Controversy Over Street Railways Divides Harlem Residents
In Harlem, debate over Suburban Electric Railway rail placement pits property owners against street works plans. Locals fear costly pavement blocks and oppose tracks on Harrison Street. A poet laureate of Harlem adds color as election memories linger and a tale of a Cubabound cigar ends in a graveyard joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Suburban Electric Railway Company
Harrisontreet
Harlem
Fresh’ Corporation
iLebrwer
Ilarrine Street
Maywood News Briefs Highlight Local Happenings This Week
Maywood greets new Methodist minister Mr. Barnes and reports a strawberry festival at the Presbyterian church. Residents attend visits to Ohio and Philadelphia, celebrate new houses rising, and plan Decoration Day events. A Maywood resident, Mr. Samuel Woodruff, dies at home after a day in the garden. Reports mention repairs, social clubs, cycling, and local engagements at churches and schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnes
Maywood
Presbyterian Church
Biday
J. McKean
Ohio
H. Small
Frank Guilford
Frank
Sam Skemp
Ballard
Philadelphia
W. P. Ballard
Merchant
Fifth Avenue
Chicago
G. H. Kemp
Palmer House
Maywoods
Misa Townaley
Mra. Coupland
Jefferson
Mra. J. Merrill
Congregational Churches
Aurora
Sadie Coupland
Gertrude Jackson
W. M.S
Congregational Church
Hinsdale
Munywood
Harry Buck
Hermann
Geo. Lawless
Giuch Club
Jas. Jamieson
M. W. Club
Longtime resident dies at 80 in a New Jersey town
Obituary notes a Mr. He rker mer of New Jersey aged over 80, a lifelong and industrious figure. He would have reached 49 years of marriage later in the month. Survived by a widow, a son, and two daughters Mrs Capt Jennings and Mrs Donaldson. Funeral held Monday, conducted by Rev H Kemp and Rev EC Ellis with a quartet singing hymns. Burial at Forest Home in the family lot. Pallbearers named J Merrill Hulbert Ferguson Carter Sam Stotford Albertson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malone
Sharp
Mexico
Solon H. Woodbury
Maywood
Chicago
North Avenue
Eva Kemp
E.R. Barney
Ponts Park
Samuel Woodruff
Hig Garden
Schreiber
Mr. Woodruff
Schuy
Ter. Herkemer Co
N. J
Capt. Jennings
Mra
Donaldson
H. Kemp
EC. Ellis
Wheaton
E. St. Barney
Sadie Coup
T. and
R. Jennison
Forest Home
J. Merrill
Hulbert
Ferguson
Carter
Sam Stotford
Albertson
Bensie Dickinson
Lake Street
Ninth Avenue
Fifth Avenue
River Forest Local Life Notes and Upcoming Events
River Forest residents report arrivals and moves including Arthur Juergens returning home, Jas Wheeler moving to a new residence, and Grace Wherry organizing a Harlem settlement concert at First Presbyterian Church. Local church leaders and teachers attend meetings, baseball schedules pit River Forest and Oak Park juniors, plus a public recount vote issue handled by the Township Judiciary Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Juergens
Vandyke Hatelh
Grave Street Fins
Continental Joymances Company
Jas. Wheeler
Mrinklar Avenue
Hhe Board of Education
Hitnais Chad
Assoec
Englewood
Hualph Polka
Hiver Forest
Joseph A. Boyd
Tenth Presbyterian Church
Chicago
First Presbyterian
Sanday
Pennty
Chas. Todd
John Coulter
Gen. Dunlap
Sidney Pinney
Billy Walser
Lewis Stafford
Chas. Scharenberg
Jax Armstrong
Leslie Stafford
WH Herriman
Hoyt Harbour
Matt Marker
Harlem
Presbyterian Church
Grace Wherry
River Forest
A. Williams
CG. Parker
R. Barnard
B. Marble
River Lorast Seninra
Oak Park Woman Disappears Amid Stripped Home
Joe Crabtree an engineer for Cicero Water Gas and Electric Light reports his wife Eliza vanished with several pieces of nearly new furniture from their Oak Park home at 939 Belleforte avenue. He suspects an expressman removed the items and avoids police while hoping for his wife and belongings’ return. rumors claim prior cruelty influenced her departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Crabtree
Cicero Water, Gas and Electric Light Company
Belleforte Avenue
Eliza
Mr. Crabtree
Marvelous Results From Dr King’s New Discovery
A Dimondale Michigan pastor reports his wife recovered from pneumonia after severe flu with terrible coughing. A friend recommended Dr King’s New Discovery, which worked quickly and satisfactorily. Trial bottles available free at local drug stores. regular sizes 50 cents and one dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Gunderman
Dimondale
Mich
Dr. King
Baptist
Rives Junction
L. M. Lovett
Oak Park
R. H. Trail
Austin
Queen Victoria’s Wealth and Royal Properties Revealed
A report outlines Queen Victoria’s extensive holdings including 600 rent-yielding houses in England, 6,000 built by crown lessees, estates in Yorkshire Oxfordshire and beyond, and private residences Osborne and Balmoral. It notes royal palaces maintained by the nation and annual costs for several royal sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Victoria
Osborne House
Balmoral
Highlands
Duke of Cannaught
Wiis
England
Yorkshire
Oxfordshire
Perks
Isle of Man
Alderney
Scotland
Ireland
Wales
New Forest
London
Osborne
Isle of Wight
Buckingham Palace
Windsor Castle
White Lodge
Michmond Park
St. James’ Palace
Kensington Palace
Hampton Court
Kew Palace
Pembroke Lodge
Sheen Cottage
Richmond Park
Bushy House
Bushy Park
Holyrood Palace
Maywood Village announces regular meeting and office hours
The President and Clerk of Maywood will be at Village Hall Saturdays 7 to 8 30 for official business. The Finance Committee will meet on the second and fourth Wednesdays each month to audit bills. Village Board regular meetings are on the second and fourth Thursdays each month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Burgess
Geo. Nordenholt
Oak Park
Mesers
Maywood
Grandest and Most Remarkable Book of the Century Ad
Bright men and women are invited to earn $50 to $75 weekly with exclusive territory. Travel, discovery, and 400 photographs of world cultures promise sensational revelations about religion, customs, and women’s conditions. Free land and circulars with full details are offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Sandwich Islands
New Zealand
South Sea Islands
Australia
India
Egypt
Palestine
Greece
Italy
Europe
Russia
England
East
Dr J F Brecht seeks Seminole land deeds in Florida
Dr J F Brecht, superintendent of the Florida Indians based in Fort Myers, arrived from Tallahassee to purchase lands using a $3,000 annual appropriation for Seminoles. He notes slow population growth due to endogamy and ignorance of physiology and hygiene, yet sees potential if education improves. He praises Seminole women as virtuous and lewdness as unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. FE. Brecht
Florida Indians
Fort Myers
Tallahassee
Florida Times-Union
Dr. Brecht
Nine-room frame houses in Maywood on stone foundations
7 8 or 9 room conveniently arranged frame houses with water and sewer pipes complete bathrooms furnace flues Georgia pine parquet flooring electric light wiring hardwood mantels speaking tubes broad verandas grille work antique hardware, in Maywood with churches schools stores and society. Reached by Chicago and Northwestern Railway and Chicago and Great Western Railway in 24 minutes and by Lake Street Elevated Metropolitan Elevated and Madison Street cable via Cicero and Proviso Electric Road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Chicago and Great Western Railway
Lake Street
Metropolitan Elevated
Madison Street
Cicero
Proviso
Two-Bell Start For Street Cars Aged Practice
An old street car man explains why two bells are used to start a street car. Early horse cars used one bell to start and another to stop. After many failed devices, a countryman proposed two bells. The horses soon learned to respond to the first ring and pull at the second, a method lasting since.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Elderly New York Lady Exposts Over Dead Clams
An aged New York gentlewoman tells a fisherman the last clams were dead. He replies that all must die, delivering a dry jest in a coastal setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Stands by Oils Family Nepotism Allegations Hit Congress
Talee C Tron, New Mexico delegate to Congress, is accused of nepotism for appointing his two sons to West Point and Annapolis and naming each as alternate for the other if one fails exams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Talee C ‘Tron
Tyros New Mexico
West Point
Annapolis
Bicycle Superstitions
A playful list of bicycle superstitions warns riders of misfortune. Lending the wheel is a sign of the double donkey and spokewearers may lose a spoke. A rider letting a hearse pass foretells death within the year.
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Jennings
Boutells Avenue
Iarlem
John Kupplemeyer
Foront
Cuba
John
Livingston
California
Adbert Parge
Norleyholy
Cello
Amelia Ahern
Hse
Lilehner
Kaapya
Grave White
Phine
We. Parker
F Orchertra
Phlane Tod Vidar
Peek
Ay Godard
Marguerite Abern
Thane
Louise Taker
Grace Llowser
Gad Tana
Jessie Watling
Gardner Ro
WW Parker
Gale Avenue
Charles Wescott
John Dolesse
J. H. Shepard
Washington St
Chicago, Ti
Rev. T. Dewit Talmage
D. D
People's Publishing CO
Olive Street
St. Louis, Mo
E.R. Haase & CO
Dearborn Street
Aetna Fire Insurance Co
Boston
J. Dunfee & CO
Franklin St
Partory Kinzie and
Dillon Streets
Indiana
Florida
Wheeler
Ohio ST
U. S
Washington
Snow&co
Maywoop
Amy Een
John Wedderburn & CO
Attorheya
Washington, D. C
Wright & Duvall
Solicitors
Patents
Patents Trademarks Copyrights
Ilcan & Trust
Norm Tul
Oxford
la Salle St
W. W. Clark
Gutrune
South Sixth Ave
Maywood, Ill
Willson & CO
Attorneys At Law
Pat. Ofice
Washington, D.C
Copperas
Oils Family
Hall Chemical CO
West Philadelphia
Solicitors of Patents
Broadway
Wash'n
Philo
Chelsea
Mass
DL. L. Wadsworth, Jr
George F. Slade, Jr
S. Conway
A. G. Cone Trias
W. W. Kimball
Wabash Ave
Kimball Organs
Fianos
Pavilion
St. Charles and 19Th Avenues
Proviso Land Association
Clark St
Chicago, Ill
Eugene Fishburn
WM. M. Hulbert
FE. A. Cummings
H. G. Foreman
James Darlow
Trustees
Berwyn
Cor
Dak Park A
Nny S & Pi PE
R* Stock Exchange and
Windsor Rose Room
Cicero Water, Gas and Electric Light
Oak Park, Ill
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