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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1927
Page
2
A light editorial column praises Jerry Sullivan for his humor and local zest while urging readers to read Dr. Frank Crane’s Fourteen Great Mistakes of Life. The piece reflects on journalism, county papers, and the value of balancing personal standards with prudent judgment.
A brief note asserts editorials alone cannot sway the public. persuasion relies on advertising columns. The remark highlights the combined influence of opinion writing and ad space in shaping readership and policy views.
A garbled historical note mentions a Wotan porsie and Gladstone and a reason for modern beauty shops. The text is incomplete and unclear, offering little concrete event or人物.
The article notes scarlet fever approaching from Chicago to an epidemic farm and Danville with rising cases. It then shifts to local civic topics including urging city council to consider a new pavement on the south side of Main Street. It also mentions Susan B Anthony's lecture at Robinson on the ninth of next month on Woman and the Sixteenth Amendment. Absalom Murphy of Martinsville visited the city Saturday. Dave Pritchard studies law under Wilkin & Wilkin. An old folks dinner at Mrs Elza Neal's featured Mrs Justin Harlan, Mrs Susan Lockard, Mrs Betsy Hogue, Mrs Elizabeth Mark, and the hostess.
Forty years ago Judge Sutton relocates his office from the Court House to the north side of the square over Price's store occupying two back rooms in the second story A heavy thunder storm rolls through last Sunday morning with rain sleet and snow and vivid lightning J S Frakes of Darwin orders printing and acts as Hudnuts agent in Terre Haute purchasing over 20000 bushels of corn this season Valentine King returns from Decath to see his brother Joseph Eva Henessee visits Paris to see her sister Mrs Mc Laughlin for a few days
Thirty years ago Miss Nannie Nusbaum hosted a Saturday night party in their honor. Geo W Harper of the Robinson Argus is laid up with a fractured hip and faces several weeks of disability. Sympathy to Bro Harper. Mr and Mrs H J Griffith hosted 16 couples at progressive cinch with Mrs O Mitchell taking first prize inkstand and Miss Minnie Keifer the tin horn booby prize. W R Lucas of Casey bought the John W Lewis stock at Dennison.
Twenty years ago Mrs H A Schwanecke sold her north Michigan street home to Pat Ferry for 1390. During the high water in York two skiffs could move through streets, the highest Wabash flood since 1886. Walt Morgan moved from St Elmo to establish a local office at Williams Lumber Yard. City council approved a 10 year water contract with the Big 4 railway at 44 cents per thousand gallons, with 150000 to 200000 gallons daily anticipated as tanks complete and traffic grows. The railway previously paid a flat city water rate.
Ten years ago the county line bridge one mile west of Oliver was awarded to Vincennes Bridge Co for 5609 dollars after six bids. The joint committee of Clark county supervisors and Edgar county officials opened the bids. Also notes of a marriage, a Florida trip, and a cold snap affecting crops in Indiana and Illinois are mentioned.
Smithsonian expedition from Tanganyika brings back African species to expand the national zoo. Included are aquatic frogs with large webbed feet, fifty chameleons, spring tailed lizards and crocodile egg eaters. A caracal baby and hyrax also arrive, while pangolins perish in transit.
New Haven Conn. Doctor Robert A Millikan Nobel laureate says stars transform mass into light and heat radiating into space possibly birthing new worlds Scientific theory lacks a single interpretation and the nineteenth century view is outdated yet progress in physics surges ahead with enthusiasm.
London expert H L Taylor, head of the British National Council for Preservation of Eyesight, says modern faces are too lopsided compared to old masters. He argues the right side is overdeveloped from excessive use of the right eye, causing asymmetry especially in intelligent men, and notes few symmetrical oval faces remain among people today.
Powel Crosley of Cincinnati, 40, has built and sold over 1.5 million radios in five years and now dominates the DeForest company as mass production expands. He is dubbed The Ford of Radio and estimates a public spend surpassing 500 million dollars on radio apparatus. The War Department recently sold the Lincoln Booth era barn for 4950 dollars where Booth stored his horse after the assassination.
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