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Newspaper
Brookfield Magnet
Location
Brookfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1947
Page
5
Plans outline a three day program from August 20 to September 1 featuring a race meet at Ginger Creek and Na toma, conformation and working hunter classes, hunt teams, and a special polo game. Trophies totaling over $5,000 attract top horses riders and equestrian followers.
The Electro motive plant hosts an all day golf event Sunday Aug 17 at St Andrews course on Hill Route 5 near Route 64 North Avenue. Two 18 hole courses accommodate top players. Up to 300 players expected to compete. Chairman Eddie Schulfer reports a sell out. clubhouse dining rooms available for dinner parties.
The YMCA education program sent 82 boys last Wednesday and 48 girls last Thursday from La Grange Western Springs and Brookfield on tours to the Chicago Municipal airport Chinatown and a fire station. Volunteers escorted, watches planes, explored engines, and browsed a Chinese temple art shop before a Chinese guide led tours of the temple and city hall. After seeing chopsticks skills at meals the children returned to buses for the picnic planning Hawthorne Hosting and Fishing Club at Fox River Grove forming a 4000+ crowd event with races clowns and water sports on August 17.
County board approved adding two more parcels on Canal street as part of the Congress Street super-highway project. An appraisal lists 41 parcels totaling 2.8147 acres with a total value of 842799, all on the south side of Harrison street near IHB tracks. Additional parcels along Van Buren Canal and near Westchester Broadview were included to ease construction access.
Before the war Britain grew only thirty percent of its food but now every other meal eaten in Britain is produced entirely in the country, highlighting a dramatic shift to domestic agriculture and self sufficiency.
A social bridge event at the Dubonnet restaurant on Sunday August 10 saw fourteen couples vie for the title Pair Champions. Champs were Mrs Rosalie Willis with Mrs G Loutsch and Mr and Mrs L Stokes. runners-up were Mrs E Pierce and Harry Nelson and Mr and Mrs Gustin and Mr and Mrs Weber.
The description notes a parcel on the southwest corner of Harrison and Canal with 56 feet fronting Harrison and 93 feet along Canal. Contains measurements and street frontage details for the property in question.
The reading notes that the production titled En Paice TM remains ongoing as the show closes this Saturday. Cast and crew wrap up performances and audiences are urged to attend the final curtain.
Fragmentary note notes Hadrian's Wall construction and northern England defenses. Mentions long build period and inroads by tribes, praising engineering while indicating Roman effort to withstand northern incursions.
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