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June 3
1908: The Chicago Board of Education rules the no one over the age of 50 will be hired for teching poistitons
June 2
1901: The audience of 6,000 at the Auditorium Theatre heard John Alexander Dowie decalre himeslef as the “Messanger of the Covenant, come to resotre all things”
May 30
1958: The body of Samuel Cardinal Stritch, who had died in Rome in May 27th, is brought home to Chicago for burial.
May 29
1902: Chief Of Police Francis O’Neill gives a patrolman a 5-Day suspension for smoking cigarettes while on duty.
May 27
1933: A Century Of Progress Exposition is formally opened in Chicago by United Staes Postmaster General James A. Farley
May 25
1901: The Golf team of the Harvard School defeats the Chicago Latin School Team in the first annual Interpreparatory Gold League Match
May 23
1907: The Horse Show Association cancels its show for this year because of decreasing public interetst, due to auto craze.
May 22
1902: Dean of Women Marion Talbot of the University of Chicago rules that coeds attending summer school must wear long sleeves and hats. Rolled-up sleeves and bare heads, she says are “unseemly” & “mannish” <– icon_scratch.gif
May 21
1924: Chicago’s first subwat, an underground extension of a mile and a quarter for the Northestern Elevated Railroad is completed.
