Garment and lodge unions reelect leaders in city
Michael Diamond was reelected president of United Garment Workers Local 164 at the regular January meeting in Castlehall. New officers include as vice president Mandyess and recording secretary Mayme Dietz, with a banquet planned for January 6. Knigs Knights lodge No 3 elected officers at their meeting above Woolworths on Chicago Street, including Thomas McDonald as Chancellor Commander and G W Smith as Vice Chancellor. Boilermakers Stone City lodge No 93 elected Charles Brown president, with John Buckley as vice president and Julius Keen as financial secretary.
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Michael Diamond
United Garment Orders of America
Castlehall
Yana Ice
Mandusess
Mayme Dietz
Louise Sievert
Knights Petia Daniel E Knights Oids
Ie Lodge No. 3
Woolworth Five
Chicago ‘Street
Thomas McDonald
G. W. Smith
Edward Stevenson
H. W. Smith
Thomas Carrigan
James Carrigan
Clifford Dyer
Nathan Richardson
W. W. White
Boilermakers
Charles Brown
Stone City Lodge No. 93
Connor’s Hall
E. Jefferson Street
John Buckley
Julius Keen
Charles Merk
William Kern
Roy Dugan
Joseph Brennan
Adolph Russell
John Stukes
John Gleason
Stop Thief at Joliet theater delights audience
Joliet theater presents Stop Thief with Gerlach Barklow night drawing wide crowds. Swanson praised the strong company as performers portray a thief and a family relieved of valuables. Comedic and light hearted, the show ends with broad audience satisfaction and hints of future winter programming. In Washington DC a pardon is granted to Dr J W Mourton tied to a stock selling fraud case.
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Juliet
Joliet Theater
Gerlach
Gerlach-Barklow Co
Swanson
Washington, D. C
Wilson
J. W. Mourton
Julian Hawthorne
Husband and family arrested after alleged home intrusion
Earl Henderson and Louis Gualdani were found hiding in the residence of Jee Lewis and his wife Mrs May Lewis at 595 South Chicago Street. May Lewis aged 9 and her sisters aged 16 and 13 were ordered detained with Jee Lewis and others in police custody after a disturbance at 2 am. Police broke the door with an axe. The husband, a railroad switchman, said he would push for the girls’ reform school placement.
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May Lewis
Bernice
South
Chicago Street
Earl Henderson
Louis Gualdani
Jee Lewis
Kago & Alton Railroad
Sud
Denly
Lewis
Rey
Christmas Sales Advice and Transportation Notes
The item comments on Christmas as a prized currency of gifts and leisure, notes a train arrival about 50 minutes late, and mentions the Bulletin's steady circulation. It urges early gift buying with suggestions like mufflers, gloves, belts, handkerchiefs, bath robes, and smoking jackets to avoid last minute stockouts.
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Bulletin
Joliet
Bert Taylor
Rooming house proprietor arrested in murder case at 402 Scott
John Ferguson of 402 Scott Street was arrested on complaint by Mrs Nora Davis and Miss Emma Davis for the murder of her Chinese husband. A ten day continuance was granted by Magistrate Lumley with bonds set at $500. Mrs Davis testified Ferguson entered the room by mistake and attacked the women. boarders restrained him until police arrived. Ferguson admitted entering by mistake and denying intent to harm. Miss Davis had worked for two years as housekeeper for Ferguson and had not been attacked before.
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John Ferguson
Scott Street
Nora Davis
Emma Davis
Alice Davis Sing
Lumley
Ferguson
Box robber arrested after church poor box thefts
Charles Kovarik alias Charles Schmidt was arrested after a fifteen minute struggle in St Marys church while robbing the Poor Box. He received a continuance before Magister Lumley with bonds set at 500 dollars. Chicago police report similar looting at several churches as detectives pursue Kovarik to connect him to the series of church robberies.
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Charles Kovarick
Charles Schmidt
J. O. Murray
St. Mary’s Church
Frank P. Lumley
Chicago
Anton Solar
St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church
Twenty-second Street
Kovarick
Kovarik
Lost pocketbook near Boston Store and L A Ranbs
Pocketbook reported missing between the Boston Store and L A Ranbs containing a Rock Island commutation ticket. Please leave at Free Press office or 405 Broadway. A reward offered. Sheriff Black of Madison County notified promoters of a riot at Elwood for next night. Call of a certain individual and Jack Jeffries mentioned.
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Boston
L. A
Rock Island
Free Press
Broadway
Black
Madison Cou
Rirofi
Elwood
Ind
Dilon
Malenspelis
Jack Jeffries
Jim Jeffries
Women Discuss Early Illinois History in Lockport
Lockport readers hear a program on Early Illinois at Woodman hall as the Lockport women’s club plans an upcoming discussion. In addition a New Year social is set for December 31 by the German Lutheran church Young People’s society.
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Lockport
Illinois
Woodman Hall
Ilinois
Young People’s Society
German Lutheran Church
Emma Paulson
Congregational Church
Barbara Whitley
Claudius Singleton
Missionary Study Club
Local lightweights eye strong Christmas basketball schedule
High school basketball plans promise one of the season’s best schedules in northern Illinois. Coach Jones and Coach Gesler aim for three to four games during Christmas vacation with the lightweights opening December 23. Bowen High of Chicago heavyweight team to meet in a featured double header on the local floor.
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Jones
Gesler
Illinois
Clarence W. Jones
Bowen Heavy Weights
Bowen High
Chicago
Northern Illinois
Monda
Bowen Heavies
Joliet High
Martha You'd Better Prepare for Christ mas Day
Prepare for Christmas with Martha Washington sweets. Beautiful packs offer half and full pound boxes, two and three and five pounds of assorted chocolates bon-bons and Jets with butter centers.
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Martha Washington
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Liet
Princeton Rockdale
Princeton Ladd, Ladd
Princetonrinceton LaSalle
Orpheum Theatre
Robert Sherman
George
Broadhurst
the Grand Theatre
Drexel Theater
Drexel
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House of Quality
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Beyer
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