Chicago political wrangling and a broad call for reform
In a scathing editorial the Vindicator critiques city politics, notingRumors of sensational city matters stale money influences, and calls for opponents like Alderman Schumacher to run independently. The piece also praises Wenge and Turner Realty in Oak Park and condemns Senate corruption with a Libertarian stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masarra
Wenge & Turner
Tacoma
Oak Park
Chicago
Messrs. Wenge & Turner
Exposé Prompts Controversy in Chicago Churches
The March 3 editorial warned of deep rot in Chicago religious institutions. A Tuesday city paper exposed one party criticized, with another alleged scoundrel poised for exposure soon. The Vitapiration claims continued truthfulness and candor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Partis
Judge Gibbons dissolves Lake Street L injunction
Judge Gibbons dissolves the property owners injunction against the Lake street L from West Forty eighth to Fifty second streets. The ruling sustains the LL company claim and raises debate among Chicago lawyers over railroad rights to build in streets without compensation and potential loss of immediate damages by abutting property owners.
West Park Board Elects Moll President as Garfiel d Park Refector y Contract Awarded
Carl Moll was unanimously elected president of the West Park Board. Walter S. Bogle became a member. The board urged the mayor not to grant any saloon licenses on boulevards. Virgil Merseo won a five year refectory contract at Garfield Park starting March 1 for 37 700. Several officers were re chosen and secretary elections postponed to March 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Moll
West Park
Walter S. Bogle
West Side Curling Club
Garfield Park
Virgil Merseo
Halsted Street
Garvey
Moll
Carmelius Mahoney
E. Z. Brodowski
J. 8. Dreyer
T. P. Kennedy
George W. Dorr
John Townsend
Cicero Town Election Preview in Austin Berwyn Area
The Cicero election draft outlines a April primary on the first Tuesday after the first Monday. It details town structure with a President Clerk Supervisor Treasurer Assessor Collector and four Trustees. Nominees include Col. E S Watts and Col. A J Cheney for four year trustees and Charles E Piper for President. Primary results and ward tallies cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cicero
Venice
Iinois
Chicago
Austin
Oak Park
Ridgeland
Lindon Park
Mandell
Grant Works
Hawthorne
Morton Park Clyde
Berwyn
Col. Watts
Board of Election Commissioners of
Citizens’ Union
J. W. Bennett
E. J. Whitehead
George J. Bliss
Chas. F. Walker
Col
E. S. Watte
A. J. Cheney
Ed. S. Austin
George J. Byss
Blise
Col. Cheney
Castle
Whitehead
Bliss
Northwestern Railroad
Simmons
Walker
Library Hall
Don’t Do It Averted by West Town Clerk Hopeful
Voters warned about Odin Severson described as morally and physically crooked as he runs on the Republican ticket for West Town Clerk and was urged to avoid him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odin Severson
West Town
Illinois inventors receive weekly grants for patents
Report by C A Snow & Co solicitors notes grants to inventors in Illinois and beyond. Names include Amerman Onarga for an attachment for school desks Barnes Rockford drilling machine Buck Mattoon clasp Comstock Evanston tent pole Cook Burnside Crossing torpedo wrapper Davies Chenon ventilated hat Fonot Murphysborough plow Gates Oak Park cigar holder Gitchell Rockford leaf-turner Lindgren Moline seeding machine Mueller Decatur basin clamp Robinson Monmouth habo attaching device Schureman Rockford electric circuit breaker Woodward Vandalia ice cream freezer. Central Park news miscarried this week. Cicero Town Board proceedings show Lake Street Elevated road has accepted the ordinance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. Snow & Co
United States Patent Office
Washington, D. C
M. Amerman
Onarga
W. F. Barnes
Rockford
G. N. Buck
Mattoon
A. S. Comstock
Evanston
J. Cook
Burnside Crossing
H. Davies
Chenon
R. Fonot
Murphysborough
R. D. Gates
Oak Park
A. W. Gitchell
A. Lindgren
Moline
H. Mueller
Decatur
J. W. Woodward
Vandalia
Wants Baker Re-elected in River Forest Vote
The Eureka County Vindicator urges voters in River Forest to re elect S E Baker as trustee citing his long service since 1989. Baker funded public school sidewalk and street improvements and helped advance the water works system while chairing the Sewers and Drains Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eorror
Smith
S. E. Baker
Baker
River Forest
Births in Chicago Reach Twenty Four Thousand Mark in 1893
County Clerk Walff reports Chicago recorded 24,806 births in 1893 with January leading at 2,288 births. Fathers' nationalities show Germans 6,602 Americans 5,439 Scandinavians 2,947 and others. mothers include 6,522 Americans and 6,156 Germans. Triplets counted three times and twins 244 times. In Cook County excluding Chicago there were 1,009 births with 481 girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walff
Chicago
Cook County
Ammerica
Lake Street elevated line gains new coaches and locomotives
Fifteen additional coaches for the Lake Street elevated line arrived this week from the Gilber t Car company in Troy. The company now owns 100 coaches and ten new locomotives have been ordered from Providence. Work to Fifty second Street is delayed by litigation with Cicero electric line, but once cleared, construction will rush and be finished in about three weeks.
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Lake Street
Pennsylvania Road
Gilbert Car Company
Troy
Lake Street Road
Fifty Second Streets
Cicero
Providence
Fifty-second
Chicago
Oak Park
J. W. Schoening
Lake Astreet
C. A. Sharpe and Son
A. W
Miss Mason
H. E. Sterrett
J. W. Schooning
Phil Sheridan Post
Congregational Church
Relief Society
John Farson
F. D. Thompson
River Forest
Geo. Nordenholt
Chicago Avenue
Marion Street
Messia
Tristram
Dunlop
Butler
Bryant
Richards
Benson
Tarrytown
N. Y
Parsons
B. Parsons
Wisconsin Avenue
M. D. Wells & Co
O. H. Benson
Oak Park Club
John Parsons
A. H. Standish
North Grove Avenue
H. N. Hoyt
Hoyt
C. P. Kellogg & Co
Standish
Muskegon, Mich
Dr King’s New Discovery Praised by Friends and Druggists
A Mousehold wife and D. W. Fuller of Canajobarie claim Dr King’s New Discovery always helps in the home and yields the best results. G A Dykeman of Catskill endorses it as the top cough remedy after eight years’ use. Trial bottles free and large bottles priced 60 cents and 31 cents at L M Lovett Oak Park and BR H Trail Austin.
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D. W. Fuller
Canajobarie
Dr. King
G. A. Dykeman
Catskill
L. M. Lovett
Oak Park
BR. H. Trail
Austin
Moreland Church Alliance Formed to Suppress Vice
Pastors from Moreland Illinois lead a moral reform movement after sermons on masquerade and sin. A meeting Feb 26 organized a permanent alliance of local churches with officers elected and a constitution adopted to promote religious interests and curb Sabbath desecration gambling temperance and vice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moreland
Ill
M. C. Cooper
M. E. Church
M. Crisaman
Presbyterian Church
M. FE
M. Crissman
Robert Mill
M. B. Campbell
E. W
Shipman
A. L. Camp
Charles Peterson
The
Moreland Church Alliance
Alliance
River Forest Village Board fixes Lake street sewer plan
The River Forest Village Board met in special session March 8 with President Cost and Trustees present. The Finance Committee reported fund balances totaling 3 399 13. They approved plans for a brick and tile Lake street sewer from Oak to central avenues and Washington to Des Plaines river, to be paid in ten installments, and ordered an ordinance. A special meeting was set for March 15 to review it.
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River Forest
Water Works
Cost
Baker
Kennedy
Scharenburg
Smith
Lake Street
Oak Avenue
Central Avenue
Washington Street
Desplaines River
Griffin
S. E. Baker
Br. Baker
Forest Avenue
Chicago Avenue
Chicago
Myrtle
Birchwood Avenues
Harlem Village Board Meets in Regular Session
Harlem village board met Saturday night March 10. Bills totaling about 225 dollars were referred to committees. Reports from the collector fire company and police were referred to Finance Water Works and Police. Treasurer balance 35.07. bills up to 250 dollars ordered paid. Police Magistrate Peter Farley warned to straighten his account. Clerk instructed to obtain Illinois city and village laws. Board adjourned.
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Harlem Village Board
Edward Remus
Harlem Volunteer Fire Company
Gorke
Peter Farley
Illinois
Alaska Town Names Challenge Maine’s Traditions
The passage lists several lengthy Alaskan village names as examples of how Alaska’s place names surpass Maine in complexity. Among them are Abgomekhelanagma mute Ahgalakpaghamute Choktoktolegha mute Kahlukhtughamute Kenuachaungha mute Kyktokowtin Quiechoyamute Te nahotazna and Akgulurigiglak.
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Maine
Alaska
Ahgalakpaghamute
Choktoktoleghamute
Kahlukhtughamute
Kenuachaunghamute
Kyktokowtin
Quiechoyamute
Teenahotazna
Akgulurigiglak
Cicero Precinct Social and Local Events In Oak Park
The Oak Park page notes social gatherings and club activities from Prairie club to Thimble club, with Mr. and Mrs. Gwynn’s praise, lectures by Geo. Lorin McNutt, and notices of residents visiting California, Oak Park building prospects, and local commerce including Saydam and Peterson stores. It also covers a major Oak Park avenue fire and community notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Peterson's
Lake Oisues
Parzival
Saydam
H. G. Goulitz
Kokomo
Ind
Oak Park
Miller's Drug Store
Rogers
N. G. Moore
Forest Avenue
Snydam's
Young Indies of the Thimble Club
Maude Fitch
Geo. Lorin McNutt
Oakland
Cal
C. A. Baker
Riverside
G. W. Weed
Miller’s
Heard's Hall
Frank H. June
Lake Street
Vogt
Wright
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the Vindicator
William Halle Yee
West Martinon Street
Hall 6
Chicago Port Office
Cberon and
Provine
Maywood
Bielrogeset
Harlem
Weat Madison Street
William Halley
OAR Park Vindicator
West
Madison Atrect
Chinao
William Bailey
Lake Atrect
Wm. Hal OY
Olino
News Depot
Proviro Vindicator
Madison Street
Chiengo
Herrick’s
Muywood
ODD Fellows
Officoma
Cleoro Lodge
N. G
W. BR. Underwood
W. G
D. F. Foley
W. C. Edwarda
Thathrop Are
Dunlop's Bank
E.B. Moore & CO
Butcher's
Boston
Tdalprst
Barclay’s
Kear
Northwestern
J. K. Oneil
South Prairie Ave
Detroit
Dr.danis
West Madison Street
Ills
Ninth Avenue
Tenth Streets
A. IL Merrill
Oak Park and Neighborhood
R. R. Whiteman
Centre” Store
Madison St
Oak Park Ave
George E. Davis
Central Ave
E. A. Furbeck
Istmarter Yinsina
Coker
Ronrin H. Murr
Trade and Ballot Protective Republican Club
M.N. Stationny
Cicero & Proviso Electric Railroad
Little Maggie Spofford
West Side
Alderman Loeffler
Mortimer J. Scanlan
Scanlan
Schumacher
Tur
Presa
Great West
Capitol
Judge Gibbons
West Park Board
TRE, Piimaries
Twenty-Eighth
Ackerman
Thomas Rankin
Brighton Park
Central Park
Moneevand
Rankin
Mandeli
Buiellion Parke
Brighton
Mr. Ackerman
Twelfth Ward
Reinecker
Kaylor
Cicero Town Board
S. W. Packard
Thos. H. Gale
LaSalle Street
J. W. Middleton
Maple Avenue
Welch
Waukesha
Wis
Veterana
Cora Smith
Oak Park Avenue
A. Z. Churchill
Ann Street
Musical Society
Elizabeth Shuey
Mary Bliss
Anna Bolena
Donizeti
Grace Hall
H. B. Horton
Grace Waterbury
Beethoven
Charles Howe
G.G. Mayo
Plaza Lodge
Orpheus Mandolin Club
E. B. Gustorf
Niles
W. F. Furbeck
Los Angeles
J. Schoening
Dunlop’s Bank
Parma
C.J. Schoening
Dunop’s Bank
Isaac Herr
Chris. Ludlow
San Francisco
Northwestern Grand Opera
Gorelitz & Bro
Cicero Lodge No
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Wuertas
H. W. Kaltenbach
Charles
G. W. MacFappen
Melvin
Wim, Goeritz & Bro
North Boulevard
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