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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1919
Page
17
Display advertising rates sent on application with minimum 15 cents. Yards of thanks priced at 5 cents. Lodge resolutions on a member's death cost 1 dollar. Announcements of entertainments with admission fees charged at 6 cents per line. Communications subject to editorial revision. No better job printing than at the Herald office. prices are right. No job is too hard.
The Herald reports it holds the largest paid circulation in Clark County, asserting leading reach among local newspapers.
The Red Cross appeals for immediate support as war ends not all suffering ceases. Millions lack food and clothing while disasters strike the United States. A strong fund enables instant aid. joining costs little and helps towns struck by floods and fires.
A Marshall business man asks if a clipping about roads and town business applies to Marshall. The note warns towns to boost growth and avoid losing trade to more aggressive merchants when hard roads or Interurban lines pass through. Be a booster or a knocker, or the town may suffer.
Fragmentary wartime public information effort questioned and debated as officials assess funding and effectiveness. The text discusses government information service costs and aims to boost loyalty and faith amid postwar normalization.
A newspaper page torn from a modern issue shows bold headlines on a range of national matters. Topics include a major plot in Cleveland, federal actions against dry-law violators, a deadly train wreck, mine strike tensions, coal digger protection, and graft probes.
A rural center store can attract countywide trade via lower costs and targeted publicity. It costs less to rent or build, hire, and live in the countryside, while attracting customers from 50 to 100 miles away. Marshall merchants are urged to replicate this strategy to double or triple local business.
Across the country housing lag grows with war time costs. In Pontiac, a chamber of commerce drive canvassed for 2000 homes and secured pledges for mortgage backed funding. A participating manufacturing firm plans to hire 2000 additional workers due to the housing expansion.
An editorial promotes a city wide project to boost growth through modern dwellings and public spirit. It calls on business leaders and farmers to fund and lead community development such as street lighting and housing, arguing against distant speculative schemes and urging local investment.
The article asserts 101,000 government workers in Washington with limited postwar reductions. It criticizes Democratic red tape for keeping nonessential staff, links their cost to a 3.6 billion deficit, and argues peacetime need is far smaller than wartime staffing. The piece notes idle departments and ongoing interest costs from debt.
Sheriff W A Byram levies one third of multiple sections in Clark County for a judgment in favor of James Ashley against Frank Sewell. Sale set for November 29, 1919 at 2 p.m. at the east door of the Court House in Marshall, Illinois. Executrix final settlement notice for Estate of Joshua Walls set for December 1, 1919 in Clark County Court at Marshall with heirs listed.
The undersigned is appointed Administrator of Henry Sewell deceased of Clark County Illinois. He will appear at the Clark County Court House Marshall on the January term first Monday to settle claims and debts. Creditors and debtors must attend and settle accounts. Dated October 25 1919. A L Frokbeiner Administrator William T Hollebeck attorney.
A pundit argues that Democrats lack business experience and financial discipline. They are blamed for inefficiency and bungling in managing large enterprises. The piece calls for business-style governance at the national level to prevent further costly missteps.
References note the swastika appearing on tombs near Higsarkley by ancient Troy, in Indian inscriptions, Etruscan necropolises, Gaza and Corinth coins, Swedish rock carvings, Celtic British stones, and pre-Columbian American sites. It was widely used by aborigines.
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