Dolton drainage ordinance outlines district, costs, and bonds
An ordinance from the Village of Dolton details a drainage district, property assessments, and financing. It sets a ten installment plan with six percent interest, allows bonds to anticipate collections, and directs legal steps to levy the special assessment. The document, certified by Village Clerk William G. Dolton on September 20, 1926, authorizes sewers and ditches connected to existing facilities.
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Stony Island Avenue
Business Center
Michigan City Road
N. E
Wilson Avenue
Ridgeland Avenue
152Nd Street
Village of
Delton
Wittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad
Sthley Street
Sibley Street
Cottage Grove Avenue
154Th Street
University Avenue
Dolton
Chicago Street
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Co
Board of Local Improvements
Dalton
General Assembly
State of
Illinois
Sinois
William I. Propper
Cook County
Ilinois
State of Illinois
County of
Cook
Ss. T
Board of Trustees
A. D
Dolton Special Assessment No 21 for sidewalk project
The Village of Dolton approves Special Assessment No 21 to fund Portland cement concrete sidewalks along Monroe Street Park Avenue and 144th Street with five inch thickness and five foot four inch width. Hearing set October 11, 1926, with five yearly installments at 6 percent interest. Commissioner Joseph L Locher announces the ordinance on file in the Village Clerk’s office.
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Dolton
Dalton
County of
Cook
State of
Illinois
Monroe Street
Jackson Street
Chicago Street
Park Avenue
144Th Street
Cook County
Tlinois
A. D
Joseph L. Locher
Seven-Foot Prehistoric Tusk Found in Portland Cave
A seven-foot tusk from a prehistoric animal was unearthed in a Portland quarry cave and carefully preserved for study by Natural History museum authorities. A fossilized tooth was also recovered from the same cave.
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Portland
Natural History Museum
How Greece Got Into Rug Game
A National Geographic bulletin traces how Greek refugees from Anatolia, fleeing Smyrna in 1922, rebuilt rugmaking in Greece. It profiles the Tozakoglou family from Geurdis, detailing kis khilim weaving, Gordian knot lore, and the shift to Greek rug factories with Armenian foremen, enabling families to earn by the knot amid scarce resources.
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Washington
Turkey
Geurdis
Anatolia
Asia Minor
National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Angelo
Anastasia
Maria
Tozakoghlou
Hey
Smyrna
Fozukoghlou
Constantinople
Nuria
United States
Gordus
America
Gordes
Asia
Alexander
Greece
Tazakoghlou
New Phaleron
Athens
Geordis
Greeeve
Bergama
Bokhara
Hamadan
Pergamon
Shiraz
Demirdji
Nineteenth Transatlantic Cable Completes Link to New York
A new cable from Penzance England to New York is completed with a sending capacity of 2500 letters per minute eight times faster than existing cables. The line expands rapid transatlantic communication and marks a milestone in global telegraphy.
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New York
Penzance
England
Willam Scoresby to Study Whale Mating in Arctic Expedition
The ship Willam Scoresby, built at Hull for the British crown agent, will test whether whales have two mates and study birth rates life expectancy and wandering. A silver disk on a dart will mark each whale for data collection to aid conservation and later commercial purposes. Captain Scott’s Discovery will join the two and a half year voyage.
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Hull
England
Willam Scoresby
Scott
Infant Trampled by Horse Kills Brooklyn Baby
Mrs. Bertha Rimrus, pushing a baby carriage on Miller Avenue in Brooklyn, saw a wagon load of vegetables halt before her home. A unsteady carriage toppled as a horse spooked, the infant beneath the animal’s four hooves. Doctors reported fatal skull fracture and neck injury.
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New York
Bertha Rimrus
Miller Avenue
Brooklyn
Larry Goldberg
Rimrus
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William G. Dolton
West Point
Mitchelfield
Long Island
Heroic Mountaineer
Alberta
Shif
Lawrence Grassi
Canmore
Alpine Club of Canada
Tonquin Valley
Jasper National Park
Bastion Peak
Grassi
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