Rare coins and counterfeit risks cited by experts
The piece notes the 1804 dollar rarity and misprints, counterfeit coins from 1801 and earlier, the Queen Anne farthing and fused coins valued by collectors, the Jewish shekel fetches high sums, and that many coins from 1795 to 1803 command small premiums. It cites New York Times observations on aging coins and market pitfalls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shekel
Sworth
Yworth
United States
New York Times
Why Women Aren’t Made Judges at a Baby Show
The remark questions gender roles in judging baby show events and implies women are less suitable due to discretion. It reflects dated stereotypes about women’s public authority.
Local notes from Marshall and vicinity highlight visits and events
Jones visits his sister in Danville while Miss Nettie Garver and Miss Pearl Lee travel to Marshall area friends. Quail season opens with scarce birds. A twelfth child born to Mr. and Mrs. Shell Davis. Red Men lodge adds sixteen members. Long list of visits, weddings, and funerals across Marshall, Terre Haute, and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Per Rubel
West Chester
Nettie Garver
McKeen
Marshall
Pearl Lee
Villa Grove
Doris Keifer
Decatur
Bement
Clara Schwanecke
Washington, D. Co
Mrs. Shell Davis
Red Men's Lodge
W. T. Martin Sr
D. Y. McMullen
Tuscola
Everett Murphy
Urbana
County School Notes Report Small Funds and Plans
Miss Florence Macke reports $17.64 from a pie supper and purchases a Beacon chart and Webster’s Dictionary. Ethel Forcum notes fifteen reading circle books and a fine picture. 37 spelling certificates issued. County schools list current expenses and mention warm lunch programs. Morgantown and Westfield districts receive new numbers. Spelling contests, pensions, and new physical training requirements are discussed along with upcoming West Union contest and Congregational church bazaar with multiple booths and activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Macke
English School
Ethel Forcum
Baggs School
Liberty Bell Special Train to Pass Marshall Sunday
A special train carrying the Liberty Bell will pass through Marshall on the Vandalia railroad Sunday afternoon November 21 around four o'clock. Through Walter Burdick Chapter D A R committee efforts, the train will travel slowly through town if a halt cannot be arranged by Charles Seger of Philadelphia, chair of the exhibition committee. This may be the bell’s last western trip and citizens are urged to attend.
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Marshall
Vandalia
Walter Burdick
Charles Seger
Philadelphia
For sale good grain and stock farm near Marshall Illinois
233 acre property on National Road four miles west of Marshall Illinois includes 160 cultivated acres 75 acres creek frontage mainly timber pasture. Features a two story frame dwelling with cellar a large barn with sheds a new machine shed orchard three wells year round spring water rock road one mile away. Also two city lots with eight room house opposite the township high school. Sold to settle an estate.
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Marshall
Rock Road
Twp High School
J. W. Fredenberger
Poultry House Seeks Thanksgiving Market and Prices
The new poultry house requests all ducks chickens turkeys and geese for Thanksgiving market and invites customers to call for prices. Both phones listed. S Smith, Manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Smith
Mgr
Fragmentary thoughts on ancestors and Sir Isaac
A fragmentary dialogue mentions ancestors with few boards of hearth and insanity commissions and references Sir Isaac possibly being locked up. The lines read as a speculative musing with no clear event or outcome.
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Sir Isaac
Fragmentary quip about marriage and self-reliance
A garbled quote from Louisville Quarterscarmal Askia discusses marriage as a step in the south and urging self action. The passage includes broken phrases about mercy, prayer, and doing things oneself.
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Louisville
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Lewis Kendall
Nebraska
Victor
Klinger’s
Lenox
Uska
Imarkas
Jones
Danville
James Wilson
Belle Orndorff
Roy Jefferds
Terra Haute
W. B. Scholfield
Dick Archer and
Sullivan, Tl
L. G. Archer
Harmon Meloy
Murdock
Wellington Murphy
Frank M. Hurst
Clarence i Black
Chicago
Edmund Yowell
Grandview
J. Stewart
M. W. Porter
Pittsburg
Congregational Ladies’ Aid Society
Sidney Cox
Woodford Burnett
Loudis Kerr
Fenton Cooper
Robert Dulaney
Robinson-Terre Haute
Terre Haute
Lafe Hammond
Dolson Township
Zola Moore
Martinsville
Esquire
W. H. Beadle
Matilda Kelley
Dunlap
Liggett
W. W. Miller
George Miller
Dallas
Texas
I. W. Pease
Clarksville
Pease
Dewey & Co
County School Notes
Harold Bright
Cottonwood (Johnson
V. Wiman
Auburn
Casey
Marshall T. H. S
Westfield
West Union
Dennison
Walnut Prairie
H. A. McKeene
Department of Household Science
The
Ilinois Farmers’ Institute
Illinois
Agnes Ryan
Mozart School
Marshall Township
Edna Fox
H. W. Findley
Martha Greene
Eckle
Martha
State
George Cyrus Lock
Pike County
Pike Co
M. EB
John Shotwell
J. H. Dickerson
Clark County
Guild of the Congregational Church
J. K. Kerr
Edith Cole
Nellie Stevenson
Arthur Poorman
Sam Prevo
Turman
Handy
Jayne Kerr
Isle
Clarence Bailey
L. L
Bay ‘View
Catro
Misielen Scotti
Hay
Odrin
Ie Hostaes
Frank Avs McKeers
B. F. Johnson
Bubeck & Gallagher
Fred Wailis
Kohl
East Main Street
Wabash
Farmers
Horse Power International
Herald Office
Parsons
South 9Th Street
Peter Spengler
M. L. Behner
Fred B. Keifer
R. A. Mitchell
Mitchell
Marshall Ministerial Union
A. B. Mathews
M. E's
Ben Baird’s
Marshall House
Frank Greenough
Dulaney Bank
North
Anderson
Ray Burkeybile
Order of Eastern Star of
Opera
Gale
Mauk’s Drug Store
Martin’s
Ladies’ Home Journal and Pictorial Review Patterns
Oster Martin
the Congregational Church
Nelle Warriner
Pio
Mr. Smith
Askia
Tanita
Shipe & Payne
Monarch Canned Coods
A. Rihurhe Ors
Yihe Pheic Ofragher
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