Village Board Reevaluates Water Rates Amid Petition
Riverdale Village holds meeting with near full house over a water rate petition signed by over a hundred water tax payers. Trustees vote to reconsider the ordinance while citing financial pressures from a new reservoir and pump additions.
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Riverdale
Schmidt
Ladwig
Pullman Company
Fadke
Goos
Niemeyer
Brandt
Halsted Street
Atlantic Street
188Th Street
Duck Pond
Propper
Ludwig
Chicago
O. F. Reich
Andrew Baumgartner
Emil Rosenthal
Reich
DeRidder
Trapp
Water Committee
Marshal Buechler
Emil Tripp
Highlawn
Indiana Harbor Railroad
Telephone Company
I. C
de- Ridder
Halsted Street Contract Awarded for Stone and Hauling
Riverdale Village Board selected Brownell Improvement Company to supply 20 car loads of 3 inch stone and 17 cars of ½ inch stone at 90 cents per ton. Fred P. Howe of West Pullman will haul at 2 and 83 cents per yard. Work to be completed within 30 days with cars set at the Halsted street team track.
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Riverdale Village Board
Brownell Improvement Company
Halsted Street
Fred P. Howe
West Pullman
Bazaar Triumph at St Marys Church Draws Praise
Members of St Marys congregation thank all who helped make the bazaar the most successful ever. They especially acknowledge other churches for support and patronage. Bazaar Committee credits all contributors and supporters for the strong showing.
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St. Mary’s
St. Mary’s Church
Diliner's Pavilion
For Ren i Tea Room House Modern Improvements For Sale
For sale notice offers a tea room house with modern improvements at 411 Lincoln Avenue inquiry line. Also selling 600 bushels of fine potatoes at a low price with delivery to homes. contact Emil Heimaoth at 212 Ed 190th Place Riverdais for details.
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Reni
Lincoln Avenue
Emil Heimaoth
Community Bazaar prizes and local notices in Dolton
Herman Horn Jr wins a fine cart goat and harness in the Bazaar raffle which boosted funds. The gas stove raffle will be drawn once tickets collected. The Degree of Honor policy payment to Mrs M Rudloff benefits her children. Several local residents encountered news about weddings, transfers, a quilt prize, a restaurant sale, and school church events. A twelve pound baby girl named Nellie Anna is born to Mr and Mrs Strassenberg. Dolton State Bank advertises safety deposit boxes for $3 a year.
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Herman Horn, Jr
M. Rudloff
Herda Rudloff
William Hunter
Elsie Scheer
Lake Avenue
Chicago
Fred Scheer
Dalton
Hunter
Polk Street
Arthur Strassenberg
Nellie Anna
Surprise gas prank ends in embarrassment for Badluck
In a Harvey Tribune Citizen birthday prank the planned gas scare backfires when the guest of honor Frank Badluck discovers the darkness and reveals he is dressed only in a pink union suit with new trousers. The startled crowd flees as Mrs Badluck faints and the party ends in comic confusion.
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Harvey
Harvey Tribune Citizen
Mr. Badlock
Mrs. Badlock
Frank
Badluck
May Consolidate Exchanges Sparks Local Protest
Talks to merge Riverdale-Dolton and Burnside telephone exchanges with West Pullman spark concerns over rate hikes and loss of Riverdale and Dolton from the map. Village boards business group and citizens urged to oppose. Aldermen to review any formal report and act promptly.
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Riverdale-Dolton
Burnside
West Pullman Exchange
Riverdale and Dolton
Business Men’s Association
Improvment Association
Riverdale
Dalton
Public Hearing Tonight on Dalton Sewer Supplementary Assessment
The public hearing to spread a supplementary assessment on the Dalton sewer project is set for tonight at the village hall. Officials expect large attendance and public input on the proposed charges.
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Dalton
Dalton Riverdale Building and Loan Association Meeting Notice
The Dalton Riverdale Building and Loan Association prepares papers and will send notices for the first meeting within a week or ten days, signaling the start of organizational actions and member outreach.
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Dalton-Riverdale Building & Loan Association
New Water Tunnel Tour Reveals 165-Foot Depth Shaft
City aldermen led citizens on a tour of the 73rd Street water tunnel last Wednesday. Guides Thomas Matson of West Pullman and a party of visitors descended 165 feet to inspect the bore, which measures 16 feet high and 14 feet wide and is lined with one to two feet of concrete. Construction is finished and water will flow into the tunnel once pumping engines start.
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73Rd Street
Thomas Matson
West Pullman
Mrs Adelia Provanche Ill At Dalton Home
81 year old Mrs Adelia Provanche is seriously ill at her daughter Mrs John O'Brien's home in Dalton. The Silver Leaf Pleasure Club plans a dance at Fleischbauers Pavilion on Saturday evening November 25.
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Mra
Adelia Provanche
John O'Brien
Dalton
Silver Leaf Pleasure Club
Fleischbauer
Dalton Woman Arrested in Chicago Scandal
Mrs Jeanette Wallace Ward a Chicago arrestee confessed to stealing a handbag worth 1000 dollars plus 33 dollars from Mrs Frances A McDonnel while at a beauty parlor. The incident ties her to former Dalton resident Frank A Ward who left his wife and children for her. Ward, once a village board member and Pullman Works clerk, now lives with Ward’s relatives in Dalton while employed as a cashier in Chicago.
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Jeanette Wallace Ward
Chicago
Frances A. McDonnel
Frank A. Ward
Frank Ward
Dalton
Pullman Works
Morris
Ruth
Ward
Alma Lund
Dolton
Wards
Lansing
Ill
Mrs. Ward
Jeanette Wallace
Miss Wallace
Franklin Automobile Company
Michigan Avenue
Record Herald
Burglar Stopped By Shotgun Warning At Riverdale Home
Mrs. Ernest Hanschman and her husband woke Tuesday night when a burglar cut the screen and opened the front door at 63 East 137th Street Riverdale. The intruder fled as the door swung open and Buckshot readiness warned future trespassers, promising a big news item someday.
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Ernest Hanschman
Vitagraph Monthly of Current Events at PHOTOPLAY
Vitagraph Monthly of Current Events features the Head-on Collision between two locomotives at Indianapolis at sixty miles an hour. The Vitagraph and Pathe Weekly illustrated news are planned for all readers as new shows arrive.
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Hurley
Photoplay
Vitagraph Monthly
Pathe
Wok
Dolton
Indianapolis
the Illustrated News
John Hruby
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Bownell Improvment Company
M. H. Kelly
Huntley House
138Th Street
Pollinsike Benedict
Mr. Kelly
Benedict
Kengington
Alma Kelly
Theodore Haver
Paonia
Delta County
Colorado
Frank Bauer
Hammond
F.A
L.G. Reich
Colonel Propper
Carl Neidew
Ei. A. Patton
Hardin, Hamilton & Lewman Seed Company
Louisville
C. P. Koehler
St. Paul
Minn
George H. Schaefer
Carrie Meginnis
Max Schubert
Park Avenue
Schubert
Axfe
Dolton State Bank
Building & Loan Association
Land’s Hall
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