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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1917
Page
5
The message explains that longstanding customers urged continuation of operations for a time to return items and settle affairs smoothly. It assures continued management and no unnecessary inconvenience to customers while the business remains under active control.
Enterprise announces a large shipment of high grade flour and supplies including empty lard cans. With the butcher season starting they offer produce purchases and special prices on Star & Horseshoe Tobacco and a set of knives and forks. They invite farmers to bring in produce as they continue buying at market peak.
Elder Lee visited Indianapolis and Giles Bartlett of West Union was in the city. Several residents traveled for business and family visits including Apgar to Farmersburg Everett Connelly to Chicago Miss Zella Taylor Pendleton guests of Mrs Jayne Kerr Dan LeGore Gosport visiting family in town. A D A R meeting planned for Dec 3, John Prevo in Wichita leases for Kansas Oil Co. Multiple local departures arrivals and visits noted along with a buried infant son and a few deaths and engagements.
Misa Iva Beeman of Robinson wed Edwin Gustin of Lewiston Illinois last week after a short trip to Burlington Iowa. They now reside in a newly furnished Lewiston bungalow where Gustin works as a banker.
Christopher J. Haughey of Reading Pennsylvania a railroad man joined the navy after buying a seven star service flag for his mother. His six brothers were already serving and only the mother and two aliases remain at home.
An angry London mob attacked Rev. F. BR. Swan as he tried to speak at a church on Kings Land Road. They hurled the speaker out and set the building on fire, burning it to the ground.
A. B. Day and John P. Shea of Knoxville announce purchase of a 54000 acre coal tract in Scott County near Oneida Tennessee. Claimed as the South’s largest single coal property, the deal exceeds 500000 dollars. Five operations already on site with further development planned. The tract lies near Glen Mary oil gushers and new wells are expected to produce.
A wartime report notes convicts in the royal forces achieving notable honors. Since the war began nearly 7000 have enlisted, with three Victoria Crosses, twenty five DSO awards, and twenty mentions in dispatches. Many captains show valor, and over half reportedly killed while remaining survivors wear stripes.
Cotton pickers in many sections of the South are earning 3 to 4 a day, a wage far above past pay. Cotton prices rise to over 20 cents a pound, while a few years ago 75 cents to 1 a hundred pounds was high wages.
War era changes spark a marriage surge among Chicago school teachers with 106 brides this year versus 61 last year. Clerks say the Kaiser and his war are blamed, and many newly married teachers request permission to continue teaching during the war.
Typhoon and flood swept Japan displacing about two hundred thousand people. The disaster caused widespread damage along coastal towns, with property losses and injuries reported across affected areas.
The United States houses two classes of Germans in custody. Sailors captured after U S entry and alien civilians are detained under wartime rules. The main camps are Ft. McPherson Georgia with about 850 POWs, Ft. Oglethorpe Georgia with 106 aliens, and Ft. Douglas Utah with 617 POWs and 80 interned Germans. Total prisoners exceed 2,400 with about 400 aliens held for the Justice Department. Germany holds roughly 150 American sailors.
The text is a fragmented, satirical political diatribe mentioning Mr. Hoover and income tax, but no coherent event or report is discernible to form a proper summary with identifiable entities or actions.
A montage of classified items including for sale and rent six room houses, local services such as picture framing and fur care, Christmas cards and engraving, loan funds, farm land loans, Red Cross seals, meat market, building and shipping firms, farm sale or trade offers, bulk wheat bran pricing, a piano for sale, school desks for sale, hunting ban on a farm, a Maxwell touring car for sale, animal breeding offers, a brood mare sale, and a for rent or sale residence in Indianapolis.
A store proclaims a close out on cloaks suits hats and millinery with grand bargains. It urges shoppers to buy now for this winter and next year highlighting dry goods millinery undergarments hosiery blankets and fabrics at low prices to beat higher costs next year.
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