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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1931
Page
18
Catalog notes list dress designs with sizes from children's to misses and long or short sleeves. Yardage requirements vary by size and style, including material widths 35 and 39 inches, with belts, collars, and contrasting trims specified. Prices listed as 15c or 1b5c.
Miss Martha Dunlap and Miss Lorraine Jennings of Elwood Illinois depart Chicago October 11 by Certury Air Liner for the national milking contest in St Louis. Jennings milks eighteen cows morning and evening. winner earns 125 cash and a large silver loving cup.
Illinois The International Shoe Company will open a factory at Anna employing 500 workers with a $300000 annual payroll. Certificates for 4298 new Illinois corporations were issued in the eight months ending August 31, up 166 from 1930. The Sanitary District of Chicago plans a $25 million sewage plant at Roseland. Illinois highway construction since January 1 adds 825 miles to state and county systems.
An illustrated wardrobe improves on the old design with two cubby holes for hats, eight sliding drawers for gloves hosiery and lingerie, a right section for dress hangers with an extension rod, and mirrors on both doors. The piece targets small apartments and maximizes closet space.
F Williams opens a delicatessen and food shoppe at 1013 Ruby Street offering freshly baked pies and ready to serve meals made while you wait. Delivery service is advertised as a feature of the new shop.
A readable note offers a new lunch main dish: boil rice in salted water, drain well, serve hot with cheese sauce and parsley garnish. It humorously suggests a spinach holiday amid talks of cotton wheat and armament holidays.
The Village of Glen Ellyn invites bids for a new eel disposal plant with an estimated cost of 450. Separately the U S Department of War approved bridge projects over the Mississippi at Moline and the Illinois at Chillicothe.
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