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Since March 1928, when Freeman F. Gosden, onetime egg-bearer for Thurston the Magician, became the long-suffering Amos, and Charles J. Correll, onetime Peoria bricklayer, became turgid, blustering Andy, they have had but one vacation -eight weeks in 1934. Now 43 and 52, respectively, they have salted away plenty, earned a rest. Their last reported salary (1938) was $7,500 weekly...
Thus ended a luncheon in Peoria last week that made American church history. For the first time ever, a non-Catholic delegation of religious leaders was officially entertained and received at a national Catholic conference. The occasion was the 20th annual convention of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference (TIME...
...nearer you live to the center of a large city, the more likely you are to go insane. If you live in an urbanized riverside area (like sections of St. Louis, Milwaukee, Omaha, Kansas City and Peoria by Clarence W. Schroeder. His findings (published in the current American Journal of Sociology) confirm the striking insanity pattern for Chicago (see cut) discovered by Robert Faris and H. Warren Dunham (Mental Disorders in Urban Areas...
...Milwaukee "high rates [of insanity] are concentrated in the center of the city, in the rooming-house and Negro district. . . . High rates tend to follow river valleys." In a riverside district of Peoria, Ill., insanity is nine times as frequent as in another district on the bluffs. In Chicago, where the Chicago River turns to form a Y whose stem flows into Lake Michigan, the maximum concentration of insanity exactly coincides with this...
There are only 18 locomotives on the whole 239 miles of the Toledo, Peoria & Western R.R., but some day they may pull every U.S. railroad out of the woods-that is, if the T.P. & W. loses a few more labor battles such as it lost last week...