Breathless Moments of Mata Hari in Final Hours
A vivid 1917 tale of Mata Hari, the dancer known as H-21, who faces execution at Vincennes. She performs an audacious last dance, accepts no blindfold, and greets the crowd with defiant bravado before the firing squad ends her life.
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Bizard
Sisters of Mercy
Leonide
Vincennes
Danseuse
Mata Hari
Marguerite Gertrude Zelle
Leeuwarden
Frisia
Watkins Syndicate, Inc
The Oracle Column Continues with Light Local Color
The Oracle Column continues from Page 6 and greets readers with playful quips and witticisms. Walter O Herschbach receives well wishes for a new venture while jokes about witnesses and suits mix with local personages and pranks.
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Walter O. Herschbach
Plainfield Social Notices Include Performances and Gatherings
The Plainfield column notes showmen Richard W Wells Jones Walter and Grouchy Green as supporting cast for Mary Hamlin Margaret Fouser and Katherine Holisten who impressed as scrub ladies receiving home job offers. Evening events include a 200-attendee President’s ball and family dinners. flood relief in Eldorado. a funeral in Lockport. and a Labor Day holiday designation approved June 28 1894 by President Cleveland after 1882 agitation.
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Richard W
Bernice Wells Jones
Walter
Grouchy
Green
Mary Hamlin
Margaret Fouser
Katherine Holisten
Cleveland
Joliet Kiwanis Show Headlines Benefit Night
The Joliet Kiwanis Club presents Headline s a benefit show at Joliet Township High School tonight. A cast of over a hundred performs musical numbers comedy skits and minstrel acts to aid wonder-privileged children. George L Stevens of John B Rogers Producing Co directs the production.
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Joliet
Dresden Locks Close Traffic on Illinois Waterway
The Dresden lock on the Illinois waterway at Dresden Heights will be closed for a week starting today to allow repairs. The closure prevents river use until maintenance is completed.
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Dresden Heights
Dresden
Vermin List Divides Mammals by Economic Value
As many as 189 American mammals are denounced as vermin but among these var mints 116 kinds are fur bearers of economic value, highlighting the split between pest status and commercial value for farmers and others.
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Charles W. Duke
Oracle
Ruby L. Nail
Dan Cupid
People’s Outfitting Co
Bob Hoyt
Percival Wild
Lenny Wedic
John Suhadole
Kennedy
Johnny
Maria
John
Julian Foss
Denver
Colo
Fred Brown
Sadie Brown
C. M. Brown
Nancy
John Weitzel
University of Illinois
Harry Weitzel
Plainfield
Helen Plumer
Social Center
Milton Sonntag
J. A. Henebry
Louis Keeley
Bert McCauley
Chester Brownson
Presley Woods
E. H. Krebs
Paul Upton
E. J. Williams
John Lennon
Harry Carlson
S. S. Schmelding
Robert Bundy
Glenn Rouse
Earl Hamilton
Cleo Wilmington
Lockport
Rouse
Eldorado, Ill
Dave Fairweather
Robert Morrison
the Spectator
American Institute Laundry Dial
Ellman’s
E. Jefferson ST
Sanitary Project
Fahrner Drug Store
N. Center
Stillman
Chicago St
Clinton
Bettfs CO. Inc
Dubois, PA
Liess Drug Store
Cass St
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