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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1914
Page
3
State of Illinois Clark County ss Estate of Amy D Sims deceased. Heirs and distributees notified that on Monday June 1 1914 the administrator will present final report to the Clark county county court at Marshall Illinois and ask to be discharged from duties. You may be present to resist.
Affidavit of non residence filed against non resident David Weber. Complaint for divorce filed April 22 1914 in Marshall county court. Summons returnable July 13 next. Judge Freerett Connelly and clerk Jay Swern. Also article notes Huerta fund raising in Mexico via loan schemes.
The article argues the Panama Canal must be protected with heavy armament. It describes 16 inch, 14 inch, and mortar batteries, minefields, searchlights, and rapid-fire guns to deter and defeat any hostile fleet, claiming the canal’s security is vital to American power in war. It cites weapon specs, ranges, and the scale of defenses, asserting deterrence and readiness across entrances and approaches.
The Maxwell Company announces the Maxwell 25 750 car surpassing rivals as a major ad campaign prints in 2 000 newspapers. Detroit Dayton and Newcastle plants employ 15 000 workers producing 200 cars daily with strict safety and metallurgical testing. The firm rose from 16th to 5th in 1914 and eyeing second place by 1915, according to industry insiders.
Allen Newlin tests an oil well on the Ritchie farm west of town. Passenger trains now run Danville to Mt Carmel only, previously to Evansville. Emory Hamilton and Nora Tolbert wed at the Tolbert home by E B Gettinger. Hutsonville high school won Crawford county oratorical contest with Charley Layton receiving blue ribbon for The Canal Tolls and Justice.
Former U S Senator William Lorimer, son of a Presbyterian minister, was received into the Roman Catholic church after fifteen years of study and reflection. The ceremony was in Servite chapel Chicago led by Father Xavier Sutton. Lorimer made his first communion on Monday after a conditional baptism. Only his wife and close family attended. Lorimer, born in Scotland, grew up in a strict Scottish Presbyterian home.
An old advertisement for Fletcher’s Castoria and Fo ley Kidney Pills claims kidney and bladder relief and backache aid. A testimonial from A. T. Kelly of McIntosh Alabama endorses the pills, urging others to try them, with the note that they’re sold by all druggists.
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