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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1932
Page
2
A running column of local chatter and brief vignettes from Joliet covering a nurse’s marriage, public officials jokes, hat buyers, hot gossip about residents and merchants, Saturday night city observations, and assorted social snippets near the Loop area, with light humor and street life snapshots.
Gen Abel Davis, chairman of the Chicago Title & Trust Company, told a meeting of Chicago Life Underwriters at the Hotel Sherman that the business cycle has moved from low mood toward recovery. He declared the crisis has passed, the panic is quieted, and the conviction of eventual recovery is established. He noted life insurance often stands between policy holders and dire want.
The De La Salle Alumni Association hosts its 11th annual hard times party on Friday October 28 at the Renwick dance pavilion. Since 1922 the group holds one yearly event for members and friends with costumes of bygone days and prizes for the best worst dressed couples.
The nation sees windshield stickers reading This Ford Is for Roosevelt suggesting Ford automobile owners adjoin support for Roosevelt over the Ford company or its workers. The text implies a political labeling tied to a car maker.
A Republican bus tour of Will County will depart Joliet at 8 am Monday with candidates delivering talks in Braidwood at 9 and visiting Wilmington Elwood Manhattan Peotone Beecher Crete Frankfort Mokena Plainfield Rockdale and Lockport at scheduled times. Judge Fred Cremem chairs the committee coordinating the stops.
The Robert J. Cronin boosters club sponsors a meeting at A. H. Hall on Cass street with Miss Ruth Brannon as principal speaker. A large crowd is expected.
An American university offers Dr. Albert Einstein a professorship to teach the theory of relativity. He accepts, signaling a major scientific appointment and international attention. The remark hints at social implications of the theory.
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