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		<title>The City&#8217;s Letters to Santa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, the Journal-Clarion will mail, free to its subscribers, a small soft-cover book entitled The Kringle Memoranda. The book is a handpicked collection of children’s letters to Santa, which the newspaper has been printing in a special supplement in the week before Christmas since 1922 (when it was still the Journal-American). The volume, with art by Journal-Clarion editorial cartoonist Jack Belinsky, will no doubt appeal to the children and parents who are its primary target, but to long-time connoisseurs of urban strangeness, it’s more noteworthy for what it omits than what it includes. The letters bound within the red-and-green covers alternate between po-faced sincerity and kids-say-the-darndest-things humor, and entirely ignore the fact that, for almost seventy years, the letters-to-Santa supplement of the newspaper was where one could find some of the city’s strangest manifestations of subversive art and unexpurgated oddness. In 1926, Journal-American publisher R. Darren Mingers’ 6-year-old granddaughter Claire (who would later rise to fame as a director of sentimental melodramatic films in Hollywood, and who organized the first Founders Day Film Festival in 1972) wrote a letter to Santa, which was not published in the supplement. (Though no reason was ever given – the editor in charge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Cognacgerie, cognacgerie, cognacgerie</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 12:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: According to a poll of more than 2,000 city residents, the Beatle considered most likely to be a considerate, gentle lover: Ringo :: The Copper Colombard, on 4th Street Lane and Annual Boulevard, claims to be the nation&#8217;s only mini-cognacgerie. The modest blue-and-white building offers more than thirty locally distilled cognacs, and was built in an abandoned Fuji Film Foto-Mat. :: The original oversized plaster bowl of fake spaghetti &#8211; formerly held in the embrace of familiar Family Italiano icon &#8220;The Spaghetti Giant&#8221; – goes up for bid at this week&#8217;s Auction for Education. Proceeds from the auction go to provide school supplies for educational facilities in several underprivileged African nations, and also to repair the axles on seven local school district buses. :: On February 3,1929 a meeting occurred between Chicago mob kingpin Al “Scarface” Capone and Roxboro neighborhood gangster Rory Sheehan at Mangini’s Bistro on Soldier Blvd. The exact topic of their conversation is unknown, but the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago’s Lincoln Park transpired just 11 days later. :: Persnickety diners may want to be aware; the &#8220;Five-Second Rule&#8221; was adopted by Chief Health Commissioner Rudolph &#8220;Guy&#8221; Fenimore as an &#8220;acceptable standard of sanitary practices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Will and Testament of Rory Sheehan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While clearing a block of turn-of-the-century townhouses for a drive-through fondue restaurant, workers in 1973 discovered an artifact from the city’s former days as a gangland paradise. Wedged in between a basement wall was a metal strong box containing the last will and testament of Rory Sheehan, the fearsome Roxboro neighborhood mob boss. The box contained the will, a photographic portrait of Sheehan with his characteristic scowl, and an Irish tricolor flag. The discovery of the will not only shed some light on the enigmatic boss but also set off a three year hunt for a store of buried treasure that captured the attention of anyone within reach of a pickaxe. Rory Sheehan was born in 1879 in Dublin and settled in the city in 1894 with his father. The young Rory first found work as a grocery delivery boy. On his route was Wallace &#8220;Towers&#8221; Kinsky, the notorious state senator, who was working at the time in the DA&#8217;s office. Years later, &#8220;Towers&#8221; Kinsky would settle a sweetheart deal in the construction of the Wyndham Hydroelectric Dam with a company within Sheehan&#8217;s crime syndicate. In celebration of the deal, Sheehan treated Kinsky to a night on Issacs Street, in [...]]]></description>
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