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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1912
Page
6
An advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy that cures catarrh by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. The ad states a $100 reward if the cure fails and urges sending testimonials and receiving details from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The source explores why children often accept chores for neighbors rather than those at home, citing factors such as external accountability, perceived fair compensation, and social expectations that make neighbor tasks seem more legitimate or rewarding.
A Ohio institute brings licensed physicians to offer one day free consultation examination and medicines for diseases of the nervous system heart lungs stomach kidneys catarrh consumption epilepsy deafness women tumors piles and related illnesses. Attendees may start treatment at once if curable or receive advice to prolong life.
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A Sunday School convention will be held at Asbury in Wabash township on Sunday June 9 at 9 a m. J Q Snedeker will lead the session with Devotional Walter Adams and welcome by Floyd Tobias. Speakers include L B Anderson Roy Cook Wil Washburn Jerry Ishler L W Williams and others. An offering for county work will be taken.
In the Circuit Court of Clark County Illinois a chancery divorce case Ed Wallace versus Dora Wallace notices non residence of Dora Wallace. Complainant filed June 2 1912 and summons issued returnable July 8 1912. Defendants appearance required July term at Marshall to plead answer or demur or decree by default.
Publication notice in Clark County Illinois records for the estate of Green B. Houk. Robert H. Brown administrator seeks order to sell Lot 4, Block 30, Archer’s Addition to Marshall to pay debts. Etta Hunt is summoned to appear June 3, 1912 in Marshall Court.
Geological survey notes a potash pocket in Borax Lake area of the Mojave desert southern California. Potential 6 to 10 million tons, 20 to 30 years supply. Salt beds include trona, sodium carbonate, and sodium sulphate with borax historically mined nearby. An English company once attempted extensive soda deposits but did not continue.
The French senate refused to recognize the Naundorffs as descendants of the Little Dauphin. The pretender known as Prince de Bourbon runs a dressmaking establishment under M Chaigneau. Mme Postel, aged eighty two, sues for $12,000 paid via four promissory notes to an orphanage. Chaigneau says he kept half for expenses and gave the widow the rest. court dismisses the suit with costs to the plaintiff.
In Suffolk Virginia a courtroom drama unfolds as Rev Ernest Lyons confesses to killing Rev James Larry Smith after conviction. Witnesses place Lyons at the scene and a neighbor reveals the claim of a fabricated confession made in revenge to avoid prison.
A British Columbia discovery reports a new metal named canadium. It is described as a noble metal with bright white luster, soluble in acids, insoluble to damp air, and softer than platinum. Assay values suggest up to three ounces per ton and it alloyed with platinum group metals.
A collection of Confucius maxims on knowledge sincerity humility and governance. It contrasts the great and ordinary man, notes funeral propriety, and stresses inner virtue guarding outer attainments amid slander and perception.
Charles Rossetter, a Hartford businessman, vowed no shave until Hartford secured adequate water. After the $6 million Neppaug valley storage reservoir system work began, a clerk initially refused his mail, mistaking him for a shaved man of another class.
An octogenarian, Miss M. T. Turner, dies at Farnham in Martin, Suffolk. A daughter’s devotion to her mother is recalled in the brief obituary, noting Turner’s long life and the faded romance of a long-past engagement.
In western Kansas, 14 year old Mary Boughton of Hamilton County and Mrs. Nora Munday of Gray County are urged to receive Carnegie hero medals for lifesaving actions during blizzards. Mary defended her father from a charging steer and later rescued a lost rural mail carrier. Nora Munday searched miles through a blizzard to find and save her husband, suffering frostbite and exposure.
Officials report Western New York primaries cost taxpayers from 1.50 to 10.60 per vote. Figures show the typical cost above 1.50 with many precincts exceeding the lower rate. In New York City the average cost per vote is about the same range.
Brian G Hughes quips at a recent dinner about drawing the line on animal jokes. He recalls two artists bragging about pig iron tricks one mimicking roast beef and a dog consuming most of it before realizing the error.
A report describes a man in Melbourne Victoria whose speech and hearing began to return after an earlier incident during a harvest year when fear caused loss of faculties. He was temporarily seized by a fit during fete operations and faced strong alarm before improving.
The article explains silo use to store crops for animal feed, describing fermentation benefits, packing against walls, and determining safe silo diameters. It notes circular silos prevent air exposure, optimal depths, and feeding rates per cow during winter and summer.
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