Fertilizer orders urged for next Monday shipment
Wheat Growers announce one of the best fertilizer lines and expect to place a large order for delivery next Monday. They urge readers to submit their orders at once.
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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1926
Page
4
Flour and Bran Price Offer on Car Loads
Local advertiser promotes a road sale of Gold Medal Flour and soft wheat bran in ten-lot lots. Emphasizes best prices, savings, and timely purchase as a carload arrives and prices stay favorable.
Limestone Endgate Sowers Discount Offer
Limestone Sow ers offer a five dollar discount to the first cash customer. The notice promotes spreading limestone and invites readers to inquire for details on the right way to scatter the material.
Zeigler Coal Promises Clean Heating and Low Ashes
Zeigler coal is advertised as superior with less smoke and soot and minimal ash compared to other coals. The dealer claims it burns cleaner with better firing quality and will arrive in egg and lump forms this Saturday, priced to deter rivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zeigler
Glenridge
Bear Creek social notices and family gatherings
Mrs. Wm. Jones of Iowa visits her son and old friends recalling home. A reunion at Mrs. Illinois Christie’s house brings together all her children and their families plus guests F. I. Thompson and family. Several locals attend a dairymen meeting at Melvin Belcher grove and others visit kin in nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Jones
Iowa
Illinois Christie
F. I. Thompson
George Payne
Walter Pribble
Jasper Benefiel
Bert Tedrick
Vandalia
Fred Lake
Wm. Houston
Jake Libell
John Anderson
Allie Brown
Mildred
Mary Lake
Decatur
Frank Robertson
Marion
Christie
John Lake
Beryl Linton
Salem
Dairymen
Melvin Belcher Grove
Mary Perry
Katie Dwyer
Washington
Stacia Matheny
Venona
Nellie Lee
Anabelle Linton
Beatrice Meadors
Vernon
Orval Jones
Cowden
Zella Easton
Unsettling Rise in National Mental Health Stats
A Department of Commerce report announces rising insanity rates with 245 patients per 100 000 in mental hospitals. Commitments yearly have surged, and four asylums now house three times as many insane persons relative to population than in 1880.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Commerce
Old age pensions spread to many nations
The program is in force across Great Britain and multiple countries including France Germany Belgium Argentina Australia Sweden Italy Portugal Greece Switzerland Denmark Austria Czechoslovakia and New Zealand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
France
Germany
Belgium
Argentina
Australia
Sweden
Italy
Portugal
Greece
Switzerland
Denmark
Austria
Czechoslovakia
New Zealand
May Amalgamate Textile Workers Meet In New York
A general conference for independent textile workers units was called for August 14-15 in New York by representatives of the American Federation of Textile Operatives. The meeting adjourned without agreement on a program to amalgamate all organizations. A proposal to commit AFTO unions to financially support textile strikers in Passaic New Jersey was not acted on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Textile Workers
New York
American Federation of Textile Operatives
Labor News Spurs Global and Local Shifts
The record ranges from Austria's rising unemployment to union actions in the Americas. Key items include the AFL’s role in labor protests in Cuba, Cuban strikes resolving with wage increases, and Chicago unions driving membership. Plant openings and mine operations expand, with reshaped workweeks and nonunion scales. The report notes shifts in Gary Indiana and Garrett Indiana due to rail and industrial consolidation, plus Czech miner profits shared with workers totaling about 1,000,000 crowns in 1924.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durfee
Fall River
Mass
Chicago
Switchmen’s Union of North America
New York
St. Catherine Welfare Association
Women's Joint
Ind
Department of Labor
Glaziers’ Union
Painters’ District Council No. 9
Association of Master Painters and Decorators
Elm Grove Coal Company
Paisley Interests
Cleveland
Joseph Arkwright
Arkwright
Garrett (Ind.) Chamber of Commerce
Baltimore
Baltimore & Ohio Railway
Garrett
Middle West
Virginia
Also Mentioned on This Page
John Deere
Fordson
AVICE
Zeigler Coal
Patoka
George J. Wasem
Bear Creek
Earl Graham
Illinois
DR. Baldwin Dental Office
Hartmans
Ren
Me Eee Centralia
Sam Woghin
S. Locust St
Centralia
Ill
Nursery CO
Baldwin Nursery CO
Qnetipation
Iils
Charles B. Stillman
American Federation of Teachers
Cuba
American Federation of Labor
Standard Hat Company
Toronto
Commercial Solvents Corporation
Peoria
Rock Island Railroad
Hamilton Woolen Mill
South Bridge
Griffin-Walton Hdw. Co
John A. Jennings
Fair Institute
Roy Jones
Fred Gilley
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