Local and Personal News from Dolton and Nearby Areas
Local notes recount visits and gatherings across Dolton Dalton Riverdale and Harvey. Families such as Nierstheimer Verhoelven Denterman and Krause share Sunday visits and hospital recoveries. Distant trips include Kansas City and the Black Hills with many relatives noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Krause
Linard Avenue
Chicago
Dalton
Garfield Park Hospital
James McDermioki
Gail
Frank L. Schroll
Agnes
Dorothy
S. Dearborn Street
Riverdale
Kansas City
Black Sills
South Dakota
George P. Nairn
Janice
Connellsville
Pennsylvania
Marian Goodman
Betty Cadmus
Lawrence
Michigan
Louis Albrecht
Roseland Community Hospital
Donald Crocker
Dolton
Kluey’s Bay
Fred Krikau
Margaret
Freddie
Winnipeg
Canada
Arived
J. C. Goeringer
Henry Krikau
William Menzelaar
Chicago Road
Ingalls Memorial Hospital
Harvey
Doris Ruth
Ignatius Jurkovitz
Indiana Harbor
Indiana
Pentwater
Mich
Johanna Leensvaart
Sanderson Avenue
Letter From France Draws Contrast With Tourist Ads
Edward Craven, a friend of The Pointer’s, writes from Deippes France that chateaux are fine but the country remains dilapidated with decaying buildings and untended facades apart from painted female portraits. He suggests a critical view of postwar France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Craven
Deippes
France
Craven
A Gentleman Is a Husband Who Suffers in Silence
A humorous quip defines a gentleman as a husband who endures in silence rather than tell his wife she snores, framing quiet endurance as a mark of civility.
Youth Drowns in Clay Hole
The report details the drowning of Fabric, an expert swimmer, in a clay hole at about fifteen feet when cold water and high pressure prevented deeper diving. Bud Miller of Dalton retrieved the body at 45 feet with his boat and drag line, assisted by John Sadunas. Fabric's death follows a prior crash where his car struck Mrs. Lentier on Indiana Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Horn
Prairie Avenue
Riverdale
Elaine Magdelene
Inglass Memorial Hospital
Harvey
Joseph Wynn
Edmonton
Alberta
Canada
Daniel Denham
Dearborn Street
Miss Leensvaart
John Leensvaart
Jurkovitz
Bohemian National Cemetery
H. F. Wilson
Chicago Road
Dolton
Bismark
Fithian
Elizabeth Harms
J. F. Anderson
Flossmoor
Black Hills
North Dakota
Mary Jo Wilson
Dalton
Carol McCarthy
Pat Saohatt
Donald Albrecht
Patsy Day
Betty Steiner
Janet Spiecker
Tommy McGowan
Carol Koester
Thornton
Edgar Baggs
de Kalb
Northern Illinois Teacher’s College
Toy Messerschmidt
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Garl Thomson
George Colwell
Phyllis
George
St. Joe
Mich
William Maurer
S. 188Th Street
Detroit
Ellen Squires
East 137Th Place
Flint Lake
Frank Pietesh
White Cloud
Michigan
Frank
Pointer
Madelyn Fink
Victoria
Minnesota
Edward Schroll
John C. Wernicke
Chicago
Illinois Dunes
Waukegan
Mary Perry
Mila
Racine
Wisconsin
Pery
John Perry
Roy Lauridsen
Frank Hair
Indiana
Hindis
Virginia Hair
Winamace
Clarence Simnick
Myrtle Roberts
Doris
East Chicago
Herman Simnick
Sun Lake
Minn
John Frazier
Pittsburgh
Albert Wegener
Ivanhoe
William Roush
Charles T. Heidenreich
Edward “Bud” Miller
Forest Avenue
Calumet River
Fabric
John Sadunas
Bud
H. D. Lentier
Indiana Avenue
Illinois reports rise in infantile paralysis cases
Springfield reports concern over increasing infantile paralysis in Illinois. Dr Frank J Jirka notes this year's case reports mirror last year's epidemic peak of 682 cases with heavy Missouri activity and widespread Illinois spread. Twenty six cases were reported last week, including four in Cook County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ill
Illinois
Frank J. Jirka
Missouri
Midwest
Cook County
Congressmen at Large Elected by State Voters
The article explains that congressmen at large are elected by voters statewide rather than by district. It outlines the general voting method and the statewide scope of the election.
State Police Check Cars at 159th and 137th Streets
The Safety Department of the Illinois State Police inspects lights horns windshield wipers of all passenger cars and weighs all trucks at 159th street east of Torrence south of Green Lake. Another unit tested vehicles on Halsted street near 137th street during the past week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Safety Department
The
Illinois State Police
159Th Street
Torrence
Green Lake
Halsted Street
137Th Street
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Garritt Jacobsma
Crown Point
Mrs
Henry Jacobsma
Monarch Roofing CompAny
Henry N. Yonker
West 115Th Street
Commodore
N. Yonker
Allied Insulating & Engineering Company
Roseland Roofing Company, Inc
115Th Street
J.F. Chandler Roofing Co
Chicago St
Henry Horner
Lucky Teter
His
WLS
Paulson
Harvey Federal
United States
Harvey's Oldest Financial Institution Security Building
E. 154Th Street
Harvey, Illinois
Member
Federal
Ilome Loan Bank System
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