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Newspaper
The Joliet Daily Republican
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1908
Page
7
Local items recount a sister surprise at Custer Park with games, stories, and ice cream. Jottings cover visits, theater trips, and community events including church services, a wedding in Springfield, and a Cubs practice leading to a June 21 game vs Joliet Rivals at Driving Park.
Special to The Republican Miss Katherine Fallon closed the District No 12 school Friday with a picnic. Afternoon program featured songs recitations dialogues and a Sousa band. Several residents and visitors from Joliet Springfield Morris Rockdale and Milwaukee attended.
Special to The Republican DuPage residents and visitors share week long trips to Chicago Plainfield and Joliet. Families visit relatives as cancer operations sit with care. Misses Esther Gertrude Huke and Miss Mabel Davis join community gatherings and children participate in church observances.
A compiled list shows multiple marriage licenses issued. Names and ages include Richard S Walsh of Fonda Iowa with Mary V Bourge of Joliet. George O'Brien and Mary E McNamee. Rev Victor W Richter and James Ruesch. Frank Kuhey and Anna Strmk. Chas W Enos and Alice Quirk. James Rooney and Anna Boweker. John Pamil and Anna Somer. Oliver Belden and Bertha Michaels. William O'Reilly and Margaret Walsh. Neal Madison and Edith Barnes. Joseph Chignoli and Teresa Pasavento. Wm Forrest Lowery and Lydia Waldvogel. John F Butler with an additional pending listing.
A California telephone operator details how irregular hours and pastry harmed her health and memory. After switching to Grape-Nuts on her mother's advice, she gained eleven pounds, restored color and vigor, and saw memory improve within four months. The ad ends with the slogan There’s a Reason and a prompt to read The Road to Wellville.
RECORD OF BIRTHS listing numerous entries in Joliet and surrounding towns. Names include Agnes Heise in Wheatland, a daughter to McCraney in Joliet, Kennedy in Joliet, Mainwood in Joliet, Murphy in Joliet, Dudley in Joliet, Sullivan in Joliet, Lorenz in Mokena, Holmstrom in Joliet, Bostrom in Joliet, James Ward in Joliet, Robert Finton in Plainfield, John Kellner in Lockport, Edith Hthridge in Joliet, L Alberts in Monee, Theo Wagner in Green Garden, and Pehrland in Monee with birth dates in spring and early summer. Context includes a humorous exchange between crew members Purser and Captain Sake.
A 20 year old man, once claiming to be Frank A Coy and now unsure of his identity, was found in the Lake Forest private car of Lackawanna President Truesdale in Hoboken yards preparing for a bath. He claimed to be from Germany and employed by Lackawanna in East Stroudsburg PA, wore a diamond pin and graduated with honors from Dover high school. He was placed in the detention room.
Ira Canfield Mitchell of New York married Miss Helen T. Cloud of Wilmington in New York. Mitchell is a nephew of Samuel H. Baynard Jr. who recalls his parents eloping from Lock Haven to Wilmington. Baynard says his father’s elopement was similar to his own. Alton’s three story school building was struck by lightning injuring pupils. Electric bells burned. Flag staff shattered. Band concert and baseball at Electric Park Sunday. 145-21
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