Riverdale Board Notes Street Work Financing and Utilities
Village board discusses a plan to obtain a full system plat for repairs with Branigar Bros. and notes on licenses, relief funds, Red Cross Health classes, and river crossing repairs. Officials address gas tax projects, open ditches, and intergovernmental negotiations with School District 148 and the Sanitary District.
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G. L. Reasor
Branigar Bros. Company
Hanihan
Frank Mraz
Ilinois
Illinois Central System
Nelson
Consoer, Townsend, Older and
Quinlan
Hanschmann
Board of Local Improvements
Riverdale Fire Department
State of Illinois
Department of Public Works and Buildings
Division of Highways
Cook County
Robinson
County Superintendent of Highways
138Th Street
School Street
Tracey Avenue
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
Indiana Avenue
139Th Street
Schooll
Indiana Harbor Belt
Illinois Central Railroad
Torpy
Dolton
Riverdale
Claussen
Dalton
Zornow
Holly
United States District Court
142Nd
Halsted Street
Warner Dairy Company
Dearborn Street
Roosevelt
Healy Company
140Th Court
146Th
Halsted
Sanitary District
Water Committee
John Miller
City of Gold Burns in Alaska Near Nome
In far north Alaska the city nicknamed City of Gold near Nome was nearly burned to the ground. Nome, center of the Seward Peninsula rich in gold, rose to fame during 1898 rushes. The United States has extracted about 400 million in gold from Alaska, making it a wealthy possession with a small current population of 1500.
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Alaska
Nome
White House Marine Aide Appointed from Texas Letter
Lieut. Thomas C. Perrin of Bishopville South Carolina has been named marine aide at the White House after serving aboard the battleship Texas. He previously worked at the Quantico Marine Corps base before transferring to sea duty and is well known in Washington.
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Thomas C. Perrin
Texas
White House
Bishopville
S. G
Washington
Marine Corps
Quantico
National Motor Vehicle Fatalities Rise in 1933 Reports
The 1933 statistics show 31,000 motor vehicle fatalities nationwide, up five percent from 29,451 in 1932. Forty states plus DC reported increases, with Pennsylvania Indiana and Texas as major contributors. Declines appeared in Arizona Delaware DC Nevada New York Rhode Island and Wisconsin.
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District of Columbia
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Texas
Arizona
Delaware
Nevada
New York
Rhode Island
Wisconsin
Michigan center Jerry Ford primed for standout season
Jerry Ford, a 200 pound center for the University of Michigan, drives down the field as coaches and spectators expect him to play a pivotal role this season. He is highlighted as a key player with potential for major impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry
University of Michigan
Grunts Like a Pig In South America And The West Indies
Eight gnawing animals related to the porcupine are described with the agouti as the common species. It is about rabbit sized, burrows, eats vegetables fruit and meat, and grunts like a pig. It is easily domesticated but too destructive for pets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America
West Indies
Belfast man James Coombs marks 80 years in same home
James Coombs of Belfast Maine has resided in the same house for eighty years, a record of long-term ownership and local continuity in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Coombs
Belfast
Lighting standards and tools for home illumination
Modern science outlines foot-candle needs for various tasks from reading to sewing. It explains how lamp wattage relates to light at one foot and how light falls off with distance. Public Service Company stores offer a lighting tape measure and a sight meter to gauge safe, eye friendly light levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luckiesh
Public Service Company of
Northern Illinois
Sausage Dinner Incident and Scattered Vignettes
A narrator recalls a dinner at an Ashville restaurant where a diner found wood in sausage and refused to eat it. The piece then shifts to satirical lines about gullibility, a steerage cook James Corseth tossed overboard on an Australian coastwise steamer for poor cooking, and John M. Smith of London jailed again. A school teacher orders a rewrite on a dinner slip.
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Ashville
James Corseth
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I. C
Jerry Ford
John M. Smith
London
Sibley Beer Garden
Michigan City Road
Vera Chiappori
Prop
Malloy Coal CO
Interocean
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