Real Difference in Baking Powder Choices
The ad urges using Royal Baking Powder over alum or phosphate powders, claiming better results and higher quality food from the change.
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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1916
Page
4
The ad urges using Royal Baking Powder over alum or phosphate powders, claiming better results and higher quality food from the change.
A brisk October blizzard, farm updates, and social notices fill the page. Local ministers hold revival planning. funeral services for Mrs Bloodworth and Mrs Black are reported with neighbors paying respects. Residents discuss elections, road work progress, and farm activity as townsfolk travel, work, and visit relatives across nearby towns.
Sunday night sermon by Rev. Mr. Ramsey. Ora Kuykendall's new home soon finished. James Lurber and family visited Sam Hogue’s kin. Mrs. Ella Johns and Mrs. Gladys Mathis with Mrs. John Taylor. James Liggett back from North Dakota after weeks away. Mrs. Mathis and Irene visit Elia Johns in Casey. M B Church South Ladies Aid to serve lunch and dinner on election day. Ed Weaver convalescing in Terre Haute hospital. F Montgomery and family with Frank Augustus guests of Grace E. Taylor.
Miss Bertha Miller visited her mother in Kinmundy. Mr. and Mrs C H Gilmore traveled to Effingham for a several week visit. J E Walls returned from a southern Arkansas trip with real estate interests. Cotton looks fine and lint prices are high. Louis Weaver and wife head to Walnut Ridge Arkansas for part of winter. Wm Comer and wife mourn loss of 18 month old daughter from scarlet fever with the whole family ill. Burial at Macedonia. Yanaway family travels to Bourbon Indiana for ill relatives. Mrs W S Barkhurst returns from Plymouth Indiana after two weeks. Mrs W Workhoiser to Flora to visit sister. Mrs W W Abraham and daughter visit Indianapolis. Pipeline crew moves camp near Martinsville. Delegates Garner Sipes Baird go to Decatur for Royal Order of Ponts Grand Lodge. Mrs Will Briscoe and Helen visit R A Young in town. Central Lumber Co buys 235 feet along Van tracks including elevator and sheds except coal office building slated for relocation.
J T Melton was the successful bidder on both contracts at the Friday afternoon gravel road event. The register of voters in the township grew to over eight hundred names with about equal male and female representation for the upcoming election.
Notices cover Jacob Lucan moving to Grand View Tom Nicholson and Henry Buser report new houses near completion, and local church names Rev Huggins as pastor. Other items note oil drilling, family visits, funerals, box supper profits, and farm for sale listings in Marshall area.
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