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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1910
Page
4
The text indicates Marshall Illinois is designated as a post office with second class mail matter. It references lettered posts and signaling readouts within the postal notice context.
Cards of thanks and obituary poetry will not be published. Resolutions by lodges or societies on a death cost 1.00. Entertainment announcements with admission fees are charged 5 cents per line.
Announcement notes William Knipe as a Republican primary candidate for Collector of Marshall County. The page mixes civic items and social commentary including a Terre Haute business club train tour, opinions on living costs, franking privileges costs, and a Peary rank bill.
The Illinois Senate ratified the constitutional income tax amendment by a 41 to 0 vote in the Harburg resolution. Congressman T. Chapman of the 25th district gains favorable Republican gubernatorial mention. Missouri's Sixth District showed a Democratic win with smaller margins, while tariff law effects boost revenue and reduce expected deficits. Taft hails tariff measures as best yet, citing increased revenue and federal savings.
A controversial open letter from Marshall's publication committee warns of riot and ruin from liquor sales. It includes preachers and citizens urging reconsideration, cites personal liberty vs public safety, and notes a petition for a new vote while recounting a crime confession tied to tavern visits.
Edgar Dean Crumpacker, long a congressman from Indiana’s tenth district, is backed by the Indiana Society of Washington as a potential successor to Speaker Cannon. Born May 27, 1861 in Laporte County, Crumpacker rose from farming to Valparaiso Academy and Blooming-ton Law School, serving in Congress since 1897 and winning 32,954 votes in the last race.
A vendor bills strong coffee lines Continental Lexington Revere and Golden Rod with prices around $1.10 per pound or per pail. Also advertised Dill pickles 10c per dozen, Kraut 25c per gallon, small fish 1c each, soda crackers at10c per pound, and multiple tin coffee sizes from White House and other brands.
A sale notice announces the very highest grade of rice packed in sanitary packages priced at 25 cents per package. The ad highlights cleanliness and quality for household use.
The listing promotes a premium oats product described as the largest package with emphasis on quality. It notes a 26c price marker and highlights superior use and value for shoppers seeking premium oats per package.
Sanitary 3 pound package of fancy rice offered for 25 cents. Readable line item notes the price and product as a small grocery notice.
Choice hand picked navy beans offered at per pound pricing.
A column advertises White Flake Syrup as a fancy table commodity with promotions. It lists sizes and prices including 2 lb can 10 cents, 5 lb bucket 25 cents, and 10 lb bucket 5 cents in a shoppers notice style.
A line item advertises breakfast bacon at 25 cents per pound. The wording emphasizes high quality cuts and value for shoppers.
Advertiser touts well cured smoked jowls valued at 14 cents per pound, claiming high quality and good worth for buyers seeking preserved meats.
Small oranges priced at 12c per dozen with larger fruit offered at 20c 30c 40c and 50c per dozen. Bright solid fruit advertised as Tangerine Oranges with a 25c and 3 for 5c per dozen promotion.
Advertises pure buckwheat flour in 25 and 60 cent bags and bulk rolled oats from the Quaker Oats Company priced at five cents per pound.
A neatly trimmed and well cured piece of meat is offered at 16 cents per pound, with stock described as small and limited.
Salt offered in bright white wooden barrels at 1.85 dollars per barrel. A smaller bag option is available for customers needing less than a full barrel.
Advertised items include a large glass drinking glass ten cents, two pound cans of tomatoes, eight Fancy mackerel for twenty five cents, Pea Berry coffee at twenty cents per pound, and good rice at a per pound price.
Prices listed for sacks sold by Magnolia Martinsville Randall s Gold Medal Gold Label Crescet and Happy Home ranging from 70 to 85 cents per sack in various outlets.
A large line of National Biscuit Co package goods offered with prices. Graham Crackers 15c or 2 lb for 25c. Oatmeal Crackers 15c or 2 lb for 25c. Lemon wafers vanilla wafers chocolate dainties fig cake 20c per pound. Ginger snaps 3 lb for 25c.
A market notice invites suppliers to quote prices on poultry butter eggs lard potatoes and other country produce. The requester expresses interest in competitive pricing and seeks to establish a business relationship.
Bargain display lists quart jars of good olives at 25c and large Queen Olives at 35c. A taper jar of stuffed olives is advertised as the best value yet at 26c.
An ad snippet offers large silver prune fruit at 200 pounds per batch with a 2 pound option priced at 265 cents. The listing emphasizes bulk and unit pricing for display in a local market.
Advertises a good supply of fancy Minnesota potatoes offered in bag lots at 1.76 dollars per bag of two and a half bushels.
Classified note lists bulk items: 3 lb soda crackers 8 cans baking powder brands Clabber and B C 8 packages seeded raisins 8 packages currants 3 cans good corn 3 cans tomatoes. The offer states price 256 may buy any of these articles.
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