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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1927
Page
8
An extensive Boston Store advertisement lists coffee percolators collanders and collars along with a wide range of items from cosmetics to cutlery and curtains. It highlights belts bowls brushes and bever age bottles with prices and assorted housewares including lamps, chests, channery, and glassware.
A lengthy sale listing offers Dan-Dee rat traps, kerosene mops, housewares, clothing, and Christmas gifts priced to clear stock. Items include Cen-table rugs, linoleum, shawls, gloves, thermos jugs, percolators, and candy at reduced prices with emphasis on clearance. Multiple brands and various quantities are advertised.
Advice urges fortifying health now to avoid winter illnesses. Emphasizes stomach care avoidance of over eating, drinking eight glasses of water daily, staying warm especially feet, keeping bowels open, and maintaining a calm nervous system for disease defense.
Mr and Mrs Herbert Miller visited over the weekend at Metcalf and Hume. W M Downey returned home after weeks building a large barn on the Dodd farm north of Kansas to replace a burned barn. Mrs Arthur Stephens, Mrs Wil Newman, and H A Briscoe visited relatives here this week. Po) Rnedlish tore ligaments on his left foot while driving sheep from his mother’s farm south of Cases to a nearby farm. Thomas Vanway left for Kansas City yesterday to visit during his father Jake’s operation, which proved successful. Ab Ewing, at High Point College, came home for holidays with parents and friends. Rev Noah Bunton of Newton spent time with his son Dell Bunton.
Fragmentary note describes a marriage with a 'wiggriant character' and a death of a man. mentions a widow named San Broncia with unclear context and scattered terms. The readable parts point to a domestic or social drama tone from a historical newspaper page.
Mrs Samuel Spellering was brought home from the hospital at Effingham on Wednesday and is reported to have endured the trip better than expected.
Mrs Harry Mauk hosted a Friday plate luncheon at four with Mesdames A Moore V Moore Chas Taggart Chas Morgan Carl Beachout Homer Johnson Robi Patterson C B Low Harry Cooper W F Bertschinger Jennie McNary and Misses Margaret Moore Francis Nell Beachout Mary Lucille Low Fred Marjorie Johnson Thelma Morgan Geraldine Patterson. Everett Carper hosted a cap on dinner Sunday for Mrs Phoebe Snavelys 80th birthday with George Paxton Chester Snavely Edwin Eleanor Snavely Minnie Horrall Phoebe Snavely and others. Additional dinners included E O Dodd Gerald Benfield and a six oclock dinner with H K Newman Homer Johnson Johnsons Patricia Patterson Rogers Clayton and others.
A Cincinnati Enquirer quote honors unselfish mothers noting their joy in serving family and lamenting that kin rarely reciprocate or assist in return. The wry reflection frames maternal labor as quiet, often unacknowledged.
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