoristic observations contrasts outward appearance with inner virtue. It argues reform begins within the self, uses spiritual movement as measure, and notes compassion over clinical indifference. It asserts timeless gospel claims and the need to crown Christ with thorns or jewels.
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Lazarus
Christ
The Paris Cabby and the Insurance Joke
A Pittsburgh Dispatch barb jokes about Paris cabbies and insurance. It notes cabmen pay premiums and that only the insurer suffers in a smashup. It recalls a past cabman who feigned distress to extract payments from English tourists by exploiting accidents.
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Paris
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Ants Used in Ancient Surgery in Levant
Ancient accounts describe Greek barber surgeons using large ants to clamp wound edges. A trapped ant bites with its mandibles and its head separates while still gripping the edges, holding the wound closed. People reportedly wore wounds closed by seven or eight ant heads.
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Levant
Noted Dilemma in Harlem Lite Cartoon Panel
The strip riffs on friendship and romance as Madge debates between Jack and a friend, teasing that she could have both if possible. The dialogue plays with choices and affection in a lighthearted, humorous tone.
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Madge
Jack
Harlem Lite
Labor unrest across cities and unions shake early 20th century
Labor notes report typographical unions forming in Kingston Hun son and Calgary with a national socialist ticket planned in St. Louis. Cincinnati bricklayers strike for 4 60 a day eight hours and Chicago printing trades unite at about five thousand members. East Peoria miners accept an eight cent pay cut after two months on strike. Indiana federation convention will be held in Anderson as part of a record turnout. National Typographical organizer Maas works in Indiana organizing Elwood Dunkirk Vincennes. Audit of the International Typographical union shows around 50000 in treasury. Clothing cutters and trimmers strikes swell with 1000 workers quitting in Chicago. Pittsburg window glass workers face internal clashes with President Burns deposed and the union threatened.
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Kingston
Hunson
N. Y
Calgary
Cincinnati
Socialistic Labor Party
St. Louis
Chicago
East Peoria
Ill
Indiana State Federation
Anderson
Printing Trades
New York City
Maas
International Typographical Union
Indiana
Elwood
Dunkirk
Vincennes
L. P. McCormick
R. K. Hudnall
Frank A. Park
Window Glass Workers’ Association of
Pittsburg
Simon Burns
Setign
Dla Oy
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Henry Rath
Poplar
Willow Avenues
C. F. Jobson
J. E B. Wall
Geo. F. Lyon
Jas. Lloyd
W. B. Jaycox
Bertha Folzke
A. Wohlhuter
A. Giacielli
Committee of the Whole
Kenilworth Avenue
Dolesel Shepard
Cuyler Avenue
Wm. M. Edwards
Woodbine Avenue
R. F. Conway
Grove Avenue
R. Conway
Garfield Avenue
Richardson & Young
Cicero Avenue
Rylands & Hall
Thirty-first Street
Ryland & Hall
James Glynn
Flancock and
Garfield Avenues
Finance Committee
Hawthorne
Harrison, Polk and Quincy
Lyman Avenue
McCallum Street
Erie Street
Franklin
Prairie Avenue
R. H. Traill
Lake Street
W. C. Curtis
Master Plumbers’ Association
John N. Young
Jno
Metropolitan 1. Road
Metropolitan Electric Street Railroad Company
Northern Electric Company
Geo. P. Nauert
Committee On Streets and Highways
South Boulevard
Harlem
Parker Weinman
S. S. Greeley
Conrad Auw
N. W
John J. Kelley
Northern Pacific Railroad
Wisconsin Central Railroad
Wesley Avenue
Richy
Thirteenth Street
Oak Park Avenue
Euclid
Twelfth Street
Euclid and
Wesley Avenues
Wesley
Clarence Avenue
Twelfth
Fifty-third Street
Clark Street
Reifsnider Et al
North Boulevard
Harvey Avenue
Cicero and
Proviso Street
A. G. Palmer
Committee of Fire and Water of New Board
Wenona Avenue
Home Avenue
Harrison
Swinscoe
Wenona
Home Avenues
Twelfth Streets
South
Kenilworth Sewer
Norwood Construction and Electric Company
Chicago & Northern Pacific Railroad
Storr’s Place
Clyde Avenue
Alley
Storrs’ Place
Humphrey Avenue
Randolph Street
Frink Street
Lyman
McCullum Street
Willow Avenue
Pine
Twenty-eighth Street
Twenty Sixth Street
Madison
Jackson Street
Harrison Street
York Street
Quincy Street
Fifty‘third Street
Kinzie Street
Ogden Street Railroad Company
T. E. Gilpin
Cicero Lumber Co
Bryant Bros
C. H. Reynolds
W. G. Davis
Theo. Ludeman
Belle Skillin
J. W. Yale
Aaron Meredith
WG. & Ell, Co
Hn. F. Stevenson
Thos, Ellis
Lighlus
Booy i
W. Johnston
Horse Shreing
G. Goelitz
Plumhi Te Vira Co
Vyas B. Flaeter
Necro Gas
Venta
Frank Jm. Vrooman
Thoreon
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Mass
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Egmont
Gavre
Alva
Atlanta
the Raven
Hamlet
George N. Curzon
Kentucky
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