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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1915
Page
8
Christian Church invites members to a Union Prayer Meeting this evening inside the church. Topic will be The Condition of my Church what it needs with regular services planned for next Sunday.
Evangelical Association reports ongoing revival in Marshall with 7:30 p m weekday services and 7 p m Sunday worship. Next Sunday the pastor plans to stay all day with two English services, a 2 p m German sermon, and a 7 p m final preaching service inviting all German friends to attend.
A brief note highlights a robust friendship built on trust and mutual aid. The relationship endures financial tests and remains steady through challenging times, illustrating durability and loyalty in practical matters.
County notes celebrate a spelling revival with lectures for teachers and exhausted spelling manuals. Mrs Anna English and Stringtown school are pictured. Casey township spelling contest is set for Nov 18 with T N Wright in charge. Local schools progress praised. several materials upgraded and boosters active.
An elderly bank customer recounts how her son Jimmie, once mocked for skipping school, pursued a bold invention. He later prospered, and she gained a stake in his company after investing $1000, proving his supposed disinterest in education hid genuine savvy. The banker reluctantly admits the mother’s faith paid off.
United Brethren Church reports a great revival closing at Centenary on Sunday with 42 confessions and 31 accessions. Sunday services listed including Sunday school at 9 30 and 9 45, preaching at 10 45, Grace services, Christian Endeavor, and prayer meetings. Pastor N E Royer invites all to worship during Go to church month.
A conjoined note discusses how old paintings crack when paint layers are too thick and how thin layers have preserved many masters from Van Dyck to Raphael. It also includes a New York Letter remark on soprano singing, noting a pretty woman’s reaction to a performance and the belief that singing distorts a face.
The article cites Diodorus Siculus on an Ethiopian Acridophagi and Aristotle noting locust delicacies in parts of Greece. Layard’s engravings show dried locusts as preserved food. Tin hypothesis suggests locusts once fed populations in starvation, with broader warnings about crop failure.
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