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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1953
Page
7
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A domestic story shows Bill and Marty clashing over love and attention after five years of marriage. He reads the sport page while she vents, recalling their courtship and a televised memory of a stormy but affectionate reconciliation.
The Le Roy Lutheran Church announces a 8:30 a.m. worship with missions emphasis and an evening service at Casey church in Colorado Street at 7:00 p.m. The Rev. Theo Gutknecht, former India missionary and now pastor in Sigel Illinois, speaks. Sunday school and Bible class begin at 9:30 a.m. The lesson centers on the Woman of Canaan and the Woman of Samaria, teaching faith in Jesus as Savior and Helper.
The First Methodist Church invites all to Layman's Sunday on October 18 with Otis Keeler as guest speaker at morning worship. Church events include Youth Fellowship at 5:00 p.m., a fall institute trip, Intermediate Fellowship at 7:00 p.m., choir practice at 7:00 p.m., and a music committee meeting at 8:00 p.m.
The Marshall Missionary Baptist Church on Archer Ave at Third Street led by Pastor Dee T Speer lists a full week of services. An early men prayer meeting at 7 00 am Sunday 18 includes Sunday school at 9 30 am and morning worship at 10 45 am followed by an evangelistic service at 7 30 pm. A workers conference at Casey Baptist church is set for Tuesday October 20 starting 10 00 am. Mid week prayer service Wednesday led by Paul Walker. Thursday features Westfield quarterly M A meeting with the Martinsville at 10 00 am and choir practice at 7 30 pm under choir director L Q Wilkinson. An invitation to all services is extended.
Emmanuel Church school at 9 30 a m supervised by William Ziegler class meeting 9 30 a m Ben Dramond in charge preaching 7 30 p m pastor message prayer service Wednesday 7 30 p m Zion Church school 9 30 a m Richard Miller superintendent morning worship 10 30 a m pastor message prayer service Tuesday evening 7 30 p m
Trinity E U B Church in Marshall under Minister J E Vanney invites the public to Sunday school at 9 30 preaching at 10 30 youth fellowship 6 45 evangelistic service 7 30 The revival campaign is led by Mr and Mrs Frank Doerner for music and youth meetings A cordial invitation to worship is extended to all not regularly attending elsewhere
The Brazilian rabbit disease, once used to curb pests, has been neutralized by immunity in Australia. Rabbits now threaten to overrun the country again, prompting renewed use of traps, poisoning, furminating, and warren destruction. The virus affects only rabbits and can spread via mosquitoes, with deaths typically 12 to 13 days after infection.
Miss Mary J. Kelley age 67 starts her 43rd year at New Canaan's little red schoolhouse teaching 24 students from kindergarten to fourth grade. The rural school dates to an older building burned long ago. current structure stands as a replacement noted by Superintendent Albert P. Mathers.
Columbus Nebraska firemen practiced fighting a gas transport fire using fog streams to block radiated heat. Two smoke bombs created realism but the smoke stayed low, filling four blocks and stopping motorists. Fire Chief Mike Novicki called it an unexpected but valuable lesson in handling heavy smoke.
Marlon Ellis age four, son of Mr and Mrs Jess Ellis of Oakland California, recently ate his first solid food after a lengthy esophagus operation. Doctors closed the old opening and formed a new passage, enabling him to eat breakfast cereal and ice cream. The child had feared solids would be fatal and weighed as a two year old at admission.
The paid circulation of weekly newspapers in the United States exceeded 20 million for the second year running. There are 9 782 weekly papers, per N W Ayer & Sons. Figures rely mainly on publishers affidavits to local post offices. Barbados, the only foreign land visited by George Washington, is famed for its climate. he contracted smallpox there.
Dr. Nelson Glueck an American archaeologist reports discovering a Bronze Age village on a hillside at Ain Musific about 40 miles south of Beersheba in Israel's Negev Desert. The site dates to around 4000 B C making it the southernmost such settlement found. he also found traces of 50 Nabatean villages.
Dr Charles Powers reports garbage from New York flowing into the sea near the harbor acts as fertilizer for microscopic life and improves feeding grounds for fish. He cites a strong prevailing wind that lifts surface water and brings deeper water and fish closer to the surface.
London reports a shift in fashion as Englishmen abandon hats in favor of nontraditional headwear. Hatters struggle with declining demand despite selling bright green bowlers and beach caps while acknowledging 1952 as a catastrophe in the industry.
NEW BEDFORD Mass A textile mill produces a super fine glass fiber cloth only .001 inch thick and weighing under an ounce per square yard. Twenty yards of cloth per yard of width can be made from a pound of glass yarn. It is expected to find wide use in electrical apparatus as a carrier for mica and insulating varnishes, allowing smaller equipment and significant savings.
A San Diego boy Dickie Cooper played taps nightly at his home porch drawing no complaints until a week away. Neighbors, eager for the signal, later rang the Cooper home seeking assurance he was well. The piece recalls Peary’s 1900 North Pole ascent and his forecast of aviators and air power.
Floyd Dunn pastor at Tenth and Plump Streets invites all to Sunday school at 9 30 a m morning worship 10 45 a m and evangelist Miss Billie Holstein speaks Saturday and Sunday 7 30 p m. She leads India Mission Society. Also notes farm tax change allows depreciation of new grain storage buildings in five years.
Notice to all persons that Monday, November 2, 1953, is the claim date in the estate of L. R. Volkers, deceased, pending in the County Court of Clark County, Illinois. Claims may be filed on or before that date without issuance of summons. Administrator Co. W. Volkers. Attys. Snavely, Miller & Meehling. Marshall, Illinois.
The estate of Cam Dow Crandall also known as Cam D Crandall and C D Crandall deceased awaits claims in Clark County Illinois. Claims may be filed on or before the specified date without issuance of summons. Fred Crandall is the Administrator and A Hanley Jones is the attorney in Robinson Illinois.
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