Joliet aldermen scandal and Lambert gift fallout
Joliet residents learn that Colonel Lambert plans to donate proceeds from franchise sales to city projects including a public library and hospital endowments. He also hints at completing a telephone franchise deal, while the aldermen face corruption scrutiny and a renewed push to secure park donations from the Joliet Street Railway Company.
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Chicago Daily News
The King and the Library of Perhaps
An Indian tale recalls a vast library requiring camels and Brahmins for care. Librarians extract knowledge for the king, who grows impatient and asks for briefer forms. After generations, a single ass can carry a tiny digest, but the king remains unsatisfied until a leaf carries the moral: perhaps is the essence of science.
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India
London Old Sewer Commission Abolished in 1898
The London old sewer commission, organized in 1667 after the Great Fire, was abolished with the start of 1898 after 130 years. It controlled sewers drains street work tax rates water supply and related municipal functions, now returned to the London municipal corporation.
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Londons Old Sewer Commission
Old Sewer Commission of London
Municipal Corporation of London
Eternal Life Through Deeds of Service
The passage asserts that earthly life ends with the body but deeds endure, shaping others and influencing heavenly reward. It emphasizes living ministries and acts of loyalty as lasting legacies, with charitable care like a "cup of cold water" contributing to the spiritual good and the city of God.
Great Historian's Absent Mindedness
Berliners recount tales of Mommsen's absent mindedness including not recognizing his own son and asking the child his name to quiet him on a tram. He is said to have placed his first baby in a waste paper basket and covered it to muffle its cries.
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Mommsen
Carlottenburg
Conscience and Judgment Exposed in Baron Pollock Letter
Canon Knox-Little writes to the London Times about Baron Pollock. He recalls entertaining the judge in Worcester where Pollock, tired and pale, says he has stayed up all night to sentence young men and boys, stressing the need for sound judgment and prayer to safeguard their souls.
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Baron Pollock
Canon Knox-Little
London Times
Worcester
Academy of Music Promises Strong Line of Attractions
Manager Simpson touts a profitable season at the Academy with low prices and popular acts. Next week James H Wallick arrives with When London Sleeps, a sensational yet realistic drama expected to draw strong crowds with stars Nellie Daly Conwell and Swan Gorman and Fields in the lineup.
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Simpson
Academy
Bluebirds
Thhey
Jas. H. Wallick
Hooley
London
Mr. Simpson
Nellie Daly
Conwell
Swan
Gorman
Fields
Herne to Close Shore Acres Run at McVickers Monday
James A. Herne begins the third and last week of Shore Acres at McVickers on Monday evening. The 150th performance will be celebrated with a gold plated Florentine frame souvenir. The play remains a major money maker noted for authentic New England life and sincere dramatic craft.
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New England
Herne
Miss Irancis of Yale heads final week at Great Northern
At the Great Northern theater the second and final week of Miss Irancis of Yale is announced with Etienne Girardot leading the cast. The plot follows a youth with feminine traits posing as a woman in student theatricals, leading to mistaken identity and comic complications.
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Great Northern Theater
Irancis
Yale
Etienne Girardot
Charley
London
Francis
Under the Polar Star at the Alhambra This Week
A scenic melodrama about a North Pole expedition opens at the Alhambra theater next Sunday for a week. It previously drew crowds at the Columbia for three weeks last season and features striking scenery, music, and updated lines while preserving the same plot.
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Alhambra Theater
Columbia
North Pole
Hopkins Plans Major Week at the Theater
Manager Hopkins announces a top season bill with a near feature production of Little Lord Fauntleroy by special permission from Frances Hodgson Burnett. The vaudeville includes The Animated Music Sheet, Harry Armstrong, Watson and Hutchings, Stine and Evans, Jessie Teen, and an American Biographer with new foreign views.
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Hopkins
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Harry Armstrong
Watson
Papinta to Headline at Olympic With Dances and Acts
Papinta the mirror dancer leads a diverse bill at the Olympic next week. The program features her fire and serpentine dances including E Capitan, plus the Northern troupe, Annie Myers with popular airs, Carrie Scott burlesque imitations, the Poutsons, Hagelaras Japs, a tramp comedian, and other entertainers such as Dick, Dick and Dick, Kinet wit, Donovan, the Lovenberg s via, Leroy Millard and John.
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Papinta
Annie Myers
Carrie Scott
Schaar
Haymarket Vaudeville Preview Features Duncan Triloquist Star
Next week at the Haymarket a varied vaudeville program showcases A. O. Duncan the world’s greatest ventriloquist and a comedian. Also appearing are Webb and Hassan daring hand and head balancers, Barnes and Sisson in The Singer and the Maid, Caroline Hull triple voiced nightingale, the three Racket brothers musical sketch, Harry Moison with his educated dog, and other notable acts. The lineup promises entertaining and successful performances.
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A. O. Duncan
Mr. Duncan
Webb
Hassan
Barnes and
Sisson
Caroline Hull
Nightingale
Harry Moison
Welby
Pearl
Keys
Nellis
Julia Kelly
Belle Sacha
Andersons
M'le Alma
Tanakas
Mae Mazelle
Two Noted Ghosts And Apparitions Across Estates
An Englishwoman at Hampton Court reports a near walk with a living baroness apparition wearing a black robe and white gloves. A German baroness dies at the hour of sight, and a clergyman recalls a luminous female figure linked to a centuries-old murder tale and room discolouration confirmed by a memory map.
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Hampton Court
Germany
Eloves
Church of England
Jim
Unfaithful Workers Face Self-Discipline Warning
The text condemns idle, lazy employees who neglect duties at work. It argues faithfulness to employers reflects self respect, warns readers employed in any establishment to avoid indolence and dependence on kindness. It stresses that faithfulness benefits both the employer and the worker.
Mystery Conversing Between Dr Smiley Ah and Judge
A humorous exchange features Dr Smiley Ah questioning a judge about a child’s gender. The judge names the child John and asserts the child is a boy. The dialogue is presented with quirky spellings and a playful tone.
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Dr. Smiley
Dremeyr
John
Man Dies While Delving Into Depths of Awo Man's Love
A brief item notes the peril faced by a poor man who loses his life in an attempt to sound the depths of a woman’s love. The tragedy underscores risky pursuits driven by affection.
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Awoman
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