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Augustus Binswanger was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, Jan. 19, 1844. Since coming to Chicago in 1888, Mr. Binswanger has taken an active interest in charitable and congregational affairs. He was a director and recording secretary of Sinai Congregation and has also been identified with t

Judge Sabath was born in Zabor, Bohemia April 4, 1866. He came to Chicago in 1881 and has acquired considerable prominence in politics. He is at present a justice of the peace. The judge is a member of B'nai Abraham Congregation and the Lakeside Club.

Mr. Conrad Withkowsky was born in 1839 in Posen, Prussia. He came to Chicago in 1852 and has since been engaged in the mercantile and insurance business. He is a member of Sinai Congregation and has served as one of its directors. He is a member of the Standard and Lakeside Clubs, and has bee

Mr. Joseph L. Gatzert was born in Hofhein, Germany, May 6, 1836. In 1852 he came to Chicago. From October, 1860, to 1862, he was recording secretary, and from 1864 to 1865, financial secretary of the U. H. R. A. From 1873 to 1874, and again, from 1896 to 1898 he was a director of the charitie

Mr. Simon W. Straus was born in Ligonier, Indiana. Mr. Straus is now conducting a bank in Chicago, known as S. W. Straus & Co. He is a member of Sinai Congregation and also a director. He is also connected with the Standard and the Hamilton Clubs. He was a director of the United

Mr. Leo. A. Loeb was born June 20, 1867, in Memphis, Tennessee. He is chairman of the relief committee of the United Hebrew Charities and has been one of the factors in organizing the Associated Hebrew Charities of Chicago. He is a member of the Standard Club and the Junior Partner of the fir

A new jargon daily and weekly under the name of "The Jewish Call" was started here a few months ago in the Jewish Settlement on the West Side. Morris Rosenfeld, the celebrated poet of the Ghetto, was engaged by the publisher to assist in editing the new paper. He wrote a number of editorials

David Wormser was born in Lardau, Rheinpflatz, Germany. He came to America in 1874, and to Chicago in 1878. Since then he has been in the mercantile business. He is at present the vice-president of K.A.M. Mr. Wormser is an ex-president of the Standard Club, of which he is now a member.

The other day the Record-Herald introduced to its readers "Dr. Carl Herslow, the prospective minister of state for Sweden-Norway". In a biographical sketch of this statesman the Record-Herald says in part: "Dr. Carl Herslow, who is generally mentioned as the successor of the present

p.11...........A private May-festival was held by Brage Lodge, No.2, I.O.V. at Phoenix Hall last Sunday afternoon. A nice program, consisting of fifteen members was presented. The festival began with a beautiful music-number by the I.O.V. Orchestra, after which the public was welcomed by Mr.

p.11.................The Swedish-American Republican Club in the Thirty-fifth Ward, last Saturday celebrated its first annual May-festival at Liberty Hall. Splendid piano music was rendered by the misses Ester and Elizabeth Rylander; "Skona Maj" (Beautiful May) was well sung by a male chorus

p.11..................From Bethany College latest Director's meeting we have the following: Dr. Swensson reported the following donation from the Hon. C. A. Smith of Minneapolis, Minnesota, twenty-five million feet of lumber on the root from Mr. Smith's timber lands in Oregon. This lumber is

p.11...................A banquet was given at the Boston Oyster House last Saturday evening, by former members of the now disbanded Alpha Literary Club. The banquet was given in honor of Dr. August Anderson's visit to this city. Mr. Anderson is on his way to Germany. Master of cerem

p.11....................A benefit concert and ball will be given at Phoenix Hall, 324 East Division Street, Sunday afternoon, May 19 at 4:00 P.M. for the widow and children of Ernst Lindgren, deceased. Tickets are twenty-five cents per person.

p.10......Svenska Glee Klubben (The Swedish Glee Club), 470 LaSalle Avenue. Svithiod Singing Society, 120 East Chicago Avenue. Fria Svenska Arbets Byran (The Free Swedish Employment Bureau), 78 Dearborn Street, rooms 15 and 17, telephone Central 2687, open every day except

p.11......A "Free-Thinkers'"society called the Ingersoll Memorial Association has been organized in this city and was incorporated last week by E. C. Reichwald, Frederic Dahlstrom and Samuel Roberts. The association intends to build a large meeting hall estimated at $100,000.00 as a memorial

p.6..........A newspaper which seeks to keep up with all the winds of opinion, must some times express a correct point of view. This important event occured a few days ago even for the Chicago American newspaper which recently went whole-heartedly "Bryannic"and upheld the demand that the Phil

p.11...............Dr. H. B. Almstedt, Instructor of Germanic languages at the University of Chicago, has been appointed professor of German at the State University of Missouri.

p.11...A beautiful painting, "The Open Sea", painted by our countryman, Charles Hallberg, which has been on exhibition at the Art Institute galleries, has been sold by the owner for $500.00 to J. H. Kehler, 5437 Indiana Street, Austin.

p.6....According to Mr. Ernst Lundgren's report to Nordstjernan, patents have been granted, during the past two weeks to the following Chicagoans: William E. Anderson, sash-fastener. Frank A. Lindquist, current changer for telephone. Magnus Svenson, a seed de-lin