This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 9 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1929
Page
4
Northwestern University sororities are rushing the new girls this week with parties Thursday Friday and Saturday and a tea on Sunday. No parties Monday, but Wednesday and Thursday next week also host events. Final pledging and bid night occur late next week as many North Shore girls are home rushed.
Virginia Hartst of Ravinia returns as junior at St Marys college in Notre Dame Indiana. John Henry Dtlarist begins freshman year at University of Notre Dame.
Robert Zech son of Mr and Mrs N P Zech of 918 Forest avenue left last Sunday for Williamstown Massachusetts to enter Williams College.
A Brunswick panatrope with radio donated by the Joseph Sears school class of 1929 was placed on the auditorium stage. Funded by proceeds from the June 1929 production of The Merchant of Venice the gift adds to equipment for music appreciation dancing marching and gymnastic drills.
Miss Helen Gates daughter of Mrs I F Gates 723 Wighth street Wilmette has returned to enter her sophomore year at Swarthmore College in the east Mr and Mrs Walter J Cox 232 Essex road Kenilworth spent last weekend at Lawsonia Country club Green Lake Wis
The Wilmette Life editor and the community chest advisory board praise the paper for wide publicity that helped raise more in one drive than all eight prior solicitations. They cite the March 15 Chest Poster front page cut and the April 5 editorial as especially helpful.
Miss Jean Keith daughter of Mgr and Mrs Carl Keith of 310 Warwick Kenilworth will enter the Emma Willard School in Troy New York. Mrs Gertrude Lees Roberts has returned to her home at 629 Gregory Avenue and will resume her piano teaching.
The North Shore Real Estate board met at the Green Tea Pot Inn Highland Park on September 16 with 29 attendees. H K Rogers of the Western Actuarial Service lectured on fire prevention saving lives and dollars, while Robert Wyatt won a sales ideas contest and was chosen to present at the Rockford convention. The group approved Alice B. Hall for membership and outlined a fall Real Estate appraisal course starting October 11 at 7 30 pm in Winnetka, limited to board members with ten lessons and textbooks provided.
Miss Betty Schmidt of 422 Laurel avenue returns from Lake Fair field North Carolina after summer at Camp Merriwood. Tom Sellery of 908 Ashland avenue leaves Wednesday for Cornell University Ithaca New York to begin his sophomore year.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.