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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1916
Page
4
The text questions whether baking powder is made from cream of tartar or from alum or phosphate. It notes that some powders use alum or phosphate as cheaper mineral substitutes and warns not to sacrifice quality and healthfulness for low price.
West York area residents visit relatives and attend church services while local business expands with a new blacksmith shop in West York. Several residents travel to Terre Haute Robinson St Louis Annapolis and Blanford Indiana for visits business or work. Weather discussion notes March coughs and Foley Honey and Tar promotion appears.
Bonnie Shaffner shows little improvement. Homer Johnson buys a new Ford. Fox hunters were active Friday night. William Mays of Indianapolis visits grandparents. Will Brosman had plastering done last week. Auburn seeks a collector. Joseph Thompson hauled cattle to Tennessee last Monday. Petition circulates for a rural route seven carrier. Earl Newman, former Homer operator, left Monday for the Pacific coast. A Democratic supervisor notes Governor Dunne’s administration cost him 2500 dollars.
Miss Lillie Cline visits Marshall this week. Miss Vangie Chenoweth spent last week in Marshall with relatives. Miss Catherine Wyrick spent Sunday with Cora Wyrick in Armstrong. Allen Chrisler may move to Hunt property soon. Miss Greta Alcorn and Miss Lucile Corix visited Stella Morgan Sunday. Ciliford Lindsay returns from grandmother’s home in West. Mr and Mrs Roy Haddix of Gary Indiana visited her parents last week. Andrew Wyrick and family visited John Joyald wife in Denison. Mr and Mrs Joe Adams and daughter of Terre Haute spent Sunday with Joe Mchison.
A Martinsville page notes visitors from Paris and Johnson township, road work on Main Street for Boomer Day, and county township cooperation on a Jefferson street bridge. Easter dates are recounted, Comrade Lindsay dies at 78, and Lucy Taggart and Mathias Tagsart are mourned in obituaries.
Mrs. Taggart died at 81 after a long life in Martinsville where she settled after marriage in the fifties. Born Dec 15 1834 in West Lebanon C she left a husband Taggart and nine children Walter Howard Herschel Will Clem John Alice Rachel Ella. Funeral at Seventh Day Adventist Church with Elder A J Clark officiating. Interment at Kettling cemetery.
Miss Rebecca Hoenig spent Sunday with her parents. Several families, including the Eckles and Irwins, visited in Marshall and with sick Cora Starkey. Christian Endeavor meets after Sunday service at 7 16. Others visited relatives and returned from Dennison.
Mrs C W Kennedy left Tuesday to join her husband in Oklahoma where they plan to settle. Mrs B A Melton and son Cyril moved from Parker township to Greenville. Mrs Ellen Mulius and daughter Edith depart for an extended visit in Ohio. Malden Connelly, once in Hobson Mont, visits Illinois relatives. Herbert Poulter and Nora Williams wed in Paris after a surprise trip last Thursday.
Deaths births and arrivals near Casey. Mrs. M L Cook sells residence at Central Ave and Dyer St to W S Emrich. Old frame house south Highth St burns. Marion Partlow property occupied by Mrs. Davis family. Carson Green visiting Brummetts for golden wedding and reunion. Jesse Minear injured with fractured hip at St Charles hotel. Mrs James Schmeyer dies from clothing fire at Geary Okla. John Leigh and Vera Jones marry in Charleston and visit Casey before moving to Mississippi.
Fragmentary OCR mentions Vita possibly executing a phrase and surviving years. It references St Louis and York's Valor, suggesting a biographical or commemorative note about endurance and historical travel.
A London Tit-Bits note describes a remarkable collection where each book is a carved block of tree. The volumes reveal the tree’s history with bark labels, grain, and a cabinet of related specimens, including leaves seeds moss and insects along with full descriptions.
Priestley of Captain Scott’s Antarctic expedition recounts Adélie penguins at Flagstaff Point near Terra Nova. Penguins probe the boat for a rookery, land upright in the boat, attack the boatswain, and startled crew with their comic and bold antics as the author notes the law of compensation.
An advertisement touts Just Ond Spoonful buckthorn bark glycerine and other ingredients as a remedy for gas stomach indigestion constipation and heaviness with claims of instant relief and anti appendicitis protection from Solouat Cartiel's Drug Store nearby.
The senate approved the Tillman bill by 58 to 23 to authorize government purchase of an armor factory at a cost not exceeding 11 million dollars. A separate bond issue proposal for 12 million to build about 12 miles of brick roads in Iowatown was noted.
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