Cicero Board Approves Street Lighting Plan And Upgrades
Cicero Town Board on January 23 1897 approved a street lighting contract with Cicero Water Gas and Electric Light Co to install not less than 360 incandescent lights and consider a future upgrade to 1200 candle power lights. The meeting covered finance street improvements sewer projects and multiple committee actions with several warrants canceled or adjusted.
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Board of Trustees
Cicero
Town Hall
Austin
Pierce
Naugle, Holcomb & Co
Harrison Street
Andrew Jakks
Republican Club of
Hawthorne
Dunlop Bros
Cook Elevated Electric Ry. Co
Committee of Whole
Barber Asphalt Co
Indiana Street
Berwyn
Kellogg Beach
Rock Basserell
EW. Zander
Cuyler Avenue
Harrison
van Buren
A. I. Davis
Midway Park
Franklin and
Austin Avenues
Prairie
Central Avenue
Lewis S. Baker
Forty-Eighth
Fiffieth
Geo. B
Lizzie W. Charles
Superior Street
John Duffey
McDonald
Rolla M. Davis
Voalese & Shepard
Robinson Avenue
Anton Lucaia
G. P. Nauert
John Vsyk
Better Street Car
L. E. Hansberry
Twelfth Street
G. M. Davis
Isaac Herr
L. E. Race
H. V. Wood
Wm. Halley
Thos. H. Gale
Dennis Cleary
Trustee Castle
Forest Avenue
Fyffe Avenue
Risley Avenue
Twenty-sixth Street
H. J. Snyder
C. , Simmons
Henry Rath
Dolese & Shepard
J. A. Barker
Storrs’ Place
C. M. Porter
Twenty-third Street
C. C. Sanford
Cicero Avenue
Mit
Doughiss Bros
Wm. Hilliard
Castle
Cheney
District No. 1
Cicero Water, Gas and Whcetrie Light Company
Harlem Avenue
Austin Avenue
North Avenue
Philadelphia
Attridge
Rearden
Oak Park
Dare
Gunthorp
West Fiftieth
Fiftyfourth Street
Pine Avenue
South Side
Willow
Erie Street
Franklin Avenue
Chicago Avenue
Scoville Avenue
Washington Boulevard
Madison Street
Ridgeland
Lombard Avenue
Wisconsin Central Ry
Austin Park Improvement Club
West Forty-eighth
Owasco Streets
Forty-eighth Street
Philip Knopf
K Knopf
Chicago, Harlem & Batavia Railroad
Objection Sustained and a Walk That Was Nail Down
A courtroom moment shows the prosecutor pressing with a question about a robbery followed by a young defense lawyer shouting I object to insinuations. The exchange highlights a dispute over a “walk” remaining nailed down as evidence.
The King of Magic Dies Poor A Sketch of Alexander Herrmann
obituary notes Alexander Herrmann born in Paris in 1844 as a leading prestidigitator. He hailed from a family of magicians, with his father Carl Herrmann famed in his era. Alexander began performing publicly at age eight in St. Petersburg and toured globally with skilled tutors accompanying him.
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Alexander Herrmann
Paris
France
Herrmann
Turkey
Carl Herrmann
Alexander
Carlsbad
Germany
St. Petersburg
Russia
Pilgrims Visit Friedrichsruh Amid Bismarck Reverence
The piece notes pilgrims from Germany and abroad paying homage to Prince Bismarck at Friedrichsruh. It highlights his tender, personal recognition of friends among veterans and the emotional exchange, while also recounting the Armenian Patriarch Mer Malachias Ormanian’s popularity and scholarly abilities. It traces Alexander Herrmann the magican’s rise in America, his theater ventures, and his death with Adelaide Herrmann surviving.
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Friedrichsruh
George W. Smalley
Bismarck
Ladies’ Home Journal
Germany
United States
Prince Bismarck
Senate House
Mer
Malachias Ormanian
Constantinople
Livingstone’s Boyhood Tales From Janet Livingstone
Janet Livingstone, sister of explorer David Livingstone, dies in Edinburgh. Her reminiscences recall her brother’s boyhood, including a six year old David munching penny loaf after being barred out, and their father’s view of him as a budding philosopher. Another story notes tobacco duties prompting Neil Livingstone to quit smoking.
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Janet Livingstone
Edinburgh
David Livingstone
David
Livingstone
Neil Livingstone
Italian Immigrant Policy Clarified by Rome Proclamation
The Treasury sent the immigration chief to Rome to explain U S immigration limits to Italian authorities. The Italian government issued a proclamation detailing restrictions and directing passport refusals to ineligible individuals. The move aims to prevent tensions and reduce disappointments for future Italian entrants.
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Italy
Treasury Department
Immigration Bureau
Rome
The Coven's Return Present to Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria plans to send a jeweled miniature portrait of herself to the Chinese emperor Li Hung Chang as a return gift for gifts received from China. The portrait is by Mrs. Corboulf-Ellis.
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Queen Victoria
Li Hung Chang
China
Mrs. Corboulf- Ellis
King of Corea Amid Intrigue and Foreign Rivalry
A historical portrait of Corea the Land of the Morning Calm, detailing palace revolutions, assassinations, and kidnappings. It notes Russian captivity, queenly resistance to Japan, and competing Great Powers from Japan and China to Britain and the United States shaping Corea’s fate.
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Corea
The Late Roswell G Horr obituary tribute
The late Roswell G Horr a Vermont native born in Waitsfield Sixty four years ago. He moved west at four settled in Lorain Ohio where he became clerk of the court of common pleas later studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1863. He served in congress representing Michigan and was noted as a humorist in the house. He later worked with the New York Tribune and debated money questions with Col William Hope Harvey.
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Porte
Constantinople
University of
Rome
Hassoun
Leo XIII
Ezercum
Academy of Etchinjadzin
Roswell G. Horr
Vermont
Waitsfield
Lorain
Ohio
Antioch College
Court of Common Pleas
Lorain County
Elyria
Missouri
Michigan
Saginaw
Mich
Horr
Congress
Col
William Hope Harvey
Financial School
New York Tribune
Epigram on Dean Liddell Sparks Wordplay
A schoolroom pun stems from Dean Liddell at Weatuipster where pupils wrote epigrams about the famous lexicon. One quip split authorship between Liddell and Scott, claiming one half clever and one half not, prompting the dean to remark that the student’s joke was severe.
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Dean Liddell
Weatuipster
Liddell
Scott
Lord Salisbury’s 252 Pound Scale Shifts Decision
In a pivotal moment, Lord Salisbury tips the balance with a weight of 252 pounds altering the outcome. The event centers on his decisive leverage in a broader debate or negotiation.
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Lord Salisbury
Beauty of Creole Women of the Rose
The article quotes Ruth Meinery Stuart praising creole women as embodying beauty with a blend of French Spanish and American heritage. It compares the creole wife and daughters to flowers, a magnolia jasmine or rose, noting their dignity and piquant hauteur as protective as a thorn. It defines creole as American born of foreign-born French or Spanish parents, often tracing ancestry back several generations.
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Ruth Meinery Stuart
Ladies’ Home Journal
Uncle Sam's Lighthouses 1716 Age of Stations
The article notes the United States light stations are divided into sixteen inspection districts with military and naval officers as inspectors. It lists counts by region, cites about 2,600 to 2,700 stations total, and identifies the oldest stations Boston Light 1716 Brant Point 1746 and the Garnet 1769 with their rebuild years.
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United States
Army
Navy
Scribner's
Atlantic
Gulf Coasts
Great Lakes
California
Alaska
Mississippi Valley
Pacific Coast
Boston
Little Brewster Island
Boston Harbor
Brant Point
Nantucket Harbor
Plymouth
Sir Arthur Arnold Praises Newspapers in Reading Room Address
Sir Arthur Arnold chairman of the London county council said reading newspapers is a high privilege as public journals are run by men deeply versed in their country’s literature and often familiar with other nations. He urged audiences not to deem reading newspapers frivolous, noting purpose and taste matter.
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Arthur Arnold
London County Council
Arthur
Schiller Prize Award Goes to Ernest von Wildenbruchs Henry and His House
The Schiller Prize for best Germain stage play is awarded to Ernest von Wildenbruchs for his tragedy Henry and His House. The jury's decision has been confirmed by the emperor who retains veto power.
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Schiller
Ernest von Wildenbruch
Henry
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Vienna
New York
Academy of Music
Sketci
Europe
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Ile
Broad Street
New York City
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Savoy
Brooklyn
N. Y
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Mgr. Malachtas Ormanian
Armash
Professor Herrman
England
Pacific
Japan
Seoul
the King OF
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MR. Horr
Rose
Schiller Prize
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