Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Keighley, acted by Warner Brothers' most high-powered cast since Midsummer Night's Dream, staged by Robert Lord and scored by Erich Korngold, it should amply grace next fortnight's Coronation. It should also grace, if not climax, the careers of two amiable young actors from Peoria, Ill. who, among Hollywood's currently swollen quota of remarkable children, are perhaps the most remarkable...
...changed to the south. Through softer ice the freighters Frontenac and Peter White pushed ahead of the others out of Whitefish Bay and crossed Lake Superior to Duluth. They passed the W. D. Rees, eastbound from Superior with the first 1937 grain cargo, 200,000 bu. of rye for Peoria, Ill. distilleries. The Great Lakes shipping season, expected to be the biggest since Wartime, had begun...
...wish to take this means of personally, and in behalf of the officers and directors of the National Pigeon Association, thanking you for the interesting article entitled "Pigeons In Peoria" which appeared in TIME...
...squab farmers, who rear pigeons for the table, there are more than 17,000 pigeon fanciers in the U. S. whose hobby is raising pigeons for shows. Last week, 8,000 fanciers and spectators and about half that many birds, worth $50,000, were in the State Armory at Peoria, Ill. for the 18th National Pigeon Show, most important of the half dozen major pigeon fiestas held in the U. S. each year. First event of the show was nose drops. Because pigeons are susceptible to influenza, their owners dose them before big shows with cod-liver oil for prevention...
...Peoria, Ill., Lewis Tucker, 27, arrested for zigzagging through traffic in his speeding automobile, explained: "My girl got the hiccoughs, and I was trying to scare them...