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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1931
Page
2
The article notes a new girls baseball squad organized by the First National Bank. It mentions practice within two weeks and lists several local figures linked to leisure, sports, and social events, including Al Felman, Bill Hart, and John Haley, with varied anecdotes about their hobbies and daily routines.
Donald Downey a former member of Jo liet's club resumes driving his own car. He says a low mood has a firm hold on him and he plans to keep active despite it.
Charles McPartlin and Harold Graham bought a pair of dozen sandwiches before heading to South Bend with their girlfriends last Saturday. The men favored a hotel cafe crowd and a picnic notion appealed to them. the reaction of the women is not known.
The Joliet police officer Jimmy Lawrence endures taunting from locals and shaves off his moustache. He declares he will not grow another moustache while residing in Joliet.
Overcast skies and rain dampened the Armistice Day parade last Wednesday but American Legion members and friends celebrated in club rooms. A free barbecue lunch for ex service men preceded an afternoon of singing and stories, leading to the annual dance titled A Night on the Rhine at the Elks ballroom with about two hundred couples attending.
Dolly Barber a former high school student now at the University of Illinois is among eleven candidates for the prom queen. Votes will be counted and the prom queen crowned December 18 with all students who purchase tickets eligible to vote.
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