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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1935
Page
8
Peggy Crighton of 615 Elwood Street receives two dollars for the week’s best dream tale. Her entry describes a hospital bed scene at 5 AM with a mouse escaping from a paper bag, prompting relief upon awakening that no mice lurk in the room.
Winter has hit the city prompting Dr. E. J. Higgins to urge immediate medical care for frozen feet fingers or ears. He warns home remedies can worsen damage and advises patients to seek a physician at once.
Ballistics, an old science, is now applied to police work. Interior ballistics studies powder pressures and gun bores, while exterior ballistics examines projectiles in flight. Police experts use microscopes to identify bullets by distinctive barrel marks left on their surfaces.
Retail sales this Christmas rise 25 to 35 percent from last year per records issued yesterday by Loop merchants. All classes of merchandise including luxury items show gains. jewelers report greater than anticipated activity and downtown merchants express satisfaction with business.
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