Plan repairs to 137th Street continues
The village board discussed revised tunneling and bracing plans for 137th Street, with WPA review and railroad objections noted. Committees reported on truck delivery, street repairs, drainage work, pump house extension, ornamental lights, and water quality tests. Acme Coal Co won a coke contract. special officers and a memorial resolution were approved. May gas tax and rail noise emissions were updated.
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Hanschmann
Martin
140Th
State
144Th Street
Michigan Avenue
Smith
Acme Coal Co
Acme Coal Company
Riverdale
Malloy Coal Co
Carl Dieck Coal and Coke Co
Dalton
Zornow
Acme Steel
Arcady Farms
Claussen
Jacob Nomes
O. V. Huntley
State Highway Department
Peter Kurz
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Expert Record: A Man Avoids Small Errors En Route to Fallacy
An aphoristic line notes the expert as a man who avoids minor mistakes while pursuing a grand logical fallacy, framing the tension between precision and big error in reasoning.
Read it or Not In a Philippine lake a tiny half inch fish found
A Philippine lake yields a minuscule catch a fish measuring only about half an inch in maximum length. The discovery adds to local biodiversity records and prompts interest from researchers and anglers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippine
Invention of the Typewriter and Its Impact
The typewriter began in 1873 and improved in 1874 becoming practical. Three Milwaukee men contributed most, especially C L Sholes, and the device is credited with opening commercial life to women.
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Milwaukee
C. L Sholes
Western Newspaper Union
Fort Dearborn 1815 blaze and Illinois historical notes
A compact quiz of Illinois history covers why Fort Dearborn burned in 1815, the Manteno hospital capacity and layout, the first Illinois degree recipients in 1878, notable early figures like Joseph L. Blandin and John M. Robinson, Prairie du Rocher land grants, U I class enrollments, Knox College as Illinois northernmost college, Streeterville etymology, Dr John M Gregory as first ISU president, and Philander Chase as the first Episcopal bishop in Illinois.
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Manteno Hospital
University of Iinois
Illinois
Joseph L. Blandin
McDonough Canary Pan
Northwestern University
A. Knox College
Galesburg
Ill
Chicago
John M. Gregory
Illinois State University
Episcopal Church
Illnois
Philander Chase
Jubilee College
Life of Andrew Diekman 1860 194?
The life of Andrew Diekman details a long career spanning teaching, farming, and real estate in Illinois. Born March 25, 1860, he pursued education at Cook County Normal School and taught across Berger and Riverdale before illness ended his teaching. He then farmed 160 acres, married Mary Thiel in 1885, and raised six children. He later returned to teaching briefly before illness forced retirement and shifted to estate and insurance work while engaging in local politics. His civic service included Thornton Township tax collection starting in 1894 and involvement in community welfare.
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Diekman
Sibley Boulevard
Ernst
Wilhelmina Diekman
Berger School
Cook County Normal School
The
Chicago Normal College
Riverdale School
Pullman Branch No. 1
Schrader
Blue Island
Mary Thiel
Chicago
Grace
Herbert Dickman
Mabel Wertman
Peona
Harold iDckman
Globe, Ill
Bergers School
Thornton Township
Notable Dalton Resident Remembered for Public Service and History
The article chronicles a Dalton man whose career spanned bank leadership as vice president of the First National Bank of Dalton, eight years on school and township boards, and six years as village trustee. He aided forest preserve land sales in 1914, suffered a paralysis in 1934, and remains a keen raconteur with a vast memory of local history and Indian lore. He mentors the Calumet Pioneers Club, researching early Dolton and Riverdale settlers.
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First National Bank of
Dalton
Thornton Township High School
Cook County
Thornton and
Glenwood
Diekman
Calumet Pioneers Club
Dolton
Riverdale
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137Th Street
Putnam
WPA
Wills
Willis
Quinn
Lincoln Avenue
Fray’s Flower Shop
Fort Dearborn
Lily Pons
Lily
Andrew 5S. Diekman
145Th
Chicago Road
Andrew Diekman
Jacobsma
Lincoln Ave
America
the First Trust and Savings
Bank OF Riverdale
A.W. Hamann
Roseland
Anthony Basile Plumbing
Chicago Street
Pohlers & Stahnke
Props
Washington Ave
Carl Dieck
Coal and
Free A. M. Dykstra
State St
Pullman
Riverdale, Illinois
Commodore
Acme
Twin City Garage
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