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Improvements
The corner of Bridge and Adams streets is to be highly improved the coming season.
For a long time this corner has been an eyesore to all the people and especially to visitors, for it is right in the heart of the city and daily passed by thousands.
On the upper side of Bridge street was the old rotten trap of a building, for so many years used as a Chinese Laundry. It was so old that it was liable to fall down.
Right above it on Adams street was a bill board and on the corner of First and Franklin streets, about a hundred feet away, was another billboard.
On the lower corner of Bridge street was another big bill board. The corner was certainly a disgrace to any city, but in a month or two it will be extremely difficult to recognize the locality.
A year ago the bill board was removed from the corner of Franklin and Adams and a neat though small store was built. This marked the ear of progress.
A few weeks ago the board at the corner of First street was taken out and a neat store building is now almost completed there.
Then the disappeared the one below the City Hall, where another small though store is now complete.
Lastly the board at the corner of Adams and Bridge was hauled away and E. Zelta is now putting up a good building for Ed Darst.
It will be brick, two stories high of large dimensions and cost in the neighborhood of $10,000. It will be complete in a few weeks. men were set to work repairing the old laundry, but it is to be torn down altogether, and it is probable a new building will be put up as it is too good corner to stand idle.
Peoria Daily Transcript, April 21, 1891[ch- 2007]
 


A Bargin- I Have of the finest lots in Bismarck Place, built up around, close to Garfield School and Home of the Good Shepherd, which I desire to sale.
This is a bargin in them. One fourth cash, balance in one, two and three years with six per cent interest on deferred payments. R.M. Hanna.
Peoria Daily Transcript, April 21, 1891[ch- 2007]
 

Ten Left- There are only ten lots left in the Fairhelm Addition, Averyville, these are offered at $600. each, but will be worth a great deal more when the Straw Board Mill starts up.
They are nice, dry lots with a good views as any in Peoria off the brow of the Bluff s. [No name was listed as to whom was selling these lost-ch]
Peoria Daily Transcript, April 21, 1891[ch- 2007]

 

Big Real Estate Deal
The real estate business is picking up. there has been a number of small transactions of late.
One larger than common was purchased of the Luthy tract,
next to the water works, by W.E. S. Bunn. There are sixty-three acres in this and the price paid was $25,000.
Peoria Daily transcript, Friday July 24, 1891 [ch- 2007]