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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1953
Page
8
London reports a pub crisis as TV viewing reduces in house attendance. Four thousand four hundred sixty nine London pubs face declining beer sales with a drop of hundreds of millions of gallons versus 1946. One owner proposes a mobile pub to reach crowds at events.
Washington reports a record 53,258,570 vehicles including autos trucks and buses on U.S. roads last year. State totals show 43,810,531 autos 9,207,897 trucks and 240,142 buses with California first to exceed 5 million registrations followed by New York Pennsylvania and Texas among the top states.
The will of Charles W. Davis of Knoxville leaves his foster son Charles Gordon Davis $100 a month while he maintains passing grades. If he graduates college he loses $10,000 less the total monthly funds received. If he flunks a subject and fails to make it up, the payments and any share in the estate are cut off.
The London Crufts dog show began in 1886 created by Charles Cruft after an early career selling dog biscuits. It drew 5865 entries and 50000 visitors this year with 600 animals at the first Royal Aquarium event. Queen Victoria and kings later sent or exhibited dogs as the show grew under the Kennel Club.
A 12-year-old Sicilian immigrant living in Hartford earns his own living in the United States. He works for two newspapers in Hartford, shovels snow, runs errands, and does odd jobs while attending school. He wakes at 4 a.m. and works until 6 or 7 p.m. His proud moment came when he withdrew 150 dollars to buy his mother a silver gift.
The Pisa landmark is projected to topple in about 200 years unless a strengthening plan is devised. The tilt increases at about two inches every two years. Pisa, a town of roughly 60 000, relies on visitors who come to see and climb the famed leaning structure.
W S WLS of the Trinity church met Thursday evening at 7 30 p m with Zela Satter leading. Reports from Clara Norton and Genevieve Perkins covered the Naperville convention. Numerous members and families attended birthday parties and social events at homes in Martinsville Charleston Robinson and Paris areas with dinners, picnics and a hamburger fry noted. Lois Jones attended an Illinois Telephone Convention in Bloomington, IL.
Mr and Mrs Bib4 Taylor and family Mr and Mrs Harry Miller Mrs Georgia Connerton Mrs Rose Boucher Robert Taylor and daughter Marie enjoyed a picnic at Fox Ridge State Park Sunday for Robert Taylor and Mrs Boucher birthdays Rev and Mrs J L Woolshaw and daughter Linda of Bethany Okla Rev Mertie Melton Miss Grace Britt and Connie Kay King of Marshall were Thursday dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Clarence Tingley Mr and Mrs James Pellim and daughters and Mrs J L Pellum motored to Sullivan Indiana joined by Mr and Mrs Leo Pellum for a picnic at Shakamack
Mrs Verner Adams hosted a small gathering with Mr and Mrs Fred Adams and a daughter on a Monday evening. The fragment suggests a social dinner scene in a local society column, highlighting family names and a casual domestic moment.
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