Austin Suburban News Oak Park Notes and Socials
Austin Suburban News from Oak Park lists residents visiting relatives in New York Michigan Wisconsin and Illinois. Local moves trips and entertainments include guests at homes and lake retreats with several families traveling to South Haven Pewaukee Lake Bass Lake and Elmwood areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Miller
New York
N. P. Kellogg
Maple Row Farm
Mich
J. D. Ray
Belvidere
Ill
O. P. Emerson
J. J. McCarthy
Mackinac Island
A. A. Jones
Douglas Park
Cornella Street
G. W. Lamson
Ohio
H. H. Emerson
Paw Paw Lake
Frank Emerson
3. H. Kemper
Elva
Pewaukee Lake
Wis
Ellery D.mooar
North Pine Avenue
Earlville, Hil
Bert
Harold Campbell
Austin
Eugene Strom
Strom
Lake Marie
Luriie Stillwell
Wisconsin
G. 8. Hunter
Elgin
Lake street L embargos slow transit anger Alderman Race
The Lake street elevated faces repeated embargos blamed on Alderman Race. Police guards at Prairie and Franklin crossings slow motion. rate cuts, train stopping, night watchmen, and ad removals fuel district complaints over lost time and money. Oak Park and Austin residents tally minutes and dollars saved yearly.
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Lake Street
Prairie
Franklin Avenues
35Th Ward
Austin Avenue
Prairie Avenue
Central Avenue
Austin
Oak Park
Lombard Avenue Station
la Grange
Citizens Force John Twohy to Close Blind Pig
John Twohy the beer peddler who just finished a penitentiary term opened a blind pig at 430 Alma street. Residents aided by aldermen held meetings Saturday and Monday night and voted 35 of 42 to demand his exit. he agreed to leave.
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John Twohy
Alma Street
Twohy
John
Kerwin Club Holds Fifth Annual Picnic at Hawthorne
The Kerwin Club plans its fifth annual picnic at Hoffmans Grove Hawthorne on Sunday August 18 1901. Attendees are assured a pleasant day as the club reports prosperous condition. The note mentions political orator and the whale as spouters and praises a well tested first class pump.
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Kerwin Club
Hoffman’s Grove
26Th Street
48Th Avenue
Hawthorne
New School Buildings Rising in Oak Park
Two new school buildings are under construction in Oak Park one at August Street and North Harvey Avenue and one at South 64th Avenue and Washington Boulevard. Both are expected to be completed by October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Goode
South Boulevard
Stephen Levengood
Marion
Ind
R. H. McCullagh
St. Paul
Europe
Alta Brink
Maywood Telephone Exchange
French
North Euclid Avenue
Narcoma Club
Maize
George Sinden
Union Pier
Mich
Jeasie Scott
North 64Th Avenue
Denver
Alberta Rice
Lover's Lane
Tet
Andre
Woodbury
Beach Grove
Emily McCullagh
North Lombard Avenue
J. H. Wells
South
Scoville Avenue
Hvanston
Oak Park
August Street
North Harvey Avenue
South 64Th Avenue
Washington Boulevard
Union Meeting in Oak Park Delivers Faith Group Tie
A Union meeting of the young people's societies from Methodist Baptist Presbyterian and Congregational churches will be held Sunday evening August 41 at 6 o'clock at the First Congregational Church. An invitation is extended to all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young People’s Societies
Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Congregational Churches
Oak Park
First Congregational Church
Coal Prices Rally Prompt Winter Buying Urgency
Local coal dealer Barry Collins urges immediate orders as Lackawanna coal rises again ahead of winter. Phone 41 for supply options and pricing.
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Lackawanna Coal
Barry.Collins
Prophet Elisha Heals Naaman With Jordan Wash
In a biblical note, Elisha tells Naaman the leper to wash seven times in the River Jordan to be healed. The quip imagines a modern politician anchoring in water for seven years.
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Elisha
Naaman
Jordan
Speculative Gossip on Corn Market Turbulence
L. H. O'Conor discusses how speculative trading drives corn prices in the United States. He compares corn to wheat, notes that most corn is grown in America, and warns prices swing with crop conditions, panics, and market squeezes. He cautions that rapid fluctuations make trading risky and stories of quick profits vanish by next morning.
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United States
Europe
America
Mississippi
Missouri
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago
New York
St. Louis
Minneapolis
West
Many
L. H. O'Conor
Austin 17 year old builds own automobile in Austin
Freeman Olsen a 17 year old Austin resident living on Monroe street near Central avenue is described as a natural genius in mechanics. He designed and built an automobile and engines in a home shop, plans a larger shop and says his first car will differ from others and run at forty miles per hour.
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Freeman Olsen
Austin
Monroe Street
Central Avenue
Attorney Redmond
Oak Park
Freeman
Olsen
Booker Washington Stories Highlight Early Civil Rights Efforts
The Boston Herald recounts Booker T. Washington at a Young Men’s Christian Association convention describing attempts to mobilize Southern Black men to work, save money, and establish schools. Anecdotes include using an old hen house for a classroom and a vociferous woman at an Episcopal church declaring she has found religion.
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Booker T. Washington
Young Men’s Christian Association
Sam
Washington
Sexton
Boston Herald
Quack Doctor Demonstrates Throat Doors in Crowd
A wagon doctor in Chamberlain explains throat passages to onlookers, claiming two esophagi direct solids and liquids. A farmer bursts into laughter, teasing that the doors flap when eating bread and milk.
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Chamberlain
London
Russian Museum Defies Ban by Buying Repin Paintings
Directors of the Alexander III Museum in St. Petersburg defied the Holy Synod ban by purchasing two Repin paintings. One portrays Count Tolstoi barefoot in peasant dress, the other a symbolical work titled Get Thee Behind Me Satan. The works were banned in Moscow but secured for a national art gallery.
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Alexander III. Museum
St. Petersburg
Holy Synod
Repin
Count Tolstoi
Satan
Moscow
Present Guest Idea at Women Writers' Club Dinners
The Women Writers' Club introduces a badge style greeting at dinners with each guest pinning a name card to her bodice using a ribbon and safety pin so everyone can see names and introductions flow easily.
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Women Writers’ Club
Sussex Daily New
Harlem Notes From Field and Street
Ed Hann of 33 Ferdinand avenue held a lawn social on Thursday. About six hundred are expected at the Maennerchor picnic next Monday at Pottawatomie Park. Papa Harry ran hurdles but bled at the nose and cannot race. H. A. Cotton sold his Benjamin for a two year old bay stallion. Attorney Kenneth McAra, once a Harlem teacher, married Alta Otterson of Lincoln Iowa and will reside here. School contracts were let to Thompson Bros River Forest, Lobenstein Bros., J C Currier, and Lowry & Linder for woodwork painting and glazing.
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Catherine Ehler
Superior Street
Forest Home Cemetery
J. Ettridge
South Elmwood Avenue
J. B. Foote
Maple Avenue
Will Adams
Wheaton, Ill
Odebolo
Oak Park
Ed Hann
Ferdinand Avenue
Henke
Pottawatomie Park
H. A. Cotton
Benjamine
Kenneth McAra
Harlem Public Schools
Alta Otterson
Lincoln
Mason
Thompson Bros
River Forest
Lobenstein Bros
J.C. Currier
Austin
Lowry & Linder
North Side
River Forest Society Notes and Local Happenings
President Struble travels to Mackinac Island while Mrs. Baker with her sons vacation in Michigan. A St. Luke's lawn social drew about one hundred attendees. Grocer H. H. Hann of Madison Street and Millie Bartell announce an October 23 wedding. A sneak thief stole $10 from Lovett's drug store during dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Mohler hosted a Village Hall reception for their fifteenth anniversary with about one hundred guests.
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Henry Struble
Mackinac Island
E. Baker
Ashland Avenue
Michigan
St. Luke’s Church
H. H. Hann
Madison Street
Millie Bartell
Lovett
Odds and Ends Highlight Global and Local Oddities
Notes reveal 58 factories with 250000 horsepower in the French Alps and 35000 Japanese in the United States. It cites 3000000 German speakers of Polish, a shale print discovery in Neodesha Kansas, and NH bounty on dead grasshoppers at one dollar per bushel. Also mentions Tartar morocco card cases, letter carriers in shirts, and 1900 trade figures. London feels the North American sun stroke reach.
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French Alps
United States
German Empire
New Hampshire
Morocco
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G. A. Kress
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John Fairchild
County
Miss Hendershott
B. P. Horton
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Olive Spence
Mabel Pumphrey
Margaret Scott
Grace Hemingway
Ella Lovett
Grace Cook
Anne Ripley
Harold Roseeter
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Qiang
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