Cicero town board votes on printing bids and licenses
Cicero trustees meet July 12 with full attendance. They settle town printing bids allowing five papers three cents per brevier line plus free full abstracts. Licenses issued for fruit and produce peddling and other trades. Ogden avenue renamed Elmwood avenue.
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Cicero
Oak Park Reporter
Oak Park Times
Austin Vindicator
Ciceronian
South
Yeas
Attridge
Butler
Reporter
Vindicator
Times
South Cicero Advocate
Board of Trustees
Town of
Farmer Dunk On a scheme for non-scratchable chickens
In a rural aside Farmer Dunk admits a recent sharp lesson from city life and a costly trap. He imagines crossing long legged Brahmas with bantams to create a chicken breed that cannot scratch, hoping the idea yields profits beyond the wasted money and pride.
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Dunk
U Hornbeak
Wal
An Inland Venice in Vendland Says Consw General de Kay
Consul General de Kay writes from Century 2 about the Serbian swamp Vendland. He notes Wendish or Slavic place names persist despite German language use for army needs. Many towns and forests retain Wendish names amid Germanization efforts and local resistance.
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Consw
de Kay
Vendland
Venice
Saxony
Brandenburg
Dres‘ien
Leipsic
Cottbus
Vetschau
Muschen
Buhle- Buhre
Straupitz
Lubden
Farmer boy posts warning sign about boarders
An old farmer rebukes a boy who wants to hang a sign reading Summer Boarders Taken In. The elder says the truth may be alarming but the town cannot risk scaring away potential guests or customers.
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Chicago Times Herald
Tragedy Follows Meeting of Enemies Over Woman in Bunker Hill
In Bunker Hill Illinois Mayor John R Richards was shot dead by editor F G Hedley after a feud sparked by Helen Alice Brown a stenographer. A May 4 peace meeting produced terms for civility and abstention from talking to Hedley but lines remain drawn with residents divided over blame. Richards had threatened Hedley and the funeral drew thousands while Brown sits at the center of the affair with an uncertain age and a striking appearance.
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Bunker Hill
Ill
John R. Richards
F. G. Hedley
Richards
Helen Alice Brown
Hedley
Lizzie
Clara Kenyon
Brown
F. Y. Hedley
Mayor Richards
Capt. Hedley
Miss Brown
Bunker Hill Congregational Church
Gazette
Congregational Church
Mr. Hedley
Methodist Church
Sale of Cuban girls reported in Pinar del Rio garrison
A small town in Pinar del Rio reports a sale of Cuban girls by a 400-strong garrison. Soldiers seized a pacifico camp, took eight men and fifteen girls and women, with seven girls aged 15 to 20 sold to the highest bidder. An auctioneer sergeant oversaw the sale, and two young girls were purchased by a mule driver. The case tied to Col. Jesus del Monte and Capt. Arizor.
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Pinar del Rio
Jesus del Monte
Arizor
Remarkable Fort Sheridan Escalading Feat
Soldiers at Fort Sheridan Illinois built a 31 foot improvised pyramid to scale a parapet. Corporal Leary climbed from base to edge in four minutes breaking the world record by three feet and earning a promotion recommendation. Escalading is a valued military skill taught across European armies and may trigger similar attempts nationwide.
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Fort Sheridan
Ill
Corporal Leary
Leary
Europe
Dentist Reveals Bone Fragment Turned Tooth Crown for Captain Haring
Capt Haring, injured in battle, sought care for tongue numbness. An army surgeon suspected bone fragment from a jaw. nitrate of silver treatment yielded pain. Days later the entire end of a front tooth emerged, later identified as the missing crown.
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North Carolina
Capt. Daring
Haring
Capt. Haring
Doctor Love
Unlucky Thirteen Deaths Linked by Numerology
In Sandusky Ohio Charles Drynan and his sister Mrs Maxima Stenzel died amid a string of thirteenth day coincidences. Stenzel born 13th married 13th died 13th lived at 1313 Jefferson street 31 at death. The funeral train 9 13 am carried 13 relatives and No 13 locomotive. Drynan born 18th married July 13 lived at 1313 Jefferson Street. His suicide followed at 5 08 pm when the clock showed 5 08, sum thirteen, as did the house bequest to him by Mrs Stenzel.
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Sandusky
Ohio
Charles Drynan
Maxima Stenzel
Stenzel
Jefferson Street
Charles J. Krupp
Port Clinton
William Drynan
Lake Shore
Drynan
Widow of General Diamond Fights Will In Federal Court
Mrs Teresa McMahon Abell of San Francisco sues in federal court to collect a life insurance policy on General W H Diamond. The general left an estate valued at $500000 and reportedly acknowledged Mrs Abell as his wife, though no public widow exists.
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Teresa McMahon Abell
San Francisco
Dr. Abell
W. H. Diamond
Gen. Diamond
Pacific Coast
Teres SA Abell
Colors of Criminals Eyes in Russian Jails
A Odessa legal journal claims eye color correlates with crime type. Thieves and murderers allegedly show chestnut brown eyes, robbers slate blue, swindlers slate blue, vagabonds azure blue, and minor offenders chestnut brown green.
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Odessa
Wealthy husband ordered to pay burial costs and damages
Indianapolis appellate court affirms Bloomington undertaker judgment against John Scott. Wife left husband due to alleged cruelty and supported by a son at a quarry. After burial the undertaker charged expenses to the husband. court awarded the full amount plus 10 percent damages on appeal.
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Indianapolis
Bloomington
John Scott
Fisherman Bitten by Fish Brito in Springhouse
Wesley Hake of Brogueville Pennsylvania went to his springhouse for fish. He was bitten on the left fore finger by a fish and the finger swelled with the hand and arm enlarging. Three physicians failed to improve his condition which is described as extremely critical.
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Brito
Wesley Hake
Brogueville
Penn
Campfire Sketches by Regulars and Guards
Remarkable escalading by United States Regulars noted in campfire sketches. A trick worth mention by the National Guard accompanies reflections on marching through Georgia. Author associated with the famous Civil War march is cited.
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United States
National Guard
Georgia
Hartford Composer Henry W. Work A Biographical Note
Henry Work born Middletown Connecticut October 1 1833 became a wandering recluse at times. Apprenticed to a printer he studied harmony and wrote for Hartford papers. His first song Lily Dale earned 2500 dollars and his temperance ballad Father Dear Father Come Home was widely sung. His notable works include Drafted Into the Army Brave Boys Are They Babylon Is Fallen Wake Nicodemus Ring the Bell Watchman Song of a Thousand Years and Marching Through Georgia.
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Middletown
Conn
Illinois
Connecticut
Hartford
Henry
Lily Dale
Babylon
Nicodemus
Georgia
War relic tooth found after years of travel
Captain Abram B. Haring of New York recalls a tooth ripped from his face in a Kingston North Carolina battle on March 8 1865. The tooth lay buried through years of marches and fights until he discovered it recently, a relic of one of five teeth shot from his mouth during the action.
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Abram B. Haring
New York
Kingston
N. C
Haring
Marching Through Georgia Song and Its War Links
The piece discusses Henry C. Work and the northern origin of Brave Boys Are They, noting its limited southern appeal due to Sherman’s march. It notes the song’s endurance among Army of the Republic reunions and calls it a major musical legacy of the Civil War. It adds limited facts about Work and the era.
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Georgia
Henry C. Work
Sherman
Massachusetts Couple Divorce Bid Dismissed Over Insult Claims
A Massachusetts man sought a divorce claiming his wife insulted him with terms like fool idiot brute. The court found the husband harmed his health but ruled the wife acted with good motive and aimed at his life success, so the bid failed.
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Massachusetts
Rich man in minutes after bid on failed Burlington assets
George W. Stone of Burlington, a town commission merchant, won the auction of the Burlington Insurance Company assets for 36,000. The unknown assets, offered as a lump, proved to be worth 174,609 dollars, making him a rich man in moments.
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ER. S. Osgood
Indiana Street
Board of Education
District 8
Clyde High School
Clyde Avenue
Ia. A.wolfersperger
Thirty-first
J. W. Senne
S. W. Kapela
Jacob Mongreig
Clyde
A. R. Goodspeed
A. J. Cheney
H. C. Smith
Brockhausen & Co
L. W. Buckley
Evelyn M. Loucks
Ontario Street
Fire and Water Committee
Hawthorne Fire Company
Rearden
Merrick
Attridge
64Th Ave
Elmwood Ave
72D Ave
Ridgeland, Ogden
Harlem
Butler
Standard Paving Company
Ontario St
Gunthorp
Berwyn Water Works
George W. Stone
Burlington, Town
Burlington Insureance Company
Fue
Stone
Julieta Expelled From Priscilla School For Girls
Two seminary girls Jane Salisbury of Brooklyn New York and Fanny John of Meyersdale Pennsylvania were expelled from the Priscilla school for girls in Bordentown after chatting with two admirers seen on a wall twenty feet below. The school bans talking with young men unless under faculty supervision and the incident caused great excitement among the faculty.
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Priscilla School For Girls
Bordentown
Jane Salisbury
Brooklyn
N. Y
Fanny John
Meyersdale
Girl Kills Father in Warren Farm Incident
Minnie Heidt aged 22 shot and killed her father Frederick Heidt a Warren Michigan farmer. Heidt who had attended church at Roseville returned home intoxicated and entered the house where Minnie was alone he seized a razor and pursued her Minnie wrested the weapon from him and then fired a loaded pistol striking him in the temple and killing him instantly.
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Frederick Heidt
Warren
Mich
Minnie
Roseville
Heidi
Race War in Arkansas Rocks Lee Township
In Pope county Arkansas Lee township erupts into violence after a race clash Sunday night. Several have been fatally shot and both white and black residents report ongoing danger as authorities urge calm amidst the unrest.
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Arkansas
Lee Township
Pope County
Ark
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