13 Jun 1902
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Newspaper
The Joliet Daily Republican
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1902
Page
1
All persons or parties with claims against the Joliet Flood Relief committee are asked to file an itemized statement of their account by Saturday evening the 1th inst. This includes donors and merchandise contributors to the relief.
On Saturday and Monday only, a large hammock will be given free with every one pound can of Grand Union Baking Powder while supplies last. See them in the window at Grand Union Tea Co. 139-21. Little mice gnaw at big cheese. small vices gnaw at virtue.
The class of 1902 at Joliet Township High School graduated last evening in the assembly hall. Sixty-one graduates received diplomas as a large, fashionable audience filled the auditorium. Superintendent Brown presided, Rev. Atchison gave the invocation, and the Amphiba Lady quartet performed four numbers.
Supt Brown opens graduation as 700 students gather for Joliet Township high school ceremony. Inspector Higgins and Judge Marshall present diplomas, stressing equal opportunity, strong education, and civic duty for new graduates.
The passage notes a Chicago high school with 300 boys and 400 girls enrolled, highlighting that the graduating class represents the flower of that cohort as they have completed the required fifteen.
The Joliet township high school is praised as one of the best equipped and well conducted in the nation. Prof. J. Stanley Brown is credited with transforming the school and has declined lucrative offers to lead eastern institutions, choosing to elevate Joliet’s educational standing instead.
A list of female and male students and speakers from Joliet Wiship high school includes names such as Margaret Francis and Harry Atkinson. The text presents Salutatory remarks on genius, growth, and pride in completing the high school course, with hopes for future generations and recognition of educators, ending as a fragment—Continued on Fifth Page.
A clipped note highlights Francis Miles Finch born 1827 a Yale graduate and judge with ties to Co versity Law School as a celebrated lyric poet. It discusses his poem The Blue and the Gray and memorial floral tributes by women in Mississippi to Confederate and Union soldiers, praising impartial remembrance.
J M Marks former president of the Diamond Investment company was granted a new trial by Judge Hirscher. Indicted by the Will county grand jury for operating a confidence game, he had been convicted two weeks earlier and faced an indeterminate penitentiary term. All three cases against Marks and McDonald go to the next term. Bonds set at 300 dollars signed by John Mc Fadden.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions New York visiting Niagara and Lehigh with unclear context. The readable terms suggest a sports or event note but lack concrete details to specify participants, scores, or dates.
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