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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1917
Page
9
The Herald notes the paid circulation total for a local newspaper in CL County. No further details on dates or exact numbers are provided in the readable text.
Prominent Los Angeles Times publisher Harrison Gray Otis dies at 80 from heart disease in California. Roosevelt refuses to speak at Pittsburg Moose convention amid Chicago mayor opposition, shaping political dynamics and public opinion across the Midwest.
The administration faced a dilemma over German language publications that criticized the war. Proposals ranged from censoring mails to forcing English print, aiming to curb antiwar rhetoric and force German papers into competition with the American press.
A Farm Women’s plea urges sharing extra produce with the poor. We have abundant tomatoes cabbage corn and beans but distributing them proves hard. A trusted strong youth with a wagon can collect and distribute, saving waste and aiding hungry families as summer ends.
Residents call for all interested to meet Friday morning August 3 at Livingston to clean the cemetery and clear ruins of the church. Bring dinners to complete the work in one day.
The United Brethren Church in Marshall announces a Sunday morning reorganization of the Sunday school with all urged to attend. Only two more Sundays remain until the annual conference and all financial obligations should be paid at once, says Pastor N. B. Royer.
The Christian Church announces August evening topics starting first Sunday: What is the Church The Church instituted How Men Get Into the Church How They Stay In Regular services every Sunday led by Minister J. L O'Neal.
We thank friends and neighbors for their kindness after the death of our husband and father Mrs Bertha Carpenter and Chiléres.
The Illinois State Fair at Springfield September 7 to 15 is designated a Food Training Camp by Herbert Hoover. The government will use fairs nationwide to teach food efficiency and conservation with exhibits and demonstrations. A Washington conference and cooperation from the State Council of Defense are planned to support the effort.
The Army and Navy Journal commends wartime conduct praising civilian restraint and military focus. It notes secrecy yet cites achievements including fleets in submarine zones, troop transport with no losses, armed merchant ships, and growing manpower across Navy and Marine Corps. It highlights training camps, cantonments, expanded regulars, draft prep, and supply purchases via the Council of National Defense.
U S soldiers and Red Cross warn that despite 48 base hospitals and $118 million raised, more supplies are needed for six months and beyond. Urgent calls go out for bandages, dressings, blankets, and garments as hospitals in France face shortages. Wadsworth urged immediate shipment of bedsocks, robes, shirts, pajamas, and other items, with high involvement from President Wilson’s family and volunteers.
In eastern Ogle County Illinois prosperous farms show large purebred beef cattle and hog herds. Carmichael and Countryman farms are noted as among the most productive east of the river, improving land value and farm profitability through livestock. A farmer attributes cattle and hogs to sustained wealth and asks, Have you noticed nobody goes broke with a manure spreader.
The Big Four shops in Urbana advertise for ten women laborers to replace ten men leaving for army service. Wages are 20 cents per hour, and workers may wear overalls or dresses. The men reportedly plan to resist the hiring of women.
The Italian royal war mission to the United States outranked British and French conferees in personnel and includes Sevoy royalty. Prince Ferdinand Humbert Philip Adalbert of Udine, 33, a navy captain, cousin of King Victor Emmanuel, led the mission and earned a medal for bravery. His German wife, Duchess Isabelle, heads a Turin military hospital.
The article urges using wild stream and hillside fruits for canning, promotes federal state labor cooperation to recruit farm hands, suggests buying glass jars early, discusses a community spray outfit for small growers, and notes New York Pennsylvania and Wisconsin forestry acres with New York leading.
A family in a big barn finds a young owl. The eldest boy asks his mother to make a rag owl for his younger sister Jack who lost his willow whistle. The mother sews a brown cloth owl with a beak and button eyes for the toy. The real owls are released as thanks is offered.
A school game uses girls with crepe paper butterflies on two foot stalks and boys with nets on handles. Two lines thirty feet apart form the playing field as girls sway their butterflies to tempt capture. Each girl out when her butterfly is netted. last one remaining ends the game.
A playful verse portrays a gingerbread man living in a can beside a grandmother's cookies. He smiles as the speaker eats his raisin eyes and icing nose, while he never cries.
A University of Illinois engineering circular argues careful fuel choice and proper operation of home heating systems can save 4.5 million tons in Illinois and over 60 million tons nationwide. It details firing methods, fuel properties, heating value tables, heat loss diagrams, and devices to regulate heaters and chimneys. Copies available from the Engineering Experiment Station, Urbana.
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