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...going to select a picture that will show us the Speaker the way he looked in his prime. I remember him at that Peoria Conference some years ago and my, my, what a splendid figure of a man! I am encouraged in my lowly artistic conceptions, for a prominent artist told me only the other day that that is what art, real art, does-it shows a man in his prime. The lucky contestant will receive $2.500 and the others will have had the exnerience...
Sorriest Class I railroad in the U. S. is Minneapolis & St. Louis ("The Peoria Gateway"). It has been in receivership for twelve years, owes accumulated interest equal to one-fourth of its assets, which are largely nominal, and is still indebted to the Government for loans from the Wartime Director General of Railroads. In desperation RF Chairman Jesse Jones proposed to partition M. & St. L. among eight more solvent neighbors (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week after a year of dickering, the eight systems petitioned the Interstate Commerce for permission to start carving...
While all Peoria scuffled and scratched to get into the courtroom, suspense hung on whether the defense could make the State produce Thompson's diary listing the 83 women. Headline: RIOT TO HEAR SEX SLAYER'S LOVE DIARY. Peorians tore down the courthouse doors. Headline: NAMES OF 83 GIRL VICTIMS WITHHELD...
...Peoria and the Press frowned on defense attempts to show that Thompson was insane. His younger brother happened last week to be in jail on a charge of taking "indecent liberties" with a small boy. Briskly Gerald Thompson was found guilty of murder, sentenced to the electric chair...
Chicago No. 1. Day of the Thompson conviction in Peoria, Chicago produced for indictment two remarkable women. One was Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, 42, plain, heavy-jawed washwoman, a four-time widow. The other was her washwoman friend, Mrs. Evelyn Smith, 46, onetime burlesque dancer, prostitute and wife of a Chinese laundryman. Somehow, between them, they had murdered Mrs. Dunkel's son-in-law, a grocer's clerk named Ervin Lang, who after his wife's death last December was planning to remarry. Mrs. Dunkel promptly confessed that she had offered Mrs. Smith $500 for the job, paid...