Joliet Walnut Street Routed for Route 6 Traffic
A Joliet resident warns that Walnut Street from Maple to Cass is being used as a permanent Route 6 detour due to an unsafe viaduct. The letter laments prolonged bickering over who pays for repairs and urges authorities to act to prevent ongoing through traffic on a residential street.
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Joliet
Walnut Street
Maple Road
Cass Street
Walnut
Highway Department
Railroad
Woodruff Road
Mean thief gets chance to amend Juliet
A heart broken girl suspects a petty theft in a downtown dime store after her billfold vanished. A second woman claimed it and kept the money, prompting a public appeal for honesty and restitution.
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Juliet
Missing Money Drives Desperate Family Toward Help
A heartbroken plea asks the finder of a small sum to return it to ease a girl whose mother and father are both in the hospital. Neighbors are being asked not to pry and to call 3 7893 to arrange a confidential return.
Fear and communism in government debate in Hartford Spectator
Reader challenges a Hartford Courant piece on fear and McCarthyism. He cites experience in Asia and argues communism is worse, urging a strong government while noting communists were present in Washington prior to McCarthy.
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Juliet
Spectator
The
Hartford Courant
Senator McCarthy
China
Korea
Japan
Chiang
Washington
McCarthy
Good fellow recall on McCarthy and trust
A speaker voices doubt about McCarthy seeking high office and warns against laughing at oneself and accepting alarmist suspicions. The text questions guilt before proof and cites a police officer’s wary stance as a troubling example, ending with the attribution to Joseph Gigliotti of 1022 New Lenox road.
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McCarthy
Joseph Gigliotti
New Lenox Road
Baseball Celebration At Browns Driving Park 1911
July 4 1911 festivities at Browns Driving Park Braidwood Ill feature a baseball tournament among the Braidwood Senators Wilmington YMCA Symerton Standards and Custer Park Athletics. Tensions flare as Standards taunt Athletics before a decisive clash with Custer Park emerging as the dramatic underdog.
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Custer Park
Stonewall Jacksons
Symerton Club
Mistak
Athletics Triumph Over Standards In Hard-Fought Earned Victory
The Athletics from Horse Creek defeated the Symerton Standards with a strong fifth inning surge. Ruva and Jim Evans drove in runs, Murphy added a duplicate, and FE Smith's high fly plated another. Big Jeff Morgan held the Standards to four singles as Cy Martin struggled. Custer Park’s defense kept their lead secure. An Old Timer.
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Custer Park
Athletics
Symerton
Horse Creek
Ruva
Jim Evans
Jim
Murphy
Smith
Jeff Morgan
Leonard Murphy
Coalfield
Cy Martin
Cyclist Reading While Riding Sparks Public Call for Discipline
A Joliet reader recounts a 14 or 15 year old on a bicycle reading a small book while riding across Jefferson and Ottawa. The writer urges fines and bicycle bans for youths who endanger others in traffic, arguing streets are not a circus ring.
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Tailors—Cleaners
W. Jefferson St
King's Drug Store
Comstock St
Joliet, Il
Oxfords
Rialto
Fresh Whiting
W. Los
Jefferson Fish & Cheese
A. Little
G. W
Berggren
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