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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1895
Page
7
Oak Park area notes list store ads for ladies footwear hats and cloaks at The Enterprise and Weed's. Local events include a Prairie Club entertainment, lectures, dances, church and club activities, plus rental notices and a high school football protest over a recent defeat.
Maywood readers hear about news depot availability, fall millinery, and store sales. Local clubs host receptions and evens as the Red Cross promotes heaters and soda, while sermons and evangelistic meetings unfold at churches. Funerals, band concerts, and guild parties mark a busy week in Maywood.
A citizen committee led by Alderman Sayle urged the mayor to halt encroachment on West Fortieth avenue. With the mayor busy the group was referred to the corporation counsel. First Assistant Danny faced the protest as Billy Beale was away on a hunting trip. A speaker told The Evening Press the mayor refuses to act, claiming no authority, while alleging prior illegal track removal and police tips backing orders.
Frank J. Cheney sworn as senior partner of I. J. Onesgy & Co in Toledo Ohio promises ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each case of catarrh not cured by Hann's Catarrh Cure. Deed sworn Dec 6 1886 before a notary.
The Harlem Club House saloon at the race tracks remains the sole operating establishment run by Mesars Wagner and Niehusen. Surviving amid widespread closures, it will stay open until about New Year when its license term ends, then reopen in spring. The venue sits at the end of the Twelfth Street car tracks and offers ample space and comfort for patrons.
Mr Wilson builds two elegant new houses on Ninth avenue near Lake street John Dickinson oversees. Mrs Richard Coleman of Eleventh avenue dies aged resident. funeral led by Mr Bormann. Melrose beats Trangers 6 1 in Jackson cup football at Melrose Park with goals from Barker Munton and Wooley. Schmidt's hall hosts a Saturday dance and Merry Heart club ball on 16th. Proviso Club held a hard times ball with Latham prize loaf and Parrish cabbage. Proviso Land Association reports twelve new houses started with 60 families moving into Maywood subdivision.
Descriptions of Harlem race course area as venues close and fine homes on Des Plaines avenue near Forest Home are noted. Ferdinand Haase and Kistenbroker own nearby residences. L Ahrens opens a grocery at 1128 Hanna for locals despite business downturn. Caroline Subr, eight, dies at Old People’s Home on November 5 from cancer. burial at Altenheim on Thursday.
Miss Jennie St Peter becomes cashier at Hann Bros. grocery corner Madison and Desplaines. Mian Tillie Haenitsch clerks for B D Larson Co. Concordia House on Madison near Concordia cemetery opened by F Mark. Robert Gladrow rumored to buy a saloon. Police inquiry into Officer Cramers conduct. Mannerchor concert on Thanksgiving with minor violinist Geo Rasa and Mrs Lina Roos. Chas Mesecke remodels Denplaines avenue building. Harlem voting precinct changes. future central polling sites debated. Northern Illinois Conference of the Illinois District Missouri Synod met. Prof Brohm presided. Rev Zopf secretary. Rev Heineman spoke. Rev Miller paper on faith care drew attention. 100+ clergymen attended.
River Forest residents heard talks on local issues and social events this week. Activities included charity suppers at the Presbyterian Church, a Harvest Home program at the Methodist church, and social evenings hosted by the River Forest Card Club and Belles Lettres society.
The River Forest Village Board held its monthly meeting with most members present except President Jackson and Jastes Barrett. The Finance Committee reported a balance of 6091.21, with 4796.21 in the general fund and 5 204.27 in the special fund, bills approved for payment.
Brighton Park notes show Wm il Frink building four cottages on Joseph street between Pierson and Kedzie. J K Conley runs a thriving drug store at Kedzie and 1st, with late elec tion interest in Thomas Kelly on Drainage board. Gas lines expanding along Archer to Thirty-ninth street. Ed Shielhamer returns to 9th street and Hart avenue meat market. Dave Scanlan, Brighton fireman, marries a relative of Ald. Began. Catholic fair at St Agnes’ Church yields about 245000. Brighton club ball, Juniors ball, Knights of Pythias event planned, and local social notes.
J Wilson of Cincinnati has replaced Mrs Barry in the dry goods millinery and notion shop at 36 North Forty-eighth Avenue Moreland. Wilson brings long experience and solid methods to win trade. A two year old child of Mr Finn of Moreland died Thursday morning of a malignant diphtheria. burial followed in the afternoon.
Mrs Phoebe Thomas of Junction City England was told she had consumption and had no hope yet two bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery cured her and saved her life Thomas Eggers of San Francisco suffered a dreadful cold near consumption and after one bottle was cured in two weeks Free trial bottles are available at L M Lovett Oak Park and T H Traill Austin Regular sizes are 0 1 and 1 00
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