Cicero Town Board Acts on Lighting and Franchises
Cicero trustees meet November 28 1896 in Austin town hall. They advertise bids for street lighting in Oak Park area and consider arc light petitions. Reports cover gas franchise talks, sidewalk projects, plumbing license, and Suburban Railroad Co permit debate.
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Town of
Cicero
Austin
Oak Park
Committee of Whole
Pierce
I. Czmock
W. D. Mahoney
Charles Bruce
J. A. Hall
Morton Park
Robinson Avenue
Committee of
Nellie McEvery
H. C. Hansen
Finance Committee
Alfred J. Pruden
Douglas Bros
Chaim
Geo. N. Prack
Cicero Gas Company
W. W. Ginley
Austin Fire Company
Police Telephone and Signal Co
Chicago
Ogden Avenue
Clyde
Gates
Willow Avenue
Dolese & Shepard
Berwyn
Suburban Electric Company
Gunthorp
Austin Ave
12Th Street
Harlem Ave
Philadelphia
North Avenue
Twelth Street
East Avenue
Austin Avenue
Suburban Railroad Co
H. C. Wilson
Fourth Precinct
Suburban Railway Co
Cicero & Proviso Street Railway Co
Yerkes
Tarrivon Street
Wilson
Committee of the
Monroe Street
Forty-eighth Street
McDonald
Castle
Central Avenue
Cornelia Streets
Civil Service Law
Kinzie Street
Merrick Park
Town Hall
Poplar Avenue
Chicago Avenue
Rearden
H. H. Rearden
Geo. R. Frankland
N. P. Ry
Randolph Street
Pine
Park Avenue
Park
Waller Avenues
Chicago Telephone Co
Cicero Telephone Co
Grant Works
Wawthorne
Clyde Police Station
Austin Central Station
Dare
Anna Ameling
Forest Avenue
Augusta Street
Partridge Habits and Game Protection in Maryland
Baltimore Sun reports partridge roosting by a ground circle of sentinels and alarm bunching when danger nears. Females incubate while males perch nearby, with up to three broods starting May 1. Hunters' spread of coveys and lack of breeding birds prompt calls for Maryland game protection laws.
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Baltimore Sun
Maade
Dorchester County
Maryland
Thief with Scar Arrested After Saloon Robbery
Graves Rawlings of 418 Warren avenue was drugged and robbed of a diamond stud and a watch at a saloon near Thirty third and Armour. He identified the robber by a distinctive scar and the man was arrested after Rawlings spotted him at Clark and Madison streets. The suspect gave the name Tom Quinn.
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Graves Rawlings
Warren Avenue
Thirtythird
Armour Avenue
Mr. Rawlings
Rawlings
Clark and
Madison Streets
Wilson
Central Police
Tom Quinn
Strange Happenings and Odd Disturbances Across Cities
A Philadelphia court hears wife’s complaint against husband David Douglass who ordered wagonloads of coal and supplies to be delivered for months, with undertakers summoned to embalm and neighbors victimized by his pranks. Anna Ward chases a 4:30 train in Greensburg with wardrobe in a satchel after a rush performance. A convent incident in Brooklyn reports a man seen inside a sister's room causing hysteria among the nuns. A 74 year old Buffalo man, Willis Holm lund, shows a growing third set of teeth surfacing daily. Burial in Marble cemetery noted alongside a Ulster county woman's death. A Philadelphia birthday party host O Neil falls through a window into the street after dancing near a hot second-story window. A Brooklyn woman known as a new woman, Lizzie Felton, receives a testimonial after subduing a persistent admirer. Fireman Schuster rescues a child from a flame filled hallway in New York as neighbors save other children from a burning house.
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Kkrry Douglass
David Douglass
Philadelphia
David
John A. Adams
Albert Moore
Isabella Drew
North Sixth Street
John O'Neil
O'Neil
Vermont Libraries Expand With 118 Public Libraries
The Vermont library law has led fifty nine towns to establish libraries in two years, bringing total public libraries to 118. State book funding and library commission costs total about $6,000, a small price for significant results.
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Vermont
Library Commission
New York Tribune
Insurance in Early Days Opens in Philadelphia in 1794
The first fire insurance company in the United States began operations in Philadelphia in 1794. Its launch marked the start of organized risk coverage in the new nation, reflecting early financial expansion and urban growth.
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Philadelphia
Norwegian traveler uncovers ancient Gobi desert ruins
Sven Uodin reports ruins on the north side of the Kuen Lan mountains near the Gobi edge. The largest town stretched about two and a half miles with a canal linking it to the Kerija river. Reeds and mud walls bore white plaster and painted scenes of people animals and flowers. Poplars apricots and plums once grew there before sandstorms buried the site.
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Sven Uodin
Kuen Lan
Gobi
Kerija
John May Be Lucky Father of Nineteen Sons and Six Daughters
John Casud of Labette county Kansas, aged 72, father of nineteen sons and six daughters, is described as vigorous and happy. The piece playfully notes his condition might differ if the children were all daughters, implying luck or fortune in lineage.
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John
John Casud
Labette County
Kas
Man with no pate wears a wax face mask in France
Retired artilleryman Moreau from near Avesnes in France survived a shell blast at Baulpwume that left his face largely destroyed. Surgeons removed thirty five facial bones and a wax mask replaced the missing features. A government grant ten years ago funded a metal mask that holds well though needs repainting periodically. The report notes 1002 patent medicines in circulation.
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Vitlise
Avesnes
Lille
France
Moreau
Lbaupwume
Motes
Ely
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R. R. CO
Harrison ST
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T. F. Kelley
Same Street
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Store’s Place
Rylands & Co
Swinscoe
Prairie Avenue
Cicero & Proviso Co
Trustee Castle
24Th Street
12Th
16Th Streets
40Th
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First Alley
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Fiarvey
Pleasant
Ridgeland
Twenty-Sixth Street
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MicDonald
Attridge
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Sante
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Linden
Jessamine Avenue
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Forty Eighth Street
Iranklin Avenue
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Hoonger
George Binder
Binder
Denver
Washtenaw Avenue
Alexander Crandall
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Forty-Fifth Street
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Crandall
Attorney Jones
Linder
Justice Richardson
Dora Parker
Dora
Attorney Linder
America
Asia
Africa
Corea
Richardson
Wichardson
Burlington
West Sixteenth Street
Frank Browning
Tommy Wilson
Browning
Crank
George B. Swift
Bartholdi
Swift
Joseph Maruska
Maruska
Thomas Street
Detective Headquarters
McGuire
Harrison Street
Canton
Melinley
Don Reardon
Mahanoy Plane
Reardon
Mother
Dorn
Dora Donnegan
Dore
Elgin
Oshkosh
J. E. Clark
Madison
Dearborn
Justice Underwood
Buffalo
Waltzen
Anna Ward
Digby Bell Company
Greensburg
Miss Ward
Miss Bender
Church of the Nativity
Classon Avenue
Brooklyn
Siolen
Willisn
Holmlund
South di Vision Street
Mr. Holmlund
Sweden
New York
Second Street
First
Second Avenues
Hester Smith
Marlborough
Ulster County
Daniel Smith
Commodore Vanderbilt
Staten Island
Locust Street
Lizzie Felton
William Leiser
William J. Schuster
Schuster
J. W. Harmes
W. OF. Schiusler