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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1935
Page
2
A collage of small items and local notes covers households, celebrity chatter, and daily life. Hapless lovers, a coach, hitchhiker tales, shopping countdown, and mentions of William Powell, Dick Barr, Gary Cooper, and Major Bowes populate the page alongside civic snippets and a nod to Christmas preparations.
From the west comes news Max Baer seeks a future in western pictures amid boxing doubts. Local scene notes Paul Schoene charges 20 cents for beer as some customers nurse bottles for hours. Eddie McHugh opens Smoky bar near The Court Tavern. Westside talk about Red Buddy and betrothal rumors of Anna or Martha. Frank Doyle and Paul Scheene plan New Year parties for inn guests. Neal Houbolt seen with the same girl. Bob Walsh has a dance surprise. Police Captain James Kavanaugh is home with grippe.
Nearly one million Christmas seals cost a penny each go on sale in Will county as part of a drive to eradicate tuberculosis. Mrs. E A Rollinson, executive secretary of the local drive, says intensive drives are in all schools city and rural with children as eager sellers. Proceeds support state and national tuberculosis associations in the fight against the disease. The stamp features a young lady in Civil War era dress mailing a letter, echoing the Sanitary Fair stamps used to fund the U S Sanitary Commission.
Still a mortician of Wilbur Barry identified with the Poehner and Dillman company desires to have it known he is also connected with the Central Undertaking establishment.
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