Ogden Avenue Street Car Track Progress Asked by Town Board
The town board’s streets committee asked the Ogden Street Railway to hasten track laying on Ogden avenue from Forty-eighth Street to Harlem Avenue. The engine house and storage shed contracts were awarded with named bidders and totals. A site for the engine house on Lake Street and Lombard Avenue was approved for $3,125, with contract to be prepared. Ridgeland building contract awarded with payments in three annual installments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogden Street Railway Company
Ogden Avenue
Forty-eighth Street
Harlem Avenue
Ridgeland Engine House
Attridge
Lake Street
Lombard Avenue
James Todd
James Barbeau
J. B. Boyer
Mason
Fred Bulley
Austin
Menick
Trusteen Gunthorp
Queen Victoria perfume stance and humor in society
A Vanity Fair excerpt notes Queen Victoria avoids strong perfumes and flowers in drawing rooms. It reflects on humor in social figures, undertakers causally joked about, and contrasts Celtic and Anglo-Saxon conversational humor in self-deprecating storytelling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
London
George Meredith
Bits from New York Weekly on love and secrets
Aged millionaire seeks marriage, but Miss Beauti declines saying she cannot be his wife. Mrs. Cawker asserts everyone knows the secret. The publisher notes blame on parentage as a factor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Cawker
Mrs. Cawker
Miss Beauti
New York Weekly
Bobby
Betty
Lovey
Excursion to Boston on Nickel Plate announces special round trip
The Nickel Plate Road will sell excursion tickets from Chicago to Boston and return for trains of September 16 17 and 18 at 19 dollars round trip. Tickets valid for return until September 30. Sleeping car accommodations available by applying 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
Dr King’s New Discovery Endorsed by Druggist Honored Faces
The leading Shreveport druggist Aug J Bogel praises Dr King’s New Discovery as the only cure for coughs and the best seller. Safford merchant J J Campbell confirms it never fails for consumption, coughs and colds. The remedy, tried for 25 years, is not an experiment and offers free trial bottles at Lovett & Traill’s Drug Store in Austin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Bogel
Shreveport
Dr. King
J. J. Campbell
Safford
Ariz
Conmore Catarrh Relief Promoted by Cushman Drug Co
An advertisement promotes Conmore Catarrh as the greatest relief for misery with a price of 50 and no stomach nostrum. It invites readers to buy from all druggists or send for a book, via Cushman Drug Co. Vincennes, U S A.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conmore
Cushman Drug Co
U.S. A
Letter From Camp Reveals Youthful Camp Life Dialogues
Betty and Lovey Dear read a letter from Freddy describing rain soaked camp life with soggy tents and damp humor. Bobby Smythe riffs through tales and melon feasts while Lovey Dear praises silent heroism and Bobby questions his wartime choices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty
Lovey
Freddy
Scudday
Bobby Smythe
Bobby
Deweyett
Eaf
Lovey Dear
Mr. Smythe
Cuba
Frances conspirators and a scoundrel congress
Durand notes Tom Paine then secretary on foreign affairs was employed by the French minister for 1000 dollars a year to sway public opinion in favor of France. A biographer recalls Gouverneur Morris and John Jay later recalling the “set of damned scoundrels” in that second congress in a conversation paraphrased by Charles Kendall Adams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durand
Tom Paine
Committee On Foreign Affairs
France
Rascal
John Jay
Gouverneur Morris
Morrisania
Jay
Bedford
Morris
Charles Kendall Adams
Foot-warmers Refilled With Hot Water Trick
Travelers in a Bohemian village evade a guard by warming foot-warmers with Hungarian wine. They stop at a wayside inn for refreshments and joke about their dodge. The innkeeper later reveals he replaced the cold water with hot water to oblige them.
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Saxony
Belfast streetcars warn against spitting in public
The Belfast streetcars display a notice urging riders to avoid spitting in public conveyances. The sign calls the habit filthy and states it makes the offender subject to the loathing of fellow passengers.
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Chicago
Belfast
Ireland
New Jewelry Novelty for Women Features Gold Shirt Waist Studs
A new novelty in women dress consists of a set of three gold shirt waist studs, one containing a watch that keeps excellent time with a dial about three eighths of an inch in diameter.
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L. Wihon
Lake St., Austin
Conrad Kampp
C. Kampp & Son
North Park Avenue
North 48Th Avenue
Cicero
Rob
T. J. Ward
Neunr Park
Denier
WW. S. Smith
Venen
Oak Park and
Maywood
Dunliop Bros.’ Bank
Oak Park
Zimmerman & Roath’s Feed Store
Oak Park Av
Thompson’s Drug Store
Albert Burgess
Choice Bakery
Gee
Lake St
North
Stail
J. H. Forsyth & CO
Superior Street
Austin, Ill
Telephons Main
J. Dunfee & GO
Franklin Street
Corner
Washington
Ued
Vanity Fair
Sam
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Cicero Gas CO
North Oak Park Avenue
Starritt & Robertson
Marion St
Austin Av
Telephone
Ss. B. A/AIT
Coe
Ontario Street
Rurt Retail
Austin, Illinois
Wiurphy
West Lake and
Fifty-second Sts
C. B. Patrick
North Park Ave
E. B. Moore & CO
Randolph Street
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