Miami Power Boat Club plans Calumet river race Sunday
The Miami Power Boat Club schedules a Sunday race on the Calumet river starting at Camp McDermott at 1 PM. Eleven boats entered with about seventeen more expected. Western Power Boat Association participation flagged. Five prizes offered. race covers thirteen miles round trip east of Halsted street bridge. A post race feast with roast pig and refreshments planned at Riverdale Park docks.
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Miami Power Boat Club
Calumet River
Miami Club
Western Power Boat Association
Camp McDermott
Halsted Street Bridge
Riverdale Park
Verdant Freshmen Enroll as School Opens
Verdant freshman class of 125 arrives as hazing stories surface. Sophomores pledge to get down to business while juniors show perservering assiduity. Seniors display gravity. Miss Tainter visits Friday. Cupid and love arrows appear among students. A debating club forms and the athletic field hosts activities. Principal L. W. Smith prepares a revised pronouncement.
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Cupid
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L. W. Smith
Local hunting and fishing licenses offered at Riverdale office
Jacop A. Drexiar, clerk for Riverdale Village, announces that hunting or fishing licenses are now available by contacting his office or residence.
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Jacop A. Drexiar
Riverdale
20 Acres For Sale Near Dalton Illinois
Property listing describes 20 acres of land at E 32 of N W and of N W and Sec 18 36 15 with owner listed as Wm Bachmann Dalton Ill. Several local notices follow including visits by Chicago officials, a church fair raffle planned October 13 to 17 1908 by the German Evangelical Immanuel Church Dalton, and attendees Ed J Dillner and Wm Busach to a National Saloon Keepers convention in St Louis September 21 22 23. Nearby residents Jacob Sparling lost the small finger at Pope Beet Sugar Works while carving. Mr Nimtz and Mrs Nimtz plan to move to Allegan Mich in October after nineteen years in Hightown.
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Wm. Bachmann
Dalton, Ill
Ed. J. Dillner
Dalton
Wm. Busach
Lansing
St. Louis
National Saloon Keepers
Jacob Sparling
Pope Beet
Riverdale
Wm. Nimtz
Atlantic St. Highlawn
Henry Senholz
Allegan
Mich
Mr. Nimtz
Hightown
Glass Headstones Combine Photo and Epitaph Art
A Pittsburgh mortuary trend offers glass headstones that embed both the epitaph and a photograph of the deceased. The result promises a durable memorial that preserves likeness and memory in one transparent tribute.
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Pittsburg
Learn This Today. How Often We Seek Gossip
A compact quote from the Los Angeles Express urging readers to focus on credible knowledge rather than hearsay. The message contrasts asking what others know with asking how they know it, promoting critical thinking and verification.
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Los Angeles Express
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