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...street, business men will put down the ticker tape with a sigh, light a cigar and go to sleep; stenographers will take the opportunity to powder the insatiable nose; and secretaries, peering softly through the door, will tell visitors, "he's in conference." Over their heads Girl Scouts from Waukegan will scream at the wind, and their little brothers will all but dive into New York Harbor at the sight of the liners going...
Cold-blooded murderer Ignatz Potz killed a Waukegan, Ill., motor-cycle policeman to avoid arrest for running liquor. He was condemned to death. In 1922, Governor Len Small of Illinois commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment; last week he granted a parole to Potz, effective in 1930. Aside from the question of the legality of a double commutation, aside from the reason for the date 1930, aside from the friendly relations of Potz with Len Small politics, thousands of decent Illinoisans were vastly irritated because this was merely the latest of many criminals to receive favor from a Governor...
...prospective bride married Robert Leatherbee of Boston in 1907; in January of this year they were divorced in a secret session of a Court at Waukegan, Ill. Her father was once Minister to China, and on leaving that post in 1921 he made a sensational trans-Russian tour in an automobile. It is said of him that he is known and beloved by everyone, everywhere...
Married. Jessie Reed, 24, of the Ziegfeld Follies, to William P. Young, 26, "rich ad. man" at Waukegan, 111. The romance was precipitated at an after-the-theatre party at "The Tent," a North State Street restaurant...
Died. Homer Cooke, 94, "oldest practicing lawyer in the U. S.," at Waukegan, Ill. He was a personal friend of Presidents Lincoln and Roosevelt...