Walter G. Davis for Cook County coroner
Walter G. Davis, longtime Chicago resident and real estate businessman, seeks the Republican nomination for Cook County coroner. A former Calumet Town collector and West Pullman Park District treasurer, he is praised for honesty and public service and urged to win the primary on September 18.
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Walter G. Davis
Cook County
McGregor
Chicago
Calumet
West Pullman Park
Davis
Cleaning Picture Frames with Egg White and Linseed Oil
Gilt frames and molding show specks from insects. clean with egg white applied softly. Black walnut frames aged dull can appear new with pure linseed oil or a strip of bleached cloth.
Hospital train ready for border duty with army
The first U S hospital train built by Pullman completes work and will depart the shop for the border under Captain Howard Baily. Ten cars include a fully equipped operating room car, six patient cars with a 36 patient capacity each, a baggage library car and kitchen. Dr T R Crowder supervised the sanitation fitting.
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Pullman Company
United States
Howard Baily
Medical Corps
Europe
T. R. Crowder
Pullman Press
Vegetable Growers to Meet in Chicago Convention
The annual convention of the Vegetable Growers Association of America will be at the LaSalle hotel Chicago September 26 27 28 29. The program features a trade exhibit round table discussions and demonstrations by gardeners truck farmers greenhouse men and college and government representatives. Topics include marketing soil fertility heating packing and spraying with details to be announced. All interested persons are invited to attend.
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Vegetable Growers’ Association of America
LaSalle Hotel
Chicago
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Illinois in 1918 inquiry seeks frontier era images
Miss Ruth I Hodson, curator in Urbana, seeks photographs and relics illustrating Illinois life 1812 to 1824. She requests views of frontier life, travel, dress, amusements, and especially pictures of buildings, furniture, and household and agricultural implements in use during that period.
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Illinois Centennial Commission
Illinois
Ruth I. Hodsdon
Lincoln Hall
Urbana
Witty Exchange at Early 1900s Chicago Christmas Dance
The item cites a George Ade quip from a Christmas dance in the early nineties. A pretty young lady asked about holly and laurel decoration, and Ade replied he would prefer mistletoe over yew. The exchange echoes Ade’s famed wit in a Chicago West scene.
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Chicago
West
George Ade
Ade
Heaven as perfect organization and free expression
The speaker extols heaven as organization that completes routine work quickly and pleasantly, freeing individuals to pursue new thoughts and expressions. Unity of action is essential, with freedom for self expression as a core ideal, per Nautilus.
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Heaven
Earth
Irvin Cobb Premiere Speech at Bark Home Boston
Irvin Cobb attended the Boston premiere of Bark Home written with Bayard Veiller. Between acts two and three Cobb urged the audience not to blame him and asked them to stay for the third act which he described as containing the only new material remaining from his original play.
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Irvin
Cobb
Bark Home
Bayard Veiller
Boston
Green Book Magazine
Iowa Corn Land Opportunity
Lone Tree Land Co of Lone Tree Iowa invites buyers to discuss farm options from 800 available farms. Independent farmers who arrived five years ago share experience. Mention The Pointer in writing.
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Towa
Lone Tree Land CO
Lone Tree
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