Suburban News Items Highlight 1899 Cicero and Maywood Affairs
The June 16 1899 issue notes no town board meetings this week as Cicero residents await a Supreme Court ruling. Norton works move to avoid strikes but face one. Maywood school board dissolves high school by unanimous vote and dismisses Prof Kranskopf. Oak Park man Pan P Harris fined for riding without a light and plans to sue Cicero police. case set for Saturday court appearance.
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Maywood School Board
Prof
Kranskopf
Pan P. Harris
Lake Street
Oak Park
Cicero
Harrison
la Mena
Oficer Abbott
Justice Kendall
Cicero Case Argued Before State Supreme Court
Arguments were heard Thursday in the state Supreme Court in the Cicero versus Chicago dispute, with the matter taken under advisement. City representation included George M. Stevens and Granville W. Browning. Cicero was represented by Green, Pringle, and Cutting. A decision was expected soon as the case is considered of public importance. Judge Green once served as Chicago’s corporation counsel at Hyde Park’s annexation.
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State Supreme Court
Cicero
Chicago
George M. Stevens
Austin
Granville W. Browning
Messrs. Green
Pringle
Cutting
Judge Green
C. A. Cutting
Austin ward plan hinges on annexation ruling
An opinion by Assistant Corporation Counsel Browning asserts Austin can and should become a new Chicago ward. The finance committee will study annexation next Friday afternoon and seek Supreme Court guidance on how the law should be read. The dispute centers on whether the statute requires both territory and population or just one.
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Austin
Chicago
Browning
City Council Finance Committee
Supreme Court
Postmasters Across Chicago Suburbs Receive Higher Pay
In the Chicago vicinity several post offices have been granted salary increases. Evanston rises from 2800 to 3000 dollars, Austin from 2200 to 2400, Oak Park from 2700 to 3000, West Chicago from 1400 to 1800, Lemont from 1400 to 1500, Wheaton and Harvey from 1800 to 2300 each, and Maywood from 2000 to 2200.
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Chicago
Evanston
Austin
Oak Park
West Chicago
Lemont
Wheaton and Harvey
Maywood
J E Eakens Sent to Insane Hospital
J E Eakens once a barber in Austin was moved from his Akron Ohio home to a Cleveland insane asylum for treatment. He had many friends in Austin who sympathize with him.
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J. E. Eakens
Austin
Akron
Ohio
Cleveland
Jack
Amex Offers Free Express Delivery in Austin
The American Express company announces free express delivery in Austin with four deliveries planned two in the forenoon and two in the afternoon, expanding service to customers in the area.
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Austin
American Express Company
Hawthorne Race Week Sees Peaceful Crowds
Hawthorne race track hosts events this week and next with a tranquil crowd and minimal disturbance reported by police. The outcome reflects orderly attendance and smooth operations at the Hawthorne locality.
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Hawthorne
Subscription details for Vindicator address changes
The notice explains subscription expiration dates are on the address label and receipts only issued on request. It states payment is in advance and outlines how to request a change of address with current and new post office addresses.
Painter and Decorator Opens Nearby Pad
The undersigned 4a prepared to do all painting and decorating work at Le Larson Porth, Rontin Avenue, Oak Park. This notice lists services offered by a local painter and decorator ready to take jobs in the neighborhood.
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le Larson
Avenue
Oak.Park
Austin High School Presents Two Part Evening Program
The Austin high school staged a two part day program in the assembly hall with student performances and speeches. Part one featured the president Mr Walter H Jacobs violin solo and various student acts followed by a farewell from the junior class and alumni welcome. The second part showcased The Mouth Trap a gag from The Mouse Trap by William D Howells performed by the Twentieth Century Club of the Junior class.
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Austin High School
Walter H. Jacobs
Mark Jampolls
Jennie Hahn
William Wallace
Clarence D. Barker
Two Brothers
Doty
Ham
Kimmey
Cleverdon
Twentieth Century Club
M. Johnson
Schubert
E. Benjamin Andrews
Heller
J. S. Osgood
Board of Education
Mendelssohn
High School Weath of Students Planned Summer Travels
Miss Julia Herrick of Austin High School will sail for Europe with her brother Principal B F Buck leaving for Ann Arbor Michigan this evening. Miss Patton and Block of the eighth grade will spend the summer at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Miss McCord and Vance plan a trip to California for the National Educational Association meeting in Los Angeles.
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Julia Herrick
Austin High School
Europe
B. F. Buck
Ann Arbor
Mich
Patton
Block
University of Wisconsin
Madison
McCord
Vance
California
National Educational Association
Los Angeles
Notable Theatre Gossip and Personal Plans Across Europe
Richard Mansfield takes a $100,000 life policy while Tilian Russell and family discuss policies and Nordic travels. May Robson journeys Holland with a Daly party. Ada Behan sails for England for rest. Anna Held ends a successful American season and heads to Europe. E H Sothern prepares a New York autumn program with Meltzer’s adaptation of The Sunken Bell, and Gillette will bring a Sherlock Holmes play with Katherine Florence. Beatrice Tree will stage Mme de Lavalette in London with Mrs. Tree in the title role. Virginia Harned returns from Boston to New York health tour. Ellen Terry’s Robespierre shows tension with Irving. Siegfried Wagner’s engagement to Fraulein Santa Bree rumored. Blanche Bates to lead Zangwill’s Children of the Ghetto at Herald Square next season. Bates plans a summer in Europe to study the Ghetto with Zangwill.
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Richard Mansfield
Tilian Russell
May Robson
Europe
Sothern
Charles Henry Meltzer
Hauptman
Lyceum Theater
New York
William Gillette
Sara Perry
Secret Service
Katherine Florence
Sherlock Holmes
Beerbohm Tree
London
Emile Moreau
Mme. de Lavalette
Rejane
Mrs. Tree
E. H. Sothern
Virginia Harned
Boston
Ellen Terry
Irving
Munich
Blanche Bates
Zangwill
Herald Square Theater
Augustin Daly
Ruby
Miladi
Rams Horns and Thoughts on God and Character
A reflective passage urges patience as power and growth through faith. It condemns enmity to God and social harmony, warning that delighting in others' inferiority harms the soul. It contrasts little men with great men measured by the Golden Rule and stresses inner peace ruled by God’s will.
Reporter Jones Baited Governor in St Louis Visit
A reporter from a rival paper and his subject, Governor Jackson, collided in a tense encounter in St Louis. Jones posed as a press man to trap the governor in a room, provoking a rancorous exchange and a threatened expulsion. The next day the rival paper claimed the governor was in town on a bender, while Jones secured a major interview and sales.
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Jones
St. Louis
Pecrst
Argonaut
Jackson
Star
The vicissitudes of Napoleon III in Europe
Archibald Forbes notes Napoleon III’s turbulent life from fugitive youth to emperor. He highlights his imprisonments, overseas exiles, and the rise from coup to empire, then contrasts his ambitions with Otto von Bismarck’s superior energy and strategy in mid 1860s Europe.
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Louis Napoleon
Strasburg
Lorient
Ham
Jeter
Boulogne
Europe
Park Lane
Napoleon
Bismarck
Biarritz
Prosper Merimee
Otto von Bismarck
Archbald Forbes
How to make bead blinds for privacy and light
The article explains crafting bead blinds from inexpensive materials to hide views from back windows. It advises a narrow wooden latch with grooves, macrame cords, and glass beads in colors to form a light admitting, tidy screen. It stresses tight string spacing and tying knots to prevent tangling and to create patterns like flowers or birds.
Greatest object of interest in America query
Miss Cayenne asks about the greatest object of interest in America. The lecturer responds that he arrived the day before and the exchange shifts to a lighter remark about self interest, reflecting a Washington Star glimpse of a social moment.
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America
Miss Cayenne
Washington Star
Fortunate Mrs Gadabout Faces Silent Social Scene
Gossip column notes Mrs Gadabout survives social life amid neighbors with few friends. Hostess remarks on Mrs Hard Head next door, wondering how she manages it. Fragments capture a bustling New York Weekly style tease.
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Gadabout
Bradford organ dedication and town notices update
Dr. Laula Falk dedicated a new pipe organ at Bradford NI this week and has two June engagements at Princeton NL and Crown Point IN. Children day was observed by the M E Sunday school in Library Hall with baptismal services and graduation ceremonies for promotion to the main room.
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Laula Falk
Bradford
Princeton
Crown Point
Ind
M. E
Library Hall
A. M. White
Lizzie W. Charles
Gertrude Langley
Wil Hel Gibb
Harold Thomas
Clara Stevens
Arthur Walker
Raymond Kennedy
Jennie Fields
Mabel Norris
Wynetta Greenacre
Julia Gulof
Ethel Gorsuch
Anna Burkholder
Unclaimed Letters Listed for Oak Park Post Office
Unclaimed letters in the Oak Park post office dated June 12, 1899 include Lee Ban non Anna Burr Mrs Case H B R Clow J H Clow Leslie Curtis Emma Dietz Mrs Wm Gabriel B Gouin Alfred Goodman Charles Grant Mat Haman Squire Harris Henry Jackson Mrs Charles F Johnson Carolina Johnson H Kelly Mrs Eliza Kevan Edward A Kimball F J Landry Mary Madsen Marshall Miles Mary McMorrow Tina Olsen Mrs Mary M Parker Mrs C D Powell J Saunders Verne A Tracy. Cicero and Proviso Ice Company offers Lake Geneva ice with prompt delivery and satisfaction guaranteed. Address 111 Franklin street Oak Park or call telephone 233.
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Oak Park
Lee D. Bannon
Anna Burr
Case
H. BR. Clow
J. H. Clow
Leslie Curtis
Emma Dietz
Wm. Gabriel
B. Gouin
Alfred Goodman
Charles Grant
Mat Haman
Squire Harris
Henry Jackson
Charles F. Johnson
Carolina Johnson
H. Kelly
Eliza Kevan
Edward A. Kimball
F. J. Landry
Mary Madsen
Marshall Miles
Mary McMorrow
Tina Olsen
Mary M. Parker
Cicero and Proviso Ice Company
Lake Geneva
Franklin Street
Buffalo and Return at One Fare for the Round Trip
Nickel Plate road offers Buffalo round trip tickets for June 11 12 and 13 with return valid through July 2 1899 if deposited with joint agent in Buffalo by June 17 1899. City ticket office 111 Adams street Chicago depot Loop Van Buren and Pacific near Clark Street.
Notable Early American Posts and Personal Milestones
Roswell Beardsley appointed postmaster of North Lansing New York on June 28 1828 and served seventy one years without complaint or accounting errors. Speaker Reeds draws Paris attention with lumbering gait. Loubet dwarfed by Maine figure. McKinley buys a stylish white house trap for him and wife. Marconi, born April 25 1874 Griffone near Bologna, pursued electricity since age 14 with early experiments in England starting July 1896.
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Roswell Beardsley
North Lansing
Tompkins County
N. Y
Reeds
Paris
Loubet
Maine
McKinley
White House
American Geographical Society
Sir John Murray
Royal Geographical Society
Choate
Charles P. Daly
New York City
Emily V. Mason
Fitzhugh Lee
Atlantic
Baltimore
Mr. Marconi
Oriental Carnival Heads to Oak Park Dates Announced
The Oriental Carnival travels from Austin to Oak Park for three days next week following a June run. It will perform Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday with shows in Oak Park.
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Austin
Oak Park
Hawthorne 1899 Season Daily Racing June 12 to 24
Chicago Jockey Club announces Hawthorne track activity from June 12 to June 24 1899 with racing daily more than five events per day. Music by Cicero military band and electric cars direct to grounds. Admission 75 cents.
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Hawthorne Track
Cicero Military Band
Harlem Jockey Club Season Opens June 26 1899
Harlem race track announces daily racing from June 26 to July 8 1899 with special Fourth of July features. Admission is 75 cents, directions mention Lake Street or Metropolitan elevated cars for access.
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Harlem
Lake Street
Metropolitan
Mary M. Shedd Offers Free Voice Tests at Steinway Hall
Mary M. Shedd, noted singing teacher, invites the public to free voice tests at 906 Steinway Hall. This promotional notice highlights Shedd's instruction and the location for potential students to sample singing lessons.
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Mary M. Shedd
Steinway Hall
Great Discovery by a Woman Promising Cure for Consumption
A Mrs. Luther Lutz reportedly recovered from a seven year bout with a fatal condition after using Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption. She slept after the first dose and, with two bottles, was cured. Trial bottles are offered free at local drug stores with regular sizes priced at 60 cents and one dollar, each guaranteed.
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Dr. King
Luther Lutz
W. C. Hamnick & Co
Shelby, N.C
Traill & Cooling’s
Chas. P. Miller’s
Money to Loan From Austin Building and Loan
Austin Building and Loan Association offers loans with deposits on two or more shares at fifty cents per share. It pays six percent interest on withdrawals. Membership encouraged for all Austin residents. George H. Park president and John D. Maclean secretary. City office room 921 184 La Salle street.
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Austin Building and Loan Association
Austin
George H. Park
John D. Maclean
la Salle Street
Card of thanks for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
Mrs. S. Doty of Des Moines Iowa expresses lasting gratitude for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy's effectiveness in treating coughs lung troubles and whooping cough. She notes dependable results and sends thanks to the manufacturers. Traill & Cooling druggists in Des Moines offer the remedy for sale.
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Chamberlain
Paris Egg Forgery: Ingenious Dealer Imitates Birds’ Eggs
An expert in bird eggs reveals a Parisian dealer who makes living by duplicating eggs with shells from common eggs or gypsum. The process involves intricate coloring to mimic nightingales and larks, with flawless results that have fooled collectors worldwide.
Change of Firm Sells Grocery Interest to De Gignac
Kellogg & Sweeps sold their grocery market interest to A. L. de Gignac who will continue at the same location. Norm Kellogg plans a similar enterprise at Aurora.
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Kellogg & Sweeps
A. L. de Gignac
Norm
Kellogg
Aurora
Battle of Manila at Wabash and Hubbard corner
Don't miss the Battle of Manila at the corner of Wabash Avenue and Hubbard Court. This event invites residents to witness the clash described in local promotions.
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Manila
Wabash Avenue
Hubbard Court
Pain Balm Ends Hip Pain For Erie Man
A Erie Pennsylvania resident injured a hip lifting boxes. After initial misdiagnosis rheumatism concerns followed. A pharmacist recommended Chamberlains Pain Balm. Half a bottle cured him completely and he now recommends it to friends. For sale by Traill and Cooling Druggists.
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Chamberlain
F. A. Babcock
Erie, Pa
Traill & Cooling
Give Dewey a Welcome Homie Lincoln Song
Patriotic march song titled Give Dewey a Welcome Homie by Lincoln. promoter International Music Company sells two 25 cent songs totaling 50 cents. Publisher listed as Fisher Building Chicago.
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Dewey
Lincoln
Sweetheart
Nell
International Music Company
Fisher Building
Chicago
Electric Bitters credited with curing scrofula
Dr. D B Cargile of Washita writes four bottles of Electric Bitters cured Mrs. Brewer of scrofula after years of suffering and failed medical help. The tonic is hailed as the best blood purifier and remedy for eczema, tetter, ulcers, boils, and more. Priced 60 cents, sold by Traill & Cooling and Chas P Miller drugs.
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D. B. Cargile
Washita
I. T
Traill & Cooling
Chas. P. Miller
Ruggists
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine Excursion to Buffalo
The Nickel Plate road offers a Chicago to Buffalo excursion for the shrines annual meeting on June 14 and 15. Tickets go on sale June 11 to 13 at a first class round trip rate with return validity through July 2 1899 if deposited in Buffalo by June 17. Passengers may choose rail or water trip between Cleveland and Buffalo. The line runs three first class Chicago to Buffalo trains daily. For sleeping car reservations contact General Agent at 111 Adams Street Chicago.
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Chicago
Buffalo
Nickel Plate Road
Cleveland
New York
Boston
Adams Street
First of the Season Excursion to Buffalo Cheapest Round Trip
Nickel Plate offers one fare round trip to Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Tickets on sale June 11 12 13 1899 with return to July 2 1899 if deposited with a joint agent in Buffalo by June 17 1899. City ticket office 111 Adams Street Chicago Depot Van Buren Street Station Chicago Elevated Loop.
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Buffalo
Nickel Plate Road
Niagara’ Falls
City
Adams Street
Chicago
van Buren Street
Excursion to Cleveland Ohio By Nickel Plate Railway
One round trip fare offered on June 25 and 26 with return travel valid through June 29 1899. Travel from Chicago depot located at Van Buren street and Pacific avenue. General agent address 111 Adams street Chicago.
One Round Trip Fare to Cleveland on Nickel Plate Road
One fare for round trip to Cleveland Ohio via Nickel Plate Road on June 25 and 26 with return by June 29 1899. Three through trains daily from Chicago depot Nan Buren street and Pacfile avenue on elevated loop. For information write General Agent 111 Adams street Chicago. Chas W Green piano teacher Leschetitsky method lessons at residence Studio 906 Steinway Hall.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Nickel Plate Road
Chicago
Nan Buren ‘Street
Pacfile’ Avenue
Adams
Chas.w. Green
Leschetitsky
Steinway Hall
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