George M. Hill Printing Co. Building

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George M. Hill Printing Co. Building, Thorne Building
Life Span: 1892-~1912
Location: 166 S. Clinton
Architect: Unknown

Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1899

Hill George M Co

Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1906
Thorne Bldg.—166 to 174 S Clinton.

Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1911
Thorne Bldg.—213 S Clinton.
Western Telephone Mnfg Co Rolland L Porter pres 8th fl 219 S Clinton

Chicago Tribune, December 3, 1902

Bank Sues L. Frank Baum.
L. Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz, is the defendant in a suit for $1.200 damages in the Circuit court yesterday by the First National Bank. The suit In based on a note executed by Baum in favor of the George M. Hill company, his publishers. The note was discounted by the company at the bank and still remains unpaid. It is charged. Baum asserts that the note was paid when Robert 0. Law, receiver for the George M. Hill company, deducted the amount from the royalties due him from the concern.

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Inter Ocean, January 29, 1912

MANY FIRMS LOSE BY BLAZE.
Firemen Extinguish Flamer That Imperil Thorne Building.
Fire threatened to destroy the Thorne building, an eight story structure at 219 South Clinton street, occupied by a number of small firms, early yesterday. The sprinkler alarm called truck company No. 2 to the scene and the top for of the building, occupied by the Western Telephone company: was found to be in fames, so another alarm was sent in, The firemen pulled leads of hose to the roof with a rope and soon had the fire under control. The loss on the building aud contents was $20,000, mostly caused by water.

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