Dolton sewer system ordinance and drainage district created
The ordinance details concrete sewer construction standards including pipe types, mortar mixes, brick specifications, and abutment dimensions for a Dolton Illinois project. It creates a drainage district, assigns Board oversight, enables connections to existing ditches, and authorizes special assessments paid in ten installments with bonds to fund second and subsequent installments.
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Calumet River
Park Avenue
Dalton
Aid Sewer
County of
Cook
Illinois
Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad Company
Chicago & Eastern Tlinois Railroad Company
Board of Local Improvements
Dolton
Board of Local
General Assembly
State of
Board of Trustees
Ilinois
Motorman Seized With Fit In Trolley Crash
Reading Pennsylvania at the bottom of a hill a trolley car wreck left conductor Winfield Weidner dead and six or seven passengers injured. The motorman is believed to have had a fit at the hilltop causing the car to dash down the grade, jump the track, and strike a telegraph pole.
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Reading
Winfield Weidner
Weidner
Riverdale Village adopts public cart license ordinance
Riverdale Illinois enacts rules for public carts including definition licensing fees plates and penalties. Public carts drawn by one or more horses must be licensed. fees are two dollars fifty cents for single horse and five dollars for multi horse carts. Licenses require metal plates with year and ownership details. Unlicensed operation carries fines from three to one hundred dollars with daily penalties. Effective upon publication September 17, 1909.
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Riverdale
Cook
Illinois
J. A. Decklar
Frederick W. Schmidt
Strike closes McKee's Rocks plant in Pittsburgh
At the Pressed Steel Car plant in McKee's Rocks about 3,000 foreign workers refuse to work and gather at the entrance. The movement spreads to over 5,000 workers leaving all departments closed. Claim is to discharge all bosses, with American workers reportedly not in sympathy. Chairman C A Wise seeks quick adjustment, officials say no grievances were filed. Inevitably there is excitement in Schoenville but no demonstrations.
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Pittsburg
Pressed Steel Car Company
McKee’s Rocks
C. A. Wise
Schoenville
Boom in Postal Business Signals National Growth
Washington dispatch reports a postal boom with August 1908 receipts up over July. Buffalo Chicago Des Moines Seattle Syracuse Hartford lead in increases while Milwaukee Dayton New Haven and Chattanooga show declines. A registry mail delivery simplification is urged to Hitchcock. Must Remove Prisoners. Western Pennsylvania Allegheny penitentiary requires removal of federal prisoners due to distress. report by C H McGlasson to the attorney general.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Buffalo
Chicago
Des Moines
Seattle
Syracuse
Hartford
Milwaukee
Dayton
New Haven
Chattanooga
Hitchcock
Committee of Registry Experts
Washington, Sept
Western Penitentiary of
Pennsylvania
Allegheny
C. H. McGlasson
Department of Prisons
Dayton Player Dies After Pitched Ball Hit
Dayton Ohio Sept 16 Charles Pinckiney second baseman for Dayton base ball team died after being struck on the head by a pitched ball in a game against Grand Rapids. He suffered a fracture of the skull.
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Dayton, O
Charles Pinckiney
Dayton
Grand Rapids
Smell of Bluefish Guides Skipper on Catch
A skipper in a fishing party claims to smell bluefish as they sail, explaining the fish’s feeding behavior and how lingering oil from disgorged prey surfaces. The crew keeps to the scent and questions whether scent alone yields a haul, noting the old adage that scenting and catching differ.
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Ant
Scotland's Early Records and the Ragman Rolls Origins
The Ragman Rolls published about seventy years ago reveal Scotland's indebtedness to English records for early national history. Nobles landholders burgesses and clergy are identified in the preface claiming no pre thirteenth century public records survive. The rolls provide the only genuine statistical notices of Scotland toward the end of the thirteenth century.
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Scotland
Bannatyne Club
Trade in Chinese Girls at Chaotong Destroys Young Lives
In Chaotong a city of about 40 000, trade in selling female children is reported as brisk with prices rising to 300 taels for a beautiful girl and as low as 20 taels for small children. The practice, denied by some, is a major sorrow of the district as thousands are disposed of annually as merchandise for profit.
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Chaotong
Queer mushroom shaped concrete tables fascinate monks
In an Italian hillside garden above the Gulf of Amalfi, near a Capuchin monastery, stand mushroom shaped concrete tables dated from four hundred to eight hundred years ago. The tables, two and a half feet high with three feet tops and two feet bases, remain in excellent condition, illustrating durability of concrete for lawn and garden ornaments.
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Gulf of
Amalfi
Italy
Would Make Mother Peevish
A surgeon explains the boy is healthy but mentally undeveloped with brain nerve centers atrophied or underdeveloped and may improve, though no promise exists. The father suggests radical options like transplanting a sheep’s brain, noting the mother would object to such a plan.
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Pye
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Cook County
Llinois
Frank C. Lund
William G. Dolton
Committee On
Fred J. Ehuert
Julius Heidenreich
Charles W. Dickbelman
Jous. Harter
Charles W. Dickelman
Fred J. Eulert
Julius Heidenrbeich
Joun
Harter
Fred J. Ehlert
George H. Schaefer
Colton
Port
George BR. Regis HH. Rico
McKee
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