Streetcar Schedules and Ticket Offices for Spring Valley Area
Effective October 31 1920 West bound cars run from Spring Valley to Hicks Junction DePue Bureau Princeton with various morning and afternoon times. Eastbound routes toward Peru LaSalle Ottawa Streator Marseilles Seneca Morris include numerous listed times. Local daily Joliet Ottawa La Salle Sundays and holidays notes included. Ticket offices listed: Main Station daily 830 to 540. Genitary Ice Cream Parlor 126 W St Paul daily 9 to 9. Meashan Confectionery Greenwood and Dakota daily 9 to 9:30.
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Spring Valley Station
Hicks Junction
Ladd
A. M
P. M
Peru
LaSalle
Ottawa
Streator
Marseilles
Seneca
Morris
Genitary
W. St. Paul St
Surgeon Grafts Own Flesh to Save Wife’s Foot
Dr. Orlando P. Scott of Chicago performs a banished anaesthetic graft, removing strips from his thigh and grafting them onto his wife’s foot and ankle at her bedside. The operation aims to prevent disfigurement and possible loss of her right leg after a car crash left her with gangrene.
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Chicago
Orlando P. Scott
Hoodoo on This Farm Records A run of misfortune
William Fryer of near Kimberton Chester County endures a string of accidents and losses on his farm from Monday to Saturday. A horse is seriously injured, Fryer falls and is cut, Mrs. Fryer breaks, a cherry tree accident injures her, twins are born then die, and another horse breaks its neck entangled in a halter.
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West Chester
William Fryer
Kimberton
Chester County
Pet Cat Attacks Brooklyn Teacher
Miss Maude E. Ross of 312 Decatur Street Brooklyn is wounded after a large tiger variety pet cat leapt at her in her home. The cat escaped twice and authorities plan to recapture it for examination by the board of health. The incident occurred as she prepared to greet the cat which had produced two kittens ten weeks earlier.
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New York
Maude E. Ross
Decatur Street
Brooklyn
Board of Health
Miss Ross
Tabby
Farhurst Rejects Fine, Chooses Jail Over $25 Penalty
In Brooklyn, Eloise B. Farhurst refused a $25 speeding fine and chose jail. Magistrate Fish allowed protest and appeal, but she served one hour in jail before her mother paid the fine and she left. She insisted she was innocent and hardly moving when stopped.
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New York
Eloise B. Farhurst
Brooklyn
State crackdown on delinquent franchise taxes across counties
Sheriff spaulding and deputies hunted delinquent corporations listed by the secretary of state for franchise tax, issuing warrants to seize property. Only two firms remained operational and paid, while most obligations were settled in July and state receipts neared 2.62 million dollars. many delinquents face property seizure if taxes remain unpaid.
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Len D. Spaulding
Secretary of State
Emmerson
Alvin C. Margrave
Chicago Tourist Dies in Hotel While En Route to Coast
Mrs. George Cooper of 2931 Warren Avenue Chicago died suddenly Tuesday morning at the Voigt hotel in Buda. A 52 year old member of a motor party traveling to the Pacific coast she had been in delicate health for years and the trip was taken for her health.
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George Cooper
Warren Avenue
Chicago
Voigt
Buda
Pacific Coast
House Breaker Receives 50-Year Sentence in Michigan
A man described as slippery and gentlemanly was caught robbing residences during a Sandwich circus visit in De Kalb county. He was convicted at Mt. Clemens, Michigan, for assault with intent to murder. A Michigan conviction can carry up to 50 years, the sentence Rice received.
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de Kalb
Sandwich
Mt. Clemens
Mich
Michigan
Rice
Rat Remains Olfactory Free After Months Corpse
James Sykes, a Westfield New Jersey butcher, recalls a rat kept behind a barrel for three months without any odor. The rat was found dead with no smell, while RAT-SNAP products sold by Fehr and Cumming and Thompson Drug Co were advertised in three sizes 35e 65c and 1 25.
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James Sykes
Westfield
N. J
Fehr and Cumming and Thompson Drug Co
Petitions to Miners Seek Local Authorization for Meeting
Petitions mailed to Illinois locals by John Watt secretary of sub district No 4 United Mine Workers of America seek authorizing a special meeting to revise the wage scale and rewrite the state constitution to return power to the rank and file. If enough locals sign, the meeting will be called. Authorization was approved at a recent sub district convention.
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Ilinois
United Mine Workers
John Watt
United Mine Workers of America
We Had Forgotten Task of Cleaning a Horse
The Dayilus News recalls the laborious chores of grooming a horse with a brush and curry comb, reflecting on the effort required to polish and prep a horse before riding or work.
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Dayilus News
Aging of Mr Carte Wright Noted in Illinois Chronicle
An English paper notes Mr Carte Wright as considerably aged. His long black hair is described as very gray in tone and detail.
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Cartewright
Also Mentioned on This Page
Professional Directory
P. J. Secrest
P. F. McNamara
St. Paul and
Greenwood Sts
de Filippi
S. Spring Valley, Ll
J. H. Franklin
Jagodzinski Building
Spring Valley
DR. Ladue
Dr. Rummell
Edward Peters
Beil Phon
Chicald
Peoria RY
Dea
b—DePue
Joliet
la Salle
g—La Salle
k—Morris
m—tLa Salle
Meashan Confectonery
Greenwood
Dakota
Chicago NL
Joliet, Il
Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway
G. M. Bryant
DePue, Ill
C. A. Jensen
LA Salle Theatre
JOS. F. Kuss
Hotel
Kaskaskia
DR A. B. Connor
Telephone
Optometrist
LA Galle
Cassiday Bros
Soda Fountan
J. L. Murphy
Peltier Bldg
Boston
Illinois
THE
COX Jewelry CO
Marquette St
DR. Olmsted
Granville
John Wishnevsky
Prop
CG. L. Willey & Go
S. Rober St
Mars
Spring Valley, Ill
Spur
Lickett & Myers Tobacco Co
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