Calumet drainage canal debate may save $12 million
Calumet Sewage Drainage Board warns the city that building the Calumet canal cutoff could save 12 million dollars if the city abandons river sewer use. A conference with Mayor Busse and Sanitary District President McCormick explores funding, power development, and the canal’s completion as plans move toward 40 000 horsepower or more.
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Calumet
Sanitary District
Busse
R. R. McCormick
Sanitary District Board
Ald
Milton J. Foreman
Calumet River
Drainage Board
McCormick
Lockport
Chicago
George Wisner
New Police Station Planned for Kensington
The city plans a new 40000 dollar police station at fifth and Indiana avenues with modern improvements. Chief Shippy Alderman Biehl and Herman F Getze surveyed sites in a touring car and selected 115th and Indiana avenue for the building, touted as one of the citys best.
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Kensington
Fifth and
Indiana Avenue
Shippy
Ald. Biehl
Herman F. Getze
115Th
Wet and Dreary Telephone Ad and Theft Arrest
A Chicago Tribune item blends a telephones ad with a police note seeking Joseph Brown 21 a former night clerk and cashier at a railway boarding house near One Hundred and Forty-seventh street Chicago and Eastern Illinois tracks charged with stealing 300 dollars from A A Farbridge boarding house proprietor.
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Joseph Brown
One Hundred and Forty-seventh Street
Chicago and Eastern Illinois
A.A. Farbridge
Chicago Tribune
For Sale 60 Acres Near Hammond Illinois
Forty acres at Lincoln avenue and Range Line Road near Hammond priced at 175 per acre. Twenty acres north of 154th street adjoining the 40 acres at 125 per acre. Five acre parcels of the 20 acre tract at 140 per acre if sold by September 1, 07. A. S. Diekman, Dolton, Illinois.
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Lincoln Avenue
Range Line Road
Hammond
154Th Street
A. S. Diekman
Dolton, Ill
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Lousey Brovielt
J. C. Divusiie
J. C. Brookfelt
Indiana Avenue Riverdale
Ada Hahn
Postoffice
Lincoln Ave
Dolton
Daily News
J.C. Brookfelt
Diana
Riverdale
Illinois
Oxford
John Behrens
Chicago Street
Dolton, Illinois
S.W. Schwab
W. L. Douglas
Fordtran Bros
Leyden Ave
Blue Island
Chicago Telephone Company
Dolton State
Savings Department
Ernest W. Balgeman
Edmund Fordtran
Lorenz F. Ripley
Board OF Directors
John Berger Lawrence Ray Edmund Fordtran
WM. F. Propper
Ernest V
Simon Schoon
Peter Kipley Franklund
DR. C. H. Thomsen - Balgeman
Dolton State Bank
Frank C. Lund
Patent Medicines
Wm. H. Rippe
Indiana Ave
Riverdale Park
Henry Hahn
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