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Newspaper
Marshall Republican
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1909
Page
8
100 acre farm six miles north of Carbyle Illinois with a five room house barn granary and outbuildings two wells and a cistern. Includes 60 acre tract three to four miles from the main farm with 30 acres in cultivation and half in bottom land.
A newly finished green parlor car, similar to current service cars but of superior material, has entered active service. It is noted for modern detailing and quality craft. Mary Littlefield arrived from Indianapolis. John Ferris and others visited Terre Haute. Amusement hall offers licensed films and Saturday shows. Prof D Kean and wife plan rooms with Miss Effie Jumper on East Main Street, Marshall social life cited.
Marshall Illinois city announces an assessment hearing for Sixth Street improvement from Chestnut to Mulberry including grading curbing paving and sewer laterals plus man holes catch basins and curb inlets. Assessment payable in ten installments at five percent interest. Hearing set September 10 1909. objections may be filed before then.
E Waldo Emerson Schean and Geneva Nichols of Weatfield obtained a license, along with Haute and Katie Pantle of Wabaship, Freddy Steward and Layne Kempff of Parin, and 7th alters and Goldie May Jacobs of Vevay Park, listing dates in August.
The article outlines how levies may fund building and repairing schools and improving sites with separate accounts for each district. It states that bonds cannot be issued for teacher wages or educational purposes beyond building, and taxes may be levied for building costs without petitions. It also covers bond and order handling, treasurer receipts, and incidental expenses.
A long list of local movements includes residents attending W J Bryan in Merom Indiana and Caleb Powara speeches, workers heading to Hutsonville canning, H G Hodge harvesting onions, and trips to Fish? Mo for mussling on the St Francis. The item covers health, plowing, a rain need, shop ads and sales, loans, furniture, and an assortment of local residents and businesses.
An 1985 account recalls Richard III era treasure found in a gilded four post bed at the Blue Boar inn. Servants arrived with the wardrobe as the king slept that night, and later a hostess spotting gold coins triggered a search revealing a double bottom filled with historic coinage from Richard III and earlier reigns.
The Neosho river earned its name after an Osage trader and his horse vanished into deep water. An Oswego man recalls the Indian exclamation Wugh Neorbo meaning water pocket, later applied to the stream as the name Neosho.
Amid flood chatter aboard a Little Rock bound train, a stout Arkansan boasts of unvarying discipline and simple food, claiming lifelong health from corned beef and corn bread. The piece shifts to a breezy English circus advertisement from India, touting tricks, clowns, a horse act, a rubber man and grand gymnastics in exaggerated, halting prose.
A Boston Globe fragment recalls Berkey asking his wife if she shared a dinner night secret. He presses for confirmation and warns about the secret. In a separate note, a visitor at Kew Lunatic asylum jokes about clocks while a patient hints at truth and deception. A third quote parodies an orator on truth and lies.
A scrambled dialogue snippet contrasts honesty and betrayal in relationships. It mentions a man claiming to keep a woman as the only one, questions truthfulness, and jokes about turning over a new leaf versus a large library, with stray letters and unclear attributions.
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