Anniversary and holiday greetings in local notices
Mr and Mrs J L May celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary with relatives and friends on Thursday evening. The gathering included many named couples and individuals with refreshments served at the close. Several other local residents attended New Year’s parties and holiday visits across multiple towns and states, including Danville Paris Orange Bloomington and Detroit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. May
Harry Mathews
J. Q. Snedeker
Frank Gunder
Raymond Milhouse
M. Jennings
Amelia Charland
Eliza Ashley
Ann Strever
Virginia Spitzier
Russell Craig
B. F. Holscher
Charles Pierson
Casey
Classifieds blend sales and rentals in early listings
Classified lines advertise sales of lubricating oils and paints by Jed Oil and Paint Co in Cleveland Ohio, used furniture at The Annex, rent offers for Johnson's Electric floor polisher and 80 acres of corn land, loan offers from Cole and Cole, sale of soybeans and clover hay, and a hatchery booking eggs with rates from Jared Hatchery Robinson IL.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jed Oil and Paint Co
Cleveland
Ohio
Ioan
Cole & Cole Loans and Insurance
Marshall, Ninofsis
Tom Craig
Jared Hatchery
Robinson, UL
Marshall area notes reflect social visits and local transactions
Local residents attend family events and celebrations with out of town guests, including anniversaries and baptisms. Several property transfers and land sales are recorded, with households in Marshall Martinsville Cumberland and nearby towns noted among buyers and sellers.
Miss Chloe Owings Receives Legion of Honor Honor
Chevalier Chloe Owings head of Minneapolis Hygiene Bureau is named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and awarded the Prix Carrier by French Academy for work with the American Relief House in Paris. At 16 she ran her invalid mother's farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chloe Owings
Hygiene Bureau
Minneapolis
Minn
Legion of Honor
Academy of Social and Political Science of
France
American Relief House
Paris
Miss Owings
Virginia Holds Massive Forest Acreage Amid National Compare
A Virginia survey reports 12 million acres of forest in the state, ranking below 20 states in total forest area. National figures show 469.5 million acres of timberland and 38.84 million feet of timber cut in 1925, led by Washington and Oregon. Delaware and Rhode Island have the smallest timber areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
Wilson Gee
J. J. Carson
University of Virginia
Oregon
Alabama
Arkansas
Geers
Minnesota
Washington
Louisiana
Mississippi
California
Nevada
Texas
Georgia
Idaho
Wisconsin
North Carolina
Rhode Island
Utah
Kansas
Delaware
New Jersey
United States
Hope for Humans Seen in Cures of Rat Cancer
London reports interest in a Lancet description by Dr. Lumsden under the British empire cancer campaign. He details local formalin injections that kill rat cancers while preserving antigens, producing an anti cancer serum absorbed into the blood to prevent recurrence. He claims 60 percent cure in rats since October and notes potential future substances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Thomas Lumsden
Doctor Lumsden
Lumsden
Idle French Barges Threaten Canal Traffic
Twenty barges that are unused and not for sale clog northern French canals. A wealthy lawyer blocks removal for six years, keeping a watchman on site at Rouen and Conflans Saint Honorine while authorities cite legal rights. The fleet may stay until the boats sink or are destroyed at public expense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
Rouen
Conflans Saint- Hlonorine
Cat in the Van Pierre Featured in Dakota Exploration
An old record notes a cat among the first of civilization in the Dakotas during Manuel Lisa’s northwest expedition about a century ago. The feline is cited as a notable member of the expedition’s early journey into the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierre
S. D
Dakotas
Manuel Lisa
Northwest
Cat
Massive World War II records filing advances at Washington
The War Department reports progress on classifying and filing about 100 million World War records in the Office of the Adjutant General. The collection includes individual soldier files, wartime camp papers, and correspondence from France and the Army of Occupation in Germany, with some headquarters records arriving postwar under varied conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Tooanklokk
Adjutant General
Wart Department
France
Army of Occupation
Germany
Plant Family Exhibit Shown At World’s Largest Botanical Museum
In New York City’s vast botanical museum an Italian renaissance style building houses a major exhibit of plant families and their development from single-cell forms to higher plants. The display includes foods drugs gums spices oils and corks arranged in evolutionary order and features a fossil botany group. Also showcased are local plant varieties within a hundred miles of New York and laboratories where world expedition specimens are classified alongside a large botanical library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York ‘Botanical ‘Garden
New York City
Obituaries: Mrs. Frank Seidle and John Babcock
Mrs. Frank Seidle aged 81 died Sunday at her home in Wabash township. Funeral held Tuesday at 1 30 p.m. with Rev. D A Kroft. Interment Zion cemetery. Survived by husband two daughters Mrs Allen Dean and Mrs Wm Davison and son Alfred Seidle. John Babcock aged 71 died last Wednesday at his Dolson township home. Funeral Friday at 11 a.m. at Clarksville Baptist church. Interment Clarksville cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Seidle
Wabash Township
D.A. Kroft
Zion Cemetery
Allen Dean
Wm Davison
Alfred Seidle
John Babcock
Dolson Township
Clarksville Baptist Church
W. A. Fuson
Clarksville
How Electricity Elevates the Modern Organ to Supreme Status
A historical note on the organ evolving from a royal instrument to a near orchestral powerhouse under electricity. It highlights how electric action across bellows keys and stops enables precise touch, dynamic tone, and a dominion once reserved for the orchestra, with the organ now called the emperor of instruments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Child Life Magazine
How to Keep Volumes in Proper Condition
Instructions for preserving books discuss placing volumes in a light airy area with even temperature and low humidity. Avoid glass cases unless ventilated, as dryness harms leather bindings. Treat leather with lanolin and neat's-foot oil twice yearly, avoiding leaves, to slow disintegration though powdering bindings cannot be restored.
Stumpers Featuring a Complex Pangram From The Outlook
The Outlook notes a challenging sentence that stumps many stenographers. It describes an harassed saddler or peddler calmly seated on a cemetery wall assessing a perfectly peeled potato.
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Dorothea Fishback
Emma Fishback
Joy Lichtenberger
Mae Lichtenberger
Mildred Schaefer
Evelyn Schaefer
Fred Schaefer
Harold Imle
Herman Miller
Logan Miller
Harold Miller
Glen Imle
Harold Luse
Danville
H. J. Stout
M. M. Fishback
Orange
Calif
Frank Fishback
Milton Mathews
America Buckner
Eureka
Allen Buckner
Hamilton
Helen Baird
Tower Hill
Ben T. Baird
Gene Allemyer
Rock Island
Louise Lickert
Champaign
University of Illinois
Carl Rhoads
Bloomington
Ind
J. H. Maurer
Nelson Smith
Girard
Victor Reynolds
Aberdeen
Miss
C.C. Craig
Harold Wilson
Morrisonville
H. T. Spieth
Bloomington, Ind
Genevieve Washburn
H. A. Sihith
Chicago
Mary Washburn
Fred Shoemaker
Marion
C. J. Hasley
Clay City, Ind
Ira Ashly
Detroit, Mich
Aetna
Mark Stewart City
Yewor
Johnson
H. M. Dewey & Co
Foan
Harry Holscher
University
Harry
Tau Beta Pi
Masonic Lodge
Eastern Star
Marshall
Masonic Hall
J. M. Foreman
Masons
E. B. Hurst
Bertha Carpenter
Danville Hospital
Doris Wallis
The
University of Millinois
Fred Wallis
Dan Fawley
Harry Sockler
Decatur
Millikin College
Theer
John Amereen
Mary
Near St. Louis
Wm. McDaniel
James Stanfield
George Otto
Joe Gallagher
Dan Walton
Hall
Indiana
C. B. Ross Jr
St. Paul
Vera Templeton
Bernice Alabaugh
Marguerite Wallis
Mae Templeton
Miss Vera Templeton
Harold Edens
Robinson
C. L. Parsons
Stitchery Club
Gilbert Mathews
Mrs
Lloyd Mathews
Terre Haute
Harry Johnson
Byron Shinkle
Raye
W. C. Blankenbaker
Homer F. Blankenbaker
Joseph Williams
Firman Bennett Et al
Martinsville
Geo. Short
Wm. Willis
Cumberland
T. C. Cooper
Archie Elliott Jr
Archie Elliott
Louis Fox
Lewis Fox
Harry Carruthers
Mary Eunice Fix
Roy Fix
Marie B. Payne
Roscoe L. Biggs
R. M. Sweet
Martinsville Loan & Building Association
Martha E. Reasor
H. Dean Reasor
Auburn
Old Dominion
Hrkee
the Herald
Louise
Marckess
Pythian Theatre
Lewis Stone
Anna
Nilsson
Buck Jones
Paramounts
Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt
New York
E. Main St. Marshall, Ilinois
Herald
Marshall Camp of
Royal Neighbors
Frances Griffin
Atlanta
Keifer’s Drug Store
Marshall High
Casey High
Marshall Township High School
East Dulaney Bank
Country Club
Kirk
Kroger
Avondale
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