May Parties Scheduled Across Riverdale Area
Coming events list dances and parties for May across several groups. The Rosebud Pleasure Club hosts a May Party at Dillner's Pavilion on May 7, tickets 25 cents. Homewood Camp and Homewood Volunteer Fire Department plan May Parties on May 14 and May 7 respectively. St Pauls German Lutheran Church Young People entertain at Lund's Hall on May 18. Plattdeutsche Gilde Eckenbush holds a May Party at Busack's flat in Lansing on May 21.
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Rosebud Pleasure Club
Dalton
Dillner’s Pavilion
Homewood Camp
Modern Woodmen of America
Young People’s Society
St. Paul’s German Lutheran Church
Lund’s Hall
Homewood Volunteer Fire Department
Plattdeutsche Gilde Eckenbush
Busack’s
Lansing
Old-Time Prophet and the London Fire
The tale recalls William Lilly the seer of London who predicted a fire and plague. He showed drawings of burning houses and grave-diggers to a parliamentary committee but confessed he never gave a specific date. The committee acquitted him after his defense.
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William Lilly
London
Clergy Obituary Notes 1909 English Church Times Record
Clerical obituary in the English Church Times for 1909 lists 461 names. Ages are given for 370 deceased clergymen, showing an average age of about 71.4 years.
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English Church Times
Odd Fellows Rally At Market Hall Pullman
Odd Fellows of the Calumet district plan a rally at Market Hall Pullman on Saturday evening May 16. Grand Master E R Saylor and Deputy Grand Master James Ewing Davis will speak. Lodges backing the event include West Pullman Iron Link Cheltenham Fortschritt Golden Link and others.
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Odd Fellows
Calumet Distret
Market Hall
Pullman
E. R. Saylor
James Ewing Davis
West Pullman
Iron Link
Cheltenham
Fortschritt
Golden Link
Walhalla
Colfax
Blue Island
Hegewisch
Fernwood
Prosperity
South Chicago
Orient
Harvey
Wa. Williams
Youna
Sec’y
Ancient Cannons Unearthed Near Venice Island Lido
Rome correspondent reports discoveries during excavation around the island of Lido at Venice. Several ancient artillery pieces found beneath six feet of mud remain well preserved and likely date to shortly after gunpowder’s discovery, holding high artistic and historic value.
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Venice
Rome
Lido
Enthusiastic Provincial Assembly Farewell Gesture
A schoolmaster in the empire cut off a finger and wrote eight characters with the stump to show approval as delegates prepared to depart after provincial assemblies opened last December. The dramatic act reflects intense native fervor among participants.
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Empire
Homewood News Briefs Prompt May Party and Local Happenings
Homewood invites all to a May 7 party at Ezottecualh's Pavilion. Frank Dressler pursues a canal bridge tollgate while warning against temptations after a famed tollgate murder. School election results shown with two tickets led by Harwood and Howe. Several residents move homes, new occupants at Dalton and Main Street, and local landscaping plans flourish. Local sports note: Brutlag Colts vs Peabody Coal Sunday at 3 p.m. Wedding news covers Mary Deering and Fred Coperswaite, plus Henry Thies and Corse wedding trip to Canada. Other couples and new tenants noted around town. Watch The Pointer for more.
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Frank Dressler
Bridge of Sighs
Canal Oberien
Gottschalk Street
Frank
Amos Snell
H. B. Harwood
R. B. Harwood
L. School
W.C. Soupham
E. Buell
W. G. Reynolds
P. Fleming
HW. L. Fairfield
J.C. Howe, Jr
J. C. Howe
H. Meeker, Sr
H. Utermark
J. N. Overtoom
Wm. C. Hill
W.S. Palm
J. Andrews
Robert Starkman
the Homewood Exchange
Dalton
Starkman
Charles Sittig
Chicago
Idle Wild Club
Rollo Bungaloo
Main Street
Homewood
A. R. Stumer
Marshall Haas
Maria Street
Vincent Road
Mrs. Haas
Friendsdorf
Oak Park
William Street
Louis Stumer
Ravisloe Golf Grounds
Stumer
Bachelor Club
Herman Fiebig
Fiebig
Herman
Brutlag
Peabody Coal Company
Benedicts
Fred Coperswaite
Mary Deering
Coperswaite
Gunther
Frossmoor
Henry Thies
Miss Corse
Thies
Canada
Mr. Thies Brother
Tifes
Carl Schwarz
Harmke Building
Mr. Schwarz
Gardner
Mr. Beatty
Flossmoor
Growth of Mahogany Tree Observation by H N Thompson
Observations by H N Thompson conservator of forests for southern Nigeria show mahogany grows faster than the number of annual rings. He notes three or four well marked growth zones each year, like seasonal cycles, in both forest and garden trees. A Jaye site forest regrew with mahogany trunks over ten feet in girth.
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H. N. Thompson
Nigeria
Lynching of Blasphemer in Balkan Town
A laborer in Tassidje Novi Bazar Balkans was killed by a mob in a brutal blaze of violence. Drunken cries of profanity led to the crowd dragging him to a yard where molten lead was poured down his throat after his lips were forced apart and his teeth broken.
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Tassidje Novi-Bazar
Balkans
Silent and Steady Will: A Perpetual Triumph
A compact quotation from Amiel’s Journal contrasts what weakens and what sustains a person. It warns that silence, inaction, and resignation invite decline, while continuous self-assertion and daily renewal defend and grow the self amid illness and ruin.
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Amiel
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Riverdale Park
Odd Fellows Rally
Tennyson
Longfellow
Morgan
Doulton State Bank
Kern & Ripley
General Merchandise
Dolton
Riverdale
Sil
Homewood News
Optician
McCarthy Building
Washington Street
Telephone
Central
I. T. Greenacre
C. F. Reich
Scranton
Jackson Hill Pochohantas
Hocking Valley Diamond Lump No. 1 Wash Nut Energy Lump
Hevecdale Vantec
L.c.krueger
Delton
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