Austin Business Men's Picnic at Pottawatomie Park
The Austin Business Men and families gathered August 27 at Northern Pacific station for a day trip to Pottawatomie Park, 30 miles west, on a special train. The event featured races, prizes, and socializing with multiple local associations noting winners for boat race, pipe race, egg race, sack race, and more.
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Austin Business Men
Austin
Northern Pacific
Waller Avenue
Pottawatomie Park
Ofelock
Giden
Max River
Business New
Ftov Hartless
R.J. Trail
Fed
Reynolds
Deckar
Ballyeaue
Didler
Chicago Grocers
Rosa Nagel
Po Hughes
A. Kampp
St. J. Akins
Walker
Obituary of Melrose Park Resident Asi Knapp
Sunday morning 86 year old Asi Knapp died at his Lake Street home in Melrose Park. Funeral held Tuesday at his house with Rev Kemp and Rev Mills officiating. many friends attended. He leaves seven children and thirteen grandchildren, including sons Albert and WeooPL Knapp of Oak Park and Elmer Knapp of Minneapolis, with interment at York cemetery.
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Asi Knapp
Lake Street
Melrose Park
God. Kemp
Mills
Wheaton
Hintil
Fou
Knapp
Busters
Fle
Ite Jdeaves
O) Westcott
Migs
Mabel Mervill
Robert Jeneson
Fragmented Text Leaves Mystery on GEMS OF TROKGHIT
A garbled OCR passage references GEMS OF TROKGHIT and a jumble of names and phrases. It contains stray words like gas, virtue, Channing, and Leroy, without clear events or coherent structure. The readable content is too fragmentary to determine a definite person, place, or outcome.
Rice analysis and insect names in Paris meeting notes
At a Paris Academy of Sciences session M Balland cited a century old rice sample showing only slight fat deficiency. He discussed sea dwelling butterflies, pneumatic tires cutting repair costs, and rapid wing vibrations in flies bees and cats. J O Walker reports promising sugar cane varieties from cross breeding with vigorous seedling yields.
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Paris Academy of Sciences
M. Balland
Paris
John Lubbock
Helsinger
Java
J. O. Walker
Be Cordial and Sympathetic for Popular Charm
A guide urges cultivating a clear strong voice, sincerity, frankness, amiability, sense, cheerfulness, and above all cordiality and sympathy to win favor. It warns against sneering, vanity, and cold pedantry, noting that genuine warmth fends off isolation and builds social ease.
Inventions Promise Radical Home Upgrades
Aged home aids include asbestos heat and light methods, a rat and vermin repellent using illuminated cardboard cats, and a Canadian gun with concealed mechanism discharging 260 000 rounds per minute. A burglar alarm bedhead device activates when hands slide under the pillow.
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Atari
Bureler
Jane
Fragmented Text on Medical Advice and Domestic Items
An excerpt from the Washington Star presents garbled hints about medical remedies and household items. It references water, irons, feet warming, oils, and unrelated mentions of pipes and fabrics, all obscured by OCR errors.
Cicero Invites Water Service Pipe Proposals West Wifty-third Street
Sealed proposals in duplicate for construction of water service pipes on West Wifty-third street from Kinzie to Chicago avenue are invited by the town of Cicero. Bids due 7:30 p.m. Sept. 7, 1895, with 10 percent certified check. The town reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
Sealed bids asked for street improvement in Cicero
Sealed proposals in duplicate for improving West Wilty third street from Kinzie street to Chicago avenue Cicero will be received until 7 30 p m Saturday Sept 7 96. A certified check for ten percent of the bid accompanies proposal. Cicero reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
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Wilty-third Street
Kinzie Street
Chicago Avenue
Civero
Board of Trustees
Cicero
Special Assessment No 558 for Cicero sewer system
The Town of Cicero plans to build a pipe sewer network on Sophia Iowa and Henry streets with numerous laterals and alleys. The County Court of Cook County will hold a final hearing at the September term beginning September 14 1896 where interested parties may present defenses. Commissioners Clair D Valliette Joman Lyon and others oversee the assessment process.
Public notice of Cicero sewer and street improvements
The Town of Cicero Board of Trustees and Town Clerk notify residents that a sewer and street improvements project from Waller Avenue to Franklin Avenue and from Waller Avenue to Austin Avenue will be assessed by Cook County Court for benefits. Final hearing set for September term. Special Assessments Nos. 562 and 63. notices advertise hearings and defenses.
Assessment hearing set for September 14 on improvement costs
County for an assessment of the cost of said improvement according to bene fits, and an assessment thereof having the final hearing thereof will be had at mencing on the 14th day of September, A. PD. 189%. All persons desiring may then and there appear and make their defense.
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Board of Trustees
Cicero
Sophia Street
Iowa Street
Henry Street
Prairie Avenue
Austin Avenue
Augusta Street
Chicago Avenue
Aley
A. PD
ATP
Clair D. Valliette
Joman L. Lyon
IK. CG
Vallette
Board of Tustees
Ohio Street
Waller Avenue
Franklin Avenue
Cook County
Ilinois
Twenty-third
Fiftieth Street
Fifty-fourth Street
A.D
Clair D
R. D. Driggs
BE. C
Cicero Town street improvement cost hearing set
Twenty-third street from West Fiftieth street to West Fifty-fourth street in Cicero Cook County Illinois has an assessment of the improvement costs filed with the County Court. A final hearing will occur at the September term beginning September 11 1896. Those wishing may appear and defend.
Special Assessment No 55 for Cicero water service pipes
Notice to residents of Midway Park in Cicero Cook County Illinois that water service pipes will be furnished and laid from Austin avenue to Waller avenue under the 1896 Cicero ordinance adopted June 20 1896. Assessment was made September 14 1896. All persons may...
Special Assessment 568 for Cicero alleys improvement
Special Assessment No 568 outlines the improvement of alleys in block S eight in Austin's Subdivision N Ed 44 Sec 8 T2459 N R 13 FE Town of Cicero Cook County Illinois. Plans call for grading curbing plank curb cedar blocks and follow the Cicero town ordinance adopted July 6 1896 with the ordinance on file in the assessment office.
Electric Bitters Advocated as Nerve Tonic and Blood Purifier
Advertisers tout Electric Bitters as the best remedy for restoring tired nerves. The vegetable tonic allegedly stimulates the stomach nerves, liver, and kidneys, purifying blood and improving appetite and digestion. Sold for 50 cents or $1 at Lovell's Drug Store Oak Park and Trail's Drug Store Austin.
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Livingstone
Lovell
Oak Park
Trail
Josh Billings Philosophy Fragment Misread
Fragmentary excerpt presents humorous aphorisms on labor, wealth, honesty, and speech. It critiques pretension, contrasts true wit with poseurs, and muses on danger of power, while scattering misspellings and quirky syntax that mimic a 19th century comic voice.
Parquet Flooring and Vintage House Details Listed
Readable fragments describe parquet flooring electric light wires hardwood mantels speaking tubes broad verandas and grille work with antique coppered hardware. The listing suggests a historic home feature set emphasizing ornate woodwork and early electrical and communication systems.
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Yadid Lele
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Hall Chemical CO
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Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Chicago and Great Western Railway
Metropolitan Elevated
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Maywood
Proviso Land Association
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H. Eugene Fishburn
WM. M. Hulbert
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Cigero
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A. G. Cone Treas
W. W. Kimball CO
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Ieid Lubels
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