Illinois fairs set record premiums for 1932
Illinois state fair premiums for 1932 will be the highest on record, funded mainly from licensed race track revenues. Total offerings reach 218,573 dollars, while general revenue expenses are kept about 40 percent below 1928 levels. The fair runs August 20 to 27 with national exhibits and major cattle and swine shows.
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United States
Illinois Department of Public Health
Milton E. Jones
Minos
Sermon Reflects on Charity and Value of Giving
The sermon urges realizing the worth of possessions by helping others. It asserts that earthly investments yield no greater return than charity and emphasizes doing good with what one has. The message champions generous acts as the highest form of profit.
We kinxtes Mill 168 Years Old Beauti ful scenery
Beautiful genuine scenery advertised with price of 1.50 and contact Jos Holly at 24 Race Street Uniontown Pennsylvania.
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Pontacranhalise
Jos. Holly
Race St
Uniontown
Back bone and less wishbone urged for mood cure
A note from Mrs. Lydian O. Larson of Knoxville urges homemaking as cure for national mood, calling for more cooking and cleaning and less bridge playing and gambling. Separately, U.S. soil surveyors report nearly a billion acres mapped, equal to Germany France and Britain combined, with 15 million acres yearly progress and a cost of 2 to 3 cents per acre, needing 20 to 30 years to finish.
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Hall of Fame
Lydian O. Larson
Knoxville
United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Germany
France
Great Britain
Two-Year Trekker Repeats Africa Journey by Air
El Maj Ewart S Grogan who 82 years earlier walked the length of Africa on a tollsome two-year trek has now covered Cairo to Cape Town by air in eight days. He traveled by air, trading hardship for comfort and resting at stops along the route, viewing Africa from an airplane instead of on foot.
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el Maj
Ewart S. Grogan
Africa
Cairo
Egypt
Cape Town
South Africa
Otis’s After School Struggle Spells Humble Dyspepsia
A neighbor asks why Otis looks down, and he explains his after school delay was due to dyspepsia and rheumatism. He adds with a wink that he could not spell them, causing the extra time.
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