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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1920
Page
6
The Pythian Theatre offers a Tuesday program featuring Chaplin in The Pawn Shop and Fox star Gladys Brockwell in Thieves. The bill runs 7:30 pm with 7 reels showing for 10 and 15 cents, plus a 20 cent option.
William Handy of Oliver, Joe Lutz, Nellie Young of Chicago, Pearl Lee, and many locals are listed with visits, shows, and social events. Notable entries include Emanuel LeSeure at Knights of Columbus in Brazil, a census bureau hire, and trips to Kansas NL and Findlay. A gypsy clan burial, a Paris bankers meeting, and motor party travels punctuate the week.
A long list of visits and movements among residents including Fannie Andrews in Champaign and Arthur Poorman in Mattoor on legal business. Several Terre Haute residents are noted visiting relatives, shopping trips, and weekend stays with friends and families. The Stitchery club plans a theatre party at Terre Haute’s Hippodrome tomorrow. Life may not be always worth while but then neither is anything else always worth while.
Various local notices offer real estate loans land for sale and farm items. Listings include 20 acres near Melrose Clark County Illinois for sale and Barred Rock eggs selected matings priced at 1 25 for 15 plus loans on real estate and personal property by Cole and Cole Marshalls ND and Brokers advertising Johnsons Golden Crust Bread and related labels for consumer goods.
Dr Clarence True Wilson traces the jag to wine hardship not whisky noting no pre 1106 AD cases of drunkenness from spirits. He cites Noah and ancient Egypt, Rome, and Alexander dying while drunk on wine, beer rather than whisky. Biblical denouncements of drunkenness refer to wine and beer.
Geologists dispute the origin of mineral oil or petroleum. Most writers favor animal and vegetable sources, suggesting ancient fatty remnants from ash, reptiles, and animals. Oil-bearing plants or seeds may have contributed, but the exact source remains wrapped in mystery.
A humorous notice from the Houston Post offering two bits reward for the apprehension of any reader of the Congressional Record whose enthusiasm exceeds that of the publication. It wryly notes exceptions to rules about tempting cupidity.
A Boston Transcript quip urges buyers to demand visible chalazae as proof of egg freshness. The line notes carrying eggs home in a pall but emphasizes skepticism toward vague freshness claims from grocers.
The durian fruit, native to the Malayan archipelago, will not grow north of Moulmein nor survive transplantation to India. Some European residents prize it while most others dislike its strong odor.
The article notes popular beliefs that various plants including eucalyptus castor bean tree and chinaberry repel mosquitoes. It states scientific observations have not confirmed these claims.
On October tenth 1845 the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis opened with Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft playing a key role in its creation. The event marks the launch of a historic military education institution.
Louisville Courier Journal notes a tongue in cheek line about a man facing downtown troubles and his wife greeting him with a comforting gesture that makes their concerns seem insignificant.
The text notes that in Swedish weddings among middle and lower classes, the groom carries a whip as a badge of his authority within the home. This emblem underscores patriarchal control in domestic life as part of wedding customs.
In Cuba an earthquake plant grows wild and is believed to forecast cyclones and storms by color changes, with claims of predicting specialty earthquakes.
Floating mooring buoys have been made of concrete by an English inventor. The invention aims to provide durable, cost effective navigational aids for maritime use.
Candlemas marks the Feast of the Purification and the Presentation of Christ In the Temple. The name derives from early church practice of processing with lighted candles recalling Simeon’s words about enlightening the Gentiles.
Mary answered the door to find two visiting women who paused at her home. She dismissed them after exclaiming she could not entertain any customers and sent them to her mother.
Two young Swedish geology students Wadell and Yeberg report finding what may be the world’s largest crater in Iceland. They describe a formation five miles long and a quarter mile wide and claim the discovery includes warm springs nearby.
Old fashion irons still in use among housewives. The piece describes numbering each iron with chalk so wires and heat settings are matched. Practical tip aims to prevent mix ups when multiple irons are in use.
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