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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1914
Page
5
Community notices from Urbana and nearby towns record visits, travels, and engagements. Families such as the Kiplinger and Hodge households welcome additions. scholars leave for colleges, and local events include bread specials, soap sales, and a church ice cream social. Memorial services honor deceased members and public gatherings mark the era.
Supervisors favor brick permanent highways and set November 3 to vote on 1.6 million dollars in hard roads bonds. The report also notes social and religious items of local interest including a chicken dinner gathering for Hon. J. G. Cannon and Baptist church notes on sermons and missions.
Sunday school at 9 80, preaching at 10 30. Junior Y at 2 30, Senior Y to follow. P C B meet at 6 45 with preaching. You are cordially welcome. Pastors Dotson and B F invite all to attend.
Harold Garrison of Irvington New Jersey visited Newark City Hospital and identified a young woman as his wife Florence Garrison twenty four years old. He had been separated for two years and had heard she was in Rhode Island and dead. The woman found near Center Market carried a card asking to send her to the city dispensary as she cannot talk.
Mixed local ads list farms for sale including four yearling Shorthorn Bulls and two Jersey boars, cash only farms with 90 acres of bluegrass pasture near Marshall, 80 acres fenced, 60 acres level, and 60 acres broken land. Also mentions a large tract in Oregon available for free settlement and a 132 acre farm on National Road near Marshall with buildings, orchard, and water.
The account recalls war correspondent Melton Prior joining the English army during the siege of Ladysmith. Boers shelled the town with 32 guns and the troops learned to name the shells, while soldiers noticed unusual courtesies including plumed shells and plum puddings with the message With the compliments of the person. A Christmas salute included shells that did not burst and wooden fuses replaced, delivering edible gifts to the camp.
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