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Oak Park Vindicator

Location

Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Dec 04, 1896

Page

6

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vitlise Avesnes Lille France Moreau Lbaupwume Motes Ely

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Cicero Town Board Ridgel Arc R. R. CO Harrison ST Midway Park T. F. Kelley Same Street Wm. H. Hilliard Store’s Place Rylands & Co Swinscoe Prairie Avenue Cicero & Proviso Co Trustee Castle 24Th Street 12Th 16Th Streets 40Th Twenty-fourth Street West Ifty Second Cuyler Avenue Lake Ontario First Alley Lombard Fiarvey Pleasant Ridgeland Twenty-Sixth Street Prairie MicDonald Attridge Twentyfourth West Fifty-second W. Fiftieth Street Sante Thirty-second Street Linden Jessamine Avenue Lexington Street Forty Eighth Street Iranklin Avenue Madison Street Hoonger George Binder Binder Denver Washtenaw Avenue Alexander Crandall John McCarthy Fiftieth Street Forty-Fifth Street McCarthy 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
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