Berwyn Gossip Notes From Berwyn Local News
Frank Kniess ill with the sick list. The infant child of Mrs. A. Holms is sick with pneumonia. Eber Hubbard and family occupied their new home Thursday. R. M. Easley returns from a month in Greater New York. Mrs. Brown to return soon from Minneapolis. M. F. Due opens a jewelry shop at Roth's cycle store. Roath Bros offer sleighing parties with a 25-passenger rig. A meeting on separation from the north side to form an independent town or join Chicago. Cottage Women's prayer meeting weekly. Swedish residents plan a church with services at Monitor Lodge hall. Berwyn cook book for sale at 30 cents. Revival services at the Baptist church continue with a reception for Trustee John Williams. Mrs. Lawson to Wisconsin. Dolly Martin and baby escape injury from a window blow-in during a storm. Ladies Excelsior Benevolent Society adds members. Grant Works residents attend Hawthorne masquerade. street cars stalled on Twenty-fifth Street.
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Frank Kniess
A. Holms
Eber Hubbard
R. M. Easley
Greater New York
Mrs. Brown
Thirty-fourth Street
Minneapolis
D. Roath
Berwyn Whist Club
Johnson & Justman's
Douglas Park
Roath Bros
Beaubler
Ohio
Grip
Lillian Colvard
Fred Douglas
Paw-Paw
Agent Peck
Kansas City
C. G. Blanden
Geo. Er. Roberts
Fort Dodge
Iowa
United States Mint
Roath Brothers
Berwyn
Chicago
Masonic Hall
Holgren
Fr. M. Lackeye
Windsor Avenue
The
M. E. Church
Hawthorne
Twenty-fifth Street
Clyde Local Roundup of Illness Deaths and Meetings
Mrs and Miss Viola Robisho suffer grip Mrs Anchor has pneumonia Dr Palmer attends Viola and Mrs Gilbert ill at Crawford Cedar M G Whitney returns from New York miss Lilly and Rollin Smith travel to Springport Mich for grandfather Ferris funeral Jimmy Lawler dies of diphtheria Mrs Lawler convalescent Clyde High board meeting at 7 pm School district No 8 Clyde livery incident at Oak Park horse throws owner Ladies Auxiliary postpones event Next date to be announced Tickets valid for rescheduled date
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Goodwin School
Wm. Henry
Oliver
Clyde Avenue
Lady Friends
Jessie Gilbert
Crawford
C. B. Bartlett
A. B. Whitney
Greater New York
Ralph Frost
Jimmy
Frank Lawler
Lawler
Lilly
Rollin Smith
Springport
Mich
A. Ferris
Clyde High School
Oak Park
Austin
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Grant Works in a Small Town Update
Mrs Jos Stewart suffers a severe tonsillitis attack. R D Powers of the Michigan House has left his post at Grant Works. Wm Decker begins building a house on Fiftieth street near Twelfth. John Buckley clears snow from street crossings. The three Giles children are ill with typhoid. Dr Archer attends. Ed Kimburg, delivering office literature from the city, is on the sick list. Supt Linden deploys men to open Fourteenth street to Forty eighth avenue for pedestrians. Paul Lawson of Fifty first street heads to the Klondike tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jos Stewart
R. D. Powers
Michigan House
Grant Works
Wm. Decker
Fiftieth Street
Twelfth
John Buckley
Paul Giles
Dr. Archer
Ed. Kimburg
Grant Works Office
Linden
Fourteenth Street
Forty Eighth Avenue
Paul Lawson
Fifty-first Street
Klondike
Gallery Howls and New Portraits Stir Readers
A Washington correspondent reports John Allen of Tupelo Miss describing gallery applause as a dog howling due to smelling pie. The piece notes a shift to profile photography with dramatic lighting and minimal retouching while preserving recognizable likeness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
St. Louis Republic
John Allen
Tupelo
Miss
Darky
English Language in Quebec Legislature Stirs Comment
The Providence Journal notes a rarity as English was used in a Quebec provincial legislature debate. Laws permit bilingual discussion, but twenty years ago members spoke English more often. now French dominates and English words are nearly absent in debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quebec
Providence Journal
Sinner's Struggle Warns Against Unrepented Sin
A Dean Farrar quotation warns that deliberate surrender to evil leads to moral ruin. The speaker says continuing in sin deepens bondage, likening it to sinking into a pathless morass and an unfathomable sea, with all efforts useless without repentance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Farrar
The Civil Service Figures and Political Rhetoric
Mrs Sharpe chides her husband for talking theories to reformers while demanding action and daily life chores. The piece then cites civil service data from Washington: total officeholders 178 717 with salaries 99 589 827 and 87 108 classified, 91 609 unclassified including about 60 000 fourth class postmasters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civil Service Commission
Washington
Australia’s wines cured in London hospital shipments
Australia likened to the British California for fruit wines and gold. Long sea voyages dull the wines, so London operates a hospital to cure “sick” wines, restoring life and sparkle similar to champagne, often sold thereafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
California
London
NZ factory rules grant 48 hour work week for women
Two workers form a factory under New Zealand law. Female labor is limited to forty eight hours weekly and overtime must be paid at time and a half. No employee may earn less than 12 cents per hour overtime plus 12 cents tea money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Zealand
Cicero Telephone Directory Listing Readied for Subscribers
A long list of Cicero exchange numbers and names appears in a new complete directory issued in the past week. The page catalogs customers from Abbott to American Express Co with businesses, doctors, schools, and residents, noting new phones added daily and an imminent subscriber version.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cicero
Also Mentioned on This Page
Cicero Gas CO
Oak Park Ave
Milan
Ladies and Gentlemen
Estaurant
South Clark Street
W. W. Kimball Co
Wabash Av
Kimball Pianos
Kimball Organs
Stollwerck
Nissen
Park Avenue
Austin, Ill
L. Hoepe
Berwyn Grocer
Marion
Jasile Gray
Lake Street
Oal
Horse Goods
Rob
T. I. Ward
M. F. Due
Roth's
Baptist Church
CLYDE
Viola Robisho
Anchor
Dr. Palmer
Lenole Sam
Cicero Telephone Directory
Abbott
Ed. F
Alden
F. H
Attridge
S. D
Austin State Bank
Austin Pack. Co
Austin Floral Co
Bagley
A. G
Barry
J. W
Fox & Henry
Foster
Seaward
Freeman
W. P
Froehlich
Garner
Gargin
Greenwood
A. S
Gierman
Haggard
John D
Hall
L. EB
Hankermeyer, Bros
Hartless
Head
G. P
Pillinger
W. A
Pringle
F. W
Race
Frank LL
Rearden
H. H
Reiterman
Burke & Hansen
Roath
O. J
Robinson
E. D
Rud
Schmidt
Louis
Schmitz & Rix
Schnitzius
Schock
I. R
Semmek
Shurtleff
B. M
Skelton & Lloyd
Smith
J. H
Spofford Bros
Stewart
F. A
Strackbein
Stratford
H. K
Strom
A. A
Strickler
Harvey
Madison St
Iowa St
Ohio St
Laurel Ave
David
Walser
J. J
Wayt
B. J
Wells
Whitlock
S. J
Young
E. W
Yonker
Clayton J
Hathaway
J. N
Cummings
E. A
Miller
I. Op
Baird
Quayle
Kremer
A. H
Bunns
C. H
Ayer
O. Li
Moore
E. B
Adkins
W. T
Misses
Bennett
W. H. Je. Watrous
W. C
Hunsinger
E. C
Scully
Sandman
Bryning
S. L
Hansberry
Andrews, G. M
Carrier
J. C
Snow
T. A
Reinhardt
Delgarde & Green
Burthh
F. B
American Express Co
Shimois
Pany
Deph
Caijaga
F. A. Hill
Monroe St
Oak Park, Ill
Elmwood
Berwyn, Ili
F. Sturges
Harlem
Oak Park Avenus
Thos. Evans
Telephone
Berwyn, IL
Conrad Kampp
C. Kampp & Son
North Park Avenue
North 48Th Avenue
Frank J. Scholz
Marshall Field & Co
Frank J
Scholz
Eliot Avenue
Therwyn
Illinois
Harper & Buttendorff
Bee Unoe Bane
Ternear & CO
Harge
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