Specialville Water District Improvement Ordinance Passes
The Village of Specialville approves a local improvement plan for a water main and connected services within a defined area. It authorizes ten installment assessments, six percent interest, and bond anticipation to fund the project, with private property compensation to be determined. Village Attorney Pius P. Flick to file petitions for compensation and assessment.
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148Rd Street
Ashland Avenue
Specialville
Specialvile
Robey Avenue
145Th Street
147Th Street
139Th Street
189Th Street
Cooper Avenue
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
Vincennes Road
Forest Preserve
Wood Avenue
Union Drainage District
141St Street
Board of Local Improvements
General Assembly
State of
Illinois
Specialville, and Attested By the Village Clerk of Said Villiage
State of Holinois
Pius P. Flick
Duck County
Minois
County of
Cook
Ss. I
Board of Trustees
Committee On
Shakespeare Dominates Modern English Quotation Volumes
The reference work allocates 105 columns to Shakespeare quotes the largest portion. Milton follows with 30 columns Pope 29 Byron 25 and Wordsworth Tennyson each 22. Swinburne Cooper Dryden Browning Scott Burns 12 Hood 19 Coleridge Goldsmith 9 More 8 Southey Campbell 7 Shelley Thomson 6 Spencer Herbert Gray 5 and Keats 3 columns.
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Shakespeare
Milton
Pope
Byron
Wordsworth and Tennyson
Swinburne
Cooper
Dryden
Browning
Scott and Burns
Hood
Coleridge
Goldsmith
More
Southey and
Campbell
Shelley
Thomson
Spencer
Herbert and Gray
Keats
Locke on humor guiding married life
W J Locke jokes that thousands of women keep marriages happy by viewing husbands through a God given humor. He adds that they must be married first for this gift to come, otherwise most recognize it as a warning and hand the man to others.
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W. J. Locke
Timeline of slavery in United States milestones
The first slaves arrived in 1619. Congress prohibited importation in 1807. The emancipation proclamation freeing slaves in seceding states occurred in 1863, with the thirteenth amendment abolishing slavery nationwide ratified in 1865 and effective in 1865.
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United States
Let Your Light Shine in the Quiet Faith of Sunderland
A reflective passage by J. T. Sunderland urges that inner hope spreads to others. It speaks of smiles, trust, and love as roots of goodness, integrity, and strength that ripple through countless unseen lives.
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J. T. Sunderland
Time Flies Through Evolving Job Titles
A Detroit News snippet notes how language shifts as professions rename themselves from barbers to chiroten sors and undertakers to morticians, while wires workers become electrologists and trusts merge into mergers.
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Detroit News
We Shouldn't Wonder From a Boy's History Paper
A quoted line from a Boston Transcript piece notes a student remark about Columbus roaming the West Indies, reflecting a historical school paper context and a casual, era tone. The fragment implies discussion of Columbus and early exploration with a casual aside.
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Columbus
West Indies
Boston Transcript
U S Documents Eagerly Sought by Public
Washington reports the document division of the Government Printing Office sold 7,770,782 copies in fiscal 1925 up from 1924, with 875,571 letters ordered and over 21 million distribution packages. The division faces space and funding limits, and urges moving toward sales rather than free distribution to sustain operations.
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Washington
Government Printing Office
Superintendent of
Congress
George H. Carter
United States
Carter
Ument
Joint Committee On Printing
Great Britain
Lonely Husband Seeks Wife Missing 23 Years
Cambridge man William B. Fellows appeals to newspapers to find Anna Moran his wife of 50 years who disappeared in 1908 and was believed dead in Chicago. He recounts two reunions followed by brief notes predicting return in spring and asks for help locating her whereabouts.
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Cambridge
Mass
William B. Fellows
Anna Moran
Mr. Fellows
Fellows
Chicago
Illegally Married in Providence Highlighted by 1789 Law
Readers note that in Rhode Island violations have occurred for years as a 1789 law bars remarriage while a former spouse still lives. The article calls attention to the legal rule and its enforcement relevance.
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Mhlegally
Providence, R. I
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