Hyde Park Garden Exchange Bulletin Board System
Lee Botts reports a Hyde Park garden exchange idea endorsed by the park council and garden committee. Neighbors trade homegrown plants through a bulletin board at the Hyde Park Cooperative Society, avoiding taxes and bureaucracy while spreading beauty and surplus produce. Mrs. Henry C. Arnold shares gloriosa daisies and asters via the barter network.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry C. Arnold
Drexel
Garden Committee
Hyde Park Cooperative Society
Arnold
Plant Exchange
Letters on HB 404 and urban renewal stir readers
A Reader's letters page features opinions on House Bill 404, arguing it may curb legitimate voting safeguards and target urban areas, plus city critiques on police conduct, urban renewal, and civic arts. The mix includes calls for better enforcement, housing integration support, and garden exchanges in Hyde Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Cook
My Fair Liza Inspires Raymond School Drama Movement
Elma Douglas, a Raymond School teacher, organizes a student led adaptation of My Fair Liza based on Lerner and Loewe's work. Pupils rehearse costumes lighting and staging with a 12 member cast and local teachers assisting. The piece, created without prior familiarity with the musical, debuts at Doo little and Raymond venues to enthusiastic audience response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elma Douglas
Liza
Lerner
Loewe
Douglas
Raymond
36Th
Wabash
Higgins
Assembly Hall
Alan Jay Lerner
Mr. L
Doolittle School
My Fair Lady
Mrs. Douglas
Fair Liza
Raymond School
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Hyde Park Gardens
By Lee Botts
Hyde Park
Kenwood
Cook County
the Herald
Robert E. Mann
Harper
Noble Lee
Ilinois
Social Action Committee
First Baptist Church
S7th Street
Point
Ben Friedlander
Mr. Friedlander
Friedlander
Mr. Wilson
Nuessle
Chicago
Blackstone
53Rd
54Th
Marine Corps
Scuttlebutt Gang
San Diego
California
Grant Hotel
Rusty (Rusnak
Meznarich
Mrs. Arnold
By Robert Pollak
Vittorio Assman
Syracuse
Sicily
New York
Pollak
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