Word: waukegan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kind of story Publisher Patterson knows the common people will always read: divorces-especially of prominent persons. Last week in Waukegan, Ill. a prominent U. S. couple were divorced. Mrs. Alice Higinbotham Patterson, married 1902, separated 1928, divorced her husband, Daily News Publisher Patterson. It was a good story. In the Daily News it appeared in full detail on page two (actually the first news page since the front page is given to pictures...
...city of Waukegan whose merchants claim $125,000 annual business from local marriage mills, the week brought an end to their role of Illinois' Gretna Green. Illinois quick-marriage business will go to neighboring States. but not to Wisconsin, which already required Wasserman tests of males and which last week extended the requirement to females. As if Illinois' antivenereal restrictions weren't enough the State this week awaited its Governor's signature to a law requiring posting of three days' notice of intent...
...While Waukegan's marrying parsons lamented last week, the wedding racketeers of Elkton, Md. gloated. Led by Elkton's famed Marriage-Parlorist William ("Pop") Cann, Maryland's taxi-drivers had beaten a June 30 deadline on a new Maryland marriage law. Although this law, requiring a 48-hr. interim between applying for a license and being wed, took effect June 1, Maryland's Constitution permits the lifting and postponement of its laws by public petition within 30 days. The law is then submitted to popular referendum at the next election of U. S. Representatives.*Maryland taximen...
...said he heard 15 explosions. Zion's head theocrat frantically summoned firemen. Le Roy Peacy, the salesman who was Christus in the Passion Play, rescued his costume, but the building burned quickly, set fire to the Church's adjacent broadcasting station, lay in ruins before Zion and Waukegan firemen could do much about...
...keeps sacks of potatoes and bread to dole out to his constituents in his office opposite City Hall. A master at achieving personal publicity, he once objected strongly to a newspaper article, not because he was described as a thief, but because it said he was born at Waukegan, Ill. instead of in his own First Ward. Forty years ago, reporters took to writing balderdash poems, attributing them to Bathhouse John. Bathhouse John framed the poems, kept them in his office, claimed authorship. The Coughlin poem on Repeal...