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...dollars to little banks where unexpected runs had started. But not all the outlying banks were in a condition to warrant saving. In one crack the twelve banks of the John Bain chain went down, affecting laborers and commuting clerks in such Southside districts as Stony Island, Auburn Park, Englewood and Chicago Lawn. Although onetime Scot and onetime Plumber Bain said depositors would receive 100%, the alarm spread. By the end of the week 29 banks had closed, Evanston, Des Plaines, Washington Park and Beverly Hills had been added, along with other communities, to U. S. towns where bank failures...
...Englewood, Col., last week Mrs. Roy Zilk saw a big squirrel in her chickenyard. She shushed at it, but it did not behave like an ordinary squirrel and run away. Instead it turned, glared, leaped at her, sank its teeth into her hand...
Chief Jack Russell of the Englewood Police answered his telephone and heard a woman shout: "Come quick! A squirrel has a little girl down on the ground, biting her like a dog!" Incredulous, Chief Russell sped to the scene of action. He found frightened, bloody Lois in her mother's arms...
...Academy, Mass., was stealthily whisked away and a decoy left in her place to trap the blackmailers (TIME, June 3, 1929). (No blackmailers were trapped.) Colonel Lindbergh flew Anne. Elisabeth. Constance and their mother to the Morrow summer home in Maine for a secluded visit, thence back to their Englewood, N. J. home where the newshawk army, unaware of all that had occurred, laid siege for news of the impending wedding. But the "plot" had by no means been "smashed...
...peons-are all lovely people and have none of the much maligned banditry about them. We up here can scarcely imagine how lovely the Mexican people are," said Elizabeth Morrow, eldest daughter of New Jersey's Dwight Whitney Morrow, last week addressing 199 women members of the Englewood, N. J. Methodist Episcopal Church...