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...Jesuit habit, as a student of history I am reminded that Father Marquette died near the present site of Ludington, Mich, in 1675, and La Salle did not start on his Western trip until 1679 and his spiritual companion was Father Hennepin while Marquette's companion was Joliet. . . . I do not find any historical record that La Salle ever saw Father Marquette...
Last week dapper little Martin J. ("'Marty") Durkin, known in his gunning heyday as "The Sheik" and now in his twelfth year of a 35-year term in Joliet (Ill.) Penitentiary for killing a Federal agent in Chicago in 1925, was announced as the principal character in the "Gangbusters" weekly dramatization. "They've got no right to use my misfortune to peddle soap," said Lawyer Irving S. Roth for Convict Durkin, eligible for parole in seven more months. Into court at Chicago marched Mr. Roth, seeking an injunction against the broadcast. Surprised, Benton & Bowles quickly dropped Durkin...
Died, Patrick ("Packey") McFarland, 47, famed oldtime lightweight, welterweight boxer; of a streptococcus infection; in Joliet, Ill. In eleven years (1904-15) he fought 108 fights, scored 48 knockouts, lost the decision only once...
Threading his way through congested Sunday traffic near Chicago last week, many a motorist with an automobile radio heard a voice interrupt the program with such comments as: "All motorists from Joliet bound for points east of Hammond should use U. S. Highway No. 6 to avoid a detour on Route No. 30 between New Lenox and Frankfort...
...Joliet, Ill.'s Stateville Prison, guards opened the gates to let a truck drive out of the snow-covered yard, slammed them shut again when they spied six convicts sitting blandly on a bobsled hitched to the truck's rear axle...