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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1931
Page
9
The article promotes wearing roomy trousered pajamas and stylish suits for summer comfort. It highlights colorful ensembles, feminine necklines, tuck-in blouses, and nautical sailor influences. Tri color outfits and Fourth of July ready options are noted, with prices and fabric suggestions sprinkled throughout.
A local pageant crowned Maxine Weaver as cherry pie queen after a lighthearted bakeoff. The event highlighted community talents and featured judges from area bakeries.
A poem evoking Joliet along sylvan shores with travelers and lovers. It describes winter crowns and crystal snows blown from polar seas, roses in June, moonlight glories, birds and larks, waters weaving songs, and evening bells. The verse repeats Joliet along the sylvan shore as a refrain.
The note urges stark practicality in wills, advising firmness and precision. It emphasizes excluding sentimentality and emotional considerations to ensure clear, unambiguous estate instructions.
This week R. J. Burrill filed for an injunction to reopen his miniature golf course after police ordered its closure last week. The petition targets Mayor William A. Hennessy Commissioner Robert Wraith and Chief of Police Nicholas Fornango.
Deputy warden reports convicts at Stateville prison plan an elaborate rock garden. Richard Loeb, with Nathan Leopold Jr., known for the Franks murder, is among inmates in the greenhouse cultivating rocks and plants for garden use.
The sole forging ever made in the United States is a generator rotor now installed at the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois Waukegan station.
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