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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1932
Page
8
A local storyteller recounts Broadway gossip and oddities from Broadway show tickets to a drunk driving incident. Notes mention Garbo and Crawford on Grand Hotel, Rockefeller’s estate putting green, and cinema trivia about elephants in Tarzan.
One who has an uncontrollable desire to steal is described in a quiz that lists Newfoundland Georgia Revelation Ann Harding Russia Emmet Toppino and reasons such as a large fin on its back resembling a sail. It includes casual dialogs about debt between Henry and Casper referencing Will Smith.
A summary notes Magnolia Street as a Dickensian crowd of vivid working class characters in an English city with Jewish and Gentile communities and global reach. It also mentions Kathleen Norris’s Second Hand Wife, describing Sandra and Carter Cavendar and their pursuit of real love beyond wealth.
John Deans rise from a neglected Carolina farm youth to playwright and editor is explored. The work traces his struggle between idealism and experience and presents him as a man of rare insight.
A seasoned observer argues that defeats reveal more about a team than wins do and that even successful players learn most from their mistakes. The piece emphasizes careful study of failures to improve strategy and execution.
George H. Johnson of Joliet warned that many low price goods are not bargains if they lack color-fastness and resist shrinkage. At the Illinois Laundry owners convention Gilbert Mc Coy became president with L. L. Sober as vice president and C. H. Atwood reelected secretary. J. W. Smalley is treasurer and G. Speicher heads the Joliet Home Laundry as regional director.
The road and bridge letting set for April 27 by the state department of public works and buildings and state highway officials will spur work across the steel industry and allied lines. The $3,800,000 series includes 15 bridge sections needing 1,499,800 pounds of structural steel.
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