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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1910
Page
7
Local items report Howard Rowland a rheumatism patient while Earl Baker visits Grand Turn and Mrs Bechtold visits Cleveland. Wheat freeze concerns near Darien and farm sales at one dollar per acre. A timeline of births marriages deaths and community events across Martingville with incidents of fire lightning and a timber wolf hide sale.
The ad promotes numerous sale items priced lower than elsewhere, highlighting savings on tinware, enameled ware, crockery, and china. It invites shoppers to buy at the store to economize on common household goods.
A firm offers lace curtains at a wide range of prices including 1.00 1.25 and 150 reflecting a bold value pitch. The note positions quality against cost as a key comparison point for buyers seeking real bargains.
The ad touts three knit vest prices 10c quality 2c for 25c and 15c straight grade. It emphasizes full size without stretching and claims superior material at these prices.
Our store highlights durable, wear well hosiery sold to the same customers yearly. We claim genuine value with affordable prices and dependable products. Let us supply your hosiery needs.
Store touts direct mill sourcing for wide selection of ribbons in all colors and shades. Highlights extra wide ribbons offered at 10c per yard and promises best quality for the price.
Notice is hereby given that sealed bids for furnishing blanks stationary and other printed matter for Clark county officers will be received at the County Clerk's office until 12 o'clock noon May 14 1910. Committee reserves the right to reject any and all bids or any part thereof. 172 W. W. Craig To Have New Scenery. The Amusement Hall engages the Bronnert Mack Studio Co. to re equip the house with scenery including main curtain lady curtain street scene wood wings grand border. The studio also has a large contract for painting curtains and banners for the Nay Carnival 200.
A historical note explains the fata morgana as a rare mirage seen most often at the Messina strait between Sicily and Italy. It requires sun at 45 degrees, calm sky and sea, and strong tidal flow to lift center water. Observers may glimpse castles arches palaces and ships distorted and inverted, with legends tying the sight to Princess Morgana and luck.
The florin, a famed Modern coin, began in Florence and may have given the city its name. Some claim it bore a flower emblem from fio rone while others tie the term to a royal or noble coin. Austria and Holland kept the florin as a monetary unit during Europe’s broad coinage era driven by northern Italian states and broader disrupted European coin systems.
A recon dite person quotes the autocrat on reputation built by future expectations. The practical person adds a remark about a recent idea from his son who debates whether to preserve or discard reputation based on others’ opinions.
Vague OCR fragment notes a discussion of how far a dollar goes and a pig’s desire for jewelry. Mentions an early wish for a ring and uncertainty about timing or tomorrow. Reads as incomplete historical newspaper fragment with unclear subjects.
The Boston Puritan divine Mather Byles born 1706 led Hollis Street Church for decades and as a Tory was arrested in 1777. Convicted and confined on a guard ship, his sentence was commuted to home confinement with a guard at his door. On Thanksgiving a neighboring query revealed his musket and cider barter.
The article traces bow designs from the Scythian C shaped bow to Tartars and Greeks. It notes the Greek bow’s four foot length, stout build, and horn origin, plus the Rowans bringing the bow to Britain. It mentions English longbows and arbalests, with crossbows needing mechanical aid and quivers of fifty arrows in battle fronts.
A Philadelphia Times report recalls a broker who dialed a home number and heard a sweet voice invite him to lunch and a show, only to learn the caller feared her husband and warned of a wrong number. The anecdote highlights the embarrassment of mistaken telephone connections in daily life.
The atmosphere is the gaseous envelope around Earth. It is mostly nitrogen and oxygen in a four to one ratio with carbonic acid gas and water vapor in small amounts. It extends about fifty miles thick, possibly up to 500 miles in attenuated form, and exerts fifteen pounds per square inch at the surface weighing over eleven and a half trillion pounds. An adult inhales one gallon of air per minute and uses thirty ounces of oxygen daily, while a five person gas jet consumes more oxygen.
The Bostonian solemnly notes General Warren fell while a Chicagoan speculates about a Buok er Hill monument as a potential subject for a moving picture act in a Puck cartoon.
Quote from Chicago Record Herald notes a woman’s refusal to marry a man, saying she would marry when he settled into worthwhile work. The fragment hints at wisdom and age, mentioning Ete Svéngan.
A newspaper sale listing advertises a large lot of women s shoes and oxfords in petenh vici and kid materials plus work dress and fine shoes from brands like Queen Quality Wicket Gardner Stacy Adams and Grover s. Also notes fabrics sheets and pillow sizes.
At a southwest England manor a phantom coach with spectral horses haunts the drive before a head of the family dies or a key member. Christmas guests heard hoofbeats, saw the old coach, two ladies cried out, and the next morning the house son drowned in the fens. The legend dates back forty years since last sighting and seventeen since the prior midnight drive.
A Louisville Courier Journal item notes a man who looks up unfamiliar words in the dictionary, demonstrating restraint in conversation. The anecdote highlights his habit as a notable example of self control.
A Baltimore American quip notes that his wife was “maid of money” as the reason for marriage. The remark reflects social satire on marriage and money in contemporary humor.
Fragmentary text shows a dialogue where Mr McTavish is teased as a comic by a waiter or table companion. The source mentions a London Telegraph and a jocular exchange, implying social chatter rather than a full event. Names and context are partial and unclear.
Seed potatoes advertised with various prices per bushel including Early Ohios at 60 cents per bushel and 70 cents for certain lots. Small California peaches offered at 25 cents per can. Smoked jowls and pickled pork promoted at 15 to 16 cents per pound. Flour brands Magnolia Martinsville Randall's Queen and Gold Medal listed with lower prices per sack.
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