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March 13

1902: Jan Kueblik, Czexh concert violinist, explais his earnings to the Chicago Tribune: for four appearances in Chicago he reieved $11,000 and all expenses paid.

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March 12

1921: The state unemployment office reports that there are 318 men for 100 jobd in Chicago.

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March 11

1897: The Democratic city convention chooses Carter H. Harrison II, as the party’s canidate for mayor.

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March 10

1902: Anna Held appears at the Illinois Theatre in Little Duchess

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March 9

1905: NOvelist Henry James arrive in Chicago to address the Twentieth Century Club

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March 8

1899: The South Park Comissioner (No Not ) formally oppose the use of parks and boulebards for commerical purposes by “horseless carriage companies.”

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March 7

1902: Dr. Chrstiam Fenger, well-known surgeon, dies at his LaSalle Street residence. He was 61 yrs. old.

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March 6

1933: Mayor Anton J. Cermak dies in Miami Florida, victim of the Feburary 15th assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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March 5

1881: President James A. Garfield nominates Robert Todd Lincoln of Chicaog for the post of secretary of war.

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March 4

1897: Melville W. Fuller of Chicago, chief justice of the UNited States supreme Court, adminsters the oath of office at President William McKinley’s inauguration.

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March 3

1851: The Sauganash Hotel burns in the early morning hours. Arson is suspecetd

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March 2

1908: Police Chief Shippey shoots and kills a would-be assassin who had invaded his home.

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March 1

1912: Mordecai Brown, “three fingered slab wonder and mainstay of the west side pitching staff” signs a three-year contract witth the Cubs at an undisclosed salary

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1896: More than 100 babis are born in Chicago and will not have abirthday for 8 years, since 1900 would be the next one.

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Feb. 28

1912: Physical education instructors of the Chicaog and Illinois Athletic clubs agree that the typical Chicago businessman has flat feet, rouns shoulders, and a paunch, and that not five per cent are “symmetrically developed.”

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