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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1934
Page
9
March weather speculation runs wild as experts and readers debate if the month will end gentle like a lamb or fierce like a lion. The week features shifting conditions, including a surprising blizzard, stoking uncertainty about the season's final act and temperature trends.
J. J. Cohen of the White Store brings Peg Gordon from Greenwich Village to Joliet to sketch life sized portraits at no cost. Gordon, seen at the Century of Progress last summer, will work with passersby in the store's ladies department offering free drawings to customers. She can complete about forty to fifty portraits daily and allows spectators to watch. Gordon plans to return to the World's Fair this summer and will be in Joliet today tomorrow and yesterday.
Senator Richard J. Barr conducts an active campaign in Will and DuPage counties seeking the Republican nomination for state senator. Born in Will County, he served Joliet as city attorney and two-term mayor, oversaw rail upgrades and Union Station, created a street cleaning department, improved water supply, and oversaw paving, new police and library buildings. In the Senate he promoted a statewide hard surface road system and the Civil Administrative Code, and backed major legislation including workmen’s compensation and women’s suffrage.
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