Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mayor of Chicago sent notice to the Chicago Base Ball Club yesterday to vacate its present quarters by April 4, as the city could make more money by leasing it to circuses. The club can get no other grounds nearer than two miles from the centre of the city. President Hurlbert of the club is seriously...
...with their revolvers, but it was three or four hours before any one hit it. Then again they put a large tin cap on the top of the soldiers' monument on the common. It took all of the hook and ladder companies and a windy speech of the mayor's to get it off. There used to to be some knockers in college then. Two or three of them would tackle a whole crowd, and fight till they cleaned them out, or got laid out themselves. Once a few of them cleaned out a whole car-load...
...Mayor Harrison of Chicago is making war on the gamblers and sporting men of that city...
...Angell. After various other addresses an adjournment will be taken to one of the larger lecture rooms, where Prex. will hold an informal reception, at which all so desiring may shake the returned president by the hand. With this touching ceremony the festivities close. It is rumored that the mayor of Ann Arbor, with his usual desire to preserve the public peace, has caused a force of special policemen to be sworn in for service on the day of reception, lest the exuberant spirits of fresh or soph should disturb the peaceful quiet of this home of culture...
Charges have been made against the Philadelphia detectives of dividing with thieves. Public sentiment has been awakened against the force, and the mayor has ordered an investigation...