Collars and a Million: Bolton, Van Heusen and the Patent Case
A historical note recalls the collar patent clash where Bolton earned over a million through a settlement with Van Heusen and Phillips Jones Co. It cites U.S. collar production valued at 529 million annually and reflects on aging figures, personal tributes, and American Legion views on postwar policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Iiky
John M. van Heusen
Phillips Jones Co
van Heusen
Bolton
United States
Grand jury adjourns after nine days in session
The grand jury adjourned on Thursday after nine days in session. The court house yard is being uprooted by swine and the crossing from Clark's corner to the court house is in poor condition with mud nearly shoe top deep. Thanksgiving prose follows with humorous holiday imagery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
Clark's Corner
Calves Die in Hours from Unknown Disease
Forty years ago T A Sanderson attempted to light a fire with coal oil and damaged himself with shaved mustache and eyebrows. Caleb Starkey of Auburn reports calves dying in his neighborhood from a mysterious ailment. two carcasses show dried shriveled brains. Fancher Fix moves to a Melrose farm to start a new home. Will Rector builds batteries and wires a band room light, a clever invention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. A. Sanderson
Caleb Starkey
Auburn
Fancher Fix
Melrose
Mr. Fix
Will Rector
Twenty Years Since Lancaster and Liffick Tied The Knot
Twenty years ago Geo Lancaster and Alice Liffick were married here today. Ed Kuhlman, once of this city, now runs a stove polish factory in Princeton Indiana and reports heavy orders. Court house square work is slowed by bad weather with half the curbing and a half block of walk done. J D Shoemaker, county superintendent of schools, will retire in December to enter the dry goods trade in the Lockard building at the square's southeast corner, opening December 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Lancaster
Alice Liffick
Johnathan Thompson
Ed Kuhlman
Princeton
Ind
Court House Square
J. D. Shoemaker
Lockard
Life Saver Honored and Local Social Notes
Chauncey Vanscoyk, working in the oil field near Princeton Indiana, was home for a few days. Prof and Mrs Don Sweeley and daughters of Georgetown visited the Wilhoits. Clifford Towler and Harold Walker, students at the University at Champaign, spent the weekend with family. A funeral for Mrs P EB Whitson drew relatives from Champaign and elsewhere as Mra N RY Bennett prepared to winter in St Petersburg Florida. S N Parcel plans a ten day hunting trip in Fayette County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Sweeley
Georgetown
R. C. Wilhoit
Clifford Towler
Harold Walker
State University At
Champaign
R. M. Porterfield
E. H. Holladay
Florida
Paul Porterfield
I. B. Porterfield
Dalé
Oklahoma
Mra
P. EB. Whitson
Westfield Notes on Local Visits and Property Moves
Westfield residents hosted visitors from Marshall and Tennessee relatives' Sunday gathering noted. Claude Newman conducted business travel in Tennessee last week. J M Watson family moved to the Lloyd Perigo property near the city park after selling their former home near the public school to Charles Moore of Gay s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Hornbrook
Marshall
Westfield
Claude Newman
State of
Tennessee
J.M. Watson
Lloyd Perigo
Charles Moore
Gays
Marriage of Edgar Shoemaker and Mary Virginia Smith
Last Sunday evening at the Fishback home the marriage of Edgar Shoemaker of Marshall and Mary Virginia Smith of Terre Haute was performed by Rev. HE. G. Sandmeyer. The couple left for a week in Chicago and will reside on the Schumaker farm south of Marshall upon return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. T. Fishback
Edgar Shoemaker
Marshall
Mary Virginia Smith
Terre Haute
HE. G. Sandmeyer
Chicago
Schumaker
City
South Sixth Street
Swith
T. S. Robinson
Oroville
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Marshall Herald
Wabash Valley Printing Co
Clark County
Illinois
Harry B. Potter
Marshall, Mines
National
John B. Bolton
A. L. Howerton
Potters
Lizzie Wallace
Fort Dodge
Kansas
Howerton
American Legion
Thien
Lean
Coolidge
Massachusetts
Iis
TAVAS
AVEOR
Vouers
Welson
Chauncey Vanscoyk
Chas. Schully
New York
LaSalle Street
Big Four
Toy Cork
Agengs Pete
Walter E. Cork
Marshall, Illinois
J. E
Millhouse
Mar Orig
Ik Pooley Radio Cabiets
Pooley Radio
Aewater Kent
Machlan’s
Marshall, Ill
Pooley Rebate Cabine
RUA UN Co. S Radio
Nghay
J. A. Snedekee
Marshall- Cooperative
Deefold Dueette
Duefold Jr. Duatts
Doefold Jr. Pep
B.B
Parker Duefelda
Parker
Parker Duofold ‘Jr
Wabash
Valley “Printing.” Co
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