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Newspaper
Brookfield Magnet
Location
Brookfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1946
Page
3
A jumble of social items from Springfield and nearby towns mentions visits by Edwin Belknap Jr and families, Mrs Stine and Mrs Dun, and the Staley and Van Eman households. Items note hospital stays, stitches after a head injury, vacations taking place in Lake Delavan Pekin and LaGrange area, and various weekend gatherings and cards.
Allen Butterworth moderated a LaGrange interracial discussion on language and race relations with Olive Diggs Ben Zion Emanuel and Mrs Irving J Lee. Participants debated propaganda, stereotypes, and evaluating messages through ten tests, urging focus on individuals over groups and mindful testing of motives and democracy alignment.
Notes from Streamliner reveal Henry Berg, a electrosMotive worker in Joliet, as a possible motion picture short subject figure. Berg keeps millions of mealworms in his basement for zoo and pet shop orders nationwide, plus snails for aquarium feeds, with customers including Brookfield and Detroit Municipal zoos and a Fargo theatre owner. He ships weekly, describing a $173 allotment for 250000 specimens. The piece also mentions Hollywood newcomers and birth notices from Sherman Hospital and West Suburban hospital, including Nancy Ann Rogers and a July birth for the Swenarton family.
The passage lists various wood-derived chemicals and products such as callatase, Yguin, gunpowder base, paper, rayon, cellophane, imitation leather, molasses, and lacquers. It notes lignin can become plastics for floor tile and wallboard, used in leather tanning, as a flavoring agent, and even fuel for automobiles from tree stumps.
The Mind organization announces Sunday school for ages 3 to 20 at 9 25 a m and a Sunday service at 10 45 a m The reading room at 25 South Ashland avenue LaGrange 4a is open daily 11 am to 5 pm and evenings 7 to 9 except Wednesdays It also notes church services at Edward Hines Memorial Hospital Maywood on the first and third Saturdays at 2 55 pm and invites the public to attend and use the facility.
On Sunday August 25 morning service quotes from Rev. John Sparer and evening service from Rev. Hans Johns in Chicago are noted. A midweek service is listed for Wednesday August 28 at 8:00 with a quoted line about rebuilding ruined places attributed to Charles L. Bingie.
Rats were not reduced by the mongoose release in 1883 as attempts to rid the Hawaiian islands of rats failed. The introduction from Jamaica led to destruction of chickens and birds instead, with no clear decline in rat numbers.
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