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Newspaper

The Spectator

Location

Joliet, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Aug 22, 1935

Page

5

Joliet Fire Alarm Count Reveals Soaring Losses prediction

Chief John Nygren warns Joliet faces a notably costly fire year after seven months of alarms. July logged nineteen calls with eight genuine fires four false and one leaf heaping warning residents about autumn burn dangers. A film star’s nose job remark appears unrelated in the closing aside.

Joliet John O. Nygren Nygrén

Parish Summer Picnic At St Bernard’s Church

St Bernard’s hosts a parish picnic on Sunday September 1 in Burjan’s Woods Maple Road near Silver Cross hospital. Afternoon events include baseball contests races and games of chance and skill with evening dancing under colored lights and Japanese lanterns. Refreshments served all day. Cochairladies and chairmen listed for raffles beer cane rack pitchpenny and dancing. Sponsored by Blessed Sacrament and Altar Society and Holy Name Society. Also note Albania’s king Zog has reigned nine years without assassination.

St. Bernard’s Burjan’s Woods Maple Road Silver Cross Hospital Pausback Chicago Thomas Ryan William Themes Louis Mercier Robert Allen Joseph Voitik George Luca Charles McLaughlin John Fulton John Onderisin Leonard Reedy John Hastert Blessed Sacrament and Altar Society Holy Name Society of St. Bernard’s Church

Stateville Prisoners Seek Popular Song Hits

Stateville inmates have shifted requests from air conditioned cells and new pajamas to music concerts. They seek a band and orchestra performance featuring songs like The Old Oaken Bucket Silver Threads Among the Gold and Lulu’s Back in Town with Swing It as a potential alternative.

Stateville Lulu

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