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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1928
Page
26
The Chicago Evening Post announces its new Double Fudge device allowing printing a double column of type on each side of the front page. The post claims the late editions after 4 30 p m now deliver more late news than any Chicago daily and that it is the first in America with this improvement.
Wilmette freshmen Miss Herma E. Logan and William G. Eckhardt, along with twenty-six others, are named by Dr. U. S. Grant as scholastic honorees in geology at Northwestern University. The group was recognized during a complimentary field trip.
The geology department hosted a field trip for the students with the highest scholastic average. The trip began at 8 AM last Saturday, traveling by bus to the Fox River region forty miles west of Chicago. They studied topography and returned about 5 PM, with all expenses paid by the geology department.
Mrs O G Rhein of Pittsburgh is visiting her daughter Mrs Frank J Dowd at 1405 Forest for Christmas. Mrs Roger Sherman at 818 Sixteenth Street hosted a luncheon and bridge at her home Wednesday in Rhein’s honor.
Wilmette post office urges patrons to include return addresses on all letters and parcels to reduce undelivered Christmas mail. January dead letters reach millions. loss to public exceeds 325000 dollars yearly. In 1930 Wilmette area had 4324 letters processed, only 3% returned, 10% sent to dead-letter office.
Miss Louise Boos and Joseph Luser of Joliet were guests of Mr and Mrs Fred H Janssen at 320 Isabella Street for several days this week.
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