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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1922
Page
5
A long column of social updates lists residents and visitors across Marshall and nearby towns. It notes arrivals and departures, visits to relatives, births, travel by local figures, church events, and a hospital stay, naming numerous individuals and places such as Terre Haute Indianapolis Chicago Livingston Hastings Danville Martinsville and Washington D C.
Local classified items include a box supper at McKeen school house announced for Friday evening in October, plus multiple private sales of crops and livestock such as fall and spring Duroc Jersey pigs and S C Rhode Island cockerels. Furniture, stoves, farm properties, loans, poultry buyers, and trade offers populate the page with names like C. A. Pence, Harry Maurer, E. F. Clapp, Wm. Ax, Mrs. Christee R., and Henry Meehling, plus businesses Hoosier Tie & Lumber Co. and Champion Electric Shoe Shop.
Miss Elizabeth Hedricks visiting from St. Louis for a couple weeks with her parents Mr and Mrs Millard Hedrick. Fawley of Terre Haute announces Norma Jean born to Mrs Fawley formerly Miss Dorothy Steele of Marshall. Mrs Hannah Lesure of Perre Haute returns home after visit with daughter Mrs Harry Maurer. Miss Opal Elston teaches at Park Ridge visited her parents. Lyman Lycan and family celebrate their 49th wedding anniversary with relatives J K Black D T Black F R Black Clara Figg and more.
For sale 320 acres in eastern Montana with 250 acres of arable land and grazing ground. Plenty of water and located 14 miles from the railroad and near a school. Owner R. N. Hosford of Pasadena, Calif. invites inquiries. Also a free Christian Science lecture set for Sunday afternoon October 22 at 3:00 p.m. in the Pythian theatre by Judge Frederick C. Hill of Boston Mother Church.
A Chicago librarian reports boys are moving away from conventional boy fiction toward biographies of Lincoln Roosevelt and Edison and books on camping woodcraft and home science. When reading fiction they prefer Twain Scott Dumas Stevenson Verne and Kipling over Henry and Oliver Optic, seeking genuine material over older formula adventures.
An editorial praising music as the science of harmonious sounds that moves the heart and inspires courage devotion love and spirit. It argues music can soothe strengthen and transform people across patriotism worship romance and daily life.
A man with bandy legs seeks a healer who promises cure by massage and suggestion. The doctor instructs him to repeat a phrase a hundred fifty times and the man, unsure, recites three hundred fifty times. He wakes with a mock knee condition, illustrating a cautionary tale.
The first quarter of 1922 shows higher death rates than 1921 for Metropolitan Life policyholders, white by 5.3 percent and colored by 6.6 percent, largely due to influenza. Despite this, tuberculosis deaths remain notably low, while increases occur in influenza and pneumonia, organic heart disease, cerebral hemorrhage, chronic nephritis, and automobile accidents.
A couple in a picture gallery encounter a photograph labeled as the Venus de Milo. A bystander quips that it resembles the wife, prompting a humorous quip from the collier about his wife Lizzie.
A Boston Transcript item recounts a Wise admonition where a Weathered elder lectures Willie on smoking as harmful to minds and bodies. Willie ponders if overeating sweets could bring sweethearts, prompting a brief moral exchange on self restraint.
The Pythian Theatre screens a seven reel Paramount super special titled Experience with star Richard Barthlemess and an all star cast. Also shown are Aesoptables at 7 fifteen and 10 and 25 cents. Thursday and Friday feature William S Hart in White Oak seven reels with Pollard comedy at 4:15 10 and 20 cents.
Maurice Flynn stars in Bucking the Line a Fox program comedy. Sunshine presents Laughing Gas a comedy. Show times 7 15 PM and 10 and 20 cents admission.
Vitagraph presents a seven reel feature The Prodigal Judge with Jean Paige Macklyn Arbuckle and a renowned ensemble. Vaughan Keister’s film showcases ante bellum South settings in a lasting classic seen at 7:15 with prices 10 and 20 cents.
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