News of the Town items and notices in Oak Park and Austin
Local notices report travel, births, moves, and social events. Names include Dr Tope Mr A 5 Ray Miss Carrie Wood H S Pebbles W H Shewey and many addresses in Oak Park and Austin with gatherings, concerts and church happenings.
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Dr. Tope
A. 5
Ray
New York
R. W. Sears
South Boulevard
F. H. June
Fletcher B.gibbs
Home Avenue
Scoville Hall
C. Caldwell
S. Oak Park Avenue
Carrie Wood
Oak Park Avenue
Washington, D. C
Last of the Season Brilliance at Oaks Culture Club
The Oaks Culture Club social session closed with a brilliant reception on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Henry H. Rearden and Mrs. C Newton Hathaway presided. Guests included Mrs. Rearden, Mrs. S J Crafts, Mrs. G H White, Mrs. C B Cutting, and Mrs. L A Norton. The decor featured palms, Easter lilies, and smilax. The program, praised as the finest yet, opened with Miss Carpenter and included harp solos by Miss Alice G Smith and a paper by Mrs. John Vance Cheney on Music and the New Education. The audience praised the eloquent tone and language. Miss Aurelius performed the Shadow Song with two encores, followed by a Lucia harp solo. Refreshments and informal reception closed the event.
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The
Oaks Culture Club
Henry H. Rearden
C. Newton Hathaway
New Civil War era book list for library funding
The G A R Phil Sheridan Post Oak Park donates 100 dollars to Scoville Institute library to curate a Civil War themed book list. Titles include The Last Quarter Century in the United States, American History Told by Contemporaries, Life of A Lincoln, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, The Rise and Fall of Slave Power, and many other works by Gore, Hart, Grant, Yeats, Emerson, and Thoreau among others.
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Phil Sheridan
Oak Park
Scoville Institute Library
G. A. R. Committee
Audubon
United States
Andrews
Barrows
Barrow
Brady
Curtis
Doyle
Fletcher
French
Gissing
Guerber
Harper's
Hart
Simon Dale
Hawkins
Henderson
Hillis
Howard
Inman
Wolfville
Lewis
McCarthy
Mitchell
Old South
Norris
Jesus Christ
Phelps
Rayner
Emerson
Sanborn
Hanna
Statesman
Sankiewicz
Stedman
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tennyson
Thoreau
Watson
Wheeler
Lin Mclean
Wister
Yeats
A. F. Blaisdell
A. Lincoln
Noah Brooks
General Thomas
Henry Coppie
R. W. Gilder
U. S. Grant
T. W. Higginson
Johnson and Buel
Rossiter Johnston
Alexander
S. M. Nichols
W. Pettinger
Grant
Horace Porter
John Brown
F. B. Sanborn
W. H. Shelton
J. R. Soley
Phil
M. M. Thomas
Bullet
G. F. Williams
General Grant
J. G. Wilson
America
Wilson
Town Board Adopts Curfew Ordinance and Debates Water Plant Lease
The town board approved a curfew ordinance by unanimous vote after a petition by Mrs. McDonald and others. The panel discussed leasing Cicero Water Gas and Electric Light’s plant for 27 years with staged payments, but the measure was referred to committee and not put to a vote. Also covered were street rail line issues, water pipes, street improvements, rebates, and various committee recommendations.
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Peter McDonald
J. J. Archer
Cicero Water, Gas and Electric Light Company
Madison Street
Asa E. White
Cicero and Proviso Electric Railroad
Street Railroad
Lake Street
Cutting
Forty-eighth Street
Butler
Oak Park Avenue
Chicago Avenue
Iowa Street
KE. S. Talbot
Thomas
John Schultz
H. W. Austin
FE. J. Bowes
John B. Speck
J. K. Russell
C. IE. Roberts
August Middlesteadt
East Avenue
Chicago
Augusta
Fire and Water Committee
J. M. Hallman
E. A. Cummings
Ridgeland
Sco
F. H. Clarke
O. Su. Beardsley
Frink
Randolph Street
Austin Avenue
Owasco Street
Fiftieth Street
New Hall for Services at Lake Street Church
The Congregational church established early this year on Fifty second avenue near Lake street rents the second floor of the Lake Street Elevated terminal station and will hold regular services there. Rev. C S Miller preached Sunday both morning and evening as the church begins operations with a “hard times” social by the Y P S C E society. Admission was nine cents and attendees without old clothes felt out of place.
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H. G. Teele
Peoria
Austin
J. P. Garner
Dorchester Mapes
Kenosha
E. S. Osgood
Marengo
H. F. Griffing
Rogers Park
I. C. King
Carrie Sickler
Geneva
J. Crafts
Robert Stevenson
Gee, Chase
Howard Avenue
Masonic Hall
W. F. Branston
Denver
Colo
S. J. Crafts
Menominee
Mich
Henry Emerson
Mr. Hederman
Fifty-second Avenue
Chas. Moesinger
101
J. H. O. Smith
Union Christian Church
Chicago
Austin Christian Mission
Lake Street
Morrisson’s Academy
Jas. L. Williams
First Baptist Church
J. F. Bartlett
Congregational Church
C. S. Miller
Society of the New Church
Conversation on pin money and weekly budget
A playful exchange about living on twenty dollars a week. She suggests twenty dollars is enough for pin money while he questions the sufficiency. The line is attributed to the Detroit Free Press and features a light domestic tone.
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Hany
Detroit Free Press
Cicero Sunday School to Convene March 24 at Berwyn Church
The Cicero Sunday School association plans its annual meeting Thursday evening March 24 at the Berwyn M E church on Thirty fourth street between Elliot and Oak Park avenues. Officers will be elected and papers read by Cornelia Marvin Harold F Sayles and W H Tuttle with conference discussions to follow Supper for officers teachers and their companions will be served from 6 to 6 45 p m Present officers are S S Rogers president and W A Dean secretary.
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H. S. Pebbles
W. H. Shewey
West Baden
Ind
S. E. Pebbles
California
W. C. Hunter
North Boulevard
W. F. Furbeck
B. R. Arnold
South Boulevard
W. H. French
East Avenue
F. O. Elsworth
Scoville Place
Fort Sheridan
White Dawson
Aurora
Business Men's Association
Oak Park
Roxy Seabury
Madison
Wis
Madison University
T. H. Faulkner, Jr
Clinton Avenue
Dunlop
A. F. Banks
Home Avenue
Maple Avenue
W. R. Owen
Boyd
W. Clyde Jones
Iowa
McLaren
Grace Episcopal Church
Oak Park High School Athletic Association
First Congregational Church
Scoville Institute
W. D. Sleep
St. Louis
Sleep
Meredith
Rattle
Los Angeles
Cal
Pacific Slope
W. A. Pillinger & Co
Doctor Rich
Riverside
Louis O. Jurgensen
J. Suydam
Joliet
Penitentiary City
State Institution
Oaks & Tompkin
Oak Park Avenue
Oliver
Thomas Oliver
Oliver Typewriter Fame
Cicero Sunday School Association
Berwyn M. E
Thirty-fourth Street
Elliot and
Oak Park Avenues
Cicero
Cornelia Marvin
Scovil Institute
Harold F. Sayles
Second Congregational Sunday School
W. H. Tuttle
M. Bd
Berwyn
Association
S. S. Rogers
W. A. Dean
Card of Thanks for Mrs Dowell Meindesman
Mrs Dowell Meindesman expresses gratitude to neighbors and friends for assistance after the death of her husband found murdered in an alley near their home on Christmas morning. The family faces destitute circumstances and seeks support.
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Meindesman
Town officers race promises crowded primary ballots
Oak Park Republicans endorse an early ticket but insiders expect rival slates across precincts. Delegates may be unclear until primaries open this afternoon. The Austin Republican club ratified caucus nominees, with a precinct dispute in the 18th settled by forming a composite delegation.
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Oak Park
Republican Club of
Austin
Library Hall
Library
Death at Central avenue crossing claims 72 year old woman
Mrs. David Nelson aged 72 died in a sudden electric railway accident at the Central avenue crossing. She had just left Trail and Cooling's drug store on the way home. The cause will be determined at today’s inquest after the mangled body was taken to Kampff's morgue.
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Central Avenue
Suburban Electric Railroad
David Nelson
Nelson
Trail and Cooling
Washington Bouwlevarau
Kampp
Police raid on blind pig near Grant Works
Austin police under Lieut. Sandman raided a Grant Works area blind pig and arrested eight revelers. At Monday’s preliminary hearing seven were released on $100 bonds, proprietor Wm Lang freed on $1,000 bond. Trial date set for next week.
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Austin
Sandman
Grant Works
Wm. Lang
Danl Webster Fixes Scythe on Salisbury Farm
During a college vacation Daniel Webster and his brother return to their father in Salisbury. The father orders them to mow for repayment of education expenses. Daniel complains the scythe hangs wrong, his father fixes it, and Daniel tries again. Frustrated, he hangs the tool on a tree and leaves.
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Dan
Daniel Webster
Salisbury
Daniel
Subdude and the Married Man
A playful exchange from the Chicago News notes Miles-Why commenting on Giles appearance. Giles explains he has married and left the “dude” lifestyle, now a subdude in a lighthearted jab about his changed status and looks.
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Miles
Giles
Chicago News
Magistrate Questions Answer In Vagrant Exchange
A courtroom scene shows a magistrate questioning a vagrant who pleads ignorance of his name and reveals he is traveling incognito. The exchange includes a playful mispronunciation of words as the vagrant explains his situation in a brief, comic interaction.
Two Voices in American War Poems
A poem set contrasts a Southern volunteer recalling Civil War battles with a plea to equip more guns if the Union again fights. The speaker voices pride in Stonewall Jackson Lee and Sherman while acknowledging aging and nostalgia for the sixties. The Atlanta Constitution is cited as the source.
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Stonewall
Lee
Sherman
Manassas
Stonewall Jackson
Atlanta Constitution
HIS NORTHERN BROTHER POEM PROMOTES UNITED FRONT
A Minneapolis Journal poem recalls Civil War bonds between North and South. The speaker urges aging veterans to reunite and stand together against danger, offering to grab a gun once more if the country needs. The verse ends with shared duty and readiness to fight for the nation.
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Free
Minneapolis Journal
Quick Bits From Around The World
A survey of curious facts notes pelican water pouches hold seven quarts, Laplanders skate 150 miles daily, Arctic flowers number 762 varieties, and a Virginia bill taxes bachelors a dollar yearly. Russia permits female apothecaries in one shop, while China still circulates ancient emperor coins. The elephant beetle of Venezuela weighs about a half pound, and only seventy great auk eggs are known. New York City’s first and current city halls are dated 1642 and 1812 respectively. Union Station in St. Louis is the largest US passenger terminal, and Paris murders yield slim average profits per killer. London sells indoor dog shoes to protect floors.
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Arctic
Virginia
Russia
United States
Canadas
China
Pearl Street
Coenties Slip
Union Station
St. Louis
Paris
London
Why questions about health, time, and manners in old prose
A playful set of why questions ponders health as a fire, stopping a watch to save time, a sleepy man’s retirement, the depth and length of sermons, chattering teeth replacing the tongue, and a young woman’s preference for a spruce suitor.
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Park Ave
Nue
Abbott
S. B. Dickinson
the Sonaire
College of Physicians and Surgeons
J. G. McMurphy
H. F. Frink
Seymour
Oakdale
C. E. Bassett
5. Pine Avenue
W. Barker
Wm. J. Conlon
A. E. Parrish
A. Sperry
A. N. Sperry
W. Scott
Geo. Teele
Fred Walter
Gertrude Mather Whittaker
J. Hederman
Enterprise
A. D. Minard
N. Park Avenue
McNeal
Erie
Franklin
Eastern Star
School of Instruction
Medinah Temple
Dr. Louis Falk
First Presbyterian Church
the Water Company
Grant Land
D. C. Haines Et al
R. W. Hyman & Co
W. A. Bond & Co
Yfyifty-First Street
Vastine
Committee On Fire and Water
H. M. Lemnon
W. T. Block
B. Nelson
Committee On Finance
Attridge
Lexington
Harvard Streets
Ogden Street Railway Company
Suburban Railway Company
MacDonald
Rearden
O. M. Carson
Thomas Street
Linden Avenue
Division Street
New Hall
Fifty-Second Avenue Congregational Church
New
Vicksburg
Bull
Southland
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