Chicago Works Promise Jobs for 6 Months
Chicago leaders optimistic that 4 000 to 5 000 street railway workers will be hired soon to finish rehab projects by fall. Building activity surges citywide with several thousand more to be employed in construction. Officials say no laborers need travel for work and 1 500 to 2 000 may be enrolled in city cleanup efforts.
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Chicago
Hanberg
Department of Public Works
Kansas
Chicago Tribune
Lincoln Road Memorial Highway Plan Moves Forward
The senate adopts a resolution to build The Lincoln Road from Washington to Gettysburg with $50 100 appropriation for surveys and plans by U S Army engineers. The Lincoln Way will honor Abraham Lincoln and serve as a memorial to his public service.
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The
Senate
Washington, D. C
Gettysburg
United States Army
Abraham Lincoln
He Sold Horse Meat Charged Butcher Faces Jail and Fine
Assistant State's Attorney Guenther succeeded in prosecuting J. J. Schmidt of Chicago Heights a butcher charged with selling horse meat. Schmidt may be compelled to spend a year in jail and pay a $1000 fine.
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Guenther
J. J. Schmidt
Chicago Heights
Schmidt
Furless Variety Recounts Baseball Player and Wife Banter
A humorous fragment shows a wife asking for two muffs during winter, citing change, while her husband is astonished to learn he has no muffs. She references papers claiming he made muffs during the summer, prompting light banter about publicity and scarcity.
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George
Mantle Rays Warn of Hidden Radiation Danger
A photographer explains fogged plates after storing new plates with a mantle containing thorium. He learned from his doctor that thorium is radioactive and can penetrate a cardboard plate box as easily as glass, a costly oversight costing him about a hundred plates.
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Chicago Street
Dolton, Illinois
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Wisconsin
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O. E. Cook
Rivedale
Riverdale
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188Th
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Dalton
Oswald Obeldobel
West
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Riverdale, Illinois
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Krueger Bros
Jackson Hill
Hocking Valley Block
Pocahontas
Lincoln Ave
Engineering Notes
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Delaware
North Dakota
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Utah
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J. C. Brookfelt
A. Baumgartner
Justice OF the Peace
Wabash Avenue
John
Calumet Dairy
Carl Wulff
Dolton, Ill
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