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...become the father of two children since the first broadcast six years ago. They live in neighboring apartments in Chicago. This summer Gosden, a native of Richmond, and the one who takes the most parts, is taking his wife and children to Alaska. Correll, one-time bricklayer in Peoria, is going to take his wife to Europe. Frank (''Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck will pinch hit on the Pepsodent hour until autumn...
Mayor Charles O'Brien of Peoria, Mayor W. O. Summerfield of East Peoria, Illinois' Representative Everett M. Dirksen and a thousand people crowded around the little Fond du Lac State Bank in East Peoria one morning last week. Inside, before the bank opened to the public, a scrawny bespectacled widow in a cotton dress marched up to a cage marked "CASH F. D. I. C. ORDERS HERE," posed for photographers. In her hand she held a check for $1,250, her life savings, which W. Kenneth Hayes behind the counter had just given her. "I don't know...
...Moines, Iowa was installed Most Rev. Gerald Thomas Bergan as Roman Catholic bishop succeeding the late Most Rev. Thomas Drumm. Born in Peoria 42 years ago, Bishop Bergan has been priest, chancellor, vicar general in that diocese. An able athlete in college (St. Viator, Bourbonnais, Ill.), he was a brilliant student at North American College in Rome, where he was ordained...
...resigned from the brokerage firm of Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider to become president of Distillers and Brewers Corp. of America, made a position for him in the sales department of Distillers & Brewers. Distillers & Brewers, a $7,500,000 corporation formed in August, has a distillery in Jersey City, another in Peoria, breweries in Ohio and Pennsylvania, importing connections with most important wine and liquor regions in Europe. It plans to market on a national scale practically every known type of alcoholic drink. If its ambitious program is carried out there will be plenty of room in its selling organization for George...
...quit National Distillers to branch out for himself in Bernheim Distilling Co. and who last week shouldered forward by purchasing at government auction 24,000 cases of liquor seized on the high seas; Harry C. Hatch who had come down from Canada to build a huge distillery in Peoria, Ill. for his Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts; a Philadelphia gentleman by the name of Simon ("Si'') Neuman who was sure his Publicker Commercial Alcohol Co. could make 17-year-old whiskey in 24 hours. There were importers large & small, California wine growers, New York champagne men, distributors, restaurateurs, hotelmen...