Abatement and street improvements cut through DGSTH Town agenda
The DGSTH Town Board discusses issuing an abatement warrant for the 30th installment on special No. 492 totaling 2.82 dollars, directs bids for an engine house in Austin, and approves various fund transfers and sidewalk projects. It also reviews liquor license actions and committee reports with several plats referred to the street and alley committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gunthorp
Austin
MacDonald
South Cicero
Lewis
Kenilworth Avenue
Ihittlestring
Oak Park
Committee On License
T. Corrigan
Grove Avenue
Chicago Avenue
Augusta Street
Marion Street
Ontario Street
Erie Street
Forest Avenue
Thomas Street
Bellefonte Avenue
Wm. J. Vankeurens
John Carnes
Nickel Plate excursion tickets Chicago to Boston offered
The Nickel Plate Road will sell excursion tickets from Chicago to Boston and return for trains on September 1 17 and 18 inclusive at 19 dollars round trip. Tickets valid for return until September 30. For sleeping car accommodations apply early to J Y Calahan general agent 111 Adams Street Chicago.
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Nickel Plate Road
Chicago
Boston
J. Y. Calahan
Adams Street
If all flesh is grass men ought to be less shy of lawn mowers
A wry muse on gender norms and social behavior. The speaker jokes that people justify vanity, expense, and alliances through flawed logic, noting habitual reactions to wealth, beauty, and courtship with sharp, satirical tone.
Recent Inventions Highlighted By Inventors Across Fields
A survey of new devices includes a window cleaning seat with stabilizing clamps, a novel angling rig with a spring pin and hooks, automatic printing press shutoff via a pivoted roller, an elastic New Jersey bottle stopper with scored opening, a boiler-based wooden wagon tire tightening method, and a pneumatic switch system using engine air to operate a piston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Stor yttes of Nordica Byron and a navy prank
Tales recount Nordica losing overshoes in Texas and a cowboy delivering one at a time with a joke about centipedes. A Aberdeen school note reveals Lord Byron as Dom de Byron in Byron’s pupil days. A British navy paint caper ends with Sir John Philimore’s witty exchanges and the frigate keeping its yellow hull.
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Mme
Nordica
Texas
Aberdeen Grammar School
Byron
George B. Gordon
Dom de Byron
Lord Byron
Domine de Byron
Navy Board
John Phillimore
Sir John
John Philimore
Sermons in Stones and Lessons of Life in John Jr
A column of pithy maxims on living well and avoiding excess. It notes that few close friends can fatten a purse, singing well in church does not guarantee home harmony, and appearing naive may be wise. It warns booze brings trouble, vague honesty harms, and debts ruin reputations. It discusses hope, broad-mindedness, and unequal love in marriage.
Electricity Bitters Promised To Cure Many Ailments
A claim for Electric Bitters as a universal cure is presented urging readers to try the plant remedy for back pains malaria nervous troubles constipation headaches faintness sleeplessness and melancholy. The advert promises a vegetable, mild laxative tonic with guaranteed results at Lovell's drug store and Traill's in Austin for 50 cents a bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lovell’s Drug
Traill’s
Austin
Cure for a Cold and Catarrh Promised by Cushman Co
Advertisement touts a remedy that cures a cold clears the throat and conquers catarrh. Priced at 50 not a stomach nostrum. Claim directs readers to all druggists and to send for a book from Cushman Drug Co Vidcennes Indiana, U.S.A.
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Cushman Drug Co
Vidcennes
U.S. A
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L. Wihon
Lake St., Austin
Conrad Kampp
C. Kampp & Son
North Park Avenue
North 48Th Avenue
Cicero
Rob
T. S. Ward
Lake Street
Park Ave
W. S. Smith
Oak Park and
Maywood
Dunilop Bros.’ Bank
Zimmerman & Roath's Feed
Thompson's Drug Store
Albert
Burgess
Choice Bakery
Lake St
North Bo
J. H. Forsyth & CO
Superior Street
Austin, Ill
Dgsth Town Board
Isaac Lansing
Hawthorne Race Track
Committee
Frank Willing
Committee O
John Lewis
Committee On Finance
Attridge
Howell
Utley
Park Avenue
Madison Street
First Alley
Waller Avenue
Prairie Avenue
Menominee Street
Harlem Avenue
Walnut Street
Monroe Street
Jackson Street
Paulina Street
Maple Avenue
Washington Boulevard
Tog Eet
Newburry & Co
South Boulevard
John, Jr
E. B. Moore & CO
Randolph Street
Wiurphy
West Lake and
Fifty-second Sts
C. B. Patrick
North Park Ave
Cicero Gas CO
North Oak Park Avenue
Starritt & Robertson
Jas Geta
Telephone
Marion St
Austin Ave
Ss. B. Wait
Cicero Telephone
Fred. F. Cross
Austin, Illinois
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