29 Nov 1933
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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1933
Page
1
A speaker argues against large sewer and waterworks spending while taxes remain unpaid. He calls for fixing streets, alleys, and holed roads, limiting borrowing, and forming a focused city finances committee to translate plans into immediate, practical progress rather than speculative long term projects.
Joliet fans count on a 2:30 PM Thanksgiving Day charity clash at Richards Street Field between the Joliet All-Stars and Lemont Town eleven. Star players include Rentner Oldani Savich Strappaton with guards Zeimis Harper, tackles Barrowman Kelly ends Colona Groneman. Marty Gleason coaches. proceeds aid Joliet Free Milk fund.
Edgar Kobak national president of the Advertising Federation of America says department stores are the smartest group in America for seizing NRA opportunities to improve business. He cites initiative and adaptability as key factors in maximizing the era’s economic gains.
Retail merchants will meet Monday evening December 4 to choose representatives to form a retail trade council to administer the trade code in Joliet. The council is required by the NRA in towns over 2,500 population. Seven types of business are included clothiers and furnishers dry goods furniture hardware limited price variety stores mail order concerns music stores and shoe stores. Food milk tobacco and drug stores are not bound by this code. The meeting will be at the Louis Joliet Hotel with Mel Gray in charge. Anyone in the specified retail business is invited to attend.
Clara Zilma Kovacick aged four fell into a tub of scalding water on Arthur Avenue while playing with her dog. She suffered second degree burns and toxemia, died at 2 30 p.m. The incident occurred after her family had recently celebrated a civil works job. Funeral arrangements pending coroner's inquest.
A giant shirt on display at the American Institute laundry window at Van Buren and Scott streets invites Joliet’s brawny men to try it. The wearer of a size five feet by sixty inch sleeve stands to win the shirt, made by the Crusader Shirt company of Milwaukee and laundered several times.
The NRA will boost Joliet merchants Christmas sales over three years, Dun and Bradstreet predicts. Increased employment and higher wages from NRA provisions will enlarge the buying group by millions, and cold weather has pushed retail volume to the highest since last August.
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