The detail of the metal fountain in the middle dates it before 1909 and the postcard itself has both address & message on the back, legal only after 1907. The condition of the card has obliterated the end of the artist's name: Drawn by T. Ma….
It is postmarked 1910.
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Keep your eye on THE FRONT WINDOW
Don’t fail to be at J. J. Stafford’s afore at 7:30 o’clock sharp Wednesday night and witness the novel fete of hypnotizing over the long distance telephone by the Great Mack of the Mack’s Hypnotic Comedy company. The Macks have a national reputation and are people of the highest moral and literary entertainers, whom to meet and to know is a real pleasure. The spectacle to be witnessed at the opera house has never been witnessed in this city before. No such artists In this line of work have ever visited this section. That the theatre will be turned into a merrymaking place as well as a school of instruction cannot again be said. All the tests and experiments, especially the comical ones, are the embodiment of entertainment. [Woodstock Sentinel Sept. 5, 1912]
C.R. Childs published the postcard, numbered G245. Charles R. Childs was a prominent Chicago photographer and post card manufacturer from about 1906 until the 1950s. He sent photographers out on the interurban trains to various towns in the Midwest to capture views that would be saleable. He specialized in "real photo" postcards.]]>
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Base ball was so popular that the Woodstock Sentinel had a weekly column “Among Those Who Play Base Ball” describing the upcoming game: “The Woodstock Y.M.C.A. baseball team will play the Elgin City team on next Saturday afternoon on the fairgrounds. This game should be of special interest to every lover of the sport as “Beldy” Hill and several other well known players will be present…In order to ensure a good attendance of the ladies, the management will give a one half pound box of Wittenberg and Bodenschatz’ choice candies to every lady who attends the game, and to the most popular baseball fan in Woodstock, a valuable prize will be given. A popular vote will be taken at the game and the one receiving the highest number of votes will be donated a $3.00 hat. Game called at 2:30. Admission 25 cents.” The following week’s column started: “Well Mayberry got the hat, the ladies got the candy. An-nd, El-Elgin (sic) got the game!!!” [Woodstock Sentinel July 18, 1907]
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The Spring House dominates the scene with horses and wagons tied to the rope surrounding the Square park on Benton Street. There are people on the sidewalks. There is a fairly clear view of the fountain in the Spring House as well as the fountain in the middle of the Square.
The card is addressed to Jamie Brink, #54 Oakley Blvd., Chicago, c/o C. S. Brink. The message reads "To Aunt Allie & Jamie. We are all well. We miss Jamie but know he is in good hands and want him to stay as long as he is contented. Chrissa Schryver fell & broke her ankle Wed. With love from all from Papa." It is postmarked 1909.]]>
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This card was printed after 1907, since it has space for a message on the reverse side as well as the address. Other postcards produced by this company have colored frames surrounding a black and white photograph. It is postmarked 1909.]]>
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This view of the Square park is from the Johnson Street entrance, with the silhouette of the metal fountain in the center and the Spring House to the right of the center. The postmark is dated 1908.
United Art Publishing (1901-1916). New York, NY. A publisher of tinted halftone and hand colored collotype postcards. They were printed in both Germany and in the United States.]]>
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Two versions of this postcard are included in the Jim Keefe collection. The first, and original, version is by E. C. Kropp of Milwaukee who took the photo and produced a colorized postcard. The second postcard has A.S. Wright Pub. in place of EC Kropp. It has a color wash rather than being full-color. Copyright laws were not always followed at the time, but perhaps Wright did work with Kropp rather than "pirate" the card.
When it was erected, everyone called it the Soldier's Monument. It has other names: Civil War Statue and The Sentinel due to the fact that the Woodstock Sentinel newspaper used a drawing of it as their masthead.]]>
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Antonio Zoia got the contract for the monument, which was carved of Barre and dark Quincy marble by a firm in Vermont. Several locations were considered: in a cemetery, then in one of the four corners of the park, and finally in the center of the Square where an ornamental fountain had been previously. Zoia erected the pedestal surmounted by a soldier standing at rest.
3,000 people attended the unveiling including 800 Woodstock school children, civil war veterans and their families, and military dignitaries.
The band stand was also erected in 1909.
Wm. G. Hoffman was in business producing postcards from 1908 until 1924. There are few clues in the photo to determine the date it was taken and there is no postmark on the back. ]]>
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Leander Young was a life-long resident of Woodstock. Born in 1851, he became a grocer as a young man and then expanding his store to include hardware. He was the Fire Marshall in 1898 and was a People's Life Insurance agent in 1914. He died in 1929.
His son Bart Colton Young, after graduating from Woodstock High School, became a stenographer. He was so skilled, that when Eugene Debs was incarcerated in the McHenry County Courthouse for six months in 1895 for contempt of court, he hired Bart as his clerk. After that, Bart worked for Oliver Typewriter Factory. His wedding anouncement in the Woodstock Sentinel describes the groom in glowing terms: "Soon after the Oliver factory came to Woodstock, Mr. Young was employed by the typewriter company, and through his strict attention to the detail work of turning out a perfect product, he has risen importance in the company's business until he now holds the foremanship of the aligning department and stock room, two of the most important departments in the whole factory." [Woodstock Sentinel, Sept. 21, 1905]
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Frank A. Daniels was a "Popular pharmacist and manager Of Hoy's Drug Store for many years. Woodstock never had a finer gentleman or more progressive citizen than was Frank Daniels. Died Oct. 10, 1917." [Woodstock Sentinel March 13, 1937, Section 6 page 4]]]>
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The panorama sky has a pinkish and blue wash, the trees and grass are a deep green, and the only building with any color is the red brown on the blacksmith's shop next to City Hall.
Comparing this panorama with the postcard "Park Scene, Woodstock, Ill." that has no information on the back other than "printed in Germany", we discover a bit of photo piracy--the two photos are identical.
The real publisher is E. C. Kropp of Milwaukee, who started in business in 1907. The postcard can be dated between then and 1910 (the postmark of the pirated card.) Kropp remained in business until 1956.
On the back of the panorama the Stamp Box lists the cost to send it:
"1 c to all Countries if writing your name only
2c to U.S., Canada and Mexico. 5c to all other countries, if writing a message"
121 W. Van Buren: City Hall
125 W. Van Buren" C. W. Hill Blacksmith
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This colorized post card can be dated between 1907 (the back of the postcard is divided to make room for a message as well as the address) and 1910 (the postmark).
The back lists no publisher. It is marked "Made in Germany" and production number is 190676. However, it is the exact photo used in the City Park, Woodstock, Ill. Panorama, so it has been pirated from the E. C. Kropp company of Milwaukee.]]>
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As in many postcards of the Square park, trees dominate the scene. The focal point is the bandstand, which was built in 1909 (not the current version of the bandstand.) Barely visible behind the trees and band stand are the buildings on Cass and automobiles on Main Street.
The production number is OA5192, indicating that it was produced in 1930.
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The message is on the front (as was required by postal regulations): "Best Wishes To You G.C.P"
The back of the postcard is for the address only. Post cards became popular in 1905. This one is postmarked 1906.
"Hand colored work, Luman T. Hoy" who started in the pharmacy business about 1870 at the corner of Cass & Hoy, and retired in 1928.
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The dirt street and the style of the bandstand date this to approximately 1909-1912.
The back of the postcard has no photographer or printer.
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This postcard, number 724, was published by Wm G Hoffman of Chicago who was in business from 1908-1924.
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The fountain is in the location of today's soldier's monument.
Since Wm. G. Hoffman traveled from Chicago to take this photo, it is likely that the people in the photo are not staged but are really enjoying the park. He was in business from 1908 to 1924. One of the two copies of the postcard is postmarked 1908 and the other 1910.
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It was printed after 1907, when the postal service permitted messages to be written on the back along with the address.
Luman T. Hoy had a drug store at 100 Cass from 1881-1928. He had this postcard printed in Germany as part of the PCK Series, number 3684.
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The format of the postcard, which has the space below the photo for messages, indicates that it might have been produced before 1907, when the postal service permitted messages to be written on the back along with the address.
However, the back of the postcard is divided with space for both message and address, so it was printed no earlier than 1907.
The message about addressee being too stingy to spend one cent on a postcard as well as one cent for a stamp continues on the back.
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The Birds Eye View shows the City Hall/Opera House, the new Central School built in 1906, and the old Public School, built in 1867. Since this school burned in 1919, this photo is dated between 1912 and 1919.
Notice that there is no Johnson Street between Van Buren and Calhoun Street. Johnson St was extended in 1921 to accommodate the new post office.
121 W. Van Buren: City Hall
125 W. Van Buren: Chauncy Hill Blacksmith
129 W. Van Buren:
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Two clues make it possible to date the card as 1906 or 1907. First, the back of the postcard includes "The address to be written on this side." The postal service did not permit any messages to be written on the back until 1907. The message on the front reads, "Best regard S.C.P." The postmark on the back of this card is 1907.
Second, D. F. Coakley purchased the meat market from Herely & Sons on May 17, 1906. Dennis Coakley stayed in business "for a number of years'" according to the Woodstock Sentinel.
109 E. Van Buren: A. S. Wright Drugs and Medicine
111 E. Van Buren: Bunker Brothers Hardware and Groceries: Flour, Salt and Barbed Wire. The Wheat & Wright Drugs & Medicines, Books & Stationery partnership started in 1869 and became A. S. Wright in 1880.
113 E. Van Buren: D. F. Coakley Market
115 E. Van Buren:
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117 E. Van Buren: Southside Market
121 W. Van Buren: City Hall
125 W. Van Buren: Chauncy Hill Blacksmith
127 W. Van Buren:
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The photo shows the proximity of the factory to the railroad tracks and is far enough away to show a portion of the west side.
The back of the postcard identifies the publisher as the American 5 and 10 cent Stores Co. Woodstock, Ill. It was postmarked 1914.
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This color postcard was produced between 1902, when the separate office and gateway was built in front of the original factory building, and 1906, when a large addition was erected on the eastern side of the factory.
The photo is clear enough to see the 250' long and 80' wide addition put on the original building in 1903. There were 515 employees when this was under construction, many of them looking for housing. The expansion was adequate enough for only a few years. Newspaper stories in 1905 highlighted the 3000 machine backlog and noted that they were making 102 machines every 10 hours.
The photographer took this photo at nearly the same angle as the Oliver Typewriter Factory in Winter 1905 photo. There is no information about either the photographer or the postcard series.
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In 1905, the company was producing The Oliver Standard Visible Writer Model 3 for sale in the United States, and Model 4, the first produced for export. They were over 2000 machines behind filling orders and the factory turned out 125 machines every 10 hours, the usual workday. There were nearly 700 employees. ]]>
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HEADLIGHT: SIGHTS & SCENES ALONG THE CHICAGO NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD (1898)
"Oliver Typewriter Co
This is the largest manufacturing plant in Woodstock, and is one of the largest of its kind in the world. They employ upward of one hundred and fifty hands, most of whom are skilled mechanics, and the concern as a whole has been one of the most important factors in promoting the welfare and business interests of Woodstock. Their payroll amounts to more than $75,000 per year, and has been a gratifying item to the retail interests of the city. The company have been located in Woodstock since January, 1896, and the local management is vested F. R. Baytlett,. resident manager; John Whitworth, superintendent. The product is confined to the Oliver Typewriter exclusively, and the works have an immense capacity. They claim that the "Oliver" is the latest and mo<st striking embodiment, containing the five great essential features in typewriting machines of visible writing, simplicity, durability, speed, and manifolding power. The machine is a radical departure from all other methods of construction, and contains about 500 parts as against the complicated makes of other companies which contain from fifteen hundred to three thousand parts. This gives the "Oliver" the maximum of work with a minimum of mechanism. Nothing but the best material is used, which, combined with good construction, render the durability of this machine a foregone conclusion. One of its special features is the triangular form of type-bar used with the type at the apex, thus solving the question of perfect alignment in type-bar machines. It is absolutely impossible to lock two or more bars in case of an interference on this form of type-bar. The carriage is light, does not require much attention on the operating springs and responds readily to the escapement. It moves freely on anti-friction travelers, insuring an easy, steady motion, obviating the necessity of cleaning and oiling the guide-rail. The printing is always visible, and the platen can be turned automatically either way and at any distance. The marginal stop is instantly adjusted for any desired width of margin, and the platen may be reversed to make any additions or corrections without lifting a pawl. Any desired color can be obtained by placing a piece of carbon paper of the required shade under the ribbon when writing, and in cleaning this machine no extra attachment or circle-brush is needed, as the face of the type when at rest is turned upward and outward, making it possible to do the cleaning in a few seconds with an ordinary brush. In manifolding the Oliver is especially powerful, by reason of the fact that the imprint is obtained by the downward stroke of the bar, and is intensified by the tendency of the bars to drop toward the platen. The general offices of the company are at the N. E. cor. Washington and Dearborn Sts., Chicago, and its officers include some of the most representative business men in the city."
There were 12 different models of typewriters manufactured in Woodstock between 1896 and the closing of the factory in 1927. This Model 5 was manufactured between 1907 and 1914. This photo was used for advertising direct sales to the public in 1916. The writing says Manufactured by the Oliver Typewriter Co. Chicago USA. Keep machine cleaned and oiled.
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The building design incorporates the address of the Chicago Office at 105 W. Madison St.
The Tappan Steam Pump factory was closed in that same year (1895) and the city was able to bring the Oliver Typewriter Company, also of Chicago, to take over the building.]]>
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After the city sold the power plant to Commonwealth Edison in 1963, this building was sold to the Eltra Corporation (also known as Autolite and Woodstock Die Casting) who modernized the front and built a walkway between the second floors of this and original factory buildings so that employees did not have to go downstairs to cross Wheeler Street.]]>
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The Power, Light, and Water Plant served the city until it was sold to Commonwealth Edison in 1963. At that time, the building was sold to the Eltra Corporation (aka Woodstock Die Casting) who took the opportunity to expand their factory to 100,000 square feet. They built over that tracks so that rail cars could enter the factory building.]]>
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In 1964, Commonwealth Edison made an offer to buy the facility for $1.1 million. When the city rejected that offer, the company upped the amount to $4,385,000, including interest, over a 60-year period. That too was rejected. In 1960, Com Ed proposed $2,131,000 at 4.5 percent interest over a 35-year period, and the voters accepted. The transition was made January 1 1963. The city received annual payments of $99, 135.16 until 1996.
The sale was controversial. Local business people said that their electrical costs skyrocketed. Other residents said that their service was better.
Another difficulty: the Power Plant whistle blew at noon, and since the city no longer owned the whistle, that duty was transferred to the Autolite (later Eltra, later still Woodstock Die Cast) factory across the street. Eltra Company purchased the building in May 1964 and started a 5-year, 100,000 square foot expansion project.]]>
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An article in Time magazine, December 28, 1936, tells the best version of the story.
"Singing Mouse"
"Inmates of the Chicago Industrial Home for Children at Woodstock were convinced last fortnight that a canary was loose somewhere in the building. Day after day they heard it chirp and trill. Day after day they searched for it high & low without success. Then one day the school manager heard the piping behind him, turned and beheld its astonishing source--a small, grayish brown mouse.
Captured, placed in a glass jar and named Mickey, the singing mouse became the wonder & delightof school and neighborhood. Even newshawks admitted after an audition that it actually sang. When Assistant Director Robert Bean of the Chicago Zoological Park called, it faild to perform. Nonetheless Director Bean, who had heard of singing mice before, offered $150 for it. Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood, zoology curator of the Field Museum of Natural History, also said that he had heard of singing mice, though he had never seen one. Declared University of Chicago's Dr. Maud Slye, famed cancer experimenter: "I have had 160,000 mice and I never had one that sang. If there is a singing mouse, I am open to conviction."
To the mouse, renamed Minnie after examination by Zooman Bean, came a supreme test one evening last week. Up to a microphone in NBC's Chicago studios stepped the master of ceremonies of the NBC Jamboree to announce "the phenomenon of the century...the only mouse in the world who actually sings." Into the studio marched the Industrial School's tall, gaunt Manager Oscar Alva Allred, carring Minnie in a wire-fronted box. Holding the cage before the microhone, Manager Allred poked a small piece of insulated wire through a hole in the box top, tenderly prodded Minnie's belly. As the visible audience of 400 listened raptly, out over a national network went faint, wavering chirps and trills. It sounded as much like a cricket as like a canary, but that Minnie really sang there was no doubt. After the broadcast a cage was fashioned of glass and cardboard, its bottom strewn with strips of cloth and paper for mousy nesting. Press and newsreel photographers crowded around, snapped perky, self-assured Minnie until midnight. A Chicago hotel matched the Zoo's offer for her. Manager Allred held out for $1,000, hoped to get it from Walt Disney, whose singing mouse escaped a few months ago.
How & why mice sing is a scientific mystery. Dr. Slye thought Minnie might have a respiratory condition similar to human rales. In 1932 Zoologist Lee R. Dice of University of Michigan suggested in the Journal of Mammalogy that all mice may sing, but on a pitch too high for the human ear unless the mouse has unusual vocal equipment. In other words, perhaps Minnie was a basso mouse.
Dr. Dice, president of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters, secured a singing mouse in 1926, has bred many descendents without producing another real songster. Last spring he reported to the Yale Institute of Human Relations the mouse's superiority to the canary as a musical pet. Observed he: "The musical mouse can be heard only 25 feet, so that the song is less irritating to the nerves and can be escaped easily by moving out of range."
The Woodstock Sentinel followed the story with several articles. It turns out that there were two singing mice, Minnie and a daughter. On September 15, 1938, both were on exhibition at the Methodist Church as part of the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Children's Home. Unfortunately, just a little over a month later, Minnie died at the age of two years, two months.
The caption on the back of this photo identifies the event as Minnie signing her contract for a year of appearances on an unspecified "radio chain." Herbert Gensch is on the left and Robert Kendall from the radio chain is on the right.
In the Woodstock Archives, the file folder is labelled "Woodstock--Biography--Mice, Famous."
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Cyrus Durfee was a physician who practiced in Woodstock until 1874, then his name appears in the Chicago business directories until his death in 1901.
The house became the Always Inn sometime between 1903, When Thomas and Gertrude Shackell were married, and when this postcard was printed. The hotel was first known as Always Inn, but the name was listed as Hotel Hillcrest in the 1914 city directory. The Shackell’s ran the hotel until their deaths in 1950. He died on February 28 and she died March 13. It was still a hotel in 1960 (called The Crest), but was vacant for most of the 1960s. The house was divided into apartments around 1968.
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The building on the right was known as the Dacy Block, where agricultural implements and vehicles were sold. The illustration in the 1872 Atlas and Plat Book of McHenry County shows an empty space to the left that the artist filled with drawings of the items that were part of the "agricultural warehouse of T. J. Dacy." In a photo taken in 1888, wagons, carriages and wheels take up the same space and Dacy is still the owner.
This photo was taken by Gus Persson sometime between 1906 and 1908. Lumley and Field Lawyers were only together for a short time and most of the advertisements in the Woodstock Sentinel were published in 1906. George Field served the U. S. government in Washington for a while during this period but returned to Woodstock. Both he and Vincent Lumley were actively involved in city and county offices.
Harts Grocery and Walters & Burger Carriages and Farm Machinery were still in business in the same location in the 1916 city directory.]]>
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Two tickets that read “Special Assessment No. 23 Interest Coupon”, dated July 1, 1927, found on page 539.]]>
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A decade after the photo was taken, 1893, this section of the Square burned to the ground. A newspaper article indicated that the fire was accidentally started by someone who was smoking opium in the livery stable behind the Church Millinery building. The Church Millinery building is the two story framed building with two windows on the second floor.
In 1899 Malachi Church erected a new brick building, however he died of pneumonia before he was able to occupy it. Beginning 1902, and lasting 76 years, the Woodstock Dry Goods Store operated out of the first floor of the Church building. In 1910 the Illinois Bell Telephone Company moved their telephone exchange into the second floor using the space until the company built a new facility on the northeast corner of Jackson and Tryon Streets in 1959.
Milachi Church came to McHenry county with his parents in 1851 and moved to Woodstock around 1855. He served as County Sherriff from 1873-77 and again from 1881-83. His 1899 obituary stated he “was a man of jovial nature, and no one enjoyed a good joke better than he which made him popular with all who made his acquaintance” and that he “was a man of enterprising spirit evidenced by the beautiful structure he erected… The building will forever remain as a monument to his enterprise, as marking the last act of his life.”
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