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Newspaper
Joliet Free Press
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1913
Page
6
A Joliet facility at 426 Cass St corner Cass promotes male hygiene and moral reform through lifelike wax models of anatomy and disease. A demonstrator answers questions daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., advertising specialists for men and urging study of anatomy and pathology to prevent vice and disease.
Joliet High School basketball fans expect a tough game tonight as the team hosts Carl Shurz High School in the central gym. With two weeks of practice and some football habits lingering, the squad aims to sharpen passing and handling while relying on strong defense to offset wind and stamina issues. The Carl Shurz lineup with experience against Wendell Phillips Englewood Hyde Park University High and Evanston High is a formidable early-season test.
Two big matches Sunday at Richards street field feature Steel Works vs Western Electrics and Star Peerless against South Wilmington. Steel Works hoped to face Star Peerless but no game was set. Steel Works schedules Hyde Park Blues on December 21 and either Campbell Rovers or Calumets on December 28.
Pugilist Packey McFarland says he did not receive proper respect from fight fans and sportswriters. The report notes planned additions to Athletics field, including a new flagpole, and outlines upcoming boxing events with Willie Ritchie, Mickey Sheridan, and Tommy Murphy.
A middle aged couple, about to visit their daughter, left strict instructions for their heavy sleeper son to wind his alarm. Monday they returned to find blinds closed as on departure and heard him sleepily ask if they missed their train, revealing a quiet domestic scene.
The Illinois Breeders’ association dinner at the old retund hotel featured Emory Storrs, a noted lawyer, who quipped that after hearing about Alderney Shorthorn Jersey Holland Guernsey breeds the most valuable animal is the cow crossed by a locomotive. The remark underscores a railroad era metaphor from a Chicago Inter Ocean piece.
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