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1957 one United States dollar star note (Star precedes serial number) The United States and India [7] use " " in the serial number to mark a replacement banknote. These are known as "star notes". These were also used by Australia until 1972. Canada used " " at the beginning of serial numbers on its replacement banknotes until 1975. They are ...
The $1 silver certificate from the Hawaii overprint series. 1899 United States five-dollar Silver Certificate (Chief Note) depicting Running Antelope of the Húŋkpapȟa. Silver certificates are a type of representative money issued between 1878 and 1964 in the United States as part of its circulation of paper currency. [1]
Hicks was a small Chicago area builder; these were the only two interurban cars the company built. Both of these cars were in service in 1957. Car 310 was the last car back to Wheaton on the last day of passenger service. [8] [29] [30] 311-315 were wood body 52 seat coaches built by the G. C. Kuhlman Car Company in 1909. Unlike earlier cars ...
July 3 – The Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad abruptly ceases to carry passengers at 12:13pm. July 11 – Southern Pacific 's Colton Cutoff around Los Angeles is opened to traffic. July 27 – The Musquodoboit Railway ends steam locomotive operations with a round trip between Dartmouth and Upper Upper Musquodoboit , Nova Scotia , behind ...
March 22 – The 5.7 M w San Francisco earthquake shook the Bay Area in California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), causing $1 million in losses, one death and forty injuries. March 25 – Copies of Allen Ginsberg 's Howl and Other Poems (first published November 1, 1956 ), printed in the UK, are seized by United States ...
In 1957, Montgomery Ward purchased the State Street flagship store, as well as the Oak Park, Evergreen Plaza, and Old Orchard locations, from the Kresge syndicate in a bid to expand its Chicago operations; unlike many other retailers, Montgomery Ward had not joined in the construction of branch stores immediately following World War II.
The Daily News was Chicago's first penny paper, and the city's most widely read newspaper in the late nineteenth century. [2] Victor Lawson bought the Chicago Daily News in 1876 and became its business manager. Stone remained involved as an editor and later bought back an ownership stake, but Lawson took over full ownership again in 1888.