Political and civic notes from Cicero and beyond
The article discusses Cicero ward plans with forty three saloons and annexation pushes by Trustee Attridge, potential veto by Mayor Harrison on redistricting, pay for town trustees, and speculation over C W Souls Dury as justice of the peace. It notes merchants’ excuses for early closing, gas and electric firms’ gains, Cicero expenditures and balances, Pennsylvania forestry purchases, and timber culture policy in New York.
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Austin
Gas and Electric Grit Companies
Pennsylvania
New York
Railway officials reshuffled as resignations occur
Mr A K Stone, superintendent of the Lake Street Elevated Railway, resigns to take a position in Philadelphia. He is succeeded by Barney Mervin, formerly train master of the Northwestern Elevated Railway. Harry Hagard becomes Mervin’s replacement and EH Davis is promoted to night train dispatcher at Austin Ave.
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A. K. Stone
Lake Street Elevated Railway
Philadelphia
Barney Mervin
Northwestern Elevated Railway
Harry Hagard
Mervin
EH. J. Davis
Austin Ave
Germany develops furnace using evaporated liquid air to boost burning
A German invention vents a furnace designed for low grade fuels like lignite and peat. It enhances combustion by injecting a gaseous mix from evaporated liquid air, releasing nitrogen first and feeding a residue with at least 50 percent oxygen into the furnace.
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Germany
Citizens' Association Probes Chicago Civil Service
The Citizens Association of Chicago reviews the 1895 civil service law revealing 550 of 1542 county employees fall under the civil service commission. Officers J D Morrison chairman Walter Lanz and G W Lovejoy secretaries sign the report with George E Cole and Hoyt King stating the civil service is badly managed.
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Citizens’ Association of Chicago
J. D. Morrison
Walter Lanz
G. W. Lovejoy
George E. Cole
Hoyt King
City Club of New York Jing Publishes Civic Reference Pamphlets
The City Club of New York releases two small pamphlets for New Yorkers and others. One is a concise index to the city charter and the other a chronological summary of charter mandated events for the year. The pamphlets explain official duties and aim to help citizens understand municipal government and fulfill civic duties.
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The
City Club of
New York
Chicago Doctors Report Nitrogen Pleural Treatment
Chicago physicians examined several patients treated for consumption by the nitrogen compression method first promoted by Dr. J. B. Murphy. Dr. Augustus Lemke presented cases noting symptom relief, weight gain, and no current evidence of disease, though he did not claim a cure.
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Chicago
J. B. Murphy
Congress of Physicians
Denver
Augustus Lemke
Postage stamps form mural art at Ghent hospital
The British Medical Journal reports Saint Jean de Dieu Hospital in Ghent Belgium covered walls with 20 million postage stamps arranged to depict flowers insects and figures in a Japanese style. Critics warn hygiene risks and possible tuberculosis spread from saliva on stamps.
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Saint Jean de Dieu
Ghent
Belgium
Journal
Postage stamps deemed unsafe hobby amid medical warnings
The text notes that in tests some guinea pigs died from tuberculosis despite precautions. It argues that tuberculosis is a dangerous enemy and no precaution can be neglected. thus postage stamps should not be pursued as hobbies or murals without antiseptic measures.
Lady of Books Mrs Walker Owning Vast Rare Library
Mrs. W Hall Walker of Gateacre Grange near Liverpool maintains a world renowned collection. Her library includes rare books from travels, a friendship library with autographs, and the Sheriden family relics and writings. She is linked to Algernon Brinsley Sheridan and Richard Brinsley Sheridan through descent. Her family also ties to John Lothrop Motley and Lady Harcourt.
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W. Hall Walker
Gateacre Grange
Liverpool
Algernon Brinsley Sheridan
Frampton Court
Dorsetshire
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheridan Sisters
London
Helen
Dufferin
Caroline Elizabeth Norton
Georgina
Duchess of Somerset
Elizabeth Linley
Gainsborough
The Latest Little Heiress Becomes Rich Heiress
A 17 year old girl gains about 400 000 dollars from a will of an eccentric old man who made a fortune in the butcher business. The will caused a long court dispute with over seventy claimants before Judge Wilmot awarded the property to Miss Fannie L Hommedien of Islip. The story notes her kindness and reward for benevolence to the elderly relative.
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Tulip
N. Y
Fannie L'Hommedien
Islip
Thomas B. Broadway
Fannie
Wilmot
Nations Make Money from Odd Tax and Trade Ideas
The piece outlines historic and humorous schemes to raise revenue. It cites Sebastopol iron resale taxed at twelve cents per hundredweight earning seventy five thousand dollars for Russia after the Crimean War. It notes bachelors taxed higher in Hesse, Greece profiting from a legal card monopoly, Paris selling orchard profits and Eiffel Tower shares, Sicily snow sold for refrigeration, and England saving ratepayers by peppermint from a sewer farm.
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Lises
Sebastopol
Hesse
Prassia
Greece
Paris
Luxembourg Gardens
Eiffel Tower
Palermo
Sicily
Sutton
England
Frugality Rules German Soldier Wages
The German Army guards wage frugality as training. Each soldier stores six cents daily in a neck bag and may face inspection demands to reveal spending. If a soldier spends too quickly, he is reprimanded. wages must cover expenses, not beer.
Spontaneous Hay Combustion Warned By Weather Official
A Weather Bureau official notes that moist hay can ferment and heat to 374 degrees Fahrenheit, enough to ignite clover hay. He urges rapid ventilation to cool oxidizing and fermenting substances and prevent spontaneous combustion.
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Weather Bureau
Analysis of gunshot wounds in U S wars by Sternberg
Brig. Gen. George R. Sternberg, surgeon general, notes in his annual report that American soldiers suffered different wound patterns in the Spanish American and Philippine campaigns compared with Civil War bullets. He concludes the smaller modern caliber is less deadly than old musket balls.
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George R. Sternberg
Theosophists in Germany Grow to Two Thousand
The article notes a rise in Theosophists in Germany, reaching about 2,000 adherents. It references Blavatsky era ideas and the Mahatmas as guiding figures behind the movement.
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Blavatsky
Germany
Humorous Teasers and Snippets From a Lively Dinner Table
A collection of quips and exchanges: jokes about fishing, bicycles, football pride, clever husbands, lost umbrellas, Jersey cows, noblesse oblige, battle outcomes, and timid proposals. The snippets reveal social banter and playful misunderstandings among friends and relatives.
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Jack
Efe -Eoylyj
Slim
Zimmy
Beechwood
Homewood
Hiram
Silas
New Works and Uplift Efforts Highlight Literary Notes
Richard Carle debuts The Moon Maiden and The Curio Dealer. The Country Judge a new pastor al play by Alice Be Ives and Jerome Eddy will open in New York next March. Friends of Robert Buchanan form a fund committee to aid the ailing author. Mansfield’s acting edition of Henry V to be published, based mainly on Rolfe. Dr Winthrop Ellsworth Stone, Purdue president, age eightty eight? is eight years into the presidency after eight years as vice president. he is a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College and studied at Gottingen.
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Alice BE Ives
Jerome Eddy
New York
Robert Buchanan
Richard Mansfield
Mansfield
Rolfe
Winthrop Ellsworth Stone
Purdue University
Lafayette
Ind
Massachussets Agricultural College
Gottingen
January Success previews bright future voices
Literary note surveys from January Success feature Joseph Chamberlain on England’s future, Admiral Dewey and General Miles on young men in navy and army, W. H. Crane on rural drama, Zeke de Lussan on music as education, and Edison Serviss Marconi Jordan Depew Coler discussing America fifty years hence. The cover by Albert Hencke depicts James Gordon Bennett’s start in Wall Street cellar May 7, 1835.
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Joseph Chamberlain
England
Admiral Dewey
General Miles
W. H. Crane
Zeke de Lussan
Thomas A. Edison
Garrett P. Serviss
Guglielmo Marconi
David Starr Jordan
Chauncey M. Depew
Birdy S. Coler
America
Albert Hencke
James Gordon Bennett
New York “Herald
Wall Street
Flats for rent and living spaces listed in Austin area
TO RENT five room flats with hot water electric light gas and bath Morris A. Peterson 1115 Lake street FOR RENT a modern six room flat centrally located 15 and a pretty six room cottage with a large yard 15 Apply to R S Tuthill 422 North Central avenue Austin WANTED TO RENT by a lady employed two or three unfurnished rooms with heat near Lake St L Address Mrs Quigley 305 South 53d ave or call after 7 pm
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Morris A. Peterson
Lake Street
R. S. Tuthill
North Central Avenue
Austin
Lake St
Miss Hollingworth to Open Physical Culture Class
Miss Helen E. Hollingworth will open a physical culture class at the Austin Woman's Club rooms. The class will meet Saturdays at 10 40 a m with a special price for children under 16 years of age.
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Helen E. Hollingworth
Austin Woman’s Club Rooms
A Prominent Chicago Woman Praises Chamberlain Cough Remedy
Prof Roxa Tyler of Chicago vice president Illinois Woman's Alliance testifies to Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. She suffered a severe cold that threatened pneumonia, tried several remedies, found the Chamberlain product pleasant and effective, and fully recovered saving a doctor’s bill. The medicine is sold by J P Garner & Co Austin and Geo Koch Co Moreland.
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Roxa’’ ‘Tyler
Chicago
Illinois Woman's Alliance
Chamberlain
J. P. Garner & Co
Austin
Geo. Koch & Co
Moreland
Obituaries: Gerald Pierson and James Harper
Gerald Pierson aged 2 years 8 months son of Mr and Mrs J H Pierson of 551 S Waller avenue died Dec 28 from rheumatism of the heart after a slight cold. James Harper aged 73 died at 317 S Pine avenue on Dec 28 from pleuro pneumonia. Born in Ireland he lived in Cambridge New York Paxton Ireland Cauker Kan and retired from business in Austin last June. He leaves a wife two daughters and a son in Minneapolis. Funeral from residence to Forest Home Cemetery officiated by Dr Meloy First U P Church of Chicago.
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Gerald Pierson
J. H. Pierson
S. Waller Avenue
James Harper
S. Pine Avenue
Mr. Harper
Ireland
Cambridge N. Y
Paxton, Ir
Cauker
Kan
Austin
Minneapolis
Minn
Forest Home Cemetery
Meloy
First U.P. Church of Chicago
Death notices for Mrs Fanny Greenlief and Mrs Mary Rodgers
Mrs Fanny Greenlief aged 70 of 320 Taylor avenue died Wednesday. Funeral Friday at Rosehill. Her son W B Greenlief notes fifty years residency in the state. Mrs Mary Rodgers sister of E H Wood of Union Pacific Railway died recently in California and will be buried Friday in Forest Home cemetery.
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Fanny Greenlief
W. B. Greenlief
Taylor Avenue
Rosehill
Greenlief
Mary
Homeseekers Excursions by Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway offers round trip excursion tickets valid for 21 days to numerous destinations in South and North Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota and Michigan Peninsula on a single fare plus $2. Sales occur January 1 and 16, February 5 and 19, March 5 and 19, and April 2 and 16. For rates routes and farm land prices write F A Miller General Passenger Agent Old Colony Building Chicago.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
South
North Dakota
Iowa
Minnesota
Peninsula of Michigan
F. A. Miller
Old Colony Building
Chicago
Bucklen's Abwica Salve Promises Worldwide Fame
World wide fame claimed for Bucklen's Abwica Salve and its cures for cuts burns boils sores felons ulcers tetter salt rheum fever sores chapped hands and piles. Cure guaranteed and priced at 26c at Traill & Cooling Austin and Chas Miller Oak Park.
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Traill & Cooling
Austin
Chas
P. Miller
Oak Park
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