Illinois News Index

Highland Park Press, 14 May 1931, p. 26

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h4 Where can I find the history of games ! Where can I get a reading course on aviation ? â€" I Where can I find comprehensive traâ€" vel information ? Where can I find books in foreign languages! â€" ==<â€"When do you expect to move? This question frequently asked at the main â€"desk should have an answer. The _new library building appears on the exterior as ready for occupancy, but _â€"the floor covering, lighting and furâ€" niture are still needed and are now in the making. It is hoped that the library will be fully established in its new quarters early in July or possibly sooner. * * Protect the Wild Flowers Our wild flowers are the prey of lightâ€"hearted â€" vandals who gather: them only to throw them away beâ€" fore reaching home. If the present vandalism kéeps up it will only. be a few years before many of our wild flowers will be gone. Did you know that the following wild flowers should not be picked: Showy Orchid, Indian Painted Cup, Ladies‘ Slipper and Colâ€" _umbine? â€" Did you know that only one or two of these should be picked: ~Bishop‘s ~â€"Cup, â€"Bloodâ€"root, ~â€"Bluebells (Mertensia Virginica), White Baneâ€" â€"berry, _ Blueâ€"eyed â€"Mary (Innocence), White Trillium, _ Jackâ€"inâ€"theâ€"pulpit, and yellow Adder‘s Tongue? The folâ€" lowing are more abundant than those just named, but some restraint should be used in picking the Hepatica, Rue Anemone, Pepper Root, Purple Spring | Cress, Phlox, Marsh Marigold, Wood Anemone, Wild Geranium, â€"~Jacob‘s Ladder (Blueâ€"bells). _ Where Can I Find It? Where can I learn how to repair my radio ? 4 Where can I find that old song? How shall Iâ€"decorate my child‘s nursery ? , thicker and thicker. â€"â€"Syracuse Postâ€"Standard; 5. ... By the . Ads..Ye â€"Shall..Know.â€"It.... We know that the pulsing of business â€"â€"is quicker * As the Saturday Evening Post gets Spring is time for baseball and the girls have a great game going during each gym pe ;)s przssliiblgh}nldthe form of games playegl in the fresh air and sunshine is the scheme of eerfieldâ€"Shields. â€" 5 LIBRARY The revolution in Honduras was not caused by "Yes," we have no bananas," but by having too many of them. The only difference between most of us and Uncle Sam is that when Uncle Sam gets hard up he can go out and borrow a hundred million dollars or 80. How Your Library Reaches 5,098 residents or over 49 per cent of the population have library cards. 23,234 volumes in the library. 100,662 Books borrowed last year, making a circulation of 8.5 books per capita, This is the book that has been adâ€" vertised so ~extensively over the radio. ¢ Chinese Peasants at Work The Good Earth, by Pearl Buck: The absorbing tale of a Chinese farâ€" mer and his family, told by one who evidently knows China like a native, and who has the ability to make her people vividly real. When famine comes Wang Lung takes his family south, but they return in time of plenty â€"to sow and harvest their land and to prosper from its fruitfulness. _ Culture and the Fine Arts The Road to Culture, by Charles Gray Shaw: _ According to Profesâ€" sor Shaw, the road to culture is esâ€" sentially an appreciation of the fine. arts: music, poetry, painting, and the rest. How and why we should obtain this appreciation and its relation to one‘s everyday life is carefully preâ€" sented with a final chapter on the "Paths and Pitfalls of Culture." xz > The Later Crusades s The Crusades: The Flame of Islam, by Harold Lamb. This volume com> pletes â€"the story begun in "The Cruâ€" sades; Iron Men and Saints." The principle figures are Richard Coeur de Lion, "Heedless and arrogant, lovâ€" able and brave, who yet failed to lead his host to victory," and Saladin, leader of Islam, splendid, chivalrous, and glorious in victory.â€"Library Lanâ€" tern, â€"â€" _ _ â€" & ce i Th P y i9 0o T HE PR ES 8 wHPo Safonne SUNDAY,MAY 17th * nouns We From Highland Park Someone complains because prize fighters make more money than senaâ€" tors. But to make money prize fightâ€" ers have to do something more than Chicago & North Western Railway | Children Half Fare=â€"No Baggage Checked Lv. Highland Park 8:31 a.m. Ar. Milwaukee . 945 a.m. Returning, iv. MDwaukes same day 7:06 p.m. Time shown is Central Standard C. & N. W. Ticket Agent Highland Park., IL 1478P Milwaukee Average weekly sales in April were $21,290,070, compared with $21,534,â€" 323 in 1930, a decrease of $244,254. Average weekly tonnage sales were 113,620 compared with 99,803 in April, 1980, an increase of 13,817. More goods were sold during the April period in 1931 than in the same period a year ago, as shown in the esâ€" timated tonnage figures. April sales, expressed in tons, were 454,479â€"this year, compared with 399,211 in April, 1930.â€" This is a gain in quantity of merchandise sold of 55,268 tons, or 13.84 per cent. Sales of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea company for ‘the four week period ending April 25th were $85,160,278. â€" This compares with $86,187,293 for the same period in %fln&-&-rflecreue“ofm or 1.13 per cent. â€" Sales of A. & P. Stores Ame ‘s Fastest %MA .fidu.udg:::e On display at our new store 85 EAST LAKE STREERT â€" CHICAGO NEW BOHN ELECTRIC for 4 Weeks to April 25 Totaled $85,160,278.00 Electric Refrigerators Visit the opening of the period. As much exercise of bodily development at /~~.JWE5T@ y PARK DEARBORN CHICAGO‘s sSMARTEST NEARâ€"LOOP APARTMENT HOTEL * 34 ROOMSâ€"Living room, Inador beds, bedroom (twin or double). Dining room, kilchen. Bath, $150 to $200. . . . * HOTEL ROOMSâ€"Twin or double beds. Large end airy. $65 to $80. . . . . . . . Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Lease Rates We advise your early in spection * 2Â¥ ROOMSâ€"Living room, Inador beds, bedroom (twin or double). Dinette, kitchâ€" en. Dressing room, bath. $125 to $175. *®1\Â¥zROOMSâ€"Living room, dlnot‘to and kifchen. Twin or double Inador;. Dressing room and bath. $85â€"to $110. In a fashionable closeâ€"in location, 10 minutes to the loopâ€"The Park Dearborn offers elegantly furnished kitchenettes dand hotel rooms. 3 blocks from Lincoin Park with its golf and bridle pathâ€"short distance to beachâ€"shops and commis in buildingâ€"roof gardenâ€"all compiné to make the Park Dearborn the outstandâ€" ing â€"value in Hotet Homes, US%'OF * ent occupancy under lease. . . . . . . . (Since 1840 ) 430 North Wells Street + CHICAGO Read Our Wantâ€"Ads Wide choice of new 1931 patterns, Every style distinctive, every instalâ€" lation guaranteed. Individug! deâ€" signing service free of charge. Qualâ€" ity and economy assured. Consult us, Phone for â€"illustrated fiterature. STORES â€" HOMES ollxty Rorth Peartorn Parknay et Goethe Porch Curtains and Outdoor Furniture, Lawn Umbrelias, etc. BCarpentEr & Co. Telephone WHItehal \<<<â€"~â€"PHONE:=~ SUPerior 2700 Thursday, May 14, 1931 WNINGS WHItehall 5620 and Canopies _&t- gey 31

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