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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1928
Page
4
A textile company reports fatigue reduction after three months of a program giving 12 minute music breaks at mid morning and mid afternoon. Production matched earlier levels with 2 hours weekly of musical rest, totaling 3 percent of working time. Phonograph music is broadcast plant wide to aid relaxation.
The Detroit Automobile Club lists seven gasoline price points from 10 cents for Straight-run in Peoria Illinois to 27 cents in Phoenix Arizona. The Mississippi Valley average comes to 19 cents while the Atlantic coastal average is 20 cents. State taxes add 1 to 5 cents per gallon.
Paris streets and small green spaces hold 83 000 trees many dying from polluted air. Old trees are replaced with hardier species as space between plantings increases from 18 to 23 feet and annual care funds remain scarce at about 80 cents per tree.
A scrambled ad style passage jokes about selling car parts during an ongoing auto war. It notes a pedestrian is a man whose wife has left with the car and cites leaky piston rings wasting oil and gas. It also contrasts the cost of a large family with a sedan and mentions Eddie Rickenbacker and a speedway attendance record.
Entry blanks for the sixteenth international 500 mile sweepstakes at Indianapolis Motor Speedway open to drivers in Europe and America. Regulation requires possible wind resistance added to cars to match European designs, with head resistors specified by May 10. 33 cars may start, minimum weight 1400 pounds, qualifying speed 90 mph for four laps. purse about 100000 total under the American Automobile Association.
The Singapore municipal council will cut riksha licenses by 15 percent starting July to make way for motor traffic. Consul General A. E. Southard predicts further reductions as streets are narrow and buses and other motor vehicles threaten jinirshas' role in modern transport.
An old note advises washing a car carefully choosing time and place to avoid sun. It warns sun dries water quickly causing dull finish and suggests using a garage to shield from wind and sun for better results.
Dr. W. A. White explains paramnesia as a common feeling of deja vu arising from brief losses of time and space awareness. A momentary attention shift makes a new impression seem identical to a prior one, with the later conscious recall stretching perceived time into a past event.
The moth shows a coil like a watch hairspring on its head that uncoils into a straight tube over an inch long. It hovers or lands on a flower and inserts the tongue into the depth of the bloom to sip honey, then retracts to visit another blossom. Length varies with flower type and feeding needs.
A tabby originally described brindled cats from Attabieh a Bagdad area known for watered silk. The silk called attabs influenced the term tabby with striped cats called tabbles. The word does not denote sex though modern usage may apply tabby to females. Sometimes used for cats in general like horses called Dobbin.
An Australian poetess faced official rejection of verses for elementary readers after her crow character utters a line mocking a lamb. Officials advised altering lines to show crows as pests to be less cheeky and more valuable.
Dialogue reveals intertwined family ties with Hicks described as a very close relative and even closer than the speaker. The exchange emphasizes familial connection and familiarity within the relationship chain.
A fragmentary dialogue scene shows a man at an open fire asking about his favorite time and a woman proposing they experiment to discover it. The text suggests playful, intimate conversation without a clear narrative arc.
A dialogue features a teacher and pupil debating leap year. The pupil asserts most of the months have twenty nine days, while the teacher questions the claim and prompts correction. The exchange highlights arithmetic quirks in calendar logic.
A playful dialogue contrasts belief in fairies with a clever flying machine used to cross the river each morning. The fragment hints at a recurring commute and a whimsical solution.
Fractured OCR text mentions barred Plymouth Rocks and confinement, unclear context and details remain unreadable.
Alice Newman Virgil Dennon and Lillian Nicols with two children spent Sunday with Thomas White and family at Dennison. Ernest Barker and wife visited Phoebe Elliott at Four Corners. Lester Daugherty and son from Flat Rock visited Grant Daugherty. Ernest Rhodes and Lloyd of Paris visit Howard Jackson. Roscoe Wetherell announce birth of baby girl Anna Irene. Judge Jed Gard and Burton Prust from West Union attended reunion Saturday night.
Opal Snedeker visited Nora Jane and Virginia Mathew in Marshall last week. Mary Jane Pulver of Marshall stayed with her aunt Mrs. Chas. A. Sweitzer Friday and Saturday. Paul English and wife visited Lou Siverly and wife in Marshall Sunday. F O Coffin of Marshall Wm Cork and wife of Stringtown and Mrs Andy Cork of Livingston dined with George Cork and family. W C Pulver and wife returned to Chicago after a two week visit with relatives. Charles Sweitzer entertained guests for dinner including Miles Pulver and family near Livingston Mary E Pulver of Marshall W C Pulver and wife of Chicago Glenn Sweitzer and wife and Mrs Iva Crumlin.
Mr. and Mrs. William Norton and Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Hollenbeck spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Pete Clough at Darwin. Clara Norton returned to Terre Haute after a week with home folks. Everett Hollenbeck and family of Gary visited relatives here.
East McDaniel Mrs. Alva Wells and son Maurice Wells were in Annapolis on business Monday. Max and Doris Molton of West Union spent the past week with their cousins Clarence and Catherine Wells. Jesse Spraker motored to Annapolis on business Friday. Will Sackrider and wife visited Saturday with their daughter Mrs. Viola Guyer and family of Quaker Lane vicinity. Henry Francis of Robinson spent Saturday night and Sunday with his parents Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Francis.
Sylvan Richey and family visited the Hut chings at Martinsville Sunday. Ophir Claypool and daughter spent Sunday with John Hutchings near Five Points. F E Seiple of Oregon Illinois will preach at Salem church on May 26 and 27. Sylvan Fitzgerald and family were guests of Christian Hutchings. Ed Raisner and family of Marshall moved to Mrs Parks farm Saturday.
A passage notes that when an elephant moves faster than a walk it does not trot or gallop but adopts a shuttle motion whose speed varies without changing gait.
Miss Thelma Davis stayed with Miss Eura Hutton at Hutton ER. ER A Schroeder of Florida visited Mr. and Mrs. L R Biggs. Lloyd Reed and Frances Jackson appear among visitors from Indiana Harbor and Ithaca. A nine pound son was born Friday May 11 to Mrs. Reed, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Connelly of Westfield, at her parents’ home.
Rev. J. B. Stubblefield drove to Boliva NL Monday and returned Wednesday morning with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Stubblefield. They plan to live with the couple. R. B. Brown, Pittsfield IL high school principal, visited Casey, to become Supt. Walters’ successor at East Aurora high. Freida Gard of Charleston visited her mother Mrs. W. G. Gard, joined by uncle Jasper Carney and daughter from Charleston. Lucille Graves Ione Graves and Mildred Pfiffen of Lawrenceville stayed with Helen McCandlish Sunday then visited Lawrenceville and Vincennes Indiana.
The Gleaners class at M. E. church hosted a six o'clock dinner in the church basement to honor Mrs. Pansy Chapman as she leaves for Ames Iowa to join Mr. Chapman at school. She received a silver spoon for her service in the local schools and friends express regret at her departure. Also noted are Mrs. F. L. Mitchell’s return from Armington Illinois and Helen Cunningham earning a Butler College fellowship after graduating in 1724.
On arrival at port every ship must be revictualed and refitted by its appointed firm. The representative who handles orders is known among sailors as the ship's husband and oversees stores and gear for the next voyage.
Abegque Scientists In Siberia report a petrified elephant fossil aged about 40 000 years. Detrital News notes a humorous aside about neighbors trading their apartment pair for the discovery.
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