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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1894
Page
8
Cicero Town Board met with full attendance. The board discussed viaducts and street franchise requests, railroad ordinances, and a new Lake Street elevated line option. Various petitions, financial authorizations, and public works bids were considered, including Morton Park fire department and sewer improvements.
On the recommendation of the Streets and Highways committees ordinances were passed to improve Ohio street from Pane to Willow avenues with vitrified brick and to widen Twenty fifth street from West Fifty third to Austin avenue to 66 feet. An ordinance also authorized cedar rock pavement on the alley south of Supector street between Central and Park avenues. The Bond adjourned after voting to reconvene in one week.
The article portrays Canton street scenes where ivory carvers labor openly on tusk sculptures and whimsical forms. It notes wood carvers shaping timber into dragons birds and cabinets, silver workers weaving wires, and metalworkers at a bustling, primitive workshop scene.
A long passage raises questions for mothers about children in school nutrition sleep homework and recreation. It moves to a humorous anecdote about a writer and a doctor and ends with a note on Susanna Centlivre and Congreve and their works and reception.
The text presents Susann Hayes Ward discussing her preferred work time. She notes she is most productive after evening light and dinner, claiming the daylight hours hinder quality and amount of writing. Ward attributes inspiration to the night for better output.
The Richmond Dispatch describes a domestic scene where Chipper is scolded by his wife for returning home late. An umbrella swung in the hall, given as proof of excessive behavior, frames the brief domestic disturbance narrative. The exchange features a playful tone between Lipper and the couple, with regional slang and humor.
A 19th century piece extols American women to avoid abdominal padding and excess waist size. It contrasts American trends with French and Belgian practices, urges posture and targeted abdominal exercises, warns against tight lacing, and prescribes daily routines to reduce girth and improve figure. It notes related reflections on banknote circulation and domestic roles.
A long, fragmentary missive discusses a woman's role in marriage, urging patience and restraint with a wandering husband and advising against reproach. It cautions about apron strings and old advice, with ironic critique of social expectations and class duty.
A Historic rail concept extols a luxury sleeping car service from New Orleans to Los Angeles and San Francisco with fast travel times, panoramic scenery, and lavish amenities. The piece touts fewer fares than standard first class and promises comfortable, high speed travel across vast western states. It lists promotional books and fiction offered to readers and highlights then-modern railway ambitions and marketing language.
The Vinprearok announces a substantial increase in its weekly issues in Chicago and Cicero through Christmas to attract advertisers. It urges those with notices to take advantage of the extended reach during the holiday season.
A dense list of land parcels and sales entries traces numerous property transfers across Oak Park Morton Park Berwyn Berwyns and surrounding suburbs. Buyers include several named neighbors amid fluctuating parcel numbers with dates spanning spring to fall and prices noted in hundreds to thousands.
The Town of Cicero invites duplicate proposals for a Harrison street pipe sewer with laterals. Payment via special assessment No 451. Bids due 12 m December 1 1907. Include 10 percent certified check with proposals marked Original. Board may reject any or all bids.
Original to Town Clerk notes duplicate proposal for Lombard avenue macadam from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway to Ontario street in Civero. Bids due December 1 at noon. 10 percent certified check required with Original. City reserves right to reject any or all bids.
Town of Cicero invites duplicate proposals for constructing a pipe sewer with laterals on Harvard Street in accordance with current ordinance and specifications. Bids paid from special assessment No 50 when collected. 10 percent certified check to accompany each proposal. Proposals due December 1, 1804. The Clerk and Town President to receive.
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