Coal City Notes Briefs Social Visits Across Towns
Mrs. W P Bennett and Mrs. Walter White visited New Lenox with sister Mrs. Sadie Murray. Howard De Grush of New Athens and wife spent weekend with Ralph Brooks family. Mothers Study Club and guests attended Ice Capades in Chicago. William Frye Wendy Frye and Kenneth Huston visited Normal with Robert Frye. Fred Lohmar and wife of Lockport spent weekend with Robert Hill. John Heavens guests included John Horbach Mae Garrity Glen Ellyn and son John. Robert Hanson Lily Cache callers to George Hanson home. Guy Frazer and wife visited Jesse Bates in Bradley.
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W. P. Bennett
Walter White
New Lenox
Sadie Murray
Howard DeGrush
New Athens
Customs Find No Explosive Vietnam Dolls
The Customs Service says no boobytrapped dolls were found among gifts sent from Vietnam by American service members. Officials described fears as a tempest in a teapot and noted no explosives were discovered despite reports and TV explanations of possible Viet Cong traps.
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Vietnam
Washington
The
Customs Service
Kansas City
Saigon
Defense Department
Wdaf-Tv
Ordnance
Ft. Riley
Tells Life History of Louis Joliet
Louis Joliet a 27 year old Quebec fur trader who led the 1673 expedition that discovered what is now Illinois. The Jesuit explorer and surveyor born in Quebec pursued fur trade and exploration after leaving the seminary. He guided an Illinois mission voyage from Mackinac to Green Bay to the Mississippi, reaching the Arkansas junction and returning north aboard a voyage that charted early Illinois and surrounding regions.
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Milburn P. Akers
Louis Joliet
Quebec
Illinois
Joliet
Society of Jesus
Adrian
New France
St. Lusan
Sault Sainte Marie
Jacques Marquette
St. Susan’s
Sainte Ignace
Straits of Mackinac
Father Marquette
Frontenac
South Sea
Wisconsin
Great River
Lake Michigan
Green Bay
Jean Nicolet
Nicolet
Fox River
Wisconsin River
Mississippi
Upper
Alton
Marquette
Arkansas
Juliet
Gulf of Mexico
Pacific Ocean
Asia
Spain
Lower
Iowa
Missouri
Kentucky
Tennessee
Gratton
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Polaroivl Sunglasses
KODAK
Indianapolis
Thomas A. Hendricks
Charles W. Fairbanks
V.A
Ln.r Beatty
Umber
Akers
Chicago Sun- Times
Associated Press
Hue
Ameo
Cameo
Liberty St
Morris Shoe S!ore
Morris
Norelco
Norellg
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