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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1914
Page
2
Public notices outline rates for notices and cards including subscription at $1 per year. Card of thanks and obituary poetry are not published. Lodge resolutions on deaths may cost $100. Entertainment announcements with admission charges billed at five cents per line. Communications subject to editorial revision.
The Herald claims a larger circulation than any other Clark County newspaper, signaling its dominant reach in the local press landscape.
Danville doctor E B Coolley enters the race for representative in congress in the Eighteenth district. He runs in the Republican primary as the party candidate.
Harry W. Drake of Marshall will seek the 34th district seat in the Republican primary on Sept 9. Walter E. Green of Hindsboro is also a 34th district candidate in the Republican primary.
Harold Bright of Martinsville enters the race for Superintendent of Schools pending the Republican primary on Sept. 9. He aims to lead the school system if his party advances him.
George Morgan runs for Sheriff of Clark County subject to the Republican primary on Sept 9. Roy Wells of Melrose Township and Millard M Hedrick seek sheriff posts in Republican races. Joseph W Wallace of Auburn Township and Sheri Davis of Marshall vie for Sheriff in Democratic primaries on Sept 9.
John VW Fredenberger seeks Clark County Treasurer in the Republican primary on Sept 9. Melvin L Behner runs in the Democratic primary. Thomas Craig of Marshall is a Democratic candidate for County Judge, subject to the Sept 9 primary.
Arthur M. Tarman announces a candidacy for County Clerk subject to the Republican primary on September 9. He seeks the party nomination and to succeed the incumbent in the county government post.
Appellate Court Clerk Hippard of Springfield will seek renomination in the Republican primary for the office of Clerk of the Appellate Court, Third District, subject to party selection.
The argument asserts that if the nation had kept a Republican protective tariff the country would not face the hated internal revenue tax. It contends the tax is a burden created by underwood Democratic governance in a war in which the country claims no involvement.
The item praises Hon J G Cannon from the Casey Commercial provoking the Marshall Democrat to label a new Democratic Organ by three Democratic supervisors. The paper hints at political maneuvering and suspicions that someone was slipped one over on Mr Bennett, with ties to western county leadership.
Fragmentary text suggests discussion in the Democratic House majority about civil war claims in the South and government payments totaling millions. Names and exact context are unclear due to damaged source.
Opinion warns that a proposed rule relaxing loyalty proof for war claimants would flood the treasury with demands from regions south of the Mason Dixon line. The piece argues it would effectively reward disloyalty by paying a premium to those who rebelled against the government, despite past civil disabilities.
The piece argues public opinion and major newspapers condemn the war as a crime against civilization and laments the burden on civilians. It questions German leadership, emphasizes pacific tendencies among people, and critiques militarist education and Kipling’s wartime writings.
The London clubs question why Kipling has not written a British war poem as England faces war. Critics blame advancing years and muse death, or jealousy toward the laureate appointment of Alfred Austin, with a possible broader motive being resentment of a poet who has praised domestic life while the nation seeks grand heroic verse.
The Illinois Manufacturers Association plans a Get the Orders steamer loaded with Illinois products and dressed for South American markets. The voyage will showcase dress patterns, millinery, and American women on deck, with demonstrations of foodstuffs and packaged goods. Salesmen will present American machinery and novelties in Spanish and Portuguese to South American buyers.
Rex Pace assists Herbert Fisher in training dogs for field trials at Washington Indiana. Mrs. Axiom Spivey left Friday for Nebraska to visit relatives. A horse owned by Armstead Layton died in the field, likely from heart disease. Three water trains run daily from the reservoir to power engines northward. Ottis Hoskinson and family move to Stockland Mil where he becomes township high school principal. About two hundred people from Robinson attended baptisms of Holiness Christian converts. over twenty were baptized.
Westfield hosts a horse show and carnival on September 9 and 10. Dr. Ray Shuey of Olathe Kansas visits Mrs. and Mrs. Wiley Turner. The Briscoe-Lee family reunion convenes at the Briscoe homestead with relatives from various points attending. Mrs Lottie Briscoe Wilson of Florida and daughters Flossie Wessinger of Oklahoma and Aetna Briscoe of Chicago join Mr and Mrs W F Fléhner.
A Washington column denounces commercialism as a world war bone of contention. The author warns Uncle Sam to reject a congressional bill to purchase German ships and hoist the American flag, arguing neutrality would be broken and European powers would attack.
Interstate Commerce Commission figures show 11 express firms earned 628 487 in ten months to April 1914, down 85 percent from the prior year as parcels post siphoned tonnage. Rates on remaining express traffic fell 16 percent amid competition from the mail service.
John J. Stowe of Girard Macoupin county Republican candidate for State Treasurer. Representative of the Miner the Farmer and the Business Man. Supervisor four years postmaster last eight years. Primary Sept 1914. Your support solicited.
The war in Europe is driving higher costs for paper makers who rely on European imports for sulphite, clay, chemicals, and coloring matter. Mills expect price hikes across all grades as supply lines from Germany remain closed. Increased newspaper circulation and rapid editions add to demand, echoing rising costs for printed material.
An old patent medicine advertisement touts Po Do Lax as preventing floods pimples headaches biliousness and torpid liver by improving digestion. It claims the laxative tones the liver purifies the blood and promotes a clear complexion and steady nerves with a 50 cent bottle and money back if not satisfied.
Mules join pacing and trotting events at the Illinois State Fair with large fields expected. The program features prize purses totaling over 82 900 across multiple races from September 2 to 29, including team pacing and 2:20 trot finals, plus special premiums from various associations and sponsors.
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