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Citizens of Chicago were thus reminded that the ugly men who have supplanted the silk-hatted drivers of hansom cabs, were at war again. Policemen, whom taxi-drivers mortally hate and fear, could find no more definite clues to the burning than the likelihood that Checker cabbies had planned a mortal strategy. The sluggings, thefts, bombings, bumpings into and off, the strange noises of speedy warfare in the streets, continued in Chicago...
Public sympathy has rallied strongly to the young woman?so poor that she Lad no home except the taxi cabs parked overnight in a garage?and so unfortunate as to have been falsely charged with improper conduct by two constables...
Therefore a Berlin taxi driver brought suit, last week, against a stingy "Polish" businessman who refused to give him more than 50 marks ($11.90), when the honest chauffeur found and restored $37,000 in unregistered, negotiable securities. The reward now legally demanded is 16,000 marks...
Lost: Jewel Case, pink leather; believe left in taxi, picked up at French Line pier and dismissed at Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Tuesday about noon; reward. See Cashier, Ritz-Carlton Hotel...
...might also witness exhibitions of: murder, robbery, rape. Since preachers sometimes have cause to mention vice, it is well for them to have some knowledge of its nature and consequences. Thus it might be clever for some preacher to perform for a time as the driver of a taxi. This was what the Rev. Thomas H. Whelpley, Manhattan Presbyterian pastor...