City government and south end secession in dispute
A reader summary of driving political topics from Cicero area: calls for city government vote, south end secession threats, and debates over annexation. Mentions judges Horton, Shepard, and Gregman joining a new appellate court, and critiques of reformers and the Board of Trade. Includes notes on milk quality, street rail line moves, and saloonkeeper reactions to snow disruptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horton
Shepard
Greegman
Appellate Court
Supreme Court
The Town Board and the Five Cent Fare Debate
The town board faces a dispute over granting the franchise for elevated railroad service. Supporters including President Traill and Rearden, Vastine, Gunthorp, Butler, and McDonnell back cheaper transportation and a five cent fare while Cheney briefly opposed before voting with the ordinance. Attridge backed his belief, with the writer noting the day's significance and uncertainty about who was right.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uis
Traill
Messrs
Rearden
Vastine
Gunthorp
Butler
McDonnell
Cheney
Attridge
West Side Chicago area poised for price jumps and growth
The Cicero and Proviso West Side area near Chicago expects a housing boom with property values rising up to fifty percent and rents increasing. The piece praises favorable location, wind patterns, modern gas and electric services, and improved transit, urging more law abiding citizens and cleaner streets, as well as reviving a proposed 700 to 1000 acre Des Plaines river park project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicaxzo
Chicago
New York City
Paris
London
Washington Boulevard
Desplaines River
Illinois Bill Aims to Tax Telephone Slots in Chicago
Ma Ross Wall of Springfield outlines House Bill 34 to tax each telephone in Illinois, originally meant for Chicago slot machines. The plan sparks public nuisance concerns as callers are required to drop coins to use phones in drug stores. Lawmakers doubt any bill will pass.
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Owith Ma
Ross Wall
Springfield
Mlinois
Chicago
Gas ordinance transfer to new company under Roberts head
The Roth ermel gas ordinance is reassigned to a new company led by I. Roberts. The assignment must be filed with the Tithe Guaranty & Trust Company in Chicago. Roberts must secure a site and build a plant for 400000 cubic feet daily, with a 100000 cubic foot holder and at least five miles of mains by November 1, 1899. An ordinance ratifying the transfer was passed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rothermel
I. Roberts
Tithe Guaranty & Trust Company
Chicago
Roberts
Dunlop Bros Face Loss After Moody Embezzlement Scandal
The Oak Park Building and Loan association suffers a 29000 loss due to trust clerk Moody's embezzlement. Moody managed affairs for the Oak Park firm, with J S Dunlop serving as secretary treasurer. The Dunlop brothers operate from Chicago and Oak Park, a setback the firm aims to recover from with visitor sympathy offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunlop Bros
Oak Park
Moody
Oak Park Building and Loan Association
J. SK. Dunlop
Diunlop Bros
First National Bank
Chicago
Building Association
Cicero Board Grants Franchise for Elevated Rail Line
The Cicero Town board grants a fifty year franchise to the Cicero and Tarlem railway to build an elevated line along Lake Street from 52nd Street to Harlem Avenue with a surface grade toward Taylor and Harlem. Trains run Harlem Avenue to the Loop. fare details include twenty ride tickets for $11. bond set at $50,000. operation targeted by July 15, 1895. The Cicero and Proviso Electric line sees a fifty year extension in exchange for twelve ride tickets across Lake, Madison, and Chicago avenues to the Loop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cicero Town Board
Oan
Cicero & Tarlem Railway
Lake Street
Ifty-Second Street
Harlem Avenue
Taylor Avenue
South Bounlevard
Cicero É& Proviso Electric Line
Free Dr King’s New Discovery Trial Offer
Sample bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds are offered free at Lovett and Traill’s drugstore in Austin. Doctors widely use it and rely on it for severe cases. Regular sizes cost 50 cents and 1.00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
Lovett & Traill
Austin
Berwyn Community Hints And Local Notices
Berwyn society notes recount illnesses and recoveries, business changes, new clubs, entertainments, and officer elections. Mr Chas Davis moves into the Carroll avenue home. Ta Battle now owns Ottis Piper Jr. assets. The Entre Nous Club hosts a card party. Monitor Lodge plans an event. a Holy City oratorio is set for February 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monitor Lodge
Starr
Entre Nous Club
Faithorne
Tracy
Alfred R. Gaul
M. Is
Oratorio Society of
Berwyn
I. Hoepe
The
Baptist Church
Gideon Thompson
John Williams
Barge
Joseph Grove
Mr. Ludwig
Daugherty
Local notices from Hawthorne and area events
Hawthorne reports small town updates including new barber hiring, tax assessment critiques, court case Tanner versus Tanner for theft, Wicklund moving to open store, and Buffalo Rube’s embarrassment. Dolese and Shepherd firm assets to be sold February 25 at Board of Trade. young ladies society card party February 20 at Auditorium. Maccabees ball draws 65 couples at Voearweri's hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tanner
Kape
Wicklund
Dolese & Shepherd
Board of Trade
Young Ladies’ Society
Young Ladies’ Sodality
St. Dionysius’ Church
Board of Space
Voearweri
Grant Works and Local Social Notes At Grant Works
Wm. Decker moves into a new home. Miss Moble Ditlon of Chicago visits Miss Wauneta Nelson. Open window club to form. James Stewart of Siemens Halske visits. foreman now busy with pattern work. Locals critique fire department foreman choice. B. Nelson favored over Stubbs for paid fireman post. Watson Nolan set to marry Miss Gibson in Philadelphia. returns to manage Corliss engines and ice machines. Grant Works plans street car work with Mandel Lumber supplying Georgia pine. A new construction firm rents shop space in Grant Works for street car building. Ladies' Excelsior Benevolent and Aid Society prepares Saturday entertainment.
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Wm. Decker
Moble Ditlon
Chicago
Wauneta Nelson
James Stewart
Paternmaker
Siemens & Halske Company
Philadelphia
Grant Works
Mandel Lumber Company
Ladies’ Excelsior Benevolent and Aid Society
Watson Nolan
Miss Gibson
Thomas Gibson
Corliss
River Forest News Roundup From The Village
Local items report Geor g Bilting's grip and Mathews Bros stocking Heinz vinegar and fresh produce. Mr and Mrs John Broughton plan an extended Florida trip as Mrs Hoyt’s illness persists and Mrs Hopping hosts visitors. Rev Boyd and wife return from a West trip. Woman's club hosts a Gale avenue reception. Gustie poles for I J Marsh deer park arrive at W C depot. Hard Times party a success at village hall. Oak Park station agent Mr Martin buys Lathrop avenue lot. Ground broken for a two story Gale avenue home built by two lady public school superintendents. W C railway section boss Mr Hancock injured paw and leg, improving. Miss M Priess to resume Boyce Gilbert position. cost to depart West. Harold Klock recovering from hand injury. Grace Delafield Sturges marries Reginald Gowain Rowe Carne. couple leaves for California then Ojai valley.
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Geo
Bilting
Mathews Bros
Heinz
John Broughton
Florida
Mathews’ Bros
Boag
Chicago
John Hoyt
Hopping
Kankakee
F. Hopping
Mr. Boyd
M. FB
Gale Avenue
W. CG
I. J. Marsh
Deer Park
Martin
Oak Park
Northwestern
Lathrop Avenue
Geo. L. Vorass
Schwadler
Miss Williams
Chicago Public Schools
Hancock
W. C. Railway
Barr & Collins
M. Priess
Boyce & Gilbert
Germany
Irving Cost
West
Harold Klock
Harold
Grace Delafield Sturges
Chas. M. Sturges
Central Avenue
Reginald Gowain Rowe Carne
Curler Avenue
John Carne
California
Los Angeles
Ojai Valley
Austin Presbyterian Notes Highlight Choir and Outreach
Last Sunday featured a happy exchange with Rev Moses H Jackson praising South Side work and a strengthened Chorus Choir debut in morning service. The note also mentions a forthcoming Ohio trip for the pastor and postponement of the Falk Concert due to many entertainments, plus relief funds needing donations and work opportunities coordinated by Mrs Rucker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moses H. Jackson
South Side
Republic of Liberia
General Assembly
Jackson
Christian Work Committee
Ohio
Lane Seminary
Cincinnati
J. A. P. McGraw
First Presbyterian Church
Springfield
Falk
Relief Society
Milk Route Trouble in Austin as Mortgage Change Hands
Delgard and Green owned the Austin Milk Company with a mortgage on the chattels held by Mr. Thayer. Mr. Lassen, arriving from Iowa, bought the mortgage interest after learning he could acquire it at a better price, only to find the former owners continued delivering milk. The case centers on buying goodwill and ensuing business disputes, a tale of competing interests after purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. Delgard & Green
Austin Milk Company
Thayer
Lassen
Iowa
Delgard & An
The Coming Woman and Homekeeper Find Relief with Electric Bitters
A promotional notice touts Electric Bitters as the remedy for women health issues including loss of appetite headaches sleeplessness fainting and nervous troubles. It claims benefits for Lame Back and Weak Kidneys and advises Delicate women to keep a bottle on hand. Sold by Lovett and Traill in Austin for 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lovett & Traill
Austin
Dissolution of Partnership Gilbert and Mead
Notice of dissolution of the partnership Gilbert and Mead by mutual consent. Business continues under H. W. Gilbert at 111 N. Oak Park Avenue as H. W. Gilbert. Signed by H. W. Gilbert and G. A. Mead. Deco rating Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Gilbert
G. A. Mead
Gilbert and Mead
N. Oak Park Avenue
Decorating Co
Millinery Shop Temptation Quip Echoes Daily Life
A pithy quotation notes the equal lure of fashion shops for women and saloons for men, reflecting social habits and everyday temptations in urban life, as cited by the Chicago Daily News.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Daily News
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the Vindicator
Sicerq, IL
C. Burras
North Park Avenue
Cicero
South End
Dick” Powers
Henry , Therts
Great Northern Hotel
Allen
County Finance Committee
Powers
Simeon Anhuitsahe
Republican Club of
Republican Club
Cicero & Proviso Street Railroad Company
Madison Streets
Desplaines Avenue
the Town Board
Dr. McNiel
Jensen
Anaheim
Western Avenue
McCartney
Home Bakery
Rush
Reath
Windsor Avenue
Knight Klott of Hawthorne
Hawthorne
Terd Kelch
AL Grew
Father Siemanski
Nick Buck
August Schoen
Bairdtown
Fire Department
Stubbs
B. Nelson
Grant
Nelson
River Forest
F. Simmons’ Express
Wah GO
Simmoonnnns
Lake St
H. R. Richmond
Mer
la Salle Street
H. H. Rearden
the Temple
Twenty-fifth Street
Risley Avenue
Board of Trustees
Town of
J. R. Drent
W. A. Bunge
the Town of
Nokint Superior Nlartie C. Garrabrant. Y . Court
Polk Street
Harvard Street
Kimball] Avenue
Cook County
Illinois
Superior Court
R. B. Driggs
D. Maclean, JR
Fred L. Phillips
W. H. Newbery & CO
Nah Austin
Linden Park
Maywood
Clyde
Moreland, Oak Park
Melrose, Iberwyn, and
Mandel
Austin, Ill
Ss. B. Wait
Cicero Telephone
Ontario Street
Hugh Gair
Ais Lake St., Oak Park, Ill
Harlem Avenues
Carmichael
Ww. S. Smith
Bener
Oak Park and
Dunlop Bros.’ Bank
Zimmerman & Roath’s Feed Store
Oak Park Av
Thompson’s Drug Store
Blossy
Thomas St
Harlem
Ill
Madison St
Ternear & CO
Lake Fntreet
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