Hardware Store for Sale and Property for Lease in Patoka
Wanted ads show sale or lease of a hardware store building, plus house and five acres within city limits. Offer based on oat straw and Clinton seed oats by H. G. Foltz. Also a feature discussing the Midwest as a pivotal region, with Prof. John H. Garland predicting Chicago’s growth and the area’s influence on the fate of the free world.
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Oat Straw
Clinton Seed
H. G. Foltz
Patoka
Midwest
Chicago
New York
Washington
Los Angeles
John H. Garland
University of Illinois
America
American Crafts at Illinois Festival of Contemporary Arts
Craftsmen from 20 states are featured in 97 exhibits of silver ceramics enamels jewelry weaving and related arts at the University of Illinois from March 18 to April 3 1955. The American Craftsmen exhibit runs in the Illini Union Building while the Architecture Building hosts the University of Illinois Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting through April 3 with 129 painters and 16 sculptors. Additional displays on architecture city planning landscape architecture and printing fill the University Library corridors.
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University of Illinois
Illini Union
Illinois education problems threaten state asset
The Illinois Business Review from the University of Illinois warns that rising enrollments teacher shortages and classroom space limits threaten top quality K to 12 education. About 50,000 Illinois children are in half day sessions this year and triple shifts are under discussion.
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Illinois
Illinois Business Review
University of Illinois
Planners Urge More Schools as Enrollment Soars
The article notes ongoing construction with over 1,600 elementary classrooms under way but calls for at least 1,000 more to meet demand while acknowledging high school and college needs remain unmet. It signals enrollment peaking in 1960 and outlines urgent expansion needs.
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Mentary
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Mac Eagan
Office
Ace Agency
Patoka, Ill
Maytag
General Electric
H. G. Foltz Hardware
Maxwellhouse
Lg.a
Donald Duck
Milnot
Dog
OLEO
Swift
Denver
Tan Lee
Mobilgas
Mobiloil
Niehoff
Delco
Mose’ Mobil Station
Mose Adams
Patoka Motors
Patokea
Ill
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