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OK, so far

montefrazer is in the lead with 5 votes
MMRJR & Circletrack tied with 2 votes
Capmaster biding his time with 0 votes.

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I read a lot of book yesterday:

The Haunted Mesa-Louis L’Amour
Flint-Louis L’Amour
Showdown At Yellow Butte-Louis L’Amour
Kilrone-Louis L’Amour
Under The Sweetwater Rim-Louis L’Amour
Treaure Mountain-Louis L’Amour
Matagorda-Louis L’Amour
The Night Riders-Philip Ketchum
The Mounatain Valley War-Louis L’Amour
To The Far Blue Mountains-Louis L’Amour
Bendigo Shafter-Louis L’Amour
Sackett’s Land-Louis L’Amour
Borden Chantry-Louis L’Amour
Buckskin Run-Louis L’Amour
Lonely On The Mountain-Louis L’Amour
The First Fast Draw-Louis L’Amour
Fair Blows The Wind-Louis L’Amour
The Daybreakers-Louis L’Amour

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OK, Thanks Montefrazer!! thumbsup.gif

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Replacement (Holley)

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Dec. 9

1895; The Auditorium Theatre celebrates the sixth anniversary of its dedication with a miltary concert.

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Dec. 8

1917: As a routine wartime measure, the Post Office hires 10 women mail carriers.

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Dec. 7

1910: Chicago, with the population of 2,185,000, remains the fourth largest city in the world, just ahead of Berlin with 2,180,000

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Dec. 6

1910: John L. Sullivan, former heavyweight champion, asserts that prizefighting is dead in the United States because the public is so digusted with crooked practices.

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Dec. 5

1896: After a tour of Chicago, a representative of San Francisco’s street cleaning organization remarks that “as to Chicago streets, it is sufficent to say they do not impress me pleasantly.”

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Dec. 4

1674: Father jacques Marquette stops at the site of Chicago on a trip from Green Bay to Kaskaskia.

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Dec. 3

1900: Thousands crowd the exhibition halls at the Union Stock Yard on the opening day of the International Fat Stock Show.

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Dec. 2

1942: At the University of Chicago, Enrico Fermu supervises the world’s first controlled nuclear reaction.

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Dec. 1

1958: 93 lives are lost in the fire at Our Lady of the Angels School.

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Nov. 30:

1914: Sixty-five churches on the West Side extend a formal invitation to Billy Sunday to conduct a revival in Chicago.

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Nov. 29

1910: After a flood of protests against Mary Garden’s “incident” portrayal of Salome in the Oscar Wild-Richard Strauss opera of the name, the Chicago Opera Company cancels the three remaining permormances.

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