Hardware Co. in Tentative Stage. Plans Remain to Settle
The Hardware Co. enters a tentative phase as plans await final settlement. Mr. Adam acted as agent in the matter and indicated that remaining arrangements are not yet fixed.
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Newspaper
The Joliet Daily Republican
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
1
Center of the City Purchase Prompts Remodeling
Dee Barrett Hardware plans to remodel and enlarge its Central City site on Sang Street in North Ottawa with a 66 by 100 foot lot. The firm will relocate Economy to Wood Safety Deposit building. Barrett plans new two story front building and retains tenants Light & Power Co I J Electrical and Mersinger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dee Barrett
Hardware | Os
Sang
Ottawa Street
Sta
the Light & Power Co
I. J. Il
Phillip Mersinger
The
Or Light & Power Co
B. Kuehne
Anager Charles Munroe
Wood Safety Deposit
Chicago
Blackhell
Star-Wall Paper Co
Iikage Street
Barrett
Clinton
Taft Trip Delayed for Washington Conference
Telegraph report from December 27 notes Taft's winter home in Georgia was alerted by a sudden message to travel to Washington for a conference. The brief item records a delayed trip linked to a presidential or cabinet level engagement and mentions no further details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Georgia
Washington
Junfor
City police plan roundup of shoplifters after merchants aid
Merchants cooperate with detectives to arrest several men of shady reputation on vagrancy charges after holiday shopping. William Jones, a colored man, is linked to a broader operation with multiple dollars of goods recovered and identified in second hand stores. Jones’s case will be presented to a grand jury once further details unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Jones
Connors
Chicago
Automobile Skid Crash Kills Two In Milwaukee
Oscar Z. Bartlett a wealthy board of trade member and his chauffeur Albert Kuntz were killed when their car skidded and plunged through an open draw bridge. Kuntz went down with the machine and Bartlett was thrown clear. the body of Kuntz was not recovered and H. J. Salliday, president of Salliday Auto Co., escaped narrowly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Oscar Z. Bartlett
Board of Trade
Albert Kuntz
H. J. Salliday
Salliday Auto Co
Kuntz
Bartlett
Makes Amend for an Old Swindle
Telegraph Special Hammond December 17 charged that forty years ago C F Weil of Emporia Kansas received 3 50 for seven fox scalps from Porter county authorities. Weil sent a check for 11 94 including forty years interest to the conscience fund at Valparaiso. Weil confessed the scalps were shepherd dogs and he was recently converted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Telegraph
Hammond
Porter County
C. FE
Wisconsin in grip of a terrific storm
The worst storm of the winter sweeps Wisconsin with Milwaukee Sheboygan Port Washington Fond du Lac and Oshkosh in its grip. Heavy snow causes traffic standstill and telegraph wires go down across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
Sheboygan
Port’ Washington
Fon du Lac
Oshkosh
Aunt of Harry Thaw Aunt Dies in Frankfort Asylum
Miss Harriet Thaw aunt of Harry K Thaw died today at the Friends asylum for the insane in Frankfort. She was eighty five years old and her name surfaced during the second trial of Harry Thaw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Harriet Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
Friends Asylum For the
Frankfort
Harry-Thaw
Turning On Of Lights 10 A Gala Event
Aurora to be bedecked in her best for the inauguration of the new lighting system tonight. Entertainment planned to welcome visitors as the lights go on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurora
Aurora to Celebrate New East Side Lighting Tonight
Plans for the East Aurora Improvement Association lighting unveiling are published. The 7 30 p m ceremony at Main and Broadway features a cannon signal and a parade with bands, delegations from Joliet Elgin and other towns, and speeches by City Attorney Clyne and Mayor Finch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Main Street
Broadway
Charles Clyne
E. C. Finch
Aurora
Parched Soil Still Absorbs Rain Despite Threat of Flood
Rainfall would have to be exceedingly heavy and lengthy to endanger the city as dry soil absorbs moisture without immediate flood risk.
Flood risk in Hickory and Spring Creeks eases after brief freeze
City street department reports sewers in good condition and creeks low. Wetground absorbs rain quickly due to little frost after a dry period, preventing floods. Only two inches of ice noted. blockage cleared before backing up water near Vickory Street. Merchants fear rain will hurt business despite calm creek conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vickory Street
John Eileen
Confidence man Louise Miller jailed after penitentiary stay
Louise Miller an aliasing con artist known as Miller and several aliases was moved to the county jail after serving a little over a year of a one to five year indeterminate sentence. He was described as having used worthless checks to defraud across the middle United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowenstein
Shipere
United States
Aurora Men Given Long Terms in Kane County Jury Verdict
Pigott and Charles Lino were sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary by a Kane County circuit court jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurora
Assault case shocks Kane county with guilty verdict
Asa Pigott and Charles Lind were found guilty of criminal assault against Miss Sarah Larson in Geneva court. Sentenced to 15 years in Joliet State Penitentiary. The June 1907 incident on Broadway involved two young men and a friend. police and witnesses described the assault leading to immediate arrest and a high-profile trial. Bond details and grand jury binding followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larson
Kane County
Geneva
Joliet
Burlington
Kane ‘County
Mazzini Stusser
Miss Larson
Broadway
John Kaiser
Atolph Wira
Wife fears for children as divorce case proceeds
Mrs. Cornelia Zoerner Alleges husband has threatened to murder them and attempted to kidnap the children as she pursues divorce.
Divorce suit charges husband attacked wife with heavy chair
Mrs. Cornelia Zoerner seeks divorce from Henry Zoerner claiming life threats drunken abuse and two assaults including a chair attack that shattered a chair and damaged the floor. She alleges kidnapping attempts and eight months of support by her own earnings while caring for two children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zoerner
General Antonio Simon Elected President of Hayti
Telegraph Special reports from Port au Prince that General Antonio Simon narrowly won the presidency through Congress as December ends. Simon succeeds leadership amid political shifts and strong military backing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Au Princa
Antonio Simon
Hayti
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Barrett Company
van Buren and
Des Plaines
Aire
Lerson Street
Fiddymont
Vieil
IPS
GOED
Westland
Wisgonsin
Harry Thaw
Lic
East Aurora Im
Provement Association
City
C. C
Hinckley
Spring Street
New York Street
New York
River Street
River
Holbrook
Walnut Street
Fox Street
la Salle Street
Benton
Main
6Stand
E. W. Thompson
Charles Haén
Elgin
Plainfield
Wheaton
Batavia
Naperville
Fred A. Busse
Chicago Electrician
City Lighting Department
Lombard
Lombard, Hl
Ing
Louise “Miller
F. Leeb
Jack
Norton
F. M. Mulig
MR. Santa Claus
A Pigott
Charles Lino
Slasser
Asa Pigott
Charles Lind
Sarah
Cornelia Zoerner
Bill
Vorce
Henry
Edwood
Elwood
Vincent Kirninich
Anton Kirninich
Tlinois Steel Co
Antram & Hutchinson
Garnsey & Wood
Gen. Simon
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