City Fire Limits Extended
City Council extends fire limits in the 9th ward with brick stone or cement construction required west of the Illinois Central tracks from 79th to 87th streets. Dauphin Park Burnside remains provisional where block consent allows frame buildings. Cottage Grove avenue and Michigan avenue segments require brick stone or cement buildings.
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9Th Ward
Illinois Central
79Th
87Th Streets
Dauphin Park and
Burnside
Cottage Grove Avenue
Michigan Avenue
95Th Street
119Th Street
Michigan
Morgan Streets
10000 Men Resume Work in Chicago Heights Factories
Nearly 10000 men returned to work in Chicago Heights factories and steel mills. Eighty plants resumed normal operations after earlier shutdowns due to material shortages. Central Locomotive and Car Works added two shifts and 4000 workers, Calumet Steel 800, Chicago Pneumatic Tool 500, Canedy Otto 1200, American Manganese Steel 8500. Union painters and paper hangers in the suburb struck over foreman selection.
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Chicago Tribune
Chicago Heights
Central Locomotive and Car Works
Calumet Steel Company
Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company
Odd Bits of News from Various Cities
In Newcastle Indiana a bold thief steals a dog collar after a watchdog alarm calms. Sunbury Pennsylvania Miss Alice Rhoads eighteen swallows pins and tacks from a glass in the dark. Charleston West Virginia Berdie Smith gets life for theft of 150 pennies. habitual criminal act used. Harrisburg Pennsylvania Gov Brumbaugh says probe found no liquor related campaign funds. Fikhart Indiana trousers returned by parcel post after twenty nine years. owner Banniman wears green breeches with no clue to thief.
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Newcastle
Ind
Sunbury Pa
Alice Rhoads
Charlston
W. Va
Berdie Smith
Harrisburg
Brumbaugh
Capitol
Fikhart
J.s.banniman
Parcel Post
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Public Service Co
Northern
Illinois
Delton Bakery
Delton
Dalton
The
Pointer
Indiana Ave
Riverdale
Roseland
Cor
210Th Street
Michigan Ave
Distributors of
Buick, Hudson, Dodge Brothers Motor Cars
General Motors Truck CO
South Side
Maxwell
Roseland Auto Sales Co. Cor
110Th St
Citizens
J. J. Orourke
Harvey, II
John Patton
Burnham, II
Clarence Staton Harvey, II
William F. Propper Dolton
Ill
Efor
Henry Milhahn
Dolton, Il
Thornton
P. van Bodegraven
Lansing
Harvey
Harvey Coal & Lumber CO
Columbia Avenue
Harvey, Ill
Peter Ripley
Dolton & Riverdale
General Merchandise
Dolton
Bremen Township
Harvey Slign
Bate’s
James Bates
Prop
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