News of the Town Items and Travel Notices
Dr. M J Kearsley and Miss M I Isging depart for the Paris exposition while David Campbell of Chicago Telephone Co. solicits contracts in Austin and Oak Park. Various travels and local notes include a Mercer Pa. summons for Dr. B A McBurney, a Hot Springs trip by the Mudds, and apricot prospects from Rumsey Cal. A stray dog incident ends with police capture on North Waller avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. J. Kearsley
M. I. Isging
David Campbell
Chicago Telephone Co
Austin
Oak Park
B. A. McBurney
Mercer
F. X. Mudd
Hot Springs
Old Point Comfort
New York
Boston
G. E., Fletcher
Rumsey
Cal
Hig
Hats for summer and graduation on offer
Dainty colors define this season's millinery with hats suited for summer and graduation. For a full line, contact Mrs. C. Ella Taylor at 121 North Park Avenue or by telephone 1472. Old hats can be remodeled successfully.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Ella Taylor
North Park Avenue
Austin business notes and services offered
Business notices list a new cement sidewalk project in front of McCain's store and Park hotel by Albert Anderson, Thayer the photographer travels to New York with Estelle Jenkins overseeing his business, Kampp promotes carved bedstead to upholstered Davenport, Finnegan opens bicycle and repair shop at 5645 Lake Street, and C H Post markets optician services with free eye tests and guaranteed glasses fitting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCain's
Albert Anderson
A. A. Thayer
New York City
Estelle Jenkins
A. Kampp
North Park Ave
Lake Street
Peter H. Finnegan
Bucklen Arnica Salve Promises Quick Injury Aid
An old advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the cyclist's friend for cuts sprains bruises and burns. It claims fast pain relief and healing with cures for chafing chapped hands sores lip ulcers and piles with a 25 cent price and availability from Traill & Cooling and Chas P Miller druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucklen
Arnica
Traill & Cooling
Chas
P. Miller
Druggista
Woman Saved by Electric Bitters After Gall Stones
Mrs. I B Hunt of Lime Ridge Wisconsin faced a dire stomach and liver illness described as yellow jaundice and gall stones. A doctor warned only an operation could save her. She used Electric Bitters and fully recovered. A stomach liver and kidney remedy priced at 50 cents with guarantee sold by Traill and Cooling and Chas P Miller druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lime Ridge
Wia
Traill & Cooling
Chas. P. Miller
Miller's Drug Store Offers Variety At Oak Park
Miller's drug store presents Choice candies and Tazell's perfumes, along with Original Allegretti chocolates and plain and fancy perfumery bottles. Prescriptions available. Cigars in Key West and Domestic, regulated viands at popular prices. Charles P. Miller, druggist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Park
Miller's
Tazell’s
Miller’s
Miller's Drug Store
Miller’s Drug Store
Key West
Regula
Charles P. Miller
East Oak Park Social Notes and Fisk Jubilee Recap
East Oak Park reports Mr and Mrs House visiting relatives in Michigan after visiting Mrs Ruggles's parents. Chas Wood of North Sixty Fourth Avenue travels to Kansas City for business with Mrs Wood and child. summer plans include Colorado Springs. Fisk jubilee concert by Thousand Dollar Girls draws enthusiastic audience. about 150 dollars collected, roughly thirty goes to church fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. House
Mrs. E
Ruggles
Michigan
Chas. Wood
N. Sixty-fourth Avenue
Kansas City
Fisk
Thousand Dollar Girls
Yollara
Oak Park social news and wedding notice saga
Wedding announced for June 14 between daughter of Mr and Mrs Campbell Rogers of 203 Wisconsin Ave and Mr Frank Wright Thomas of Oak Park. Oak Park High School seniors held a dance at Seminary Hall. many social events and unclaimed letters listed. Judge Richard C. Yates reception hosted by Dr and Mrs J W Waller at Lake Street with 109 guests prior to governor race kickoff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Campbell Rogers
Wisconsin Avenue
Frank
Wright Thomas
Oak Park
Ashland College
Douglas Park
Geore
Morton
Forest Avenue
Rankin
North Kenilworth Avenue
F.C. Caldwell
Oak Park Avenue
A.T. Allen
Maple Avenue
Russell
House
China
R. R. Bailey
South Oak Park Avenue
Chicago
Lab
Krell
G. J. Barber
Miss Beach
Allivv Bockman
Bertha Bogue
J. O. Juergensen
J. Kilroy
Jno
P. Lee
A. Medaris
H. Nehls
M. Osborne
3. Palmer
B. S. Price
Louis Race
Anna Riter
P. C. Robinson
Gus Tomelar
S. M. Townsend
Deion Cee Pending Club
I. A. White
J. F. Williams
J. W. Waller
Lake Street
Richard C. Yates
Illinois
Judge Yates
Harlem Village Board to Meet This Saturday Night
The Harlem Village Board will convene this Saturday. Madison Street paving nears completion with new sidewalks expected to finish the street. A $75,000 school building bond proposal was defeated at last Saturday’s school meeting. Lula Fick, 3, daughter of William Fick, died Monday. funeral Wednesday with Concordia interment. Henry Karsten, 62, Harlem resident, died Sunday. funeral Thursday at the Lutheran Church with Concordia burial. The Harlem Choral Society, directed by Mrs. Hemingway, gives its final recital of the season at Library Hall Monday May 27. admission by members invitation. Soloists include Miss Mabel Angela Clapp, C. Li. Rooney, Ernest Chamberlain, Bernard Berhold, and Miss Helen Lewis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison Street
Lula Fick
William Fick
Desplaines Avenue
Concordia
Henry Karsten
Harlem
Franklin Street
Dr. Hemingway
Library Hall
Mabel Angela Clapp
Austin
C. Li. Rooney
Berwyn
Ernest Chamberlain
Oak Park
Bernard Berhold
Helen Lewis
Recommendation for Chamberlain’s Colic Remedy by Hartford Druggist
Druggist A W Sawtelle of Hartford endorses Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. A customer credits it with saving her life at the shore, and another relief case involved a man who recovered within minutes after a dose. Sold by J P Garner & Co Austin Geo Koch & Co Moreland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
A. W. Sawtelle
Hartford
Conn
J. P. Garner & Co
Austin
Geo. Koch & Co
Moreland
Wanderer Returns to Stand at 20 North Park Avenue
An Austin man who wandered off a week ago is back last Saturday and resumes his duties in front of Math er's cigar and periodical stand at 20 North Park avenue. The stall promotes cigars tobacco stationery periodicals and tensorial work under the banner Silver Chief the Indian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mather
North Park Avenue
Grand Republic Cigars Advert for Free Sample Offer
The ad from F. E. Mather distributor for Austin invites smokers to clip and request a free mail sample of Grand Republic Cigars. It asserts the cigars are good value and asks readers to compare with any five cent cigar, signaling a business motive and regional distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Republic
I Am My Own Grandfather Riddle Card
A playful logic conundrum presents a man who marries a widow with a daughter and finds his relatives entangled so that he becomes his own grandfather. The note adds a teaser about a free sample offer from Grand Republic Cigar via Mather’s Silver Chief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mather
The
Grand Republic
Misses Hansells duets charm River Forest church crowd
The River Forest Gram feature notes a piano duet by the Misses Hansell of Oak Park, with a standout solo Lead Kindly Light by Miss Agnes Hansell during the morning service. Bishop Bowman and Mrs. Hemingway contribute musically to services in Oak Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Cassell
Park Avenue
River Forest Fire Company
Bishop Bowman
Fawcett
Dr. Hemingway
Oak Park
W. A. Mansell
Lucknow
Vihor the Tailor Moves to New Park Avenue Store
L Vibbon a Park avenue tailor relocates to 233 N Park Avenue Mack building in larger quarters to accommodate growing business and invites customers to his new shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Vibbon
Park Avenue
N. Park Avenue
Maconic
Landscape gardening and pruning services offered
Landscape gardening services advertise pruning trees vines and rose bushes with estimates for new lawns renovations and general horticultural work. Cut flowers and wedding decorations are also available. Phone 1773 Geo Baldwin 118 N Oak Park Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Baldwin
Oak Park Avenue
Fine Watch and Clock Repairing Jewelry Ad
Try Stanley's for fine watch and clock repair. We also sell jewelry below Chicago prices for the same quality. Mrs. L. A. R. Stanley, N Park Ave, Austin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley
Chicago
Nickel Plate Offers Three Daily Express Trains East
The Nickel Plate Railroad advertises three daily express trains between Chicago, New York and Boston. It promises twenty seven hour service between Chicago and New York with meals on day trains in dining cars and popular prices. Information available from J. Y. Callahan General Agent at 111 Adams Street Chicago. No. 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Nickel Plate Railroad
van Buren Street
Chicago
Boston
Calalan
Adams Street
J. Y. Calahan
Gardener of Neck Commends Philadelphia Land Boom
A Germantown man with a fortune of 500000 from raising early vegetables on more than 600 acres south of Porter Street in the Neck district is highlighted in Philadelphia Record notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Porter Street
the Neck
Germantown
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News OF the Town
Business Personals
C. H. Post
Mr. Post
North Pine Avenue
Northern Illinois College of Ophthalmology
Park Ave
EB. Moore
Randolph Street
Weltmer
BR. Francis
Reaper Block
Kennard Barradell
Inatrussion Tn
Art of Singing
Austin Women’s Rooms
Abbott Block
Nervita
Medical Co
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Cohidado
Buttesuntin
Gare
Inmedis
Trength
Roath’s
North Blvd
Oak Park Telephone
Ohio St. Austin
Austin Telephon
Arthur J. Kendall
Justice of the Peace
Bours
Wesley Avenue
Caleago
Clark
John Price
East Oak Park
Harlet
F. E. Mather
Austin and Vicinity
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Mars
Grove Street
Hawthorne
Gate
Grove Avenues
John Riordan
George Howser
Lathrop Avenue
Aid Society
Presbyterian Church
Vihor
Emerson Ingalls
Masonic Block
West
Groth & Klapperich
Fowler
Austin Bicycle Works
Austin, I
J. A. & B. McCann
Chisago
Fark Ave
Remember the Delta Mfg. CO
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Treas
Clinton Ave
Carmichael
Ladies’ and Gentlemen
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Standard Bath Cabinet Co
Toledo, Ohio
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