Convicts Buy Defense Bonds at Stateville and Collins Prisons
Irregularities noted among inmates at Stateville and Collins street prisons, but several dozen convicts have applied for or obtained Defense bonds. About 20 inmates have bonds, with others expected to follow. Funds go to each inmate’s trust account and are transferred to the post office or bank for bond purchases.
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Stateville
Collins Street
Edward M. Stubblefield
Herbert Luthin
Inmate Defense Bonds Drive Promised Purchases
Warden Stubblefield praised inmate patriotism and urged weekly savings from prison funds to buy Defense bonds. He noted transferable stamps and nontransferable bonds, and predicted hundreds of bonds would be sold at the prison in coming weeks.
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Stubblefield
Lockport Faces Islanders In South Suburban Cage Twinbill
Lockport high school's light and heavyweight basketball teams host Blue Island in a pair of South Suburban Conference games at Porter gym tomorrow night. Coach Les Lindberg's veteran heavyweight squad aims to break its jinx, then the Porters meet Kankakee Lemont Harvey Harvey and Bloom in Chicago Heights in January.
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Lockport High School
Blue Island
Porter Bailiwick
Les Lindberg
Invaders
Kankakee
Lemont
Harvey
Bloom
Chicago Heights
Schools To Open Mon After Christmas Vacation
Public and parochial schools will resume classes next Monday morning. Final exams begin January 9 at Joliet Township High School and the new semester opens January 19. Grade schools reopen Monday and end the semester with graduation January 19. Truth is stranger than fiction to most people probably because they don't care for an introduction.
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Joliet Township
Hilltop Quintet Prepares for Catholic League Opener
Hilltop high and Catholic high teams meet in a preliminary to the Junior College Camp Grant game. Coach Gaglione hopes to shake off holiday stiffness before facing St. Phillips in the Catholic league opener next week. The Catholic majors, after a loss to Leo of Chicago in the St. George tournament, look to improve and challenge for the title.
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Ol’s Light
Catholic High
Chicago
University of Chicago
Gaglione
St. Phillips
Leo
Richards Street Church Communion Service and Choirs
The Richards Street Methodist church plans a 10 40 Sunday service with communion and reception of members. The senior choir will sing Loved the World with young and junior choirs participating. evening Youth Fellowship groups meet at 6 30 with leaders in charge. A note advertises a markdown sale of leftover bathing suits.
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Richards Street Methodist Church
Spectator front page notice and masthead details
Second class matter October 1 1940 Joliet Illinois post office under the act of March 1879. VOL XV January 1 1942 No 38. Seer to offices 107 113 W Cass Joliet Illinois. Telephone 9237. John Hancock advertising manager subscription rates 10c a month delivered by carrier year 2 50 a single copy 5c back copies 10c.
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Joliet
Illinois
The
Spectator
Cass Street
John Hancock
Aavertieeee
Flexer And Young Rites Tomorrow
Joliet pays last tribute to two prominent citizens Anson W. Flexer 80 a druggist and former Will county board chairman funeral at Wunderlich 2 pm burial Elmhurst cemetery John W Young Zero Ice Co. official died in car crash last Tuesday rites tomorrow 2 pm Chamberlin and Sloan chapel Rev Walter H Macpherson officiating
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Tomorn
Joliet
Anson W. Flexer
Seltzer Drug Company
Will County Board of Supervisors
Uneral
Felmhurst
John W
Jake" Young
Zero Ice Company
Chamberlin and Sloan Chapel
Walter H. Macpherson
Joliet Soldier Faces Eastern All-Stars In Bowl Week
Pvt. Joseph J. Shroba of Joliet and 24 other servicemen from Keesler Field Miss. joined a field team to play two football games against the Eastern all stars and a scrimmage with the University of Missouri. Shroba quarterbacked with teammates Mernik Minnesota Mondorf Maryland and Pruesse Nebraska in a strong showing despite a 26 to score loss.
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Joseph J. Shroba
Joliet
U. S. Army
Keesler Field
Miss
University of Missouri
Shroba
Mernik
University of Minnesota
Mondorf
Maryland U
Pruesse
University of Nebraska
Pessiers
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Ruby Grocery & Market
Ruby St
ROYAL
E. Jefferson St
Music Center of
Coppotelli
Fine Music
E. van Buren St
Lockport
Islanders
Hilltop Quintet
Richards Street
Pride
Green Valley Fruit Market
S. Chicago St
the Spectator
the People’s Newspaper
William R. McCabe
Spectator Publishing
Flexer
Young Rites
Tom Briggs
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