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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1934
Page
3
Blended notes reveal local crushes and social gossip on Irving and Collins streets. Questions linger about who D H, B U, and H S will date, while others ponder fishing luck, stump the leader soreness, and upcoming aisle walks at G E Co parties.
Warden Frank D. Whipp said routine is in order at Stateville after a recent yard flareup left five inmates with facial and bodily cuts. He dismissed the incident as exaggerated and no organized plan for trouble existed, noting crowding and unemployment but affirming humane treatment and no anticipated unrest.
The much heralded film The House of Rothschild comes to Joliet’s Rialto Theatre for a four day run beginning Wednesday. Starred by George Arliss in a dual role, the epic drama portrays the Rothschild family’s rise to financial prominence amid Napoleonic era upheaval with Loretta Young and Robert Young in supporting roles.
Postmaster A M Bourgo announced a reduction in airmail rates from eight to six cents per ounce within the United States. A special service fee of ten cents for deliverance to addressees only will also apply, effective immediately.
C K Turman president of the Rotary club played the I Deagan carillon from the Western Union office on Scott street. The first performance was at 9 15 for Chicago Fair visitors and he could not hear it. The program was repeated at 1 16 o clock Tuesday morning as a sign off broadcast by the Columbia network enabling him to hear the music on radio.
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