Cub Scouts Gift Walker for Martha Washington Home
Cub Scouts from pack No 8759 raised funds and presented a four wheeled walker to the Martha Washington Home for dependent crippled children. The device aids spastic pupils during physiotherapy at the home on Drexel Boulevard. The gift was announced in Grand Crossing park fieldhouse ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eorsanammaar Sonsanan
Cub
Martha Washington
George W. Obert
Woodlawn-South Shore Kiwanis Club
Arthur Fleming
Jack Aurand
Vernon Ave
Jerry Gruber
Drexel Ave
Harry Turner
William Woodard
Langley Ave
Cub Scouts of Pack No
Martha Washing
Grand Crossing Park
76Th St
Rand Ingleside Ave
Drexel Blvd
Albert J. Wilhan
Wilhan
Wilhan. Kirwanian
Martha Washington Club
Harold Simpson
74Th St
L. O. Tanner
Maryland Ave
George D. Rainford
Prairie Ave
George W. Oberg
Tence Ave
Arthur Dixon Pta
Santa Claus visits for Catholic Charities children
Every Christmas more than 20 Santa Clauses visit 3500 children in Catholic Charities child care homes. The official Santa is 79 year old John Kennedy of Wells Street who has played Santa for 38 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catholic Charities
Santa Claus
John Kennedy
Wells St. Kennedy
Santa
Memory Lane recollections invite old Chicago business and people memories
Readers share memories of historic Chicago sites and figures from Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward on Clinton Des Plaines and Michigan avenues to the Coca Cola factory on Wabash. They recall H L Doll’s Halsted street shops and a Parkman school music teacher Mrs Corrigan and her large piano recitals at Boulevard hall Garfield Boulevard and Halsted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sears Roebuck
Clinton, DesPlaines
Wayman and
Fulton Sts
Hubbard, Spencer and Bartlett
Wabash Ave
Old South Water St
Montgomery Ward and Company
Michigan Ave
Monree St
Randolph St
Roosevelt Rd
Watchdogs
Lake Front
Coca Cola
Wabash, Ave
Sts
Anon
Margaret Walsh
Procter
Parkman School
Corrigan
Boulevard Hall
Garfield Bivd
Halsted St
Property Owners Board to Meet Monday Night
The Woodlawn Property Owners League executive board, which will disband December 31, will meet at 9 30 a m Monday in league offices at 1230 E 68th St. The league was discontinued to form a new organization tentatively named Woodlawn Incorporated to remove the implication that property restrictions guided its membership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodlawn Property Owwners’ League
Woodlawn, Incorporated
CTA agrees to study terminal plan for buses
The Chicago Transit Authority agreed to recheck the current turn-around plan affecting South Deering and South Chicago bus lines. Merchants clubs and labor groups urged restoring the north-end terminal to 63rd Street and Dorchester. Petitions with more than 7,000 signatures supported approved 63rd Dorchester terminal over the existing 68th Street and Stony Island Avenue north terminal.
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Chicago Transit Authority
South Deering
South Chicago
63Rd St
Dorchester
CTA
63Rd Dorchester
68Rd St
Stony Island
James C. Holmes dies longtime South Side printer
James C. Holmes, 80, of 6724 Ridgeland ave., who ran a South Side printing plant for 53 years, died after a brief illness. Funeral services were held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at 5522 Halsted st. Burial was in Evergreen cemetery. Holmes, born in Milford, Illinois, moved to Chicago in 1891 and opened a Halsted street firm in 1893. He was active in Masonic orders and Lions Club. his son Wendell now operates the business.
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Ireland
Joyce
America
W. Gard St
Halsted St
Stony Island Ave
Dorchester Ave
Michael
Ioyce
Movers’ Association of Chicago
Illinois Warehouse Men’s Association
Unity Post
The
American Legion
Southmoor Bank
South Shore Country Club
Chicago Trafic Club
Englewood Business Men’s Association
South Shore Chamber of Commerce
Southmoor Community Council
Southtown Planning Association
National Furniture Warehousing Association
Englewood Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis Legion of Merit
Englewood Club
Sarah
Mary
Carpenter Jr
Joyce Brothers Storage and van Company
N. Clark St
St. Philip Neri Church
E. 72Nd St
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
James C. Holmes
Ridgeland Ave
Evergreen Cemetery
Holmes
Evangelical Hospital
Calumet Ben Franklin Club
Old Time Printers’ Association
Milford
Chicago
Lucinda Harvey
Garfield Blvd
51St St
Wendell
Mizpah
Knights Templar
Boulevard Masonic 1 Lodge
Englewood Lions Club
Lucinda
Esther
Stewart Ave
L. A. Kelly
Watseka
Evangeline Goodwin Dies at 77 Rites Held
Evangeline Isabelle Goodwin died December 9 at her home 7507 Jeffery Ave after a five year illness. Funeral services were held Saturday at Our Lady of Peace church with burial in St. Mary cemetery. She was the wife of criminologist George F. Goodwin and mother of Helen R. Forest. She leaves a granddaughter and two great grandhildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evangeline Isabelle Goodwin
Jeffery Ave
Our Lady of Peace Church
St. Mary Cemetery
Goodwin
South Side
George F. Goodwin
John Nelson
Chicago
Helen R. Forest
E. Tardel
J. J. McCann
S. 74Th Ave
Palos Heights
John W. McCann
Barbara Joan McCann
Southeast Sider Woman Killed in Auto Crash at Cicero and 42nd
John Jankowsky 45 a bricklayer of 600 E 88th Pl and Mrs Dagmar Bitterberg 40 of Evanston died when their car crashed into a railroad abutment at Cicero Ave and 42nd St Friday night. Alex Hanson 41 of 6636 Sangamon Sr suffered chest injuries as a passenger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cicero Ave
42Nd St
John Jankowsky
Local aid urged for Cal-Sag project at business meeting
Col. Wendell P. Trower urged support for local cooperation with the federal government to advance the Calumet harbor Sag channel project. He noted that construction legally awaits assurances of rights of way and spoil disposal, and the plan includes widening the channel and Grand Calumet river with an interchange harbor at Lake Calumet.
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ARMY
Wendell P. Trower
William A. Rowan
Business Men’s League of the United States
John V. Hanberg
Trower
Calumet harbor-Sag Channel
Chicago
Congress
Mississippi Valley
Gulf of Mexico
Calumet Sag
Grand Calumet River
Lake Calumet
St. Lawrence Seaway
Calumet Harbor
Atlantic
A Penny for Your Thoughts on Budgeting a Child’s Time
A survey gathers quotes from parents and professionals on teaching children to budget time. Parents Kay Charles Wesley, Walter Fealner, R J Rowan, and Dr E P Hanrahan weigh benefits and limits of schedules and planned activities for school readiness and lifelong habits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Wyatt
Yale Ave
T. Wesley Charles
Marquetie Rd
E. P. Hanrahan
Cornell Ave
Hatnrahan
Jack Gershon
N. Sacra
Mento Ave
Jack
Gershon
$20,000-a-Year Football Star Is a Tenant of CHA
The Chicago Housing Authority filed 19 more eviction suits in Circuit Court against families in five public housing projects for alleged income above occupancy limits. Buddy Young, a New York Yankees football star and former Illinois standout, lives at Altgeld Gardens earning $20,000 yearly with $6,000 written off for managerial expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Housing Authority
CHA
Buddy Young
New York Yankees
University of Illinois
Altgeld Gardens
130Th St
Langley Ave
Young
Emil Hirsch
Ducey and Shufro Quit CHA Planning Roles
Chicago Housing Authority commissioners accepted the resignations of Milton Shufro assistant executive secretary and John M. Ducey planning director. Shufro will join Friedman Alschuler and Sincere as housing consultant. Ducey becomes executive director of the National Association of Housing Officials. Scrolls were voted for the pair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Housing Authority
Milton Shufro
John M. Ducey
CHA
Shufro
Elizabeth Wood
Dutey
Emil G. Hirsch
Ducey
Friedman, Alschuler
Sincere
W. Jackson Blvd
National Association of Housing Officials
60Th St
Navy
The
Economist
Kennelly
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Walker
Truman
Tipperary
Timothy M. Hanley
Memory Lane
Mr. Hanley
Southtown Economist
Hanley
Grand Trunk Railroad
Walcottave
William
Southeast Economist
W. 65Th St
A. RB. D
H. L. Doll
Racine Ave
Shafro
New York Corporation
Master-In-Chancery
Ley Gleason, Inc
New York
Supreme Court
Illinois
Edward Howe
John J. Joyce
Joyce Brothers Company
St. Bernard Hospital
Mr. Joyce
Sacred Heart Sanitarium
Milwaukee
John Joyce
Southeast Sider
Colonel Trower
Mississipi
Grafton
Illinois River
Kankakee
Desplaines
Lockport
Chicago Drainage
Wesley
Charles
Walter Fealner
Lafayette Ave
Walter
R. J. Rowan
Elstone
John Ducey
McKinley Park
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