On this date
As reported by the Chicago Daily News, sister paper of the Chicago Sun-Times:
100 years ago
A Southwest Side packing company was fined for "contaminating the waters of the Chicago River by depositing foreign matter in the river at 41st and Ashland." The Schwarzschild & Sulzberger company, also at 41st and Ashland, was fined the maximum -- $100 --by Municipal Judge Scovel.
75 years ago
In Allegan, Mich., Justice of the Peace Fidus E. Fish will decide the fate of Fred Rind, a Kalamazoo, Mich., dancing master, and his wife, "who conducted a nudist camp on the banks of Swan Creek," near Allegan. The decision to try the case came after the testimony from the chief complaining witness, a grandmother named Mary Angiers, whose property adjoins the grove where the nudists gamboled. Angiers said she feared "depreciation of her property" and "forest fires."