Boxing benefits and local club plans in Joliet in early winter
Spectator Staff reports boxing shows headed by Packy McFarland and other city promoters to raise funds for the unemployed with headliners including Joe Boman Babe Cormier Val Penko and Ber Skeldom. Other Joliet items note an electric World Series scoreboard at the Y and football chatter from St Charles game coverage.
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Joliet
Joe Boman
Steel Works Club
Babe” Cormier
The
Moose Club
Val Penko
Rorkdele
C_ Ber Skeldom
Wilmington
Edward Rosich
Moose
Herb Farr
Barretts
Webster Street
Tom Lauer
Athletics
Harry Osman
Cardinals
Landis
Lou Fifer
St. Charles
Richards
Bennitt Cottage Dedication at Normal Sunday
Bennitt Cottage will be dedicated at the Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Children’s School in Normal on Sunday. The ceremony, first memorial for Colonel Bennitt, includes Camp Third Illinois members and families with past Department Commander Gus Siebel and Violet B. King assisting. Committees led by John A. Sutherland and others arrange, with auxiliary members and the Third Illinois reunion organizers. The Illinois Auxiliary and United Spanish War Veterans also plan cottage dedications at the same school.
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Irma Hill Vogal
Edma G. Herbert
Catherine Sadler
Illinois
William F. Dovoe
H. J. Donahue
Irma Vogel
R Radae Waianaeene
Ralph
Spafford
Department of Illinois Auxiliary
United Spanish War Veterans
City of
Normal
Lois Delander Receives Fan Mail After Illness
Miss America of 1927 Lois Delander Dunham continues to receive fan letters and cards from admirers across the United States several weeks after her operation. Publicity in Chicago and other cities sparked widespread correspondence seeking her speedy recovery.
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Lois Delander
United States
Altho
Chicago
Beer Price Cutting War Hits City Saloon Scene
Beer dealers slash prices to 15 cents a stein breaking the norm as soft drink places drive sales. A west side saloonkeeper reportedly faced a warning to raise prices to 25 cents, while a major distributor proposed a region wide 20 cent stein price to all saloons.
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West Side
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Orpheum
Cass Street
Desplainer Street
Bennitt
Oxfords
Chicago St
Success Bears
Joliet and Vicinity
Joliet, Ill
Zero Ice Co
Rothmoor
Bret
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