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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1908
Page
4
Village residents debate sewer size route and cost with the Local Improvements Board. Backers urge progress to boost growth and health while critics call for fair assessments and peaceful discussion to avoid costly delays.
Local notices list tax collection times and locations for multiple towns including Harvey Lansing Oakglen Dalton West Hammond Sobieski Thornton Homewood Schrumville Bernice Blue Island Riverdale Burnham Berger’s Cor South Holland with dates in February and a payment deadline. The notice also covers a Washington’s Birthday sack carrying contest in Blue Island with participants Fred Geeze king of Kanakee and Alfonzo Cantaro for a $50 purse and a brief community notes section on a Degree of Honor meeting and calendar trivia about February having five Saturdays.
An official statement from the Pullman Company notes 6000 of a 9000 normal force are at work during peak periods. Factories in Buffalo Wilmington Del St Louis Ludlow Ky and Denver show no layoff prospects, with only a small portion of the 30000 employees laid off. A Riverdale street lamp dispute sparked by political factions drew crowd interest as The Pointer remarks on watching the outcome.
In Cook County Illinois the village of Dolton petitions for condemnation of part of the Southwest quarter of Section 34 to build a sewer system and directs a special assessment of costs totaling 74 277 14 dollars. Defendants include S Ellen Dolton William S Mowry Charles D Mowry George Mowry Henry Mowry and others. The case No 25117 notes a summons returnable February 25 1908.
Charles L. Brown husband of Miss Ellia Burgess of Harvey leads Illinois Athletic Club to a record plunge for distance at the new club, finishing sixty feet in 28.8 seconds. The Oakland Club competitor McCraw faded after forty-five feet as Brown rises as a star in the sport ahead of a March 4 meet in St Louis. Brown, a new talent, and his wife Miss Ellia Burgess hold long distance swimming records but compete for sport rather than professionalism.
A notice posted at the mills of the Illinois Steel Company in South Chicago states that every plant will reopen February 17 and the full workforce will be put to work.
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