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Newspaper
Forest Park Review
Location
Forest Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1920
Page
3
A long list of local residents share leisure plans and health news including vacations at South Haven Rock Island and Wisconsin resorts. visits from relatives and friends. illnesses and recoveries. moves and job changes. and upcoming social events in Forest Park and nearby towns.
Mrs Lampert is the guest of her parents Mr and Mrs John F Nelson at 638 Thomas Avenue Chicago. Her husband, formerly a physician at the Illinois University, is now in Peru South America.
Forest Park's 1920 football team will start practice next Thursday August 26 at 6 p m. Candidates meet at the vacant lot corner Madison Street and Desplaines Avenue. Changes expected, but many old fans return. Park is among first teams in the Chicago Football League. Bill Schlupp aims for first class squads and a new scale. Charles A Barrett donates a league heavyweight cup for the best team. Forest Park to watch for the trophy.
The Forest Park post of the American Legion offers complete date forms for ex service men to obtain Victory Medals from the government. The Legion will hold presentations nationwide on Armistice Day at Forest Park ballroom. Temporary HQs are at the Forest Park Review office with staff 7:30 to 10 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday to assist requests. Discharge papers or certificates must be brought for copying. At last Friday’s municipal meeting Henry Knoop was elected delegate and A Huxhold an alternate to the state convention in Chicago on September 2 and 3. Members are invited to attend.
Olive Belle Hamon, ten, daughter of Jake J. Hamon, Oklahoma Republican committeeman, and cousin of Senator Warren G. Harding, flies regularly from Checkerboard aviation field on Roosevelt Road. Her mother supports the venture after a safety review of Olive's aerial stunts, which began a year ago at Chaplin field in Los Angeles. The family resizes in Chicago at 4901 Sheridan Road though Mr Hamon’s official residence is in Lawton Ohio.
Clara Kimball Young, the famous movie star, appears at Ascher's Forest Park theater next Monday and Tuesday in Mareh Ellis Ryan's For the Soul of Rafael. Weekly schedule lists May Allison in Held to Tryst, Marguerite Fisher and Bertram Granaby in The Week End, Herbert Rawlinson in The Man and His Woman, Warren Kerrigan in The Green Flame, and Bisucha Sweet in The Girl and the Web. Also special musical vaudeville features. at Oystersicher's Forest Park the Tree of Knowledge is shown with Robert Warlock and Kathryn Williams tonight.
Listings announce Monday through Sunday showings including Estle Williams in A Farnish Sinsle at Forest Park Gettleman of Quality and Jack Dempsey in Daredevil Jack at Circle theater. Also boggy piano roll sale three for $1 at 238 Circle Avenue and stray items mentioning a London incident.
A fragmentary report notes a fire under the name Hicklan off or near a location referred to as Inmpe ta Rone. Details are unclear from the OCR, but authorities investigated and responders were dispatched to the scene. Further specifics and official outcomes were not legible in the text.
Fragmentary OCR style note reports a woman declaring there is talking and a response that ends when no one else tells. The readable text is garbled and lacks clear names dates places or events to identify.
A report notes mills and vendors experimenting with flours made from diverse items. Chives millets and a range of grains and vegetables including wheat barley oats rye buckwheat nuts millet potatoes peas lentils pulses rice almonds and other produce are cited as components in new flour blends.
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