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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1910
Page
4
The notice mentions obituary poetry, resolutions by judges, and ads for entertainments with admission fees. It records post office class mail details and local notices including a 5 cent admission rate for events.
A list of candidates and primary notes for Illinois county offices appears, naming George W. McMorgan and others as prospective sheriff contenders subject to Republican primaries. Additional entries cover county clerk, treasurer, judge, and superintendent races with party and primary caveats.
The article discusses insurgent activity and party realignments in Kansas Iowa Indiana and beyond as Republicans rally to oppose reform movements. It notes the Taft administration’s fate tied to congressional control and previews upcoming party meetings and measures before the next two years.
Voters are instructed on how to count ballots in the primary for Representative in the General Assembly. Rules include partial marks for two candidates equals one and one half votes, a cross in a candidate square equals three votes, and overmarking for more than three votes invalidates the ballot.
The passage promotes a three day Mid Summers Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana to inspire farmers and their families. It highlights rest recreation education and exposure to scientific farming advances led by leading teachers. The event aims to attract progressive farmers from across the state to Urbana for tours lectures and excursions.
The article describes Imperial Valley turning a dry desert into a fertile area after water from the Colorado River was diverted. It notes early cantaloupes and cotton, then quotes Prof Geo C Husmann on introducing vines and dates to produce early grapes. President Taft aims to resolve the Colorado River flow issues to sustain growth.
The United States Reclamation Service lists about five hundred farms from 20 to 160 acres awaiting settlement under Northwest irrigation projects. No drawing needed. settlers can file as homesteaders with a land office fee and pay water costs in ten installments. Farms suit general farming, apples, alfalfa, beets, garden crops, dairy, poultry, or new town settlement in an expanding agricultural region.
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