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Newspaper
Joliet Free Press
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1913
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR shows a Joliet Illinois notice about business entities and corporate references. The readable elements include Ottawa, Van, and names Adam and King with Joliet and December dates implied.
Fragmentary line items show charges or terms about daily delivery by carrier across months and a year. Mentions Chicago line and a distance-terminal number. No clear event or person names.
A United States Bureau of Education observer reports on a rural Winthrop College school where children learn through garden work and real tasks rather than classes. No desks or silences, the farm house becomes a workshop and classroom with activity centered on soil, sewing, cooking, and numbers as needed.
Margaret Howard outlines a community women’s department to aid peers with free inquiries by mail, invites suggestions, and promises privacy. She recalls a labor poem and notes a five year past shop workers movement in Joliet that pushed stores to close after six. The piece urges organized women to work for better conditions and to help the city.
A holiday party feature suggests New Year games such as secret resolutions written for others, drawing and reading them aloud, and partners chosen for conversation. An imaginative Father Time basement scene offers humorous prophecies and garden crop prizes, with playful tasks and keepsakes for guests.
Matt Broughton confronts a mysterious agent offering fifty thousand dollars for five minutes of his sincerity about identifying a man Joseph Walter Jones. He refuses after a night of pressure and a day of personal misfortune, pondering what his choices mean for Miss Marshall and his own future.
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