Greatest Prison Nears Completion at Joliet
The world’s largest and most up to date Joliet State Penitentiary nears completion at Joliet New Jersey. The $7 million complex features towered cells with sunlight access and ventral sidings a prison farm for fresh supplies and extensive hospital facilities. Superintendent John L Whitman and his wife promoted the plan as a lifetime work in penology with moving prices athletic sports and entertainments expected for inmates.
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Priot
House of Correction
Joliet
Theorld
Joliet State Penitentiary
John L. Whitman
Cuticura Heals Skin Trouble Alleged in Testimonial
A Bonner Springs Kansas resident reports three years of facial pimples that worsened until they covered the face and neck. After three cakes of Cuticura Soap and two tubes of Ointment, the skin cleared, with the testimonial dated February 28, 1924.
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Pansy Ellsworth
Rt. 2
Bonner Springs
Kans
Prison Reform at Joliet Reveals Psychiatric Intake and Farm Labor
A Joliet prison description outlines admission to a 40 person psychiatry department for mental and criminal assessment. Prisons aim to segregate vicious offenders, treat inmates as patients, and assign proper power. About 150 inmates live on the prison farm in cottages with night guards and some life sentences. The honor system has reduced escapes, and a recent census lists 2,276 inmates with about 425 convicted of murder or manslaughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitman
JoHet
Billy Breaks Up Kitchen Rumpus Amid Deck Chaos
Billy bursts from a kitchen door causing a cook to fling a frying pan. He knocks a sailor, scatters bacon, and wrestles a mop man while the crew gawks. Billy escapes with bacon as Stubby and Button vow to flee the boat before more trouble.
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Billy
Stubby
Button
Radio schedules list diverse programs across multiple stations
A rundown of Saturday radio programming details shows WTAM WHROC and Westinghouse concerts, New York Philharmonic broadcast, and various city station lineups with dinners, dances, concerts, and baseball scores. Entries cover WTAM Cleveland to WGY Schenectady and more, ending with a Madrid banking note.
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WTAM
WHROC
Westinghouse
KDKA
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
WJZ
WGY
Cleveland
Wtam Dance Orchestra
Detroit
Belle Isle Park
WCAX
WCAE
Pittsburgh
New York
WEA
WEAH
Chicago
Woman to Woman headlined by Betty Compson at Rivoli
The Rivoli features Betty Compson in Woman to Woman a film praised as her finest screen work with the audience drawn to a dancer who places love before reason. The program also includes A Man's Mate last performance Grand A Tiger Love and Dreamland Home Keeping Hearts from Chains with a comedy.
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Betty Compson
Antonio Moreno
Charles W. Pawell
Real Estate Transfers Noted in Lorain Area Listings
Property transfers show multiple parcels and sums in Lorain and surrounding towns. Transfers include lots and acreages in Chamberlains Addition Elyria and Park Avenue Elyria, from Lawrence Serapono to Frank Thomas and Berlcka to James Stanek, with sums of 4500 and 8000 respectively. Additional listings show Lake View Park Realty Co to F J Racey for lot H1, Ridgeville Homesite allotment to Joseph Marsal for 6500, and Peter Goods to Peter Magur for lot 177 Streetor trustees ad to Lorain for 1000.
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Lawrence Serapono
Frank Thomas
Lorain
Clarence Mack Ty O. G Sheppard
Park Avenue
Elyria
Fouls Berlcka
James Stanek
Columbia
Lake’ View
Ridgeville
Peter Goods
Peter Magur
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Cuticura
Addess
Boure Davis
York
Gordon Auchincloss
E. M. House
John W. Davis
Study
Betty
Compson
Tel
Chas. F. McLaughlin
KYW
Arlington
CKCHA
Ottawa
WOR
Newark
WOC
Davenport
ASD
St. Louis
WRC
Washington
Schenectady
WAZ
Springfield
Madrid
Bank of Redona
Whitney & CO
Broad St
F. E. Gilbert
Redington Bldg
P.S
THE
Loomis CO
John 8. Robertson
Richard
Tiger Love
Estelle Taylor
Nellie Jordon
Follies
Jean Dect
Tumbler
Elk’s Circus
Auspices Elyria B. P. C. E
Stoney Point
Ohio
Elyria Savings and Trust
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