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Newspaper
Macomb Daily By Stander
Location
Macomb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1920
Page
3
An excerpted portrait traces a Canadian homesteading era focusing on a authorial figure’s frustrations with garrulous settlers, debts, shifting crops, and evolving markets. It notes a small community adapting from bare subsistence to improved land use and transportation, amid changing fortunes and ideals.
The story follows Harris who amasses land and wealth by rails near his homestead, then confronts growing isolation as money overshadows community. Beulah, daughter, suspects her father’s fixation on cash. she rebels, recalls sodhouse days, and ponders a simpler happiness as night noises signal a cliffhanger.
Advertisement touts rad Salt from grape and lemon acids with lithia to cleanse sluggish kidneys and stop bladder irritation. Recommends four ounces in water before breakfast for several days to flush acids and sediments, claim relief from dull kidney pain, back aches, and rheumatic twinges.
An 1900s style ad promotes Triumph Pills for irregular or suppressed conditions with free relief text from the National Medical Institute Milwaukee. It also markets Mule-Hide roofing materials including smooth surface roll roofing 2 ply and 3 ply red and green 85 lb rolls and Mule-Hide shingles with a Springfield fair testimonial.
The State of Illinois McDonough County Chancery Court issues notice in the case Bessie J Wilson versus John William Wilson. Affidavit states non residence of defendant. A bill of complaint exists with summons returnable September third Monday 1920 at Macomb courthouse. Clerk WILL MARTIN seals the notice.
In Collestrada Umbria the Junior Red Cross school makes straw sifters and market baskets to supply nearby villages. Handwoven from osier and horsehair, the receptacles replace metal wares. production meets local demand as the area grounds flour manually and exports are avoided this year.
A Harbin dispatch cites Tomsk Novo-Nikolaevsk and Krasnoyarsk as dead towns with deserted streets and destroyed houses. Executions, including editors M Adrianoff and M Film onott, accompany peasant revolts as five regiments form near Minusinsk pushing an anti red offensive.
The Potomac yields its first man eating shark of the 1920 season. An eight and a half foot wolf of the sea was caught at Piney Point Maryland, up the Potomac where water remains salty. A doctor in the fishing party removed the shark’s teeth as souvenirs. Piney Point is not a summer resort.
The United States Geological Survey reports world gold output fell in 1919 from 1918 and likely will drop again in 1920. 1919 production is pegged at 345 to 350 million dollars, with 1918 world total near 381 million and US share about 58.3 million. First half of 1920 suggests US output under 50 million. Water shortages for placer mining and stamp mills closures noted.
Mexico will export between 130 and 135 million barrels of oil in 1920, surpassing all nations including the United States. George Blardone, Tampico oil statistician, cites record five month production and 48,617,167 barrels exported in early 1920 versus 28,235,089 in 1919. He projects total output around 150 million barrels, about 72 percent above last year, with roughly 100 million destined for the United States.
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