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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1928
Page
2
Three unnamed youths stopped east of Marshall after stealing from a filling station and attempting a hold up. They were brought to court and sent to Vandalia penal farm. Public reaction split between praise for legal process and sympathy for the accused, noting their prominent St. Louis family origins.
A dated editorial argues campaigns push policing promises of fairness and dispatch. It praises swift justice for youths charged with theft and hold up, cites real cases in Marshall and Indiana prisons, and warns delay hurts both society and offenders. It ends by championing home ownership and local pride.
Avery and Rand confront a delicate deception to ease the father’s last hours. Avery agrees to marry Rand to please the dying father while Rand navigates hope and fear in a Virginia home scene.
The article notes Spanish bullfighting uses bulls of famous lineage bred in special establishments. Values range from 200 to 800 dollars for top bulls. About 8000 bulls die annually in fights, with as many as four dozen employed at times. It is also estimated that 600 horses are used each year in Spain for the spectacle.
A quoted fragment from John Erskine's Adam and Eve discusses humor as a private inner sense. The author notes humor as the inner reflection that avoids outward laughter and revels in silent amusement at another’s condition.
Afton river in Seathind, southeastern Ayrshire, rises near the Dumfries and Kincald junction and flows about nine miles north to join the Nith near New Cumnock church.
In an English seventeenth century manor, between thirty and forty horses' skulls are found arranged under floorboards. The house belonged to a family of noted musicians, reviving an old superstition that skulls improve music room acoustics.
Divorce possibilities after five years of marriage suggest about 70 percent of couples stay together for the rest of their lives. After a tenth anniversary, the likelihood rises to remaining married until fifteen to twenty years, with over twenty years showing a similar pattern.
Public notice of foreclosure in Clark County Illinois. Master in Chancery I H R Snavely will sell at 2 p m on June 1 1928 at the east door of the Marshall courthouse the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter in section 9 township 10 north range 11 west for cash to the highest bidder.
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