Foreign Language Press Service

The dressmakers' union, Local 100, succeeded in signing an agreement, last Thursday, with the majority of the manufacturers in the local dress industry. Yesterday, they scored an important victory when they signed an agreement with the firm of Arthur Wise, 315 West Adams Street, the largest d

Doctor W. F. Ernst sold his spacious home, located on the northwest corner of 54th Street and Greenwood Place, to Frank A. Mayer for $35,000. Louis Geyler, an automobile dealer, bought the three beautiful residences located at 1232-36 Hyde Park Boulevard, and mortgaged for $63,500,

Yesterday at about one-thirty in the afternoon, a large black automobile stopped not far from the Sixteenth Street State Bank, at the corner of Sixteenth Street and St. Louis Avenue. Six bandits got out and entered the bank. They flashed their revolvers before the eyes of the cashier, Mr. Jac

[A one-column-wide cut, with the caption "Charles George, President of the Manufacturers' Equipment Company," appears in the Greek original.] On a beautiful site in Chicago, near Oak Park, there is a huge factory built in the most modern and healthful manner. It sparkles with cleanl

A group of South Side businessmen have established a State Street Businessmen's Protective Association. The leader of the new association is Mr. Riefman, 3208 South State Street, at whose home the organizational meeting was held. A large meeting will be held Wednesday evening, August 13, at t

E. Edelmann And Company have bought the unimproved property located at the southeast corner of Crawford and Schubert Avenues, 217 by 700 feet, from the Chicago Title and Trust Company for $160,000, or a dollar per square foot. Buyer intends to erect a $250,000 factory on the site as soon as b

Mr. Herman H. Newberger, owner of the Royal Knitting Mills, 846 West Jackson Boulevard, whose workers have been on strike for over three weeks, signed an agreement with the union yesterday and immediately regretted having done so. This bit of news was related by Mr. M. Rappaport, le

Tonight, at 7:30 P.M., at the Odd Fellows Hall, 3337 South State Street, all Jewish storekeepers on the South Side will meet to discuss together ways and means of protecting their interests. This meeting is being called by the State Street Businessmen's Protective Association, which

Anton Krusler, two-story frame apartment house, 1462 West 73rd Street. Cost, $5,000. J. Friede, one-story brick bungalow, 8810 Parnell Avenue. Cost, $5,500. Frank Friede, one-story brick bungalow, 8816 Parnell Avenue. Cost, $5,500. H. L. Seigel, two-story brick c

More than 150 Jewish businessmen on the South Side, many of whom suffered considerably in this last bloody race riot, gathered last night at the Odd Fellows Hall, 3337 South State Street, and organized an association to protect their interests, and to stand as a permanent guard against the re

We owe thanks to the well-known Chicago wholesale grocery firm, Grossfeld and Roe, because they have undertaken to send kosher food products to the unfortunate Jewish families in Poland and the other war countries. It would be impossible to describe in words the dire necessity of re

M. R. Plotke, three-story brick apartment house, 3821-29 Rokeby Street. Cost, $150,000. J. Heinrich, one-story frame residence, 6073 Northcott Avenue. Cost, $5,000.

The commercial building located at 1031-33 West Madison Street was sold by the Charles Estate to Henry Wolf for $25,000. The three-story commercial and residential building located at 3644-46 Lawrence Avenue, and mortgaged for $16,000, was sold by Jeanette Abrams to Beckie Goldstein

The West Side National Bank, on Ashland Avenue at the corner of Roosevelt Road, announces that the Federal Government has repealed its law prohibiting the sending of Russian rubles to Europe. Everyone who has Russian rubles may send them to Lithuania, Poland, Estonia and every count

On August 8, the Courier printed a notice regarding the disappearance of the well-known Jewish merchant of the Northwest Side, H. J. Bloomson; it appeared that his creditors had brought a petition for his bankruptcy. Last Friday, that is a week after this news was printed in the Courier, the

At yesterday's meeting of the executive council of the Italian Chamber of Commerce, it was decided to open a subscription campaign under the sponsorship of the Italian Chamber of Commerce for the printing of 25,000 copies of the splendid speech made by Senator L. Y. Sherman, in which he favor

Yesterday the workers in the various Italian Macaroni factories decided, after the insistence of the owners, to return to work. But later after coming back on the job, they again agreed to strike. The strike organizers, it seems, have not succeeded in bringing the owners to terms. View details

Walter Ahlschlager, architect, and Stafford and Tranke, real-estate brokers, bought the vacant property on the northeast corner of Sheridan Road and Wilson Avenue for $450,000, the highest price ever paid for property in this vicinity. They also bought the nearby property at 936-38 Wilson Ave

H. G. Fischer and Company, three-story brick factory, 2335-39 Wabansia Avenue. Cost, $65,000. George Weimann, one-story residence, 4931 North Hamlin Avenue. Cost, $5,000.

W. H. Wood bought the residence at 6826 Euclid Avenue from M. Behrens for $36,500. The apartment building on the south side of Windsor Avenue, 279 feet east of Sheridan Road, was sold by C. Adler to William H. Lange for $20,000. The apartment building at 3500-02 Rokeby Str