Shake-Up in Chicago Drainage Board Promises Wide Changes
President Zina Carter and the drainage board depart. Robert R. McCormick and eight new members assume positions. Expect turmoil among staff as heads of finance and engineering committees gain influence over multimillion dollar canal projects, Joliet improvements, river work, bridges, and maintenance. Former finance chair Frank X. Cloidt seeks continued role amid uncertain chairmanship.
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Chicago
Zina “. Carter
Board of Drainage Canal Commissioners
Robert R. McCormick
Drainage Board
Evanston
Calumet
Joliet
Frank X. Cloidt
The Sedalia Steam Laundry Ad
A brief, comic wash day vignette with household toil and a call to call 15 for service at The Sedalia Steam Laundry on Lamine Street Longan's, noted as a reliable local establishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sedalia Steam Laundry
Lamine Street
Longan’s
Wanted Parties to San Diego California to ship household goods
Advertisement seeking individuals traveling to San Diego California to carry or take part of a car in shipping household goods. Contact E. F. Dufur at 702 South Kentucky Street Sedalia. Dated 27.
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San Diego
Cail
E. F. Dufur
S. Kentucky St
Sedalia
For Sale Buck's Radiant items and furniture sale
For sale including Buck's Radiant base burner nearly new bedroom suites chairs and stoves. Contact E F Dufur at 702 5 Kentucky St Sedalia.
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Buck
E. F. Dufur
Kentucky St
Sedalia
Are You Using Allen's Foot-Ease
The advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to cure corns bunions and foot discomfort. It claims relief from smarting and swelling and notes availability at druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents.
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Allen
Markets Heat Open With Mixed Grain and Livestock Quote
Markets show oats corn and wheat with steady to firm tones. Chicago hogs and cattle trade steady. Hogs around 42000 head in Chicago, cattle about 17040 in Kansas City, and 9000 in Omaha. Portfolios note light deer and mixed price ranges for meat cuts. Estimated hogs for Chicago Wednesday placed near 32000.
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Chicago
Pver
Prices for corn hay eggs and flour in local market
The list shows New Corn at 400, Prairie and Timothy hay per ton priced at 9 and 11 to 12 dollars, eggs 25 cents a dozen, potatoes per bushel 80 cents to 1 dollar, corn meal 60 cents a bushel, sorghum 60 cents to 40 cents per gallon, hard wheat flour 2.30 to 2.70 per cwt, soft flour 2.10 to 2.40, and Graham flour 2.30 per cwt.
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Bos Sciaueee Voduna
Poultry Prices listed for spring market shoppers
Partial OCR shows poultry prices with spring chickens at five cents per dozen, hens per pound, geese and ducks described as well feathered with price notes, but text is garbled and lacks complete figures.
Giant Freeport Clock Returns After Long Service
The Freeport county courthouse clock, in use since 1873, has been removed for repairs for the first time in over 350 years of service. Weighing heavy parts with a 500 pound clock weight and 1,800 pound bell, the works will be cleaned to regain near original performance.
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Freeport
Ill
Gum Saves Lives On Frozen Saginaw Lake Adventure
In Duluth Minnesota H H Bartlett and John Cameron timber cruisers with Mrs Helen Bartlett survived after their birch bark canoe struck a submerged rock on Saginaw lake. Water flooded the craft and, with ice forming, Mrs Bartlett used a gum wad to seal the leak while the men and her tore a skirt to aid the repair. They reached shore safely after half an hour.
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Duluth
Minn
H. H. Bartlett
John Cameron
Helen Bartlett
Saginaw Lake
Roosevelt Adds Monroe China to White House Collection
Miss Roosevelt has added four Monroe china pieces to the White House collection gifted by Mrs. George F. Elliott. The set includes a soup plate a tea plate a cup and a saucer with orange yellow borders gold leaf lattice and blue star flower designs. The accompanying card notes the pieces were once used by President James Monroe and passed through Col James Monroe to his daughter wife of Brig Gen George F. Elliott before Mrs Roosevelt exhibited them in 1905.
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Washington
White House
James Monroe
United States Army
Virginia
New York
George F. Elliott
United States Marine Corps
Elliott
Roosevelt
First Pullman sleeping car built in Bloomington tale
Leonard Seibert a Bloomington craftsman and veteran Chicago and Alton employee built the first Pullman sleeping cars. He details remodeling two Chicago and Alton coaches in 1858 with no blueprints, the cost under $2000, plush upholstery, oil lamp lighting, and 50 cent berths.
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Bloomington
Ill
Leonard Seibert
Siebert
Chicago & Alton
George M. Pullman
Chicago & Alton Railway
Seibert
Locomotive at Breakfast Story From Rail Veterans
Railroad men recall a remarkable early accident when an eight oclock train derailed in front of a house across from the college boat race course. The engine burst through the fence and into the home, the bogey entry and a flaring smokestack filling the wrecked front room. The tale was pictured in a periodical as A Locomotive at Breakfast.
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New London & Northern Railroad
Illustrated
Barnard’s Restaurant Founder Retires With 11960 In Savings
I D Barnard of Sioux City Iowa retires after three years running a restaurant with a capital of 40 dollars. He trusted patrons, issued meal tickets to workers, and kept daily bills modest. He aided unemployed people and never discussed those who defaulted.
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Sioux City
I. D. Barnard
Barnard
Royal Navy Officers Celebrate in New York
After Rear Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg and his squadron sailed from New York the visiting party reportedly enjoyed lavish festivities. The events were described as lively and boisterous with heavy revelry and strong attendance.
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Prince Louis of Battenberg
New York
Dying man in mad run to reach home
Frederick Henderson, a New York Central conductor, was crushed beneath his engine at Tiadaghton and died at Lawrenceville during a forced run to Corning. His last words pleaded for the engine to go faster so he could see his wife at the depot before death. A line order had skirted all trains for right of way, and a surgeon found him dying at Stokesdale Junction.
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Williamsport
Frederick Henderson
New York Central Railroad
Tiadaghton
Lawrenceville
Corning
N. Y
Henderson
Stokesdale Junction
Topeka Day Celebration Planned With Banquet
Topeka Kansas marks its founding with a large evening banquet at the state house hosted by the State Historical Society and the city. About two hundred guests including distinguished city and state leaders will attend as Topeka Day is planned as an annual observance with a biannual banquet.
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Topeka
Kas
Baneveletie
State Historical Society
Topeka Day
Navajo Labor Replaces Greek Workers in Southwest Railroads
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad replaces Greek laborers in southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico with Navajos. The Navajo workers prove steady, hard working, unlikely to strike, and about as productive as Greeks, per the New Mexican.
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Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company
Sothwestern
Colorado
New Mexico
New Mexican
Southwest
Santa Fe New Mexican
Train Timings Define Pars in Life in Ledger Quip
A melancholy stranger asks about purpose and a figure named Subbubs replies with the playful gauge of life by train times. He notes the 7 48 morning and 6 12 evening departures as his measure of direction and meaning.
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Subbubs
Philadelphia Ledger
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