Cicero Town Board Adopts Licenses and Resigns Officers
Cicero Town Board in adjourned session at Austin Hall March 26 1899 considers Oak Olsen subdivision plat and fire house sale offers. Recommends license for night scavenger Andrew Jackson. rescinds 1898 wagon purchase. dismisses vacating resolutions. accepts police resignations J P Hohman and Louis Mongreig. grants street opening measure and street name change from Owasco to Gladys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trustees
Town of
Cicero
Austin
Emerson
Attridge
Gunthorp
Howell
MacDonald
Rearden
Utley
Olsen
Prairie Avenue
Committee On
Robert D. Fannon
Ridgeland
Committee On Fire and Water
Edward J. O’meara
Yeas
Traill
John Heuerman
S. D. Attridge
W. P. Utley
Mailler Pleasure and Social Club
L. H. Howell
Peter MacDonald
Trails
R. H. Traill
WM. P. Gunthorp
Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad Company
B. Gallagher
Bill
H. H. Rearden
Olsen Subdivision approved and street openings authorized
The board reports Olsen’s Subdivision of lots 119 and 120 in Prairie avenue addition to Austin should be approved after plat comparison. It directs recorder recording on town and county books and allocates proper fees. It also recommends passage of two ordinances opening Twenty ninth street and amending Section 4, with votes recorded as motions are adopted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olsen
Prairie Avenue
Austin
Yeas
Attridge
Gunthorp
Howell
MacDonald
Rearden
Utley
Trail
Suburban Railroad Company
Twenty-ninth Street
Austin Avenue
Clyde Avenue
Peter MacDonald
H. H. Rearden
L. H. Howell
WM. P. Gunthorp
S. D. Attridge
W. P. Utley
Cicero
Chicago, Harlem and Batavia Railroad
Randolph Street
Board of Local Improvements
Twentyninth Street
Bearden
Committee On
Owasco Street
Gladys Street
Emerson
Charles J. Linden
Robert Gorman
Wm. D. Waters
Wm. Hill
Howard Avenue
South Boulevard
Board of Trustees
J. R. Drent
Governor Receives Triplet Father Letter from St. Clair
Governor Stephens forwarded a letter from a St. Clair county man who said he had become a father of triplets. The senate held an executive session to review appoint ments, confirmed them, and then debated the case of the “unfortunate man from St. Clair.” After brief deliberation each senator paid $1, and the funds were given to Senator Mott to forward to the father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephens
St. Clair County
Senate
St. Clair
Senator Mott
Jefferson City Tribune
Potato stalks used as paper pulp in Holland mills
La Revue Graphique Belge reports paper mills in Holland use potato haulm as an alternative pulp due to raw material shortages. Farmers sell stalks at ninety cents a ton, supplying the mills with this secondary fiber source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Revue Graphique Belge
Holland
That Throbbing Headache Be Gone with New Life Pills
Thousands have proven these pills remove headaches by purifying blood and strengthening nerves. They build up health with easy dosing. Only 25 cents. Money back if not cured. Sold by Traill & Cooling and Chas. P. Miner, Druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
Traill & Cooling
Chas. P. Miner
Engineer's Life Aboard Ship Battleship in Action
A dramatic portrait of navy engineers under extreme heat and pressure aboard a battleship. Men trenching leaks, fighting fires, and keeping machinery running as temperatures surge above boilers while the crew maintains discipline and focus amid danger. The piece notes engineers as combatants and calls for reform to integrate engineering with line command.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Merchant Service
United States Navy
Santiago
Baltimore & Ohio Introduces Double Daily Tourist Sleeping Cars
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad launches a new double daily Pullman Ordinary Tourist sleeping car service between Chicago and the East. Cars offer comfortable interiors with hardwood finishes, gas lighting, steam heating, and separate facilities, with through trains from Chicago at 10 25 a m and 2 30 p m to Pittsburgh and New York at half the usual rates. Tickets valid on first and second class. For details contact BR Austin, General Passenger Agent, Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Chicago
East
Western Railway
Pittsburg
New York
Washington
BR Austin
Local Business Notices Highlight Services and Offers
Dressmaking at moderate prices on Walnut avenue. O. J. Roath & Co. sell coal and wood from Ohio street. C. B. Patrick advertises moving services and price competition. Department store prices apply to fruits meats and groceries at C. Meschler on Chicago avenue. Kellogg & Sweep offer shellfish and seafood from Parks and Cape streets. Blackman's laundry agency remains with J. E. Braman. Periodicals and fashion books available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walnut Avenue
Austin
O. J. Roath & Co
Ohio Street
C. B. Patrick
North Park Avenue
C. Meschler
Chicago Avenue
Kellogg & Sweep's
Parks Avenue
Cape Street
Cicero
J. IE. Braman
A. H. Loomis
Blackman’s Laundry
Miller's Drug Store Ad in Oak Park Local
Oak Park notices advertise Miller's Drug Store with photo supplies and Columbian Cough Syrup. Real estate loans offered by Frank H. June of 119 Marion Street, Tel 73. Cold capsules advertised as Stop that sneeze. Rentals listed for houses and flats on principal Oak Park streets. Irank H. June also at 119 Marion Street Tel 73.
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Miller's
Frank H
Marion Street
Lake Street
Oak Park
Irank H. June
Southern Siesta Habit Relaxes City Life Across Regions
The article describes how Southern women maintain lengthy afternoon siestas year round, with homes and villages quiet from 2 to 5 p m in summer and 2 to 4 p m in winter. Clerks nap in stores and well to do houses shut their curtains while others nap upstairs, with later signs of activity as the day ends. In some Southern cities business itself suspends for afternoon hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason and Dixon's
Dr King's New Discovery Restores Philadelphia Woman
Annie E Springer of 1125 Howard Street Philadelphia reports dramatic relief from a long hacking cough after using Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption. She praises its chest pain relief and improved sleep and urges others to try it for throat chest or lung troubles. Trial bottles are free and all bottles carry a guarantee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie E. Springer
Howard Street
Philadelphia
Dr. King
Traill & Cooling’s
Chas. P. Miller's
Chateau D'I? Descent Into Decaying Dungeons Observed
A Westminster Gazette excerpt recalls a visitor's tour of the Chateau II where a good woman shows the decaying dungeons once used to immure Abbe Faria and Edmond Dantec. The narrator notes the cells seem close, while a companion mocks a novelist's distance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Westminster Gazette
Chateau
Abbe Faria
Edmond Dantec
Alexander Dumas
Tam
Trustin Christian Church Plans Big May Meeting
In Austin the Trustin Christian Church hosts Rev. Geo A Campbell who will speak on The Resurrection at morning service. Sunday school follows. H K Mizenheimer of Oak Park becomes superintendent and aims to grow the program. A large May meeting led by Charles Reign Scoville is planned. a thousand seat tabernacle is soon to be erected. J E Lynn praises the preacher for bold, loving preaching and strong, hopeful messages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. A. Campbell
H. K. Mizenheimer
Oak Park
Chas. Reign Scoville
J. E. Lynn
Springfield Christian Church
Austin Methodist Church Easter Services and Programs
First M E church of Austin led by Rev A M White offers morning services at 9 30 class meeting 10 39 sermon 12 00 and evening sermon 7 30 with a midweek prayer service Wednesday 7 45 The morning topic is Risen With Christ the afternoon topic The Stone Which the Builders Rejected The church hosts a Siloam Commandery Knights Templar sermon and an Easter concert plus a financial report from the building committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. E. Church of Austin
A. M. White
Epworth
Christ
Siloam Commandery
Knights Templar
First Congregational Easter Services in Aus tin NL
Easter Sunday services listed for First Congregation at Waller avenue and Midway Park Aus tin NL with morning and vesper events on April 2 1899. Details include organ music doxology baptism confession scripture John 3 16 18 and sermons The Resurrection and Thoughts for Easter Evening. Choir solos by Lola Gailey Chace Mabel Angela Clapp and S A Collins. All invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lola Gailey Chace
Elvorus
Austin Episcopal Church Service Times
Early communion at 7 30 a m and morning service at 10 30. Sunday school at noon. Evening service at 7 30. Rev S L Mitchell rector 57381 Ohio street located at Waller Avenue and Ohio Street Austin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waller Avenue
Ohio Street
S. L. Mitchell
Easter music at Austin Presbyterian Church program
The Austin Presbyterian Church will host an Easter music program in the morning with Mrs. Baxter soprano Frank Smith violinist from Oak Park and Ferris L Bradley organist as soloists. The service includes organ preludes and postludes and choir pieces followed by Easter services. Also First Church of Christ Scientist holds 10:45 a m services in Avenue Hall with lesson Are Sin Disease and Death Real. A divorce case begins as a husband leaves home and the wife departs after a hint from him.
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Austin Presbyterian Church
Baxter
Frank Smith
Oak Park
Ferris L. Bradley
Smith
Austin
J. A. West
First Church of Christ (Scientist
Avenue Hall
Steiner Block
Corner Lake
Marion Streets
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Cicero Town Board
Record
Labor
Allied Printing Trades Council of Chicago
Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
Victor Fr .Lawson
Associated Press
United States
Allied Printing Trades Council
Czar Lawson
Bakers’ National Convention
Building Trades Council of Chicago
Bartenders’ National Alliance
State Convention of
Springfield
Federated Trades of
Milwaukee
Lawson
News
Kinsley
Friends of Labor
Federation of Labor of Chicago
Business Personals
Siesta
Chateau D'I
Trustin Christian Church
Austin Methodist Church
Congregational Church
First Congregation
Midway Park
W. L. Demorest
Ontario Street
Austin Episcopal
Albert Burgess
Choice Bakery
Park Bakery
North Boul
Presbyterian Church
Shepard
Wieniawski
Lemmens
Arthur J. Kendall
Hepeace
Ilo N. Qak Park
Austin Storage Warehouse
Ini
Case & Paddock
Dearborn Street
A. H. Clement
Geo. B. Burns
S. Prairie Ave
Lawe
Checcro
Daur Owineet
Lau
T. G. Irving
River Forest
Cicero Telephone
Insley Bros
N. Waller Ave
Austin, Ill
Cornallarf
North Park Ave
Frank Bratt
E. Lindberg 417
Jones
Binghamton
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