Impromptu Sea Chase Across the Channel
Carrington pursues the Flying Star as Ellen’s swift boat closes in, with Strathgate and Cooper in close support. A dramatic clash near harbor entry ends with Carrington ramming Strathgate’s cutter, forcing a tense halt as the vessels reel toward port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrington
Strathgate
Haight
Cooper
Flying Star
Hilen
Deborah
Artis
Ellen
Eilen
Strathgate's
Rington
America
Earl
Harbor
France
Portsmouth
Fasr
A Day's Meal Breakfast to Dinner Menu Note
A day’s meals listed include breakfast with strawberries creamed codfish baked potatoes wheat muffins coffee. Luncheon features baked beans with sauce tartar tartlet iced fruit lemonade. Dinner offers beef stew pie spinach potatoes lettuce and cooked cauliflower with French dressing sherbet coffee. Harper’s Bazaar advert in The Republican.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper's Ba
Real Estate Transfers and releases in Joliet area
Numerous property transfers and two releases recorded in Joliet and surrounding towns including transfers to David Steinberg, Mary Greenwood, Thomas Thompson, and others. Transactions cover lots and subdivisions in Symerton Joliet Frankfort and Rockdale with values from 50 to 5000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas, Allen
David Steinberg
C. & W. Coal Co
Braidwood
Valentine
W. Fiel
Mary R. Greenwrood
Sunnyside
Joliet
Mollie
P. Hunter
Wm.h
Thomas Thompson
Hunter & King‘s
David
Stephen
Lorenzo Ruggles
Smith
Adn
Frankfort
T. Kelly
Janosica
Sylvan Hills
People's
H. A. Anderson
Akin
People’s
Chas
E. Parker
J. M. Westphal
Lena Johnston
Durham & English
Italian Inventors Patent Sunken Vessel Rope Device
Italian inventors patent a rope pulling mechanism that travels through a sunken vessel. Two screw augurs start from one side and exit the other in a half circle, driven by a motor inside a steel casing. Wires feed the surface and rope through the passage bored by the augurs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Cure
Testimonial letters claim Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured female troubles and avoided operations for women in Maine and Chicago. The advertisement touts thirty years of use, lists conditions, and invites readers to write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
A. Williams
Gardiner
Maine
Lydia B. Pinkham
Alvina Sperling
Cleybourne Ave
Chicago
Lydia H. Pinkham
Lydia K. Pinkham
Hapgoods (Inc
Brain Brokers Suide 1013
Hartford Bidg
Til
Joliet Sealed Coal Bids Sought for Water Works 1908
The City of Joliet invites sealed bids for coal to supply its water works for the year ending April 1, 1909. Bids due by 7:30 p.m. June 29, 1908. Coal must be Best Screened Lump through 1 1/2 inch screen and Washed Egg. Bid bond $100. City may reject any or all bids. City Clerk: M P Berscheid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of Joliet
Western Weighing Association
Joliet
Suits Cleaned and Pressed by Albert Valentine
Joliet business directory item notes Albert Valentine at 608 Jefferson St NW Chicago call 1731 for suit cleaning and pressing. Services include steam cleaning dyeing and repairs with ladies' work specialty and pickup delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Valentine
Jefferson St
N. W
Chicago
Hair Dressing Parlors and Beauty Services Ad
Mrs M E Burkett offers hair dressing electric scalp treatment shampooing facial massage manicuring and child hair cutting at 319 North Chicago Street with a full line of hair goods for sale Chicago phone 2403. Edith I Goodspeed, agent, Joliet at Fourth and Winston avenues, offers fire insurance and reliability claims with promos. Both phones 1461.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. E. Burkett
Chicago Street
Chicago
Continental
New York
Connecticut
Hartford
San Francisco
Edith I. Goodspeed
Fourth and
Winston Avenues
Joliet
Doctors and addresses in osteopathic listings
A clustered directory of physicians Dr Carrie A Morgan Dr Mable Morgan Dr Charles Be Cushman Dr Roy B Leach and Dr H A Patterson with office addresses in Chicago Joliet and surrounding areas. It lists hours and telephone numbers for each practitioner and mentions affiliations with osteopathic medicine organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie A
Mable Morgan
School of Osteopathy
Nu St
Chicago
Buell Ave
Charles Be, Cushman
D. O
American Coim of Osteopathic Medicine
Bt Office
Roy B. Leach
Joliet, IL
Barber Building
Union Street
H. A. Patterson
West Marion
Charles A
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Cyrus Townsend
Brady
Pay Walters
Ga Carman
J. Wy. FitzGibbons
Le‘ma C. Daras
Millboro
Fannie Singleton
Sarah A. Singleton
People’s United Evangelical Church of
Symerton
Henry A. Fink
Wilmington
Stephen Phelan
Wm. P. Miller
Kankakee River
Phelan
Munroe
John McAvoy
Martin Coleman
H. O. Williams
M. H. Stasman
Flora M. Johnston
Geo. F
Henry’s
M. H. Staassen
Rockdale
H. O. Williams Suce
M. H. Stassen
August Petreikis
Same
Boleslav Karejva
M. Westphal
Theo. L. Grosser
Crete
John Blank
Henry Knaack
A. J. McIntyre
Mollie P. Hunter
Hunter & King’s
Ada
Harper's Bazar
Matt. Berscheid
Rayo Lee
Standard Oil Company
Joliet Business Directory
American Dye House
Ae Cement
Erikson & Swanson
Hebbard Street
Alfred Wenberg
Mason
Hunter Avenue
Wenberg & Winblad
Illinois Streets
Telephone
Streator
Bloomington
Peoria
John Liess
Ai Alice DO Dombrowska
W. A. Gustafson
Cass Street
Harry Myers
Illinois
Fiexer & Reichmann
Bluff
Exchange Streets
Mary Pierce
Hibbard Street
L. F. Kuicks
Ruby
Hickory
Louis Plitt
Collins
C. A. Peterson
Ond Avenue
M. H. Freeman
Grocer
South
Lockport
Volz Bros
State Street
Midland Life Insurance Co
East St. Louis
Ill
Mississippi Avenue
Chas. A. Noble
Landau‘avenue
The
Washington Life
E. A. Davis
Mar
Tribune Bidg
Munroe Bros. & CO
North
Stassen &Stephen
Barber
Loughran & Son
Loughran Building
Cowing & Young
General Trucking
R. EB. Clark
East Washington Street
Glen‘wood Avenue
Nicholson’ Street
Vine Street
Shields
John Kammerman
Court House
Gary
Ind
Harry Hall
Republican
West Washington Street
South Desplaines Street
F.C. Hayward
A. Schoenstedt
Loughran
Cass
Chicago Ptreety
Frank D, Rich
Ottawa
First National Bank
F. C. Hayward
Undertakers
Frank A. Johnson
F. A. Hoover
Building
Wed& Thun
Stassen & Stephen
Western and
Southern Lands
Barber Bldg
John H. Savage
Miinois
Illin
Bert Stevens
Anna Fandak
Mathias Fandak
Joliet, Nl
John J. Wellnitz
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