Word: englewood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmers, Jacob Achenbach and Ira B. Blackstock. When Hardtner had been left railroadless by the Missouri Pacific these two men had built a railroad to Kiowa. ten miles away. Their fame as railroad builders had spread. The farmers of Beaver called upon them for help. Soon the Beaver, Meade $ Englewood Railroad Co. had a train running. But profits were hard to get, and in 1918 Carl J. Turpin of Oklahoma City, an ex-railroader, was called in as general manager. He soon had things shipshape along the seven-mile right-of-way, cheerfully worked without salary. In 1924 the road...
...dollars to little banks where unexpected runs had started. But not all the outlying banks were in a condition to warrant saving. In one crack the twelve banks of the John Bain chain went down, affecting laborers and commuting clerks in such Southside districts as Stony Island, Auburn Park, Englewood and Chicago Lawn. Although onetime Scot and onetime Plumber Bain said depositors would receive 100%, the alarm spread. By the end of the week 29 banks had closed, Evanston, Des Plaines, Washington Park and Beverly Hills had been added, along with other communities, to U. S. towns where bank failures...
...solid silver they would pave a road to Milwaukee. Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak (whose city last week was $5,000,000 in salary arrears) rushed to Lawndale State Bank to assure depositors that their bank was sound. When a run started on Chicago City Bank & Trust Co. (in Englewood on the South side), Melvin Alvah Traylor of First National Bank said his institution would guarantee that Chicago City Bank's depositors would be paid. Impatiently he added: ''They need a bank. If the people of that community want to wreck their own bank, they can go ahead...
...Englewood, Col., last week Mrs. Roy Zilk saw a big squirrel in her chickenyard. She shushed at it, but it did not behave like an ordinary squirrel and run away. Instead it turned, glared, leaped at her, sank its teeth into her hand...
Chief Jack Russell of the Englewood Police answered his telephone and heard a woman shout: "Come quick! A squirrel has a little girl down on the ground, biting her like a dog!" Incredulous, Chief Russell sped to the scene of action. He found frightened, bloody Lois in her mother's arms...