Shower for Brides celebrated at Warren Street home
Festive bouquets and a home shower for Miss Madge Daugherty of Gary and Miss Adelaide Fox of Hammond honored ahead of their marriages. Bliss Daugherty to wed Arthur Hess and Miss Fox to Louis Hess on August 16. Guests from McEwen Besley Co. and their wives enjoyed bridge, gifts, and a luncheon, with high score favors awarded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman McEwen
Warren Street
Madge Daugherty
Gary
Adelaide Fox
Hammond
Bliss Daugherty
Arthur Hess
Miss Fox
Louis Hess
McEwen
Besley
Bridge
Boiler Firm Busy In Hammond Steel Fabrication
The United Boiler Heating and Foundry Co. in Hammond works day and night to complete steel fabrication for a large theatre building at Indiana Harbor, being built by M. Kozacik. C. N. Nau secures a contract with Lavine and Rupert of Chicago to furnish fabricate and erect steel for a theatre store and apartment building at Fondulac Wisconsin valued around 44000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Boiler Heating and Foundry Co
Hammond
Indiana Harbor
M. Kozacik
C. N. Nau
Lavine and Rupert
Chicago
Fondulac
Wis
City officials tour Oak Park areas to plan new hall
Mayor Kamradt and city leaders plus Chamber president Wachowiccz visit Oak Park Maywood Forest Park and La Grange to study municipal buildings. They urge building a large enough city hall now to accommodate future growth and additions, warning costs rise if delayed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kamradt
Stachowicz
O’brien
Czechanski
C. Powski
Angel, Murray
Frank J. Wachowiccz
Chamber of Commerce
Oak Park
Maywood
Forest Park
la Grange
Calumet City
Bids Sought for Columbia Hall at Calumet City Park
Notice from the Board of Park Commissioners invites bids by August 12 1924 7 30 pm for sale of the one story frame building and appurtenances at 598 Wentworth Avenue Calumet City Illinois known as Columbia hall. Buyer must remove the structure by September 1 1924 and the board may reject any or all bids. Martin H Finneran secretary 728 State Line St Calumet City Ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Park Commissioners
Calumet Memorial Park District
Wentworth Avenue
Calumet City
Illnois
Columbia Hall
Martin H. Finneran
State Line St. Calumet City
Ill
Excellent Advice While Thou Livest Note on Speech
A historic admonition from Shakespeare warns to guard the tongue while alive. The maxim emphasizes prudent speech and self control as a timeless moral guide.
Parrot Advice Quells Pains in Sultry Sturm Visit
A narrator recalls a tense moment as a looming storm stirs rheumatic pain and a disembodied voice urges him to forget it. A parrot perched in a rear porch transom belongs to a neighbor across the alley, having escaped during cage cleaning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liv
Value Friend's Admonition In A Snack Ad
A clipped proverb advises as a best recipe for work and life suggesting friendship guides prudent actions. The fragment hints at moral counsel from a companion, promoting steady habits and mindful choices.
Themselves Alone to Blame
All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propen oberg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oberg
Methods of Training Employes in Stores of Moderate Size
Urbana Illinois July 30 Emphasis is placed upon the value of educational work in reducing costs losses and inefficiencies in the retail store in a bulletin issued by the Bureau of Business Research University of Illinois The pamphlet points out hidden losses of the proprietor in such items as mistakes in charge checks errors in sales slips extravagant cutting of samples overmeasurement of goods and unnecessary deliveries Attention is called to carelessness of employees in wasting store property such as pins rubber bands wrapping paper advertising inserts and sales books The greatest item of loss mentioned is employing new sales people estimated at 50 to 200 per employee
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Urbana
Illinois
Bureau of Business Research
University of Illinois
Strange Occupation Smeller Dies After Half Century of Brewing Sniffs
A man in England who served as a brewery smeller for nearly fifty years has died. He spent decades sniffing at empty beer barrels and rejecting the stinkers, a precise and loyal critic of off fragrances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Power of Eagle's Grip in Rescue by Two Maine Brothers
Two brothers from West Boothbay Maine found a wounded white headed eagle floating in the water. They transferred the bird from their boat to a dory gripping its wingless fate. A veterinary surgeon was called in to try to save the bird's life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Boothbay
Maine
Uncle Eben Prefers Long Words From Speechmakers
Uncle Eben remarks he enjoys hearing speakers use long words even if little is understood. He believes the words sound as if the speaker is praising him for being fairly smart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Eben
The Obvious His wife Don't growl over your food
A London Tit-Bits item mocks a quarrel over meals with a witty aside about a wife's cooking and a husband's complaints, reflecting light social humor of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
London
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