Cicero Town Board Hears Broad Agenda June 1896
Cicero town board meets June 20 1896 with all members present. The session covers five cent fare requirements for franchisees lake street crossing 62nd street annual tax levy and numerous street improvements. Communications cite damages from C B Q viaduct projects alongside various petitions and committee referrals for streets highways fire water drainage and finance.
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Seale
Lake Street
Oak Park
Hawthorne Fire Company
Jay D. Miller
Fifty-Second Street
Harlem Avenue
Chicago Avenue
Washington Boulevard
Frank L. Race
Austin
John Duffy
William R. Marshall
Do. W. Hawley
Pease Court
Home Avenue
Pease
Real Estate Board of Austin
McDonald
Ogden Avenue
Prairie Avenue
Forty Eighth Street
Morton Park
Ogden Street Railway
John F. Paulsen
Superior Street
Pine Avenue
Rearden
Justice Smith
Amerson
W. A. Giles
Risley Avenue
West Fifty-fourth Street
Madison
Jackson Streets
Chicago, Wilmington & Vermillion Coal Company
Berwyn Independent Club
Stanley Avenue
Rachel L. Storrs
Imelda M. Boyle
Garfield Avenue
Thirty-first Street
Taxpayers’ Defense League
Oak Park Avenue
Upper Cicero
Euclid Avenue
Pleasant Street
Committee On
Whale hunting by electric current, Halifax captain plans
Capt Charles W Hershell of Halifax intends to whal e with a 10 000 volt alternating current dynamo on his ship Rosalie. He hired an electrician in New York to assess the feasibility of using electricity to kill or subdue whales as a fin de siècle method, aiming to challenge traditional whaling practices.
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New York World
Galt
Charles W. Hers
Catching Sharks Off Harbor In Aloha Boat Battle
Lieut. Coyne and about fifteen Company E men launched at 10 a m to hunt sharks sighted near the harbor. They baited, fired, and hauled in three sharks, the largest of which drew bullets from rifles as the crew fought to bring it to the Aloha boathouse.
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Lieut. Coyne
Company E
Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Aloha Boathouse
English Plant Names Linked To Animals In Etymology
Notes and Queries explains that many plant names like foxglove harebell and cock's foot derive from childlike animal associations. The piece cites Cockayne’s Anglo-Saxon Leechdoms glossary for evidence and lists examples such as Briddes nest bridde-tunge wild carrot cat-mint chick-weed and cockes fat among others.
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Cockayne
Stellaria Holostea
Lola Chippewa sprinter crushes male rivals in bold era feat
The Chippewa woman known as Lola, trained by Canadian Pierre Crowl, defies norms with a 9 1/2 second 100 yards and rapid times across distances. Her endurance and skill, seen since childhood, position her to challenge world records if tracks stay fast and rules permit.
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Lola
Pierre Crowl
Growl
N. W. Helm
Burdickville
Amateur Athletic Union
Electrifying Whales Plan Proposed By And Sounded Cruel
A historical account describes a proposed method to kill whales using a dynamo and long insulated wire. The plan involves placing the dynamo on a whaler, lowering a boat with a reel of wire, and delivering a high voltage shock through a harpoon needle to the whale. The scheme envisions ten thousand volts killing a whale instantly.
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Trician
Cap’n
New Version Editor Questions Execution Law Quote
The excerpt features a dialog about electric executions becoming law and a debate over old sayings. A New York Weekly quotation contrasts modern methods with medieval imagery and suggests a modern substitute about shocking society.
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New York
New York Weekly
Stranger’s Bizarre Fit Baffles Crowd On Fulton Street
A wild-eyed man with his mouth agape was found leaning against a lamp post on Fulton street. The crowd rushed in as people asked what was wrong, and a policeman urged giving him air while noting he was a stranger who mispronounced a street name, saying Tchouphoulas street.
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Fulton Street
Tchouphoulas Street
New Orleans Times-Democrat
The Universal Character of Love Across Nations
A concise meditation on how love sustains human connection regardless of country or climate, highlighting shared emotional core and universal human experience across cultures.
Giant Shark Sinks Tradewind Crews Near Beach
Report describes a massive shark 11 feet 8 inches long with a 53 percent girth, and another 9 feet 8 inches. Its stomach was empty of edible matter, yet a larger shark’s stomach explained the line’s tug. A smaller shark held two hats a towel and half a barrel top. A soldier interpret the finds as two native women sailing in a canoe with a keg of beer being attacked. One woman was said to be devoured the other head taken and a key tapped in a curious way.
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Castle
North Park
Avenue
Cheney
Forest Avenue
Chicago Avenue
Augusta Street
C. F. Cooper
Wilson and St. Clair
Central Avenue
Austin Avenue
Thomas Street
Division Street
Cicero Light, Heat and Power Company
Twelfth Street
Rearden
Cicero
Chicago
City of
Madison Street
Gunthorp
Oak Park Avenue
Harlem Avenue
Deer Teeboat Sail Ends In Capture
Oscar Pinkham and James McGuire of Dover Point spotted a half grown deer on an ice cake drifting down the Piscataqua river near a Dover Point residence. They launched a boat to chase and soon captured the animal after a second dash to the Newington side. The deer is shown at Hon. Woodbury Langdon's Fox Point Newington residence and endures its captivity well.
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Oscar Pinkham
James McGuire
Dover Point
Piscataqua
Newington
No Deception In Court Confession Of Murder
The accused man in Detroit faces murder charges claiming innocence as he sobs aloud and pleads. A young girl in a nearby cell watches as authorities process a confessed killer whose motive and details remain undisclosed.
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Detroit Tribune
Cruelty to Animals Cited as Crime Driver by Rev. Coddington
Reverend H G Coddington argues crime rises from animal cruelty and calls for humane treatment of animals as a moral obligation before God. He warns that humankind's stewardship of animals will be judged and urges compassion in society.
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Rev
H. G. Coddington
Where Bailey Prefers Them
Congressman Bailey shows a confident gesture during a chamber session chaired by Mr. Barrett. The dispatch notes his flush face and quips that a flush in the hand may outshine one on the face in political sparring.
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Congressman Bailey
Barrett
Mr. Bailey
Galveston Newa
Dictionary of plant names and historic variants
A list of plant terms and their variants including cock's head melilot colt's foot cow rattle cowslip crane's shank crow-bill crow’s nest latherwort dog fennel ever-fern fox glove crow-skip cow parsley fox’s glove and related names such as cuckoo-pintle and gate treow among others.
Missions Tie Nationwide Revival to Gospel Work
Reports from city missions across the country describe a strong revival on gospel lines. Col Edward Fielding of the Volunteers of America urges Christian youths to dedicate their lives to God's service. The Presbyterians sustain 690 churches with 3000 foreign field communicants, spending 976000 last year, with promising prospects ahead. A writer notes 121 of 189 missionary societies are Anglo-Saxon funded, and out of 12.5 million dollars given for foreign missions over 10 million comes from Anglo-Saxon sources.
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Edward Fielding
The
Volunteers of America
Presbyterians
Mixed statewide reports praise Ohio anti cigarette law
Reports from across the state hail the Ohio anti cigarette law for its beneficial effects. Embassies in Constantinople received indemnity checks for outrages at Jiddah. Efforts grow to appoint Daniel Gilman to head New York City schools. The Southern Presbyterian assembly met in Memphis, returning to the 30 year previous site. Steps move toward a permanent AFL and Knights of Labor union of about 2,000,000 workers.
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Ohio
Constantinople
Jiddah
Daniel Gilman
Johns Hopkins University
New York City
Southern Presbyterian Church
United States
Memphis
Tenn
American Federation of Labor
The
Knights of Labor
The New Typewriter Woman A Bright Boy Sixteen to One
A satirical verse about a female typist skilled in writing bank notes and dreams of voting. Her confinement and machine life contrast with a romantic entanglement where her employer proposes a shared venture as a new typewriter replaces the old.
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Needcorn
Twilight Confusion in a Horse Race Night Scene
In a quiet twilight pause a man explains losing his money as his horse slides from ahead to a neck and neck finish. A woman notes the beauty of the moment, while they silently act out a modern racing term through their gestures.
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Fily
Harry
Senator Sorghum Faces Choice of Fame and Payroll
A frank speaker urges Sorghum to move beyond the machine phase of public service and aim for lasting fame by writing his name on history. The Senator acknowledges the pull of fame but notes his current work keeps him busy securing payrolls for government employees.
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Sorghum
Erroneous Conclusion On Train Skewers Fashion Inference
Uncle Abner muses on birds and fashion as he sheds his best suit. Aunt Soph rone probes the odd remark about a man on the train claiming to have earned over $4000 this year by skinning says.
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Wimmern
Uncle Abner
Abner
Aunt Soph
Where His Paper Circulated
An Arizona editor wrote to an Eastern commercial firm seeking advertising. The firm asked where the paper circulated and the editor replied it reached North and South America, rope, Asia, Africa, and it is all he can do to keep it from going further.
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Arizona
North
South America
Asia
Africa
A Newborn's Place Questioned By Philosophers
Pruyn argues a baby is a small animal while Popper notes the difficulty of classifying a baby who sometimes crows and sometimes bellows. The remark reflects a playful, abstract dialogue between thinkers in a fragment from Puck.
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Pruyn
Popper
Puck
A Bright Boy in a Sea of Caution
A lighthearted local comic shows Johnny arguing to swim after meals. Mother Vi cautions him about swimming on a full stomach, while Johnny proposes an alternative by swimming on his back. The exchange captures playful family humor.
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Johnny
Militia Target Practice Reminder From Harper's Weekly
A dialogue fragment recalls a militia plan for target practice and a 19th century payment for a cow killed last year. One speaker mentions sixteen dollars received by Bill Jones and a need for sixteen dollars, reflecting period rural concerns and local bargaining.
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Silas
Bill Jones
Harper's Weekly
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Clyde Avenue
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Congress
Fiftieth Streets
J. J. Kelly
Kerwin
A. McLean
M. Templeton
I’. Abbott
B.C. Frost
Dare
William Murphy
WFF
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C. N. Grub
Riddle & Wood
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Torty Eighth Street
Ridgeland Avenue
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Police Telephone and Signal Company
Wisconsin Central
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South Park Avenue
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Woodbine Avenue
Midway Park
Berwyn Water-Works
Twenty-sixth Street
C. W. G. & E. L. Company
Winonah Avenue
Madison, Monroe and
Adams Streets
Globe Light and Heat Company
Grant Avenue
Engine House
Watson Avenue
Fourteenth
Jeffrey Avenue
Thirteenth
Finance Committee
J. W. Middleton
Crane Company
Henry Rath
Ogden Street Railway Company
Ridgeland
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Hawthorne
Franklin Avenue
Sophia
Iowa
Henry Streets
Waller Avenue
Twenty-third Street
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Waller
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Wealifax
Hawaii
Deer
Bailey
Tion
Venus
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