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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1927
Page
3
A walnut cradle reputed to have rocked Abraham Lincoln in a Kentucky cabin will join Springfield’s Lincoln relic collection. Miss Margaret O Herron brought the cradle, 36 inches long and 20 high, from Kentucky for Mrs Anna O Herron to keep. The fate of its placement is undecided.
Dr. Alex S. Hershfield says public education on care of state wards fuels hospital population growth. The Shaffer Oil Co. sues in federal court over two cent gasoline tax, claiming sales to federal agencies and municipalities are non taxable. Ten conventions are slated in Springfield before 1928, and Sangamon county farm land evaluation is cut by 20 percent after farmers plea for 25 percent. A. C. Lewis is named counsel for the Illinois Federation of Labor.
John O Pearce born December 2 1891 Darwin Illinois son of Martha Ellen and Dr Edward Pearce died September 29 1927 in El Paso Texas age 35 years 9 months 25 days He served in World War I with Hospital Train No 53 and was wounded He leaves wife Lee Killion brother Randolph Pearce Clarks ville and sister Stella Morrill Toledo Interment Darwin cemetery.
London Tit-Bits reports a Staffordshire woman rebuking a flirtatious husband aged sixty two. She accuses him of infidelity and contrasts his behavior with a shriek of scandal in a satirical dessert theme.
A poetic line about rumors that start small and enlarge as they pass from ear to ear, each listener adding details and spreading the tale further. It notes how information grows as it travels through conversation.
A historical note claims chemists mix toluene with chlorine and potassium cyanide to create a rose perfume scent. The description links these hazardous ingredients to perfumery and cautions about dangerous compounds used in fragrance production.
The article explains the slate joints of articulated stems of ncronites were named St Cuthberts Beads. A central perforation allowed threading as rosary beads linking to the saint's name.
An operating room at St Mark's Hospital in New York is equipped for radio use so patients may wear headphones during surgery to distract the mind while surgeons perform procedures using local anesthetics.
The seventeenth amendment, adopted May 31, 1913, shifted senatorial selection from state legislatures to popular vote, ending prior practice where senators were chosen by legislatures.
The famous soldier Gen Phil Sheridan received his charger Rienzi at Rienzi Mississippi in August 1863. Captain Campbell of the Second Michigan Cavalry presented the horse, giving it its name.
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