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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1917
Page
5
A dated household guide offers practical tricks for washing dishes efficiently. It suggests hot water use in cooking areas, rinsing milk containers with cold water, pouring boiling water down the sink at night, and preserving rubber rings with paraffin. It also notes standing on a rubber rug can ease tired feet.
Instructions describe using sweet cream butter for winter storage, detailing temperatures around 20 degrees, cooling methods, and salt brine coverage. Methods include packing in stone jars or forming pound prints, with weights and parchment wrappers. Suggestions cover buying from creameries mid May to mid July and ensuring taint-free jars.
A fragmented note argues that a woman should focus on home duties to maintain balance and bearings, preferring domestic role over other occupations. The piece reflects early 20th century views on women's work and home life.
A light exchange unfolds at a railway station where an Irishman jokes with a woman about seating rules. She rebukes him for smoking and he counters with pointed quips about gender roles, ending with a zinger about drinking and temperance.
Bert Shotten, acclaimed as one of the fastest fielders, excels for the St Louis Browns as a top left fielder and strong batter nearing the 3W milestone. The piece also notes Arthur Spencer winning the Toronto cycling title and Roy Leslie’s sale from Waco to the Chicago Nationals with immediate reporting.
A pro-Daniels column extols Josephus Daniels as Navy Secretary praising his moral character and effort to safeguard sailors while noting his influence on Navy strength. It discusses potential 1920 presidential candidates including McAdoo Lane Hughes and Lodge, urging support for Daniels if he continues to perform well. It mentions Roosevelt and other Republicans as possible nominees and hints at a prominent woman figure in public life.
Instructions describe making laundry soap from animal fat and drift fat scraps, with steps to render, combine with water, and allow to set into a soap jelly. Also covers thinning with water and optional additives and a homemade cleaning and bleaching mixture using sal soda and lime, plus storage guidance.
Community mood shifts with anxious omens and hopeful signs. Residents discuss how low spirits frame daily life while the year 2008 offers a counterbalance with reported elevating omens.
The nationwide call urges women to join patriotic duties and insists there is work for all able bodied citizens. Councils of Defense urge labor from skilled to unskilled, sending hobos to work, towns to curb panhandling, and authorities to assign hard labor to reduce idleness for the war effort.
The signal corps and aviation section recruit men aged 18 to 40 who are unmarried and free of bodily defects. Enlistees start as privates with rapid promotions for capable men. Pay ranges from 30 to 81 dollars monthly plus rations quarters clothing and medical care. Training occurs at Signal Corps Schools in Fort Wood Fort Leavenworth Mineola and San Diego. Apply at your postmaster or U S Army Recruiting Station in Terre Haute Indiana.
The sixth Adgeal Convention of the National Old Trails Road Association will meet in Pueblo Colorado August 16 and 17 to elect officers and handle business. The group promotes 3000 miles of road from Washington DC to Los Angeles and reports 1,200 miles of hard surfaced pavement and $10 million spent, with signposting from Los Angeles to Terre Haute Indiana.
In Clark County Illinois a chancery sale is ordered by the court. Special Master Arthur Poorman will sell at public vendue on August 18 1917 at the east door of the Marshall courthouse. The sale includes property described as part of the Northeast Quarter Section 31 Town 12 North Range 14 West. Terms are cash.
Sealed bids are invited by Clark County and Crawford County Illinois supervisors for the Kin Yardine Ford bridge in Melrose Township, Clark County on the Clark Crawford line road. Bids due August 2, 1917 at 2 pm in Marshall Illinois. Plans from the superintendent of highways. alternative locations in Robinson and Springfield. Bids must use official forms and include a $226 bid bond. The right to reject any or all bids rests with the counties.
OCR fragments show property transfers including "Frank Cole to Agnes R. Fitzgarrald" with a $1400 figure and addresses in sections and townships. Other entries mention "Harrison N. Pickwheat" and "Bloan" with lot numbers and prices, plus an abrupt literary line about Rome.
Mrs Montgomery of Marshall testifies to relief from backache and kidney trouble after using Dean's Kidney Pills. She urges others to try the remedy, noting personal benefit and recommending it to sufferers. The statement appears under the Foster Milburn Co. promotion from Buffalo New York.
Public notice for a master in chancery sale in Clark County Illinois sets July 18 1917 as sale date. Everett Connelly master will sell at the east door Marshall court house to the highest bidder a parcel in section 27 township 9 north range 12 west containing 86.5 acres with cash terms.
The case Robert M. Taylor et al versus L. B. Taylor et al orders a partition sale under a July 14 1917 decree. Everett Connelly Master in Chancery will sell August 18 1917 at the east court house door Marshall Illinois the east half of the northeast quarter section 11 the west half of the northwest quarter section 12 the southwest quarter of section 1 with exclusions to church trustees and the southeast quarter of section 2 township 11 north range 11 west Clark County containing 240 acres more or less. Cash price day of sale subject to two mortgages totaling 5700 dollars and interest. Dated Marshall Illinois May 16 1917. Jere Connelly Master in Chancery Clare Co Illinois Graham Bodvely Compt's note.
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