Lake Street Elevated Railroad Plan for Cicero Granted
The ordinance grants The Lake Street Elevated Railroad Company authority to build and operate a two track elevated line along Lake Street to Harlem Avenue, with extensions from Lombard Avenue to Cuyler and connections to the Chicago Union lines, including paving and elevated structure requirements and fare terms. The measure sets deadlines for foundation and surface construction, crossovers, street crossings, and passenger service standards, with penalties for noncompliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Street Elevated Railroad Company
State of Illinois
Lake Street
Robinson Avenue
West Fifty-second Street
South Boulevard
Cicero
Harlem Avenue
Lombard Avenue
Cuyler Avenue
Suburban Railroad Company
Chicago, Harlem & Batavia Railroad
Taylor Avenue
Cuyler and
Cuvier and
Lombard Avenues
Board of Trustees
Extension of Franchise for Cicero and Proviso Street Railway
Town of Cicero approves a twenty year extension ending January 1 1948 for the Cicero and Proviso Street Railway Company to construct operate and maintain lines in Cicero with conditions including fare limits transfers with Lake Street Elevated and West Chicago lines and a required bond and Lake Street Elevated extension completion by June 1 1898 to vest rights in the railway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cicero
Lake Street Elevated Railroad Company
Cicero and
Proviso Street Railway
Ilinois
Cook County
Harlem Avenue
South Division
City of
Chicago
Proviso Street Railway Company
Board of Trustees
Ogden Street Railway Company
Cicero and Proviso Street Railway Company
Lake Street
Chicago Avenue
Madison Street
Forty-eighth Street
Lake Street Elevated Railroad
West Chicago Street Railroad
Taylor Avenue
Union Elevated Railroad
Lake Street Elevated
Cicero and Provise Street Railway Company
Union Elevated
South Boulevard
Harrison Street
Cuyler Avenue
West Fifty-second Street
Robinson Avenue
Town of
State of
Illinois
J. R. Drent
City Cicero Grants Power Line Rights to Company
Section 5 authorizes use of electricity and other motive power except steam. It grants the company the right to maintain its present feed wires and electrical conductors within Cicero to convey an electrical current for operating its street and railroad system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trustees
Cicero
Central Avenue
Austin Avenue
Lake Street
Cicero and Proviso Street Railway Company
Lake Street Elevated Railroad Company
Taylor Avenue
Orherein
Cigler Avenue
van Buren Street
Lombard Avenue
Twenty-second Street
Suburban and
Aptly Described Halting Verse By Scribbler
In dialogue, Flubbe mocks Scribbler’s poetry as halting verse while Dubbe notes his feet prone to trouble, suggesting a playful, literary exchange about verse and rhythm.
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Flubbe
Dubbe
Burrs Lost Cause and Blennerhassett Island History
A Parkersburg letter recalls the Burr conspiracy era in the Kanawha Valley in autumn 1806. It details Blennerhassett and Mary Agnew, Burr’s network, island life on an extended Ohio River tract, and the buildup of armed preparations. It notes trials of indemnity efforts, and later family misfortune.
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Kanawha Valley
Parkersburg
W. Va
Ohio Valley
Ocean
Alleghenies
la Belle Rivierre
Monongahela
Allegheny
Kanawha
Blennerhassett
Herman Blennerhasset
Admiral de Courcey
New World
Mary Agnew
Gov. Agnew
Isle of Wight
Gen. Agnew
Germantown
Marietta
Hildreth
Woodbridge
Blenner
Joseph
Missouri
St. Louis
Ohio
Muskingum River
W. DE H
Blennerhassett Island’s Rise and Burr’s Westward Gambit
The article recounts Blennerhassett Island’s refined early 1800s mansion and Burr’s visit in 1805 1806. It details Burr’s political schemes to separate the West from the East the island’s destruction during unrest and the Blennerhassetts’ subsequent ruin and exile culminating in their departure from the United States in 1822.
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Iere
Utopia
Atlantic
Aaron Burr
Pittsburg
Col
George Morgan
Morganza
Ohio
Wheeling
Marietta
Parkersburg
Hetween Burr
Blennerhassett
Feodoria
Gov
Alston
South Carolina
Burr
Buck
Bedlam
Ohio River
Bayou Perie
Mississippi
United States
England
Germany
Herman
Plan to reclaim Tartars Strait to alter ocean current
A Russian engineer proposes reclaiming the Tartars Strait between Saghalin and the mainland to block the Arctic cold current from Behring Strait and allow warmer water from the Tshuma Strait to reach Vladivostok, potentially warming the coast year round after the Siberian railway is finished.
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Vladivostok
Tartar Strait
Saghallen
Japan Sea
Arctic
Behring Strait
Tshuma Strait
Japan
Siberian
Wagon Load of Prayers Stir Community Folly
A country pastor ill and financially strained gathers his flock for prayer at home. During a fervent plea a deacon answers a knock to find a wagon load of “prayers” rich with food and supplies. Investigation reveals the gifts are actual provisions, not divine petitions, ending the meeting abruptly.
Rich Canadian gold found in Nova Scotia district
Reports from the Cheticamp gold districts in Nova Scotia indicate very rich ore recently uncovered, with assayed values more than doubling previous finds. Sinking on the lead continues as the company has penetrated eighteen feet of ore with footwall not yet reached.
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Canada
Cheticamp
Nova Scotia
Wonderful Underground City of Wielicska
The City of the Salt Mines lies hundreds of feet underground at Wielicska Galicia housing over one thousand people many never seeing daylight with the earth’s surface.
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Wielicska
Galicia
New Anaesthetic Orthoform Discovered in Munich
Physicians Eichorn and Heinz of Munich report a new anaesthetic orthoform based on benzomethyl ether. The powder is claimed to relieve pain from deep burns ulcers and cancer immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drs. Eichorn and
Heinz
Munich
Silent Business Pitch Sparks Deaf and Dumb Asylum Joke
A brief exchange shows Giles seeking a silent partner to invest in his business. Miles quips that he should apply at the deaf and dumb asylum, triggering a darkly humorous moment characteristic of the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giles
Miles
The
Deaf and Dumb Asylum
Pen Points Wit and Warnings Across Time
A collection of pithy observations on marriage fate knowledge kindness and daily life. The musings touch on lovers mothers in law fate cycles bicycles and the quirks of human behavior with humorous bite.
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OF Trustees OF the Town OF
Pine Avenue
Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company
Chicaago and
Northwestern
Fifty-second Street
Cleese
Lessess
Union Eleveated
Washington
France
Spain
Wilkingon
Avery
Belleville
Muskingum
Graham
Daniel Clark
New Orleans
Lexington
Chillicothe
Cincinnati
Ohio Gazette
Blennerhassett Castle
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