Berwyn and Riverside progress noted in local items
South Cicero notes a nearly finished 40000 dollar school building and a roadway grading contract near Berwyn. Builders complete dwellings on Elliott avenue and in nearby areas. Local churches raise funds, gas service expands, and several residents return from travels. Local merchants promote gas fixtures and plumbing services amid ongoing town improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside
Pavis
Berwyn
Berwyn School
Near fatal hayfork accident shocks Windsor man
Elmer Antrim of Windsor Avenue narrowly escaped death when a hayfork load mechanism trapped his neck as a rope failed. He remained conscious, was revived, and recovered to resume his milk route, while the incident highlighted dangers in haying gear and the need for caution with farm equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Antrim
Windsor Avenue
Hartford Courant
Antrim
Gaone
Swat
Miter
Anil
Hbmer
Toad
Iydadiv
Hawthorne School Reopens Amid Levy Decision
Hawthorne schools will reopen Monday as district No. 8 approves a $47,000 levy for the coming year. Miss Issy Goodman of Hawthorne becomes engaged to Mer. Sidney Regan. A trolley car collision on Thursday evening killed a months old baby, Baby John Youngs, and injured an elder child. Coroner's jury returns accidental death verdict. drivers and bystanders attempted to stop the car but failed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawthorne
Cae Ieee
Che Hith
Clyde News Roundup Covers School Changes and Social Events
Miss ArneDonald is absent from Grand Theven. Arthur Cheaptoan serves as high school principal with ME Barker arriving as new Yale gramme school principal. Mrs Amher returns from Pivaneton to Clyde. Clyde Methodist Episcopal Church plans a concert soon. Ret Hyde hosts an orchestra night at the band path with dancing. Ladies Auxiliary to the Clyde Union club hosts an ice cream lawn event at Mrs J Phar’s home with a program indoors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss ArneDonald Ois
Grand Theven
Mieh
Arthur
Cheaptoan
Hesn Eheen
Clyde
ME Barker
Yde Gramme School
Amher Oflyde
Pivaneton
Suimaner
Methodist Episcopal Church
Union Clube of Clyde
J. Phar
New Bowling Alley Opens at Morton Park Clubhouse
Morton Park residents report a bowling alley installed at the Morton Park clubhouse. W. A. Moore returns from a business trip to southern Illinois. Weare of Morton Park plans to move into a enlarged and improved residence. Miss Overtrude Lane returns home to continue studies at the female seminary in Madison Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morton Park
W. OA. Moore
Minois
W.ow. Weare
Local Woman Slips Into Prolonged Sleep Disturbance
A report notes Miss Jtsie Hirbert, employed by Joseph Moreis, has suffered nearly three weeks of drowsiness and sleeping through work at the foreugoy. Physicians have yet to awaken her. she appears in good health otherwise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jtsie Hirbert
Deny Estes
Joseph Moreis
Matta Mieh
English Sparrow Complaints From Ontidae Farmers
Provincial farmers complain that sparrows threaten crops and refuse to roost near grain stores. Enforcing measures drive away birds but offer little compensation for losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ontidae
Sharp trick by Chinese migrants sparks U S deportations
The article notes that some China men who earned money in Mexico are slipping into the United States, getting arrested, and being sent back to China, as they prefer to avoid paying their own passage costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
United States
China
Pawnee Woman Seeks Divorce to Reclaim Maiden Name
Annie Whitewing a Pawnee resident asks Guthrie Oklahoma courts to grant divorce from her husband and restore her birth name Conice Running. The filing marks a legal move to resume her former surname.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gova
Annie Whitewing
Guthrie, Okla
Conice
Wise Animal Ponders Talk From Dumpsey
Mrs Torker teases her dog Dumpsey as clever enough to talk while Mr Torker notes the brute shows sense by not speaking. This playful exchange appears in the Indianapolis Journal.
Permanent Fine Arts Building for Trans Miss Exposition
The Fine Arts building for the 1898 Trans Miss Exposition in Omaha will be a permanent parallelogram two‑unit domed structure facing the plaza. It will house art treasures from around the world with galleries, skylights, and a colonnaded court linking the units, featuring Corinthian motifs and landscape treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Neb
Salvation Army plan targets tramps with work or jail
Col. Evans of the St. Louis Salvation Army proposes a combined city and state program to process tramps. Applicants would work in a wood yard or factory style tasks to earn meals and lodging at a new depot with baths and fumigation. Refusal to work would lead to jail labor. the facility aims to cost 2500 dollars and be self supporting through subscriptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Salvation Army
Willie
Col. Evans
Make a Pansy Bed for Early Blooms
The article urges pansy cultivation with hotbed sowing in August, transplanting five to six inches apart, and protecting with mats or leaves in cold weather. It advises rich soil, full sun, careful watering, and removal of protection once frost is gone, yielding early spring blooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vick's
Paris Waiters Reap Large Tips. No Salary Yet
An English observer reports Paris tipping levels with waiters averaging about 60 dollars monthly from tips in a major restaurant. Tips fund pay for pour boire while head waiters and proprietors share breakage. Some old hands receive 5 to 20 dollars monthly. head waiters 20 to 100 dollars. Waiters also earn commissions on wines and liqueurs sold. Paris tips exceed New York, with waiters affirming tipping as main income and a path to starting their own business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
New York
Feneronus
Curious Facts From The Past In Odd Ball News
A collection of miscellaneous notes cites figures on amputations, kangaroos, wool to cloth yield, London soot, and muslin in turbans. It mentions living and dead money in Britain, tea leaf rolling in Asia, Alexander the Great’s wives, coin inscriptions by heating, a Dakota veteran’s $75 claim, McElroy’s death and Whig ties, Sidney Smith’s wife’s cooking, and a German cataleptic sleep lasting four and a half months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
London
China
India
Ceylon
Alexander the Great
Custer
Little Big Horn
Lexander McLlroy
Philadelphia
William Henry Harrison
Sidney Smith
Germany
Notes on Vogue fashion trends and fabrics in August
Moire ribbons gain favor over satin and taffeta with oyster color new in heavy fabrics. Challie de lustre appears as glossy summer dress material resembling mohair. Chayadere striped silks dominate early autumn, edge ribbons remain fashionable. Iron grenadine returns, black at the throat adds a chic touch for chilly evenings. Silk petticoats feature whalebone hems to prevent sagging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Scraps From The Day In Briefs And Oddities
Near Vanceburg Kentucky an apple tree bears fruit for ninety years. Philadelphia has more electric railways than Germany. Over 17 000 buttons appear in mediae val clothing pictures. Greenoughs Washington statue cost 45000. Vast gold and silver sunk in sea exceeds earth circulation. France population 39 million has 2 million fighting force. Germany imported 217 000 marks of cotton last year. Wool imports valued at 286 000 marks. A real sea lion roams the Merrimac river between Lowell and Lawrence Massachusetts, escaped from a menagerie.
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Philadelphia
Germany
Greenough
Washington
Capitol
France
Merrimac River
Lowell
Lawrence
Mass
Sculptural detailing ties architecture and arts in harmony
The article discusses using sculptor and printer’s art to soften walls, decorate with borders, crown pediments and buttresses with figures of the arts, and create varied skylines with domes to elevate architecture among the arts. It also gives gardening tips for pansies with mulch and water for continuous bloom.
Railroad Tightened Grip Sparks Debate
A fragment notes concern over how the railroad had been cinched, signaling tension or strategy behind the dispute and prompting scrutiny of management moves.
Stone images Unearthed in Humphreys County Mound
Two carved stone figures found in a prehistoric mound seven miles from Waverly along Duck River, Tennessee. The male stands twenty eight inches high and the female twenty four inches high, carved from an unusual local stone. The site hosts numerous ancient mounds and draws scholarly interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humphreys County
Tennessee
Waverly
Duck River
Circus clown preacher son finds bus life pays better
One of the nation’s best known circus clowns is the son of a Baptist preacher and was trained for the ministry. He says the circus business pays better than the pulpit.
Anagram Passion and a Prophetic Dame
In Charles II era England anagram making amused courts and nobles. Dame Eleanor Davies claimed prophecy and formed an anagram from her name revealing Daniel. A dean shot her through with an arrow from her quiver and penned Dame Eleanor Davies Never so mad a Sadie. Laughter ended her claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles T
England
Randle Holmes
Eleanor Davies
Daniel
Court of Bishops
Sadie
Caution Urges Vigilance Over Counterfeit $1,000 Bills
The Louisville Courier Journal warns readers to scrutinize change received over the counter or at a bar after reports that counterfeit $1,000 bills are in circulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Courier-Journal
Wheelmen Membership Figures Cited by Boston Transcript
The Boston Transcript notes the League of American Wheelmen membership to date equals 9u and 130, a statistic offered in a query about global outlook. The remark implies skepticism that the world revolves around cycling passion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League of American Wheelmen
Boston Transcript
Time-Saving Plan for NY Brooklyn Mail Tubes
The article notes pneumatic tubes connecting New York and Brooklyn post offices, with near completion of street excavations. Letters will transfer in three and a half minutes, while wagons take thirty minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York and
Brooklyn
East winds, crematories, and salt vastness in world notes
A compilation of varied facts notes nineteen disparaging east wind references in the Bible, portable crematories for German corps drawn by eight horses, Galicia’s massive rock salt sheet, its 550 mile by 20 mile by 250 foot dimensions, Norway's long life due to cool climate, and a new tectorium substitute for stained glass. It also mentions the Wesleyan Basid of Hope in Ardwick with 1,300 weekly attendees paying half-pennies, and advances in platinum thread drawing tiny enough to fit in hair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galicia
Hungary
Norway
Europe
Ardwick
Manchester
England
Cicero Board approves street improvement assessment 1897
The Cicero Board of Trustees ordered Austin boulevard and Austin avenue improvements, except portions of Randolph and Lake streets, financed by benefits assessment. The Cook County court will hold a final hearing at the September term beginning September 1 1897, with defense allowed. Commissioners Robt A Lackey Howard O Adams W A Harmon filed the ordinance and assessment in the town clerk's office.
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Board of Trustee
Cicero
Austin Boulevard
Madison Street
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Austin Avenue
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago Avenue
Randolph Street
Lake Street
Cook County
Illinois
Board of Trustees
Robt
A. Lackey
Howard O, Adams
W. A. Harmon
Ohio Street
Waller Avenue
Tilnels
Howard O. Adams
H. Alling
Proviso Directory Incomplete Names And Roles Noted
The Proviso directory lists several officials and trustees with scattered misspellings and truncated names. Roles include President, Treasurer, Police Magistrate, Marshals, Special Night P Bas Collector, Attorney, Health Commissioner, Poundmaster, and assorted Trustees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. If
Scott Poundmastler
Eannes Henry Beling Trustees
W. Benson
T. R. Pine
W. Tf
H. Storey
L. W. Richter
EH. L. Williams
John Debus
Village of Maywood Public Officials Directory
Village listing names and addresses of officers including President Jacob Rohlander and Alder William Hamilton with committee assignments and meeting times. Regular board nights are Thursdays 8 p m and Saturday office nights 7 to 9 p m with finance meetings on the Wednesday before each board meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Storey
Williams
Debus
Benson
Deus
Pine
Willams
Richter
Kalls
Tire and Water
Directory of Public Officials
Jacob Rohlander
Cor. Vifth
St. Charles Aves
Merk
Charles Westcott
South Sixth Ave
Michael J. Welch
Fifth
Burleigh A. Dunlap
South Seventh Ave
Harlem Village Board 1897 Officials List and Meeting Schedule
The Harlem village board includes President George Schrade and trustees Emile Blossey Charles Hillmer Charles Meseke Herman Schulz Henry D Schumacher and Henry Stronck. The village clerk is Henry C Mecler and regular meetings are the 2nd and 4th Saturdays at 8 o clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Schrade
South Desplaines Ave
Emile Blossey
Thomas St
Chas. Hillmer
N. Circle
Chas. Meseke
N. Desplaines Av
Lerman Schulz
N. Marengo St
Henry D. Schumacher
Henry Stronck
N. Elvin St
Henry C. Mecler
Pranklin Street
F. J. Griffen
River Forest
I’rank ‘Roost
S. Desplaines Street
Henry Hilgenberg
N. Marenvost
John Nurenberg
Burghardt
Gust. Qeandt
Ferdinand Av
Louis Guidenbogen
N. Desplaines Etreet
John Mirow
N. Circleuve
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A.M. Anderson
Elliott Avenue
George A. Tucker
Agtewood
Jessie Twing
Lincoln
Rev. J. McLennan
Ludington
Mich
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Wisconsin
Iowa
Baggot
Adams Street
Chicago
MR. Antrim
Rapheese
Moreon Park
Omaha Art Building
Cuy
Finke Arts
Parle Walters
Kansas City Journal
Union Pacific
Russell County
VOGUE
Vanceburg
New Haven
Providence Journal
Kenton
Home Avenue
Marion St
Oak Park
Cance
Abdhity
Luke Brothers Company
International Nurseries
Cubano
Tih
Montreal
Que
Rochlester
Kenilworth Ave
Thos. H. Cale
la Salle Street
Chicaco
Franklin Park
L. Franklin
LaSalle St
Chicago, Il
Proviso Directory
Melrose Park Village Officers
Maywood
Tlenty ¥. Akin
South Eighth Ave
Ninth St
Charles KF. Alder
Twenty-first Ave
Oak St
William
Hamilton
Thirteenth Ave
James Johnston
South First Ave
Madison St
Arthur Jones
South Second Ave
James M. Stimpson
North Sourth Ave
Jones, Akin
Alder
Johnston
Akin
Stimpson
Jones
Hall and Park
Harlem
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