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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1917
Page
4
Local notes report Mrs Caroline Cleaver’s death near Bethel and the Cleaver family history from the Civil War era. Oats and corn crops vary with weather, with promising yields and ample natural gas nearby. Visitors include Lua Gill Newton, Bertie Trogen, and Mabel Green, while engagements and travels span Chicago, Portland Oregon, and Durango.
Agnes Williams visits relatives in West Union Miss Mary Lindley spends Sunday with Miss Gertrude Milam Miss Reba Bennett and Miss Ruth Cook visit relatives here Arthur Lindley stays with Mrs Ray Broadhurst Gertrude Milam visits Alma Taylor Milam Marshall Raymond Milton and Miss Emira Alexander at Gertrude Milam’s Mrs Kate Williamson hosts dinner with Arthur Walker and family Charles Williams family Randolph Ferris and wife Myrtle Williamson Field Williamson and numerous others in Clinton Ind.
Oscar Green of Chicago visits relatives in Hutsonville while army aviation enlistments and family travels unfold. Maggie Ryan also visits. J N Hurst hosts a dinner for Leslie Plough of St Louis as townsfolk note river visitors and the new bath house. Allen Newlin attends cattle sales, highlighting 23 carloads since February valued over $57,000 with stock fattened on his own farms.
York notes report farmers started wheat breeding this week amid a heat wave marking the season. Local social items include visits by Mrs Mary Murphy and Mrs Myles Murphy to Hutsonville and Mrs E Ketchum and Mrs Ben Lau benhausen in Hutson Mantard Orsborn’s family weekend. The M E church ice cream supper succeeded, netting about 333. Belle Turner of West York, staying with her daughter, became seriously ill Saturday night.
West Homer community notes as farmers and families gather for Sunday visits outings and church events. Harvesting continues with some threshing while neighbors Fred Holwick and Walter Garwood host and share time with kin.
Chas Sturdevant of St Louis visited Thursday and Friday. George Wiley left for Akron to work in a rubber tire factory. Mrs Justine Kelly left Monday for Duluth to visit relatives. Roscoe Stoltz returned from Pittsburg for vacation. Bernhardt family sent household effects to Detroit to make it home. Geo Stultz left for Macksville to visit relatives. Ben Davis near town taken to Effingham sanitarium for appendicitis. John Shadley of Boulder arrived to visit. McKee lost five head of cattle when lightning struck a tree where twelve head rested. Company A, idle after calm of East St Louis riots, to duty again July 26 with Illinois troops heading to training camp.
On an average day food is brought to the robin's nest every fifteen minutes. Each young robin requires daily two to three times its weight in bugs and worms. When food is offered the hungry nestlings open their large yellow mouths and jostle for morsels.
The Toulsville Courter Journal notes a judge has handed down ninety day sentences to twenty or thirty men, arguing there appears to be no limit to a court calendar. The remark reflects on the pace and scope of sentencing in local courts.
OCR snippet presents a terse exchange with phrases like I love you and I thought you knew how to make money. The text includes names or initials Bosten and Tran sczipt, suggesting a private dialogue or note with unclear context.
United States Department of Agriculture specialists warn that washing or wetting eggs causes permanent loss of freshness and spoilage. About 5,016,000 eggs are wasted yearly. washed eggs show 17 to 22 percent spoilage in storage versus 4 to 8 percent for unwashed dirty eggs. Water removes the shell coating that blocks air and germs, so stored washed eggs spoil more readily. Producers are urged to avoid washing eggs destined for storage markets, provide clean nests, and sell washed eggs locally for immediate use.
A prominent financial district figure declares that credit is a man's best capital and should be invested not squandered. He notes that many rise from debt to fortune and warns against living on credit, urging prudent investment only when judged safe and profitable. He attributes recent affluence to never abusing credit, a lesson from his fluctuating fortunes.
A fragment from a long Island village prose notes a semi humorous group with a self styled motto Pay pray and pay away. The piece hints at an ongoing social bond despite critical statements and hints at further ideas to suggest.
A compact quotation on language usage warns that data is plural and datum is singular. It urges careful word choice noting data means givens while datum denotes already known facts.
In Buenos Aires stands a unique statue honoring Falucho, a Black soldier who refused to haul down the Argentine flag during the struggle for independence and was killed by Spanish forces. The monument marks a rare tribute by white founders to a Black figure in world history.
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