Chicago Telephone campaign to teach emergency calls
Chicago's 1914 fire losses exceed 5 million dollars and the city fleet of nickel telephones now promotes a public campaign. A disk device on mouthpieces signals the police and fire emergency numbers with prompts Main 13 and Main 0. The drive includes new directories and a revised booklet with clear usage instructions and no charge for emergency calls. Police Chief Healy and Fire Chief O Connor praise the effort for swift alarms and crime reduction.
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Chicago
Chicago Telephone Company
Frv
Healy
O’connor
Main O
Slang and politics mix in a dated editorial yarn
The piece riffs on Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft era politics with jokes on slang, presidents and unions. It mentions governors backing the president, secession talk, a James R. and a Mann for president, Knott slang, teacher unions, Edison lab hazards, and a mammoth Ton family picnic.
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Knott
Edison
Labatory Chemicals
Georgia
Mammoth Ton
Odd Bits of News from Across the Nation
A collage of brief, curious items from Wilmington to Indiana includes Mrs. M. K. Grant hosting a birthday party for her carriage horse Prince Grant with a luncheon in the stable and an orchestra. Other notes mention painted eggs, a fatal blast from a dust blow, a four year sealed residence case, a fish feeding trick, a piano tuner seeking Navy work, false teeth court case, lightning lifting a necklace, and singed hair from Penn Run.
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Wilmington
Del
M. K. Grant
Prince Grant
Nebo
G. C. Boyle
Lewistown
William Stiffler
New York
N. Y
Theresa Planeta
Louis
Children’s Society
Joseph Planeta
Crookstown
Minn
Duluth
Charles French
Uncle Sam
St. Paul
N Mogilner
N. G. Mortensen
Emil Freiden
Indiana
A. L Diehl
Penn Run
Belle
Ida Diehl
Ruby Maxwell
Riverdale residents told to stop dumping rubbish in alleys
Village order requires household waste be placed in boxes or barrels or piled for easy removal by the village wagon. Clerk F O Bercoip issues the directive. An advertisement urges buying fresh killed fowls at Peter Ripley store in Dolton.
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Riverdale
F. O. Bercoip
Peter Ripley
Dolton
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