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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1934
Page
11
An editorial argues that the public bears responsibility for crime through lax laws and self interest. It urges citizen vigilance, license enforcement, and reform, noting officials and good citizens alike enable crime. The piece ends with a grim joke about a murder trial in New Orleans.
Seventeen year old St Johns girl, not sixteen, confesses to shooting her father to free her mother to marry a cowboy after claiming she was acting on the bidding of an ouija board. The father, a naval reserve gunner's mate, died of his wounds. The mother, Dorothea Turley, was arrested as an accessory.
A Joliet feature highlights Cass Street businesses from Lincoln Store to Len's popcorn and J. R. Lamb’s meats and groceries. It notes longstanding firms like J. Geistlinger tailors Kennedy Laundry and Capista’s Grocery, praising Cass Street as a bustling Joliet boulevard.
The Association of Commerce announces its annual meeting on Thursday January 25 at noon in the Universalist church auditorium on Clinton street. John N Van der Vries of Chicago head of the U S A North Central Division will be principal speaker with Petersen presiding. Lunch to be served by St Johns Universalist church women.
The postoffice department will move into its remodeled quarters on Scott street around March 1, according to Postmaster A. M. Bourge. Interior work is progressing rapidly and U S Engineers in charge of waterways have reopened offices there.
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