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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1931
Page
11
A first person account details milkmen routines on a central delivery route. The piece explains how customers specify milk by spot, notes, tickets, or quantities, and how routes include charitable patrons and contagious disease precautions. The narrator ends with leaving the dairy and a final switch from horse to industry life.
Joliet firms participate in the annual state utilities convention in Springfield with about 1000 delegates. O A Hill represents Public Service. J A McGowan and Miss Thresa Bega represent Western United Gas and Electric as a gas and electric services extension plan is discussed for farming areas.
Joliet Junior College students will stage three one act plays in the high school auditorium on April 13. Miss Myra Mather directs the German piece, Mrs. Minnie P. Babcock directs the French, and Miss Lena M. Dickinson leads the English. No tickets will be sold.
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