Students Enter Carmelite Secular Order At Mt Carmel High
Reverend Alexis E. McCarthy received 453 junior and senior students into the Third Order Secular of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in a St. Clara’s church ceremony. Leaders included Rev. Maurice E. Anderson and Rev. Mario L. Dittami. The event marked the largest class to join the Carmelites, with vows to daily prayer and charity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice Anderson
Mt. Carmel High School
Alexis McCarthy
Dan Marolewski
Brandon Ave
Michael Kelly
W. 61St St
George Kenney
Chappel Ave
Robert Lowery
Bishop St
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
Alexis E. McCarthy
C. Carm
Dante Ave
Third Order
Our Lady of
Carmelites
Maurice E. Anderson
Mario L. Dittami
St. Cyril's Chapter
Howard E. Rafferty
Rafferty
Marx
Engels
Lenin
Kieran J. O'Hara
St. Clara's Church
Arnold H. McCarthy
Gerard Benson
Memory Lane recalls old Chicago days and fires from 1890s memories
In Memory Lane a group of Old Timers share recollections of early Chicago life. Residents recall a 1893 World’s Fair fire on South Chicago, a Marquette road farm, Cottage Grove grading with oxen, and Jack O Malley saving a neighborhood at 73rd and South Chicago. Readers urged to send memories to Memory Lane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Emerson
Durante
K. Duran
Chicago
Max Schmidt
Marquette Rd
Halsted St
84Th
Halsted Sts
Mrs. Storms
Cottage Grove Ave
Luke
Duke
Spark
Brim
George
Berry
Adam and
Dime
Dora
Nielsen
Jack O’malley
73Rd St
Timely Safety Tips For Motorists
Practical advice urges drivers to remove keys after turning off the motor and lock doors to deter thieves. Exiting from the correct side of the car avoids serious accidents when parking and reduces injury risk to motorists.
Friendly Offer From Quito Botanic Station Seeds
Juan Pastor of the South American No. 1 botanical station in Quito offers to send orchid seeds to South towners for 10 cents to cover collecting handling packing and mailing costs. Letters should be mailed in his name in care of Casilla 2220. Answer to Today's Puzzler: A kind of bullet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juan Pastor
Quito
Ecuador
Newly elected leaders named for Chicago YWCA Household Employers league
Mrs. Arthur C. Bachmeyer serves as president of the Household Employers league of the Chicago YWCA with address 5801 Dorchester Ave. Mrs. Leon J. Kagan at 5801 Woodlawn Ave. is secretary treasurer and Mrs. Roger Sergel of 4830 Kenwood Ave. represents the group on the South Side. The league, founded in 1944, aims to raise standards, maintain wages and improve working conditions for household employees to attract capable women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Household Employers League of the
Chicago Ywca
Arthur C. Bachmeyer
Dorchester Ave
Leon J. Kagan
Woodlawn Ave
Roger Sergel
Kenwood Ave
Woman 77 Fatally Struck by Street Car in Chicago
Mrs. Johanna Mlinarich aged 77 died after walking into a westbound street car at 71st street in Chicago. The accident occurred Sunday evening near her home. the motorman R T Hintz was not held. Funerals and inquest followed at Cottage Grove and Oak Woods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johanna Mlinarich
E. Tist St
R.T. Hintz
77Th St
Vincennes Ave
Cottage Grove Ave
Mlinarich
Chicago
Tist St
Margo Loewy
Olga Verkier
Corliss Ave
Miinarich
Woodmen of the World Lodge
Oak Woods Cemetery
Birth boom to swell Chicago kindergartens next fall
Chicago faces a surge of 5 085 kindergarten age children and 72 additional teachers at the start of the school year. The city plans expanded classrooms as enrollment rises, with costs for new hires estimated at 158 400 dollars annually for a decade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Don C. Rogers
Rogers
George F. Cassell
Chicago Normal Schools
Board of Health
Pearl Harbor
Rule Shooting of Boy Justifiable Homicide Inquest
Coroner's jury finds justifiable homicide after William Reynolds aged 15 was shot by Harold C. Ickes at a bowling alley area on May 2. Ickes testified he fired when Reynolds ran after ignoring commands to stop. Witness James Gariland said he and Reynolds planned to steal a car. Inquest held at Woodlawn police station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Reynolds
Minerva Ave
Main
Harold C. Ickes
66Th Ft
Ickes
65Th Ps
Reynolds
James Gariland
E. 66Th
Woodlawn
Horses Leave Post Fans Wait After Bus Arrests
South side racing fans faced delays as Woodlawn police arrested eight Central West Motor Stages drivers for operating buses without city authorization. Police halted loading at 63rd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, refunding about 160 would be riders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Side
Woodlawn
63Rd St
Cottage Grove Ave
Lincoln Fields
Hawthorne Track
Cicero
Hyde Park Cadets Win Medals at ROTC Inspection
Hyde Park High School Reserve Officers Training Corps members earned multiple medals at the federal inspection held at Jackson Park. Officiating Lt Col Frank Melchior and Sgt Charles Stade led a slate of awardees including Budd y Mills Lt Melvin Harper and Sgt John Parham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson Park
Frank A. Melchior
Hyde Park
Hyde Park High School Reserve Officers Training Corps
Stair
Richard Goldblatt
Drexel Ave
Melvin Harper
Harper Ave
Woodlawn Post
American Legion
John Parham
Alvin Gittelson
Hyde Park Blvd
Stanley Naranji
Alan Bloomfield
Clyde Ave
David Pomper
Woodlawn Ave
American Legion Auxiliary
Lloyd Cassidy
40Th St
Duane Griffith
Stony Island Ave
Gared Snyder
East End Ave
A Penny for Your Thoughts Interviews on Forcing Music Study
At a De LaSalle Mothers' club meeting, mothers discuss if children should be compelled to learn a musical instrument. Several parents argue for or against forcing lessons, citing talent, interest, and long term effects on a child’s attitude toward music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de LaSalle Mothers’ Club
James Fitzgerald
Prairie Ave
Jay
James Ful
Fitzgerald
James Harrington
Michigan
Albin Cox
Ingleside Ave
May Dedicated to Family Month at Bryn Mawr Church
Bryn Mawr Community church at 7000 Jeffery Ave dedicates May to Family Month with plans by a committee from church groups. Dr. Sylvanus M. Duvall leads Parents class to publish Meet Your Family and Your Family Needs Attainable Goals. Youth participate in services led by Dr. Ray Freeman Jenney with several auxiliary groups planning programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryn Mawr
Bryn Mawr Community Church
Jeffery Ave
Sylvanus M. Duvall
Ray Freeman Jenney
Women's Auxiliary
Young Marrieds’ Club
Young Mothers’ Club
Duvall
Mystery surrounds immigrant killed by train in Chicago incident
Burnside police investigate a 68 year old immigrant killed when he walked into the northbound James Whitcomb Riley at 82nd Street and Ellis Avenue across six tracks. The coroner ruled death by own action. The identified victim, Ernest Brunner born 1879 in Germany, used multiple aliases and had no clear living relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burnside
James Whitcomb Riley
New York Central Railroad
82Nd St
Ellis Ave
Illinois Central
Freeman B. Machearn
Riley
Arthur Brinkman
69Th St
Ernest Brunner
Monroe
Chicago Public Lbrary
Brunner
Sistence
W. North ‘Ave
Germany
Amereica
E. P. McLaughlin
Burnside Station
John Miller
John Fischer
John Walster
Oscar Swanson
Swanson
Francis O'Sullivan Jr
South Shore
Council mourns vandalism at Oak Woods cemeteries
City council expressed mortification over a desecration of 147 graves across three Jewish sections of Oak Woods Cemetery on the Tist street side. Aldermen introduced a resolution and urged the police division to investigate and report in 30 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tist St
Oak Woods
Robert Merriam
Francis J. Hogan
Nicholas J. Bohling
Kennelly
Committee On Human Relations
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Economist Photo
Mrs. Bachmeyyer
Soth
I. C. Crossing
Goodby
ROTC
Tomist
Mills
Stony Merchants
Stony Island Merchants Association
Southmoor Bank
Bernard Gross
Rhodes Ave
Mekee Dee
Steve Downey
Rhodes
Walter J. Murphy
Ave
Sacramento Ave
Dyslexia Guild
Albert H. Allen
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