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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1941
Page
8
Shawneetown Progress reports the city will be relocated to a site high above the Ohio River floodplain. Bids for removing forty two more Shawneetown houses will be opened in Springfield next week. The move follows the 1937 flood disaster.
Stephen Dutton aged 97 faced a grand larceny charge at police headquarters, claiming the three ton paper cutting machine at 97 Imlay Street belonged to him. Dutton’s long criminal record dates to 1896 with multiple sentences for forgery and grand larceny. He described Civil War exploits and wartime news delivery to Lincoln as proof of his vigor, then was sent to Brooklyn City Prison without bail.
Theosophist L W Rogers, national lecturer, will give a free talk next Monday at 8 p m in the St John’s Universalist church Sunday school room. He will offer a possible explanation of dreams and premonitions and claim a logical, satisfactory theory to classify and understand dreams and assign proper importance.
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