08 Aug 1917
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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1917
Page
1
The Herald notes subscription price at $1.00 per year and states obituaries and lodge resolutions on death of members are charged. Notices of entertainments with admission fees are billed at 5 cents per line and all communications may be edited.
The article discusses women joining war industry labor, noting mixed productivity and typically lower pay than men. It covers U S and global industrial activity, wartime trade shifts, and the broader economic context including exports, imports, and the 1917 trade balance with figures highlighting record values and changes from prior years.
Mark Sullivan analyzes Senator La Follette as a stubborn crisis figure who opposed the war but quietly drafted a bold tax plan. The column portrays a career split between capricious obstinacy and notable problem solving guided by high intellect and courage.
A wartime analysis from the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education outlines shrinking postwar engineering capacity. It warns of scarce trained workers as abroad closes schools and calls for solutions including discouraging enlistment, drafting engineers, government aid, and a nationwide push to recruit youths into technical training. Europe relies on the United States to fill the gap.
Mary T Brown and others transfer lot 10 block 6 Walnut Prairie to Cyrus E Dancy. John Pentecast transfers lot 46 Commercial Club addition to Casey to CW Osborn. A E Bell transfers lot 48 Commercial addition to Casey to William Danner for 125 dollars. Mathias Taggart and Seventh Day Adventists convey parcels to Southern Illinois Conference. JF Emrich transfers lot 35 Dulane y’s 6th addition to Casey for 650 dollars. Walter C Daugherty transfers to First Presbyterian Church Casey lot 8 block 4 Dix Jsasey’s 4th addition for 1500 dollars.
The Evangelical Church schedule lists Marshall events with morning and evening services and preaching times. A Sunday school annual event is planned with a gathering at Mathias Abel's Grove and an Emanuel service scheduled for August 19 at 8:00 a.m. Rev. J. L. Dayer is the pastor.
The annual convention of the Chiie churches in Illinois will convene in Taylorville from September 16 to 13. Churches across the state are urged to attend. Regular services are announced for next Sunday led by Minister L Chen.
The University of Illinois Dairy Department offers guidance for late summer feeding when pasture is scarce. Emphasizes silage as a cost effective substitute, notes needs for surface removal to prevent spoilage, and suggests grain mixes with silage or roots. Recommends alfalfa, cowpea hay, and legume forage when green feeds are limited, and advises August purchases of cottonseed meal for October delivery.
Paul LeMay returned home after a ten day Chicago visit. Miss Mary aflichell of McGehee Ark visited her aunt Mrs Wan Lucas. Mrs George Robertson recovering from Olney sanitarium surgery improves. Edgar fidwell of Toledo came for a few days with his wife who is improving slowly. Mrs RO Cochonour and children left for a month in Ohio. Mr and Mrs Wallace Young to Columbus Indiana to visit daughter Mrs Roy Howe. Harry Davis and Roy Roberta left for Belleville to work for the government aviation program. Mrs W H Gillogly called by her father’s illness. Mr Gillogly traveled Sunday. Denré Zeiter and Jemlly left for Reading Michigan to spend time with Mr Seteer’s 94 year old father.
Housewives urged to conserve edibles and stretch supplies to support Allies and soldiers. The piece promotes intelligent rationing, expanded cultivation, dehydration of foods, and milk safety replacing fresh milk with condensed varieties when needed. Emphasizes balanced nutrition and practical steps for homekeepers amid high prices and wartime pressures.
Readable text notes large sheets of carbon paper for embroidery and garment work from the era, mentioning storage or sale at a store or workshop. The fragment hints at materials used in textile arts and possibly a vendor or catalog entry.
Washington Star reports Navy surgeon Dr. Cress notes submariners face high blood pressure and health risks from long dives. Contributing factors include sleep loss, overeating, smoking, toxic submarine atmosphere, and excessive engine strain. Experts urge thorough medical exams before submarine duty.
A guide from Popular Science Monthly on proper rose removal. It advises leaving two to three eyes on the current season branch, cutting succeeding blossoms to the ground, and ensuring strong buds to stimulate growth from the base. It warns against leaving multiple buds on a branch and recommends pinching off side shoots after a bud forms.
A brief note on corn bread citing the need for proper meal grind and ingredients. The guide favors fine white southern milled cornmeal and includes a simple recipe using cornmeal milk salt butter baking powder and an egg. It warns coarse meal cannot yield authentic southern cornbread and notes a New York San reference. Also mentions bison behavior as an unrelated aside about a hardened criminal among herbivores and their aggression.
A brief Columbus Journal item notes a man prefers attention from younger neighbor women at the gas line than performing a domestic task. The piece implies his wife works hard and he helps by taking on chores, though the social contrast is highlighted.
A fragmentary excerpt discusses patience as a divine virtue and charity as a human practice. It quotes G Macdonald on patience bearing fruit, and notes that visiting is an art to make guests feel at home, reflecting on social courtesy and the uncertainty of death.
The University of Illinois engineering department issues a circular showing that careful fuel purchase and proper operation of small home heating plants could save 4 500 000 tons of coal in Illinois and over sixty million tons nationally. It explains firing methods, fuel properties, heat losses, chimney height, flues, dampers, and regulators with diagrams and charts, and offers copies from the Engineering Experiment Station in Urbana.
A promotional notice touts a four dollar total for one year of two papers The Terre Haute Star a metropolitan daily and The Marshall Herald Clark County leading paper highlight their broad coverage and rural morning delivery and claim superior home news and special items compared to rivals.
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