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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1918
Page
4
The article notes improving influenza cases and reports from local residents about a family visit at Hall and a quarantine ending school closure. It describes a large armistice celebration with bells, a parade, and thousands in town, plus letters from soldiers abroad and local reflections on the war’s impact.
Glendale letters discuss family service in war, Liberty Loan totals, and community pride. An airplane flyover near Los Angeles, local casualty notices, and minister Russell Stark’s death are noted. Local prices for eggs butter and potatoes, a California fly plague, weather shifts, and frost precede Kilborn's closing remarks.
Visitors from Dolson Chester Plymouth and Melrose visited Tuesday and Thursday. The city schools reopened after three weeks of quarantine. A horse team accident injured driver Clarence Millis and killed the horse. The new Methodist pastor Rev H Anson Litherland preached last Sunday.
Austin Bardin Everett Stilwell and Arthur Boyer traveled to Chicago this week to enlist in the tank service. Robert C Wilhoit shipped from Westfield to the Chicago market with a high quality load of full blood Herefords. Mrs H Garver, 78, dies after a long illness. J J Zellers learns son Henry of the 130th Infantry in France is wounded in action October 6, the shrapnel fragmenting his neck and wrist.
Mrs. G M Hartje of Billings Oklahoma visits sister Mrs Jas Harper. Wallace Youngs go to Columbus Indiana for winter with daughter. Mrs Ira Davis ships household to Detroit. Miss Nelle Price heads to Paris for appendectomy. Mrs M E Griffith and daughter Jane of Chicago visit Mrs J G Paden. Clinton Erwin marries Rosa Bennett. Eugene Lucas trains at Hempstead New York. J B E Ruedy and family visit Muskogee. Lieut Ab Kilborn wounded in France. knee wound noted. War era reflection on neighborliness.
After armistice hopes rise yet the need to fund the United War Work Campaign remains urgent. Clark county must raise 34 500 to supply seven agencies aiding soldiers. Citizens urged to exceed quotas by fifty percent to prepare for demobilization two years away and to aid returning servicemen.
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