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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1912
Page
1
The fragmentary item mentions a page number and partial names with unclear context. It records a small local note or notice suitable for a brief newspaper card. No clear event, date, or location is readable to state a fuller summary.
The Banner-Times lists events around Charleston Arkansas and nearby areas including a street sweeping machine arrival, visits from Emma Hiatt and Nell Kester, a Tulsa wedding set for July, road work plans from Effingham to East St. Louis, and multiple moves and travels. It notes deaths, illness recoveries, nurse training, and local council actions. Also reports on a donor land offer for a college, a kidney remedy testimonial, and community social updates.
A daughter was born Monday to Mr. and Mrs Ed Conrad. Ed Lindley is building an extensive addition to his house northwest of town. Miss Mary Coon visited Chicago Tuesday night to see her sister Mrs A M Westerfield. Four new engines arrived on the Cairo division for night passenger runs. Rising river levels have mussels and diggers active, with several boxes of shells daily. Capt. Hicks the Indian Scout toured here with two world travel lectures. Lightning caused damage Saturday night. The barn of S W Life near West York was struck and a fine bull killed. Lincoln Buckner, living nearby, reports a cow and calf in a simple maser.
A Boston man lost his leg from an insect bite two years earlier. To avert such calamities from stings and bites, use Bucklen's Arnica Salve promptly to kill the poison and prevent inflammation, swelling and pain. It heals burns ulcers boils piles eczema bruises and cuts. Zoe at Carl Tauben eck's.
Abe Estes moved into his new property last week. Fred Layton assists in a meeting over in Indiana. Mrs Alvina Layton visits Windsor Illinois. Mrs O B Cortland of Oblong visited her sisters here last week. Wm Hiller of Paris visited relatives and friends here last week. Miss Mattie Pierson of Martinsville visited Mrs Maggie Rock last week. Harry Boger and family of Philadelphia are visiting Geo Sibley and family. Mr and Mrs J Wheeler visit their daughter in eastern Indiana. Mrs John Donaldson and children visiting sisters at Terre Haute and Fairbanks. Mrs Clarence Mount and family of Terre Haute have been visiting friends here the past week. Heavy rains and thunder storms all day Sunday. Many farmers not done haying yet. Wheat threshing the order of the day for three or four days. Thirteen bushels about the average and a good grade. George Winters is the grand jury man from West York. Look out for behavior at church and on the streets. A worn to the wise is sufficient.
A vintage advertisement urges women to use Dr King’s Life Pills to gain strength good complexion and fresh breath. It claims easy safe and sure results and markets the product for 25 cents at Carl Taubeneck’s.
T C Bailiff preached at Butternut on Sunday. Samuel Debs was a Martinsville visitor Thursday. Dan Wells and wife are proud parents of a baby boy. Mrs Ed Davis and children visiting in this vicinity. Frank and Geo Geffe spent Sunday with relatives in Yale. Mrs Join 24cNurlan spent Tuesday at Sylvester Crandall's. G W Johnson, Wm and Charles Tuankenbeker were business callers in Martinaville Monday.
Fragmentary OCR mentions Delbert Shirley and a brother in a Sunday entry with unclear context and missing details.
A local insurance notice from Cole and Cole promotes tornado and fire insurance for farm and city properties with large companies at lowest rates, inviting readers to write or call for terms.
Flies the past few days have been very bad on horses and cattle. Will Lowery preached at Clarks ville Sunday night and at Auburn the Sunday night before. Ice cream supper at Dolson Chapel next Saturday night. Two Mormon missionaries visited last week selling literature. Mrs Mary Starks and daughter attended funeral services in Livingston. Rev Stamsley fell ill and was moved to Charleston in a dangerous condition. Sunday school convention at Dolson Chapel well attended. Sperry Claypool reelected township president.
A promotional piece extols Electric Riders as a health tonic for women, claiming 120 pounds of bone and muscle with proper use defeats fainting dizziness and weakness. It cites Eliza Pool of Depew Oklahoma praising the medicine and promotes a 50 cent price guaranteed by City Drug Store.
Bill Morgan has a new barn. Gladys Ford visited friends here. Miss Anna Hull of Urbana is visiting relatives here. Everett Slusser and family went to Casey Saturday. Some corn plowing and haymaking occurred last week. Mrs Malissa Thompson has come for the summer. J B Cooper and family were Sunday visitors at E E Millis's. Miss Ethel Conklin has been visiting in the area this week. Miss Ruth Baker and Ralph Caper were guests of Miss Grace Mills Sunday. Mrs Maude Mills and Misses Myrtle Rosa and Seenie were Terre Haute shoppers.
A fragment describes a carload of buggles arriving with mentions of fancy prices on ponies for a short time. The text is incomplete but indicates a sale or trade event with unusual items and elevated pricing.
The article notes attendance at a Sunday school convention at Green ess, visits by Fred Wieland of Charleston, and James Fowler of Shilo. Rev E S Wamsley of Charleston was ill, later sent home. A Clarksville Baptist basket meeting is planned for Sunday July 28 with Rev W A Fuson and Rev I E Lee participating.
Carrier No. 7 drives a new horse. An auto party went out for black berries Friday. Lola Cleaver of Martinsville visited Saturday evening. Five Points ice cream social receipts topped $30. Charley Phillips built the first 1912 hay stack in the neighborhood. Harvest hands paid two dollars per day and are scarce. George Payne injured by a fall on a pitchfork while working hay. The Baptist church extends a pastoral call to Rev Sneed for another year. Alvan Fraker shows the best corn crop in the prairie field to date.
Frank J. Cheney sworn as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo promises to pay 100 dollars for each uncurable catarrh case. Notary A. W. Gleason notes the oath on December 6. Advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal remedy reaching blood and mucous surfaces. Also recommends Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Ethel Washburn visited Ruth Gilvert Sunday while Bert Eckles filled his Freedom appointment. Farmers cut hay and plowed corn as 50Me worked the fields. An ice cream supper was held in Freedom Saturday night. Rain last Sunday aided crops. I B McCullough spent Sunday with Dick Wright near Freedom. Dora Lowry and Doris Lowry visited Gertrude and Ruby Mallory last Thursday. Several attended the ice cream supper at Five Points Saturday. Mrs Clara Mitchell of Chrisman, visiting her parents, returned home Monday.
A historical list shows federal officials impeached since the republic’s founding. Names include William Blount, John Pickering, Samuel Chase, James H. Peck, West H Humphreys, Andrew Johnson, William W. Bellman, Mary H. Delahay, and Charles Swayne, with mixed outcomes of acquittal, conviction, or dropped cases.
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