Trustees Act On Water Piping And Street Improvements
The board adopted motions authorizing rebates and warrants, directed bids for Austin avenue work, canceled and redirected payments, transferred funds to special accounts, and ordered lighting and water-rate studies for schools. It instructed buy eight inch water pipes for 48th avenue and approved various committee reports and financial payments totaling 7,409.81 with 42.77 on special funds. The meeting adjourned to January 8 at 7:30 p.m.
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Cicero Avenue
Butler
James Glynn
M. J. Bransfield
Reardon
MacDonald
John Young, Jr
Cicero
Austin Avenue
22D Street
Gunthorp
South End
29Th Street
48Th Ave
Haas
W. B. Goodenough
Board of Education
Ecg Eerie
Goodwin School
Clyde High School
PR Ga RS LE Ee Mets
Emmerson School
LaVergne
Trail
Traill
Minen
12Th Street
Congress Street
Vinance
Witty Observations on Marriage and Society
A collection of pithy proverbs and quips about marriage, gender roles, pedestrians and cyclists, and the foibles of professionals. The notes mingle humor on spouses quarrels, men and women behave like the opposite sex, and everyday annoyances from hotel clerks to shirt buttons.
The Sporting Duchess at McVickers Opens Sunday
McVickers presents The Sporting Duchess starting Sunday night January 9 with a star cast led by J. H. Stoddart Cora Tanner Bolliott Paget Edmund Collier and Louis Masgen. Manager Frank L. Perley showcases an organ enhanced venue and a lavish touring organization priced to attract theatergoers at the popular State street house.
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McVicker’s
America
Frank L. Perley
J. H. Stoddart
Cora Tanner
Bfolliott Paget
Edmund Collier
Louis Masgen
Town Topics Comedy Heads for Great Northern Theatre
World Keller and Mack bring a three act travesty to the Great Northern Theatre starting Sunday. The company features Miss Marie Leslie and Miss Gussie Nelson, the English star 22, with future bookings including Miss Francis of Yale and Miss Philadelphia in a spectacular review.
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Great Northern
World
Keller
Mack
Chicago
Schiller
Marie Leslie
America
Herrmann
Gussie Nelson
England
Geo. Edwarde
Monte Cristo Co
Ed Rice
Paris
Francis
Yale
Philadelphia
Vesta’ Tilley
Haymarket to Open with All Star Comedy and Acrobats Next Week
A Haymarket show next week will feature Billy Clifford and Maud Huth with darky sketches and coon songs from the Olympic hit. The Whirlwinds Arabian acrobats lead the novelty acts, joined by Ed Favor Edith Sinclair in Mr. McGuire the Plumber and Jones Grant and Jones in darky comedy. Fish er and Carroll bring Irish banter, Charley Case tells stories, Plelda and Enalina perform burlesque, with Williams Carleton Attle Spencer Swan and Devoe Frank Burt Williams and Goodall and Kitty O Fallon. The act closes with The Irish Tenement.
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Haymarket
Billy Clifford
Maud Huth
West Side
Fisher
Carroll
Charley Case
Plelda
Enalina
Williams
Carleton
Attle Spencer
Swan
Devoe
Frank Burt
McFaddens Row of Flats Comes to Chicago Matinee
A new farce comedy by E. W. Townsend titled McFadden's Row of Flats opens in Chicago at a matinee. The touring company stars Speck Brothers Yellow Kid performers and a large cast including Lizzie Conway Estelle Wellington and the Hampton Students. The production has been a season standout.
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Chicago
Adelman Leads Big Act At Olympic Next Week Show
Adelman and top Gilmore soloists headline the Olympic week lineup. Al Wilson the Dutch dialect comic will deliver jokes. Ward and Curran with their grotesque singing comedy plus John Curran’s tenor ballads set the stage for an entertaining program. Phyllis Allen, a gifted soprano, offers new songs and descriptive ballads. Hines and Remington in a Bowery sketch, Billy Carter’s blackface banjo act, and George Austin the clown wire walker also appear along with the Zenos, Nelson trio, Leavitt and Nevelle, May Evans, Nate and Minnie LeRoy, Sonorant trio, Ford brothers, and Burke and Grey in a varied show.
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Adelman
Gilmore
al Wilson
Ward
Curran
John Curran
Phyllis Allen
Hines
Remington
Bowery
Billy Carter
George Austin
Zenos
Nelson
Leavitt and
Nevelle
May Evans
Nate
Minnie LeRoy
Sonorant
Ford Brothers
Burke and Grey
Hopkins stock company revives My Partner in new run
Next week the Hopkins stock company presents Bartley Campbell’s My Partner with Miss May Hosmer in the lead role. The show is described as one of the best Campbell style American dramas with a plot rich in exciting situations and detail. The program also features Visions of Art and the Northern Troupe of dancer performers plus ventriloquist A. O. Duncan and actress Mabel Craig with James Rich in supporting turns.
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Hopkins Stock Company
Bartley Campbell
Campbell
May Hosmer
Hopkins Company
Louis Aldrich
Warning on children party pleasures and their dangers
The piece warns that children party pleasures bring extensive excitement and waste. It notes risks of chill, improper food and drink, and sleep disturbances from the invitation to the event. It urges avoiding overexciting amusements and safeguarding youth growth and nutrition.
Magnetite Island Bornhohn Affects Navigators In Baltic
The Baltic island Bornhohn, Danish territory, is described as magnetite rich and magnetically influential. Mariners fear its effect on compasses, often abandoning needle-based steering for lighthouses. A submerged rock bank near the island endangers ships, with compasses even pointing straight down when over the bank.
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Bornhohn
Baltic
Kingdom of
Denmark
Bornhahn
Tiger-hunting bow from China exhibited at Smithsonian
A Chinese bow used to kill jungle tigers is shown in Smithsonian displays. The weapon, crossbow like and built with a wooden barrel holding two arrows, requires six men to draw and triggers by a threaded release. Arrows are tipped with poison and concealed along tiger paths for ambush.
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Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Jungle
China
Birds Adapt Nests With Unlikely Materials
The Literary Digest reports French examples of birds using unfamiliar items for nests. A Lille suburb nest used white wool and telegraph paper from miles away, a Beausançon nest used local watch springs, and a St Bernard spout nest incorporated dog hair, showing impressive material choice and adaptation.
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Literary Digest
Lille
Beasancon
Watch Springs
St. Zernard
German Wines Said Equal to French Quality in Export
Connoisseurs rate German wines as equal to the best French vintages and cheaper in price as shipments to America Britain and Belgium rise. This year crops across France Spain Portugal and Germany are poor in both quantity and quality. In Burgundy the shortage is so severe export may be doubtful.
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Germany
America
Great Britain
Belgium
Burgundy
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