Fell Through The Ice On Calumet River
Edward Jennings Jr fell into an air hole on the Calumet river while skating with friends near the Western Indiana bridge. His playmate Raymond Zoller pulled him out and helped. Edward was taken home by Arthur Reich. The incident serves as a warning to parents about ice safety for children.
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Calumet River
Edward
Edward Jennings
135Th Place
Riverdale
Western Indiana Bridge
Raymond
Adolph Zoller
Arthur Reich
Kickerbocker
Calumet
Removing a Splinter by Steam
A splinter driven into flesh can be removed by steam. Fill a wide mouthed bottle nearly full with hot water, press the injured part over the bottle mouth, and the steam draws the flesh and extracts the splinter along with inflammation within a minute or two, as noted by Popular Mechanics February issue.
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National Magazine
Popular Mechanics
Burglaries Plague Dolton Area Warns County
Two months of burglaries hit Harvey Blue Island Roseland Pullman Kensington Dolton and Riverdale with several homes entered. In Dolton on Saturday night Everett Conners lost a gold watch and chain as Mrs Conners woke to a window opening and alarm. Conners chased but the thief escaped. At the same hour Carl Wulff Geo Thompson and Chas Kasten were named in entries with no booty recovered.
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Harvey
Blue Island
Roseland
Pullman
Kensington
Dolton
Riverdale
Everett Conners
Mrs Conners
Mr. Conners
Carl Wulff
Geo. Thompson
Chas Kasten
Deep Waterway From Lakes To Gulf
A bold vision touts a Chicago Joliet St Louis canal as the century’s best investment. Chicago has spent sixty million dollars to open a drainage ditch and barge canal with another hundred million needed to create a ship canal of fourteen to twenty feet. Experts led by John J. Hill claim the canal would pay for itself yearly, rivaling the Soo Canal in potential profits.
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Chicago
Joliet
St. Louis
John J. Hill
Bradstreet’s View of 1909 Economy and Trade Outlook
Bradstreet's Review notes that the 1909 outlook is cautiously hopeful. It cites ongoing issues in conducting trade, tariff revisions, stock demands, and shifts in financial conditions, but stresses improved sentiment versus the previous year and relief after the crisis, with no expectation of a boom.
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Bradstreet
Terrible Threat and Natural Question in Dockside Tale
Mr Cumrox faces coercion from a son-in-law who threatens to naturalize and claim citizenship if denied. A second brief scene follows Little Margaret at the dock as she waves to an aunt departing on a grand ocean steamer and asks if the water will follow the ship to England.
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Mr. Cumrox
Margaret
Mamma
England
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Calumet Dairy
Indiana Ave
Leyden Ave
Dutt
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Plant
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Scientific American
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