Illinois News Index

Highland Park Press, 24 Jul 1930, p. 20

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Motor Tourists Now Average More Mileage § 25 rs to drive as far as 400 and 500 miles before ‘calling it & " the bureau stated. "Smooth, vte highways have made these mileages possible. or tourists today are averaging than 300 miles per day, as comâ€" with approximately 200 miles lay three years ago, according tatement by the touring bureau PHONE YOUR ORDER NOW WE ARE AHMYBFEOGX AGENTS Full Quart Brick 7 Y DHRC YX phone 2300 EARL W. GSELL & CoO. nt by the w Motor ORANGE PINEAPPLE, VANILLA AND unusual for CHOCOLATE MALTED ICE CREAM Illine club. There is a Hydrox Agency Near Your Home PH A RM A CISTS "Gravel roads, likewise, have unâ€" dergone â€" considerable improvement. Most drivers this year who have made straight runs to Los Angeles, for instance, without stopping for sightâ€"seeing, have averaged 300 miles per day, thus making the trip in eight days from Chicago. Only oneâ€" third of the distance is paved; the remainder is gravel, and some dirt. Three years ago twelve to fourteen duys were considered necessary for this trip; the average mileage per day at that time ranged from 175 to 200 YA Highland Park, Il Telephone 2600 T HE PRES S STATE ROAD MARKS OF METAL ADOPTED Illinois Highways Being Procidâ€" ed with New Type; Map Shape Is Retained The outline of the map of Illinois, made familiar to the motoring pubâ€" lic by its adoption as the design for route markers, is being displayed along state highways in the form of embossed cast iron plates in place of painted boards, Frank T. Sheets, chief highway engineer announced today. More than 15,000 of the road signs are being cast in the foundaries of the Illinois state reformatory at Ponâ€" tiac, by the boys incarcerated there, who are attaining useful knowledge of the foundry trades through servâ€" ice in the prison industries. Shape Retained > \nfl \ m 1B signs to mark the way through cities, and 9,070 for the routes, outside of corporate limits, according to a comâ€" pilation made in the highway division office. Max . "The Soldier" Weiner last week was released from the county jail after three weeks of questioning in an â€" investigation conducted by States Attorney A.. V. Smith in the mysterious burning of a woman whose torso was found in a Deep Lake‘cotâ€" Weiner Is Released _ in Deep Lake Mystery brought to hoid the man was to D¢ dropped, it was admitted. Col. Smith admitted that the eviâ€" dence was hardly. sufficient to bear out the charge in the warrant and for that reason it was being withdrawn. Another man, said by some to have been killed as a result of the Deep Lake â€"murder, still is being sought but no trace of him has been gained by officials. He was being hunted beâ€" for the Wiener arrest. tage The generdlly accepted theory of police officers is that the woman was a gangster sweethheart and was ‘slain for what she might tell. 7 Completion of paving between Fulâ€" ton and Mayfield, Ky., has opened an allâ€"concrete short route from Illinois points to Memphis, Tenn., according to an announcement from Metropolis. Routes No. 1 and 45 lead to the Meâ€" tropolisâ€"Paducah crossing of the Ohio river. Previously most motor traffic Open Last Link in Paved Road to South The psychologist whosaid that all persons are born criminals will never be asked to judge a baby show.â€"The It dianapolis Star. to Memphis and nearby points crossâ€" ed to the west side of the Mississippi it St. Louis or Cairo. was 1 March murde 6 ‘*warrant that had . been hold the man was to be was admitted. Thursday, July 24, 1930

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