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THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS

ALMANAC

AND YEAR-BOOK

FOR

1913

COMPILED BY JAMES LANGLAND, M. A.

ISSUED BY

THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS COMPANY

[Copyright, 1912, by The Chicago Daily News Company.]

PREFACE.

This issue of The Daily News Almanac and Year-Book contains not only the usual statistical and other matter, revised and brought down to date, but considerable information of special interest and importance. Mention may be made, for example, of the following:

The presidential campaign in the United States, resulting in the defeat of the hitherto dominant political organization and the birth of a new national party. Details of the national nominating conventions are given and the national party platforms are published in full. Election returns from every county in the union are presented.

The enactment by the American congress of laws establishing a parcel post system, giving veterans of the civil war service pensions and providing for the permanent government and operation of the Panama canal, now nearing completion. Under the title "Work of the 63d Congress" summaries of many other acts of almost equal importance will be found.

The successful war waged by Bulgaria, Servia, Greece and Montenegro against Turkey, promising radical changes in the map of southeastern Europe and possibly solving the intricate Balkan problem.

Progress of the revolution in China leading to the abdication of the Manchu dynasty and the establishment of a great republic on an apparently firm basis.

Sinking of the Titanic, the world's largest steamship, with the loss of more than 1,500 lives, constituting the greatest tragedy of its kind in the world's history.

Attainment of the south pole by Roald Amundsen, the discoverer of the northwest passage.

Capital punishment and its effect on homicides.

The Daily News Almanac and Year-Book is indebted to city, state, national and other officials for the bulk of the facts and figures presented herewith.

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Canalejas Assassinated. Canals, Great Ship.. Canals in United States. Cane Sugar by Years.. Capital Punishment... Capitals of States.. Capitol in Washington. Cardinals, College of.. Carnegie Corporation.. Carnegie Foundation..

65 City Comptroller.. 210 City Collector's Office. 426 City Engineer's Office. 193 City Offices, Chicago. 327 City Officials, Portraits.

423 225

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Carnegie Hero Fund Awards.. 222
Carnegie Institution...
Carnegie Peace Endowment... 375
Carrel, Alexis, Sketch.
Carriage Fares..

604 175

City Populations by Color... 107 City Populations by Nativity. 107 City Treasurer's Office.. 547 City Treasurers Since 1837.... 595 Civic Association, American.. 423 388 Civic Federation.. 580 Civic Federation, National.... 423 Civil Engineers, Am. Society. 352 Civil Service Commission, City 549 381 Civil Service Commis'n, County 532 125 Civil Service Commis'n, State 509 63 Civil Service Commis'n, U. S. 238 596 Civil Service, United States.. 166 Civil Service League.. 580 Civil Service Reform Ass'n... 580 Claims, Court of.. 506

Casa Grande Ruin..
Cash Register Company Suit.. 214
Casualties, Miscellaneous..
Casualty Insurance.

Cattle in United States..
Cemeteries, Chicago..

Center of Population........88, 89 Claims, Court of, Illinois.

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Census Bureau, United States 275 Census, School, Chicago.. 614 Centenarians, Deaths of....

395

239

Central American States.. Cervenka, J. A., Portrait.

204

Clay Products.

123

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Copyright Amendment.

189

Chaco Canyon...

175 Cleveland, Foreign Born in... 111

Copyright Laws.......... 163

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Connery, J. F., Portrait..
Congress, Appropriations by.. 193
Congress, Fraternal.
Congress, Library of..
Congress Park..

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