Santa to Visit Saturday for Community Christmas Gifts
The Chamber of Commerce and Sycamore Woman's Club organize a Santa Claus visit this Saturday at two o'clock in the afternoon at the Chamber offices. About 3,000 to 4,000 Christmas packages will be distributed to children whose teachers sent in cards with requests. A second distribution is planned for Wednesday December 22, ensuring all eligible youngsters receive a gift. cards must be signed before handing to Santa.
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Chamber of Com
Santa
Sycamore Woman's Club
Woman's Club
Chamber of Commerce
Stores of City Are Doing Good Business Now
Stores in Sycamore report strong holiday trade with busy streets and crowded shops. Some merchants who traveled to Chicago for gifts say they underestimated demand and now expect a longer season, while others have restocked and seen solid sales.
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Sycamore
Meiness Housas Ie
Chicago
Ore High School Faces Geneva In Tonight's Game
Ore High School's basketball team meets Geneva College tonight as Lycal High's cage quintets prepare to cut rough spots from early week work. Geneva is expected to present a strong challenge for the home squad aiming for a spirited contest.
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Ore High School
Geneva
Ae Cage
Lycal High School
Sycamore and Geneva Prep Basketball and Local Christmas Activities
The chronicle lists Sycamore high school versus Geneva high school basketball games on Dec 17 and Dec 22 at the high school, plus a Dec 19 Stevens Free Lecture at M FE church and a Dec 28 University of Illinois Glee Club concert at the annex. It notes a Women’s Club Christmas drive assembling gifts for youngsters, a marriage license issued to Frank A Weise and Berniece Marshall, a Methodist Sunday school Christmas party with a rabbit hunt, a large Christmas tree, and gift distribution by Santa Claus. Additional items report Phares M Johnson and Mary Boynton traveling, and Mary Ann Townsend ill with pneumonia under nurse care.
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Geneva
Chicago
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University of Inois
M. E. Annex
Woman's Club
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Methodist Sunday School
Santa Claus
Mary Ann Townsend
Gifts for Ex Service Men Grow. Auxiliary Appeals
American Legion Auxiliary members placed boxes around the city inviting donations of cigars candy tobacco and small goods for hospital ex service men. Some boxes receive daily gifts while others show weaker response prompting a call for generous dimes or 15 cent contributions to buy appreciated items for the veterans.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Gifts to Hospitals Bring Hopeful Surplus Plans
The passage notes people in hospitals and the institution as wards, some unlikely to recover. It mentions appeals to organizations and expected gifts to boost funding and care capacity once contributions arrive.
Chicago Male Quartet at Stevens Free Lecture Night
The Chicago Male Quartet will perform Sunday evening at the Methodist church as the third act of the Stevens Free Lecture and Entertainment series. Crowd expected as the group is popular for entertaining with Robert Herrick as a standout character impersonator. The program opens to the public at 6 with the main event at 7 30.
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Methodist Church
Chicago
Robert Herrick
Stores Keep Evening Hours Through Holiday Season
Stores in the city stay open evenings through Christmas Eve to aid last minute gift buyers. Most merchants discount merchandise but offer wide assortments, and the final ten days are expected to be busy. Shopkeepers agree nine o'clock is late enough, with many closing then each night.
Shoplifter Pleads Guilty as Car Is Held by Police
Layton Foster admitted petty larceny after several articles were found in his possession from multiple stores in the city. Chief Fred Mitchell seized the car after arrest and, upon contacting Minnesota authorities, was ordered to hold the vehicle with a follow up telegram expected in a few days.
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Layton Foster
Fred Mitchell
Saints To Take Holiday Break At St Albans College
Students at St Albans college will begin a vacation Saturday December 18 and continue until after January 1. Many pupils will return to homes in various states, reducing college activity on Somonauk street through the period.
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St. Albans College
Somonauk Street
Dora Petrie Seeks Divorce Decree in DeKalb Circuit
Dora Petrie filed yesterday in DeKalb County circuit court for a divorce. The action requests a decree and names BAGS FUR-LINED as part of the descriptor in the readable text.
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Dora Petrie
Iion
DeKalby
Fur County Circuit Court
State Board Sued for Wages Owed to Man
Frank Fitzsimmons of Springfield sues the state board of education for $100,000 claiming unpaid construction wages from years ago at Normal. The suit is a refiled action after the previous Supreme Court ruling against him.
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Springfield
U.P
Frank Fitzsimmons
Board of Education
State of Minds
Normal
Fitzsimmons
Normal Board of Education
Supreme Court
Europe liquor kings tour Los Angeles
Samples sorry says John Dewar and Ron Bernard de Precourt. Dewar, a Scotch whisky producer, is called the baron of France's Benedictine. Both recently landed in Los Angeles for a U Dewar is a producer of Scotch whisky and a French Benedictine baron.
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John Dewar
Ron Bernard de Precourt
Europe
America
Los Angeles
Dewar
France
Benedictine
Custody Sought By Wife in Crown Point Case
A Indiana wife petitions for custody of two children from her 1910 Crown Point marriage to Bhatcher Petrie and for property she says she paid for plus other relief. The filing notes cruelty by the husband and the February term as the likely hearing time.
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Bhatcher Petrie
Crown Point
Ind
Double Header At Saint Albans Tonight
Saint Albans college hosts two basketball games this evening, meeting Wheaton in one and Aurora in the other. After a prior mischance with lights and bleachers, fate determined the Wheaton matchup. City college players are expected to win both tilts with ease.
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Saint Albans College
Wheaton
Aurora
Heavie
Which to Wag London Cat and Two-Headed Persian Freak
A quirky note from London about J Dunkerly of Sheffield with a cat unsure which tail to wag. It mentions a recently born Persian freak with two heads six legs two tails and nine lives.
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London
J. Dunkerly
Sheffield
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