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Newspaper
Forest Park Review
Location
Forest Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1927
Page
3
A pure English cottage type with an unusual plaid brick and stucco chimney and a steep slate roof. Exterior hollow tile walls with brick and stone trim, solid timber detailing, casement windows. First floor vestibule, living room stairs, three bedrooms on second floor, servant’s room and bath on third. Estimate about 11,900 dollars. Working plans and specs available from the Building Editor for a nominal sum.
Chicago critics hail the 1927 edition of Gay Paree at Cohoans Theater as daring, sensational, and magnificently entertaining. Sophie Tucker and Chic Sale headline a cast of 150 plus in gallic staged scenes like Fan of Girls and Kandahar Isle. Performances run nightly with midweek and Saturday matinees. prices remain unchanged.
Review lauds The Wild Westcotts at the Cort in Chicago praising Mr France producer and Harry Frazee for assembling a clever youthful cast. The show is described as unroaringly funny clean and intelligent with no profanity and a crowd pleasing appeal to elegant patrons despite being a light comedic entertainment.
Forest Park resident Walter Einfeldt sails from Municipal Pier to Buffington Ind to witness Vice President Charles G. Dawes formally open Universal Portland Cement’s new deep water harbor. It is the first private harbor here in 20 years and among three on the Great Lakes. Guests tour a million ton raw materials yard and a belt conveyor feeding the cement plant at six tons per minute.
The article highlights the world’s largest self unloading boat discharging 2000 tons of stone at a ton per second and notes a new concrete lighthouse with one of Lake Michigan’s brightest beacons. Read the ads in the paper.
A list of books recently added to the Rental Collection at Bacon Medusa's Head includes works by Brooks, Brontë, Ferber, Galé, Hergesheimer, Montgomery, Park, Raine, Reeve, Rinehart, Tarkington, and others. The compilation features fiction classics, contemporary novels, and period pieces printed at borrowers requests.
H R Dancey of Forest Park Illinois has been appointed coach of football basketball and track at Flora High School Urbana Illinois. He will graduate from the University of Illinois with a four year degree in athletic coaching and physical education. Dancey starred in high school sports winning four letters in football basketball and track and captaining both football and basketball as a sophomore and junior. He led his track team to consecutive championships and never lost a race in two years. He won hurdles at the 1922 and 1923 Illinois interscholastic meet at Urbana. In college he earned numerals on football and baseball, and played varsity football, baseball and track. He is a member of Sigma Pi and Skull and Crescent fraternities and comes highly recommended by Illini coaches.
A fragment suggests a provocative quote about a baby described as evil. The line references Boston Transcript as the publication. No clear context or event details are provided to establish date, people, or actions beyond the quoted phrasing.
The First Beefsteak Club, founded in the reign of Queen Anne and lasting into the eighteenth century, was a gathering of the chief wits and great men of the nation. Its badge featured a gridiron symbolizing its fiery wit and convivial spirit.
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