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WALTER J. BECKER Peoria...
...covered 40 states, as cotton picker in Alabama, meat packer in Chicago, harvest hand out West, sailor to Honolulu, janitor to mayors of two towns, hand on Mississippi delta, thief cooped in an occasional jail, miner in West Virginia, song-leader in many a construction camp, cook to a Peoria golf club, waiter and porter on trains shuttling to and fro-in short, adept at any job which offers food and money enough for catbone dice and women: "one high yellow and two teasin' browns" among them...
...nasty trick of war, a "big Wop from Peoria," Tony Rickey, became the hero of this story. In boyhood, he was a bootblack. In youth, he founded the National Bug-Killer Co., which rented to thousands of farmers, by mail, a machine guaranteed to kill each & every insect or worm. The machine consisted of two blocks of wood-"you put the bug you wanted to kill on one block and squashed him with the other." Rental $2. Tony disappeared when the Postoffice got inquisitive, and left Deacon Miscombe holding the bag. In War, Aviator Tony annoyed a German sausage balloon...
...Sayles' death upset Tony so much that Natalie found him no longer pliant to her attractions. He took her back to Gortion in the face of a finger-pointing Berkenmeer, left the assets of the aviation company (which Gortion had purchased) at zero, hopped a freight for Peoria, saying: "Jeeze! . . . That society stuff was beginning to get on my nerves...
Said U. S. Congressman William E. Hull of Peoria, 111., who last week visited President Coolidge at the Black Hills White House: "The late flood devastated more than enough property to furnish the funds to control the Mississippi River twice over...