Senators urge truth on preparedness in senate debate
Washington July 17 two speeches in the senate urged the administration and congress to stop phrases and present real reasons for preparedness. Senators Borah and Lewis warned the United States is rich but weak and has no real friends among nations, calling for a factual program and cautioning against peace at any price. A Lost pin notice follows about a Royal Neighbor Lodge pin lost in Dolton between Oak street and the street car line.
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Washington
D. C
Senate
Borah
Idaho
Lewis
Illinois
Congress
Administration
United States
America
Dolton
Royal Neighbor Lodge
Oak Street
Ten Thousand Dollar Savers Story From Topeka
Otto Kasten, a linotype operator, saved weekly for six years and two months, growing his $6,000 with interest to $10,000. He owns a home, is married with one child, and remains modest about his achievement. Dalton Riverdale Building and Loan Association sells 10th series stock at 75 cents per share, with office at First National Bank Dolton.
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Kasten
Dad Mullel
Chicago Tribune
Dalton-Riverdale Building and Loan Association
First National Bank Dolton
Special Election Called in Riverdale for Water Mains Bonds
Public notice states the Village of Riverdale in Cook County Illinois will hold a special election on July 31 1916 from 6:00 AM to 4:00 PM to decide on approving an ordinance issuing bonds for extending water mains on West 188th Street and Emerald Avenue. The notice is signed under the village seal dated June 27 1916.
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Riverdale
County of
Cook
State of
Illinois
188Th Street
Emerald Avenue
Cook County
River and Harbor Bill Passes Amid Debate on Chicago Water
The House approved the conference report on the $43,000,000 river and harbor bill by 187 to 1382. The vote kills the La Follette Clark amendment that would have barred Chicago sanitary district from drawing Lake Michigan water for sewerage disposal and would have blocked Illinois from building a deep waterway to connect the lakes with the Mississippi River.
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House
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Illinois
South End Press
Card of Thanks for Funeral Kindness and Fraternal Members
We thank neighbors and friends for kindness sympathy and respect shown at our husband and father’s death and burial especially I C O F No 782 United Workmen No 257 Degree of Honor Rev Hoffmeister and all who sent flowers. Mrs Carn Woetrr and Family.
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I. C
Hoffmeister
Carn Woetrr
Wireless subterranean telephone proposed by Dr. H Barringer Cox
Dr. H Barringer Cox announces a wireless subterranean telephone and a new law of physics claiming electrical energy can be transmitted through a single conductor. He says the system, developed while working for the federal forest service, uses a ground wire with a special instrument at both ends and requires no circuit.
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San Francisco
Cal
H Barringer Cox
Cox
Federal Forest Service
Dolton seeks bids for Main Street ditch deepening project
Sealed bids were invited by the Dolton Drainage Committee Cook County Illinois for deepening the ditch on the South side of Main Street from Ingleside avenue to Pullman avenue. Bids due by eight o clock P M Friday July 23 1916 at the Village Hall Park Avenue and opened publicly. Bids filed with Village Clerk William G Dalton or any committee member. Drainage Committee members named William J Albrecht H O HH Smythe Fred Weber.
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Dolton
Cook County
Illinois
Park Avenue
Main Street
Ingleside Avenue
Pullman Avenue
Wm. G. Dalton
William J. Albrecht
Uo HH. Smythe
Fred Weber
In Memoriam for Margarette Pauls
In sad but loving memory of our dear daughter Margarette Pauls who died a year ago July 24 1915 We mourn for you dear Margarette Not with outward show For hearts that mourn sincerely mourn silently and low Do not ask us if we miss her Oh there is such a vacant place Off we think we hear her footsteps Or see her smiling face Gone but not forgotten From lone some Papa and Mamma and Brother Edwin.
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Margarette Pauls
Margarette
Lonesome
Papa
Mamma
Brother Edwin
Calisthenics Prescription for Mose Jackson
Mose Jackson, a well regarded gentleman of color, grows ill with fatigue and low spirits as spring arrives. The village physician finds no physical ailment and prescribes calisthenics twice daily in a mischievous jab at Mose’s aversion to work, prompting a quick trip to the drug store for a pint bottle of “calisthenics.”
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Mose Jackson
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137Th Street
Henry W. Schnoor
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Delton
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Carl Wulfe
Dolton, Ill
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Edward F.dilner
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WM. C. Zesch
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Chauncy Ave
Urand Crossin
Gus. Nordhoff
Noa Ave
Lewis and Borah
Senate Nation
Topeka
Kas
Otto Kasten
Hart Schaffner
Marx
Oxfords
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Hart Schaffner & Marz
Bach Bros
5Th St
Michigan Ave
Roseland’s Gcovsine
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