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...Other important Chicago suburbs : Riverside, whilom seat of Society; Hinsdale and Wheaton, gentleman-farmer communities; Oak Park, Rogers Park and Wilmette, ''middle class" communities, civic-spirited; Evanston, puritanical and efficient; Kenilworth, Winnetka and Glencoe, more countrified and country-clubby; Highland Park, a cross between these and the larger pretensions of Evanston; Lake Forest, "the Newport of the Middle West...
...work of the W. C. T. U. is just beginning.'"-so exhorted Miss Anna A. Gordon, President, to a great host of women, brimming with enthusiasm, who assembled in Chicago to celebrate the 50th birthday of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Miss Gordon herself dwells in Evanston, also the home of Charles G. Dawes. She lives in Rest Cottage, which was the home of Frances E. Willard, founder of the movement, and which was left by Miss Willard as a legacy to Miss Gordon. The delegates made a pilgrimage to this shrine of their Union...
Northwestern?In Candidate Dawes' home town of Evanston, Ill., the campus seemed devoid of Democrats, as reflected in the columns of The Daily Northwestern. LaFollette and Wheeler had their cohorts none the less...
...same afternoon that General Charles G. Dawes repaired to Evanston, Ill., eleven explosive young gentlemen from Purdue turned up there also. Great was Notherwestern's dis- comfort. One field goal for the Purple, far from dampening the ardor of these young gentlemen, inflamed them to such an extent that they touched off numerous forward passes, one of which fulminated behind the Northwestern goal line. Score : Purdue 7, Northwestern...
There was a great parade of the buddies. In it marched General Charles G. Dawes, with the Evanston contingent, refusing to sit on the reviewing stand. There was a public marriage of a post commander from Winnebago, on a platform before the grandstand on the State fair grounds. Eighteen chaplains, a band of "3,700 pieces," a spotlight, a freight-car load of wedding presents and 50,000 spectators took part...