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Jan. 29

1896: The Central Prebyterian Church is Organized

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Jan. 28

1905: A Local Physcian warns debutanted that “tea & coffee drinking and eating of much rich food bring stagnation of the arteries and eventually heart trouble or apoplexy.”

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Jan. 27

1897: Mrs. William McKinley arrives in Chiocago to superviise the making of her “inagural robe” at Marshall Field & Co.

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Jan. 26

1881: The press learn s of the sale of Field, Lieter, & Co. to Marshall Field.

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Jan. 25

1848: Scottish-American celebrate Robert Burn’s Birthday with a ball at the Sherman House.

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Jan. 24

1921: Chicago’s gasoline prices drop by $.02 to $.27/gallon (Now around 2.27/gallon)

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Jan. 23

1907: Several hundred anarchists, socialists, and unemployed line up to march on city hall. The oragnizer of the protset in arrested.

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Jan. 22

1919: Mrs. Joseph M. Cudhay is elected president of the Visitng Nurses Association

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Jan. 21

1897: Suffragist Susan B. Anthony arrives in Chicaog to stay with Mrs. S. E. Gross, wife of the influential rael estate developer.

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Jan. 20

1901: A test conducted by the Columbia Phonograph Company indicates that the intersection on Lake St. & Wells St. is the noisiest spot in the city.

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Jan. 19

1921: Dr. Herman N. Bundesen of Chicago Health Deparrtment announces that a new chlorine-mesasuring device for the city water system will end occasional overdoses of that chemical in the water.

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Jan. 18

1913: The Auditorium Thatre sells out for Italian soprano Luisa Tetrazzini’s Chicago debut in “La Traviata,” her most famour role.

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Jan. 17

1893; The Calumet Clib building at Micahigan Av. & 20th St. burns

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Jan. 16

1836: The first Chicago Railroad, the Galena & Chicago Union, is charted

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Jan. 15

1848: The first telegraph message to Chicago is recieved from Milwaukee

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