Cicero Town Board adopts new house numbering plan
Cicero trustees meet at town hall approving a new house number scheme for east west and north south streets, awarding scavenger contracts, and debating street naming. The board adopts ordinances, orders repairs, and schedules future meetings while stressing fiscal restraint.
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Committee On
Fifty-second Street
Chicago
Avenue
Madison Street
Twelfth Street
Butler
Austin Senate
Austin Park Improvement and Social Club
Cicero
Committee of the Whole
Gunthorp
Cheney
Cheney: That the Action of the President and Finance Committee
Vastine
Henry Rath
Willow Avenue
Poplar Avenue
Rath
Rearden
E. B. Moore
Punishment for Army Desertions Across Time
The piece notes that wartime desertion is punishable by death in most armies, usually by shooting, while peacetime penalties vary by country. France Germany and Russia harshly punish desertion. the United States imposes hard labor imprisonment, though rarely applied. It cites 1,060 to 1,200 annual desertions and few captures.
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France
Germany
Russia
United States
Salt consumption per person cited in Le Roy Gazette
A business man notes using about a hundred pounds of salt yearly at home for all purposes including stock. Manager Samson of the salt works states that annual salt use in the United States equals a bushel or fifty six pounds per inhabitant.
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le Roy Gazette
United States
Samson
Very Rapid Transit Then Tags Car and Passengers Up a Long Hill
A Denver suburb story describes a dusty ascent to OOK'S Addition where a tired horse and an old bobtail car labor daily to haul residents and freight up a long hill. The gray horse endures an ambitious start and repeated climbs, mirroring unfulfilled labor amid prairie dust.
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Denver
Ook
Colorado
Greek Scholar Demetrius Botassi Rise in U S Diplomacy
Demetrius N Botassi, consul general of Greece in New York City, gains prominence as Greek minister post to Washington remains vacant. A veteran diplomat of 35 years, he led Greece US commercial relations and spoke multiple languages including Albanian. He studied at the University of Athens and served since the Civil War era.
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New York
Demetrius N. Botassi
Greece
New York City
United States
Washington
Botassi
Spezia
University of Athens
Albion W Tourgee Named New Consul General at Bordeaux
Albion W. Tourgee is introduced as the new consulgeneral at Bordeaux France a leading American literary figure and lawyer noted for works like A Fool's Errand Figs and Thistles and Bricks Without Straw. A Civil War veteran judge editor and professor he has long been active in law and letters now 59 years old and living near Chautauqua New York.
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Albion W. Tourgee
Bordeaux
France
America
Bull Run
North Carolina
Buffalo Law School
Student of Law
The
Jurist
South
New York
Chautauqua
Tourgee
The Gray Horse Leads a Mountain Cart Journey
A gray horse joins a hill climb car ride then returns, drawing passengers up and down the slope with a patient, dignified air. The animal’s brave effort and reluctant humor delight onlookers as gravity finally prevails. The piece also notes a prominent New York figure, a member of the Historical Society and various clubs, and a magazine contributor.
Minister Angell’s Whiskers
Angell’s appointment as minister to Turkey is praised by many noting his distinctive facial hair. The piece highlights his University of Michigan ties and esteem within Ann Arbor, while suggesting he could write on diplomacy during downtimes in the Porte.
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James B. Angell
Turkey
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Angell
the Porte
Cox
Lew Wallace
Leslie
Helen Keller Like Pupil Sees Vast Promise For Deaf Girl
Annie Haguewood a 17 year old pupil at the South Dakota school for the deaf and dumb resembles Helen Keller in becoming a capable communicator. Under Miss Donald at Vinton she learned via manual alphabet and a typewriter to express thoughts, while attending the Iowa College for the Blind. Her progress includes arithmetic on slates, reading, writing and keen observation by touch, with a religious outlook and hope for the future.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Annie Haguewood
South Dakota
Linnie
Miss Keller
Miss Haguewood
Delaware
Iowa
Iowa College For the
Vinton
Towa
Linnie Haguewood
Asylum For the
Dora Donald
Bernard Murphy
The
Vinton Eagle
Little Linnle
Miss Donald
Helen Keller
Helen
Council Bluffs
Donald
Adventurous Jones Flourishes Under Guatemala Rebel Title
R J Bascomb Jones, a Georgia born American, twice in prison and twice condemned to die in Colombia, escapes execution by disguising as a water carrier. He later becomes a colonel in Guatemala's army, with plans to aid Cubans, while his father Reuben Jones of Atlanta watches. A new tailless rabbit species is found near Popocatepetl in Mexico.
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R. J. Bascomb Jones
Mr. Jones
Reuben Jones
Atlanta
Neal’s Military Institute
Central America
Colombia
Jones
Costa Rica
Guatemala
United States
Georgia
Jordan
Bursting Steel Demonstrates Steel’s High Pressure Tolerance
A Vienna experiment compared steel and corundum under crushing force. Six tons shattered corundum, while forty two tons failed to crush the steel. When the steel finally yielded, a loud explosion occurred and the metal sprayed into powder, with sparks allegedly burning tiny holes in the crushing machine.
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Vienna
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Town Hall
Austin
Traill
Morton Park
Robinson Avenue
Z. C. Spencer
Maple
Stanley Avenue
Berwyn
J. C. Dexter
Harrison Street
Humphrey Avenue
Harvard Street
Attridge
M. H. Courtney
Erie Street
Ridgeland Avenue
A. M. Corkell
Henry W. Austin
Waller
Austin Avenue
Chas. Sutton
Austin Park
Berwyn Water Works
Committee On Fire and Water
Henry Wahl
Same
District No
S$. B. Waite
Wm. H. Henry
Trustee
Charles Bruce
Edmund Reando
J. A. Hall
Wm. Clarkson
Jessie Hall
Lotta Griffin
A. C. Caldwell
Chas
Crowe
Committee On Policy and Sanitary
Capt
Hansberry
Lawrence, Vogt
Lee
Lawrence
G. A. Vogt
G. A. Lee
Finance Committee
Ridgeland
Oak Park
Hawthorne
Clyde
Euclid Avenue
Lake Street
Chicago Avenue
Same Street
Oak Park Avenue
Maple Avenue
Wisconsin
Maple Avenues
Grove Avenue
Division Street
Grove
Belleforte Avenue
Forest and Belleforte Avenues
Thomas
Pleasant Street
Harvey Avenue
South Boulevard
Randolph
Erle Street
Forest Avenue
Pebbles
Peter Bodin
Central Ave
Salisbury
Bodin
Fire and Water Commissioners
Albion W. Tourgeef
Tassi
Historical Society
Press Club
Consul Botassi
Minister Angell
Miss M Keller
Miss Sullivan
Mary A Seymour
Mary A. Seymour
Chicago Women’s Medical Club
Seymour
Homeopathic College
St. Louis
Hohenmann College
Pacific Coast
Woman’s Medical Club
Central Music Hall
Gertrude Gail Wellington
Wellington
Auburn, N. Y
Albion, Mich
Albion College
J. Bascomb Jones
Popocatapetl
Mexico
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