Forty-First Illinois General Assembly Enacts Wide Reform
A lengthy list of laws enacted by Illinois lawmakers covers law school exemptions for pre November 4 1897 entrants. city pawners societies with $50 000 capital. usury caps at 18 percent. justices of the peace in Chicago annexed territory. train routing through county seats. ceding lands for public buildings in Elgin Joliet Streator Freeport and Mundelein. pure food duties. local improvement payments. teacher qualifications. military code updates. appellate court terms. standardizing commodities reporting. state colony for epileptics. state architect. building and loan credit rules. licensing and renewing architects. burglary and casualty insurance creation. life policy deposits. annuals reports. university funds for agricultural instruction. fishing labels. boulevard construction in Chicago. school tax reallocation. annexation procedures. park district extensions. Australian ballot primaries. fraternal beneficiary law. Chicago Santa Fe rail title. revised game and fire laws. canal lands sale. surety companies. waterworks purchases. voter registry and challenges. lodging house regulations. general election reforms. medical practice credentialing. licensing of osteopathy. employment protections. free employment agencies in Chicago. arbitration enforcement. coal mine safety and health rules.
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Fortyfirst General Assembly
Illnois
Supreme Court
Chicago
United States
Elgin
Joiet
Streator
Freeport
Monmouth
Board of Education
Second
Ottawa
Conalgnee
Titnois
Building and Loan Association
Secretary of State
University of Illinois
State Agricultural College
Lake Michigan
North
South Park
Sali Elty
Senate of College Or Academy
Buin
Cook County
Berogin
Ancient Order of United Workmen
Chicago & Santa Fa. Railroad Company
Ilinois
Illinois and
Michigan
State Board of Health
Illinois
Department of Labor
State Board of Arbitration
Rats Attack Lodger at South Chicago Police Station
Frank Morgan, a jobless lodger, sought shelter in the lodgers area of the basement. While dozing he was bitten by a rat, then swarm of huge rats attacked, biting arms legs and scalp as police arrived to rescue him. Dozen rats killed. one giant rat slain to free his scalp. prognosis uncertain without infection.
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Frank Morgan
Chicago Avenue
Morgan
German Miner’s Brother Recalled After Death In Spring Valley
A Chicago saloon keeper, brother of Heartless Krother Thomas Hoos, arrived in Spring Valley to settle $19 the coal company owed the deceased miner. He then boarded a train home, leaving the body to be buried by the county.
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Krother
Thomas Hoos
Spring Valley
Chicago
Conl Company
Peoria Star
The Comforter Promised Study on the Holy Spirit
Adapted from Petowhet notes, this study guides readers through the Holy Spirit as Comforter. It outlines the Spirit’s threefold work: in Christ’s historical mission, in believers, and in the unbelieving world, with emphasis on guidance, teaching, and peace.
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Petowhet
Jerusalem
Jesus
Lie
Isis
Christ
Glohn
Ilim
Judas
Jude
Lebbeus
Peter
Paul
Silas
Philippi
Marvelous Kidney Remedy Swamp-Root Advert Finds Help
An old advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a cure for kidney bladder and uric acid troubles and offers free samples by mail. It lists numerous ailments and claims hospital and private practice success plus a book of testimonials. Readers are urged to mail their address to Dr Kilmer Co. for a sample and information.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, XN
Outing Ends With Beasts and Bugs in Detroit Free Press Tale
A comic Detroit Free Press fragment recalls a neighbor’s strenuous outing filled with insects and comic trials. The narrator endures mosquitos, moths, beetles, and buzzing hullabaloo, claiming muscles now tougher and more flexible, before bees invade his hat and he heads home on the first train.
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Millers
Detroit Free Press
The Fourth Dementia of Golf Mania
A physician labels golf as the fourth dementia or golficitia, a chronic but curable maniacal craze. Noting loathing for business, profanity, irritability, flamboyant dress, disdain for truth, and love of the outdoors, the piece critiques this mania as a quirky cultural obsession.
Alabastine Wall Coating Promotes Health and Durability
Alabastine is promoted as the original durable wall coating, not a kalksamine. Available ready for use in white or tinted by adding cold water, sold in five pound bags with full directions. It claims purity, durability, health safeguards, and compatibility with plastered walls, wood ceilings, brick or canvas. Beware of imitations and misrepresented substitutes sold by some dealers.
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ADIES
Ensible
Dessera
Ceaters
Alabastine Co
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Forty- First General Assembly
Roberts
Klondike
L. A. W. Bulletin
Irea
Grand Rapids
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