Two 50-foot Oak Glen lots for sale
Two 50 ft lots in Oak Glen offered at 1000 dollars each or 1900 dollars for both. Financing available and construction of your home can be handled with easy monthly payments.
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Oak Glen
Lansing
Jacob Bosch & Co
Ridge Road
Lowe Ave
Chicago
Pullman
Michigan Avenue
Wabash Avenue
State Street
Branigar-Spies
C. Reich
Indiana Avenue
Riverdale
A. C. Reich
Telephone
137Th Street
Schwab Building
Harry Hanschman
East
Telephone Riverdale
John Ravesfoot, Jr
South Holland
Harvey
Ved W. Rahn
Nick Cherkus
Sheridan Avenue
Dalton
137Th Place
Irvin Ave
Edbrooke Ave
Grant Street
Dolton
Back to Methuselah Found Family in Madrid Report
A Madrid message reports a centenarian matriarch aged 127 with five sons aged 111 to 105. It claims the mother was 15 at the birth of her eldest son and that all sons are employed, likely supporting their elderly mother.
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Madrid
Spain
We honor our ancysters in old Washington Star line
A fragment from the Washington Star quotes Hi No in a playful remark on ancestry and respect. The garbled phrase questions whether honoring ancestors would be deserved if they were alive today.
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Chimitown
Washington Star
Village board approves curb work and updates on health and drainage
Engineering discussions urged securing state permission and escrow to protect contractors while paving proceeds. Measles and whooping cough cases were reported and homes placarded. Basements flooded. catch basins to be cleaned. Sewer flow reversal request referred to engineer. Firemen carnival fundraiser tickets purchased. Local Improvements authorized partial payments and water mains on State Greenwood Woodlawn University streets at an estimated 16911.48.
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Ashdown
Harris
Smith
Dalton
Waterman
Chicago Firemen
Chicago
Walter Novak
Phoenix Justice
Schubert
Board of Local Improvements
John Mackler & Company
Suhr, Berryman, Peterson and Suhr
Stanley Gottschalk Company
State
Greenwood
Woodlawn
University Avenues
Shepard
Cake Bitten By Thief Sparks Family Scolding
Walter and Lawrence saved part of their dessert for the next day and placed two small cakes in a jar. William found only one cake with a large bite missing and woke Lawrence to demand who took the bite. Lawrence questioned the motive as he woke.
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Walter
Lawrence
William
Tate
Almond Harvest on Majoreau Island
Almonds are the island’s main crop with diverse varieties and booming industry. As olive trees die they’re replaced by almonds. Workers harvest when nearly ripe using bamboo poles, with women and children collecting the nuts. Kernels are separated after drying and broken by hand or machinery.
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Majoreau
Ring finger history and left hand tradition explained
The article notes wedding rings once wore on the thumb during earlier eras especially under George's reign. The ring later moved to the left hand fourth finger to protect it from wear. Ecclesiastical admonitions ended the thumb custom, and the belief of a vein to the heart is incorrect.
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George
Study Twins To Find Differences In Their Resemblance
New York report on 15 sets of identical and fraternal twins shows identical twins are not always most symmetrical. Eyes noses ears and mental abilities were compared. younger twins showed greater similarity, with likeness strongest in inherited traits.
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New York
Hh. & Perkins
Laura Bliss
University of Vermont
Eugenics Research Association
American Eugenics Society
75-Pound Ice Cake to Be Dropped by U S Bureau
The Department of Commerce division on simplified practice proposes eliminating the 75-pound ice cake as unnecessary and out of scale. It favors standard sizes 25 50 100 and 150 pounds to fit modern refrigerators and new ice boxes, based on a two year survey of manufacturers engineers and users.
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Washington
Whiat
Department of Commerce
Yosemite Park Rooms and Makes Work Sweat
Secretary Work appoints three expert advisers to help the Interior Department manage Yosemite National Park California crowds. Last year visitors nearly reached half a million up from 200 000 in 1926 raising congestion and preservation concerns. Appointees include Duncan McDuffie San Francisco Olmstead landscape architect and John V Buwarda geology professor at Caltech.
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Washington
Department of Interior
Yosemite National Park
California
Duncan Mce Duffie
San Francisco
Commission For National
John VP. Buwalda
California Institute of Echnology
Long Swim by Vienna College Girl Dominates Danube
Hilda Mitz, an eight een college girl, swam seventy five miles in eleven hours in the Danube near Vienna. The water temperature was 48 degrees.
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Vienna
Austria
Hilda Mitz
Danube
Talk about fast dancing on stage sparks Hawaiian dancer remark
A much traveled man laments speed of dancing and says no one knows what it is until they have seen a Hawaiian dancer with a grass skirt on fire, illustrating a vivid stage image from Ukulele Land.
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Indiana Ave
Lincoln Avenue
Wm. Maurer
Triangle
I. C. Station
Campbell Bldg
144Th and
Stewart
National Cash Register
Gladstone Co
Ill
Meeters, Inc
Sanderson Avenue
Leyden Avenue
Woman’s Relief Corps of the Grand Army of the Republic
Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
Chicaga
Methuselah
D. Schermer
Hercules
Rea
DR. A. W. Hamann
Roseland
St. Michigan Ave
Frank C. Ott
Chicago St
Henry A. M. Grelck
Lincoln Ave
Dolton, NL
A. R. Harris
Caloric
Merrimac
Monitor
Big Boy
Carondelet Ave
Chicago, I
Hohman St
Hammond, Ind
Hammond
Victor C. Carlson
Henry W. Schnoor
Chicago Street
WM. C. Zesch & Son
Rivee
Avalon Ave
Saginaw
Carl Dieck
William Lotz
138Th Street
U. S. Bureau
Yosemite Park
H. M
Walter R. Stroh
Dolton, Ill
A. J. Allen
Riverdale, DL
Gladstone
H. G. Wills
Riverdae
Anthony Basile
Delton
Briggs
Turivas
Blue Island
139Th St
Western Avenue
B. I
Chicago Heights
South Park Sanitary Plumbing CO
W. J. Cecilio
115Th Street
K. L. Sherrill
Leyden Ave
Park Ave
Penn
R. R
G. R. Collinson
N. Park Ave
Isaac Shilling
159Th Street
Holland
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