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Newspaper
Macomb Daily By Stander
Location
Macomb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1921
Page
3
Illinois teachers from across the state gather for a three day session at Brimfield High School auditorium starting Wednesday December 28. Gov Len Small delivers the welcome address as the annual state spelling contest draws wide attention with many schools participating.
A sale to be held December 16 1921 at 11 a m at the residence south of Macomb lists two year old horses, mules, cattle including nine milk cows and Hereford bull, wagons, plows, cultivators and farm machinery, household goods, hay and timothy. cash terms. Auctioneer Rol Wear Barclay Clerk Salem Churel will look like.
The Illinois Teachers Association, with delegates from fourteen divisions, abandoned sectional meetings to focus on business. Enrollment stood at 23,000 last year and may reach 27,000 this year. No regular General Assembly session is planned, but teachers may back a 20 million dollar annual distributive fund, a larger sum than approved previously.
An ad-like note says a few drops of Outgro on the surrounding skin reduce inflammation and pain. It claims the skin thickens and the nail turns outward overnight, noting Outgro as a harmless antiseptic for chiropractors and available to the public with directions.
Osceola Ta Tribune reports Frank A. Doran, formerly with his brother Hugh in Macomb, now runs his own plumbing and heating business in Osceola. He impressed American Radiator Co. officials in Omaha by adapting Arcola heating with basement furnace and overhead radiators and by proposing additional connections. The company awarded him 100 and covered travel costs, calling him the best mechanical engineer in Iowa.
An advertisement touts Danderine at 35 cents a bottle, claiming one application removes dandruff and prevents hair loss while boosting hair vitality color and fullness. The copy emphasizes visible results after a single use in drug stores.
Report for the month ending November 20 shows 18 school days, 16 enrolled pupils, 275 percent grand total attendance, and 15 percent average daily attendance. Perfect attendance honored for Robert King Irene Wilson Irene Shatner Bernadine Hageman Charles Cross Leona Edwin Dale Brewer Ethel Wilson.
A collage of comic quips on marriage luck, everyday folly, and social satire. It parodyingly notes wives, relatives, weather, and speed cameras, with sly jabs at Ford, Muscles Shoals, and popular culture, ending with a homespun quip about news readers.
A health notice advises relief for backache and kidney sluggishness by using Jad Salts taken daily with water. It claims overworked kidneys from meat cause uric acid buildup and describes symptoms like headaches, dizziness, and cloudy urine. The tonic is said to cleanse and stimulate kidneys and neutralize urine acids.
Bushnell I. O. O. F. hosts a lively evening with a grand supper of wild game prepared by Dr. Griffith. Several Grand Lodge officers are invited for an exceptional social event tonight.
The House elections committee affirmed Representative Shaw a Republican, preserving his victory in the Twentieth Illinois district. The contest filed by former Representative Henry T. Rainey, Shaw's Democratic rival in November 1920, was investigated. The decision comes after surrounding By-Stander ads.
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