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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1926
Page
4
A collection of humor snippets referencing wars delays, flappers, aging, philosophy, laundry, cartoons, and oddities. Notable lines touch on Europe versus America in war, flapper fashion, aging by canoe, Hindu philosophy, pessimism and twins, a gunboat in Mississippi, and various humorous observations from multiple papers.
Local ads tout Christmas and New Year cards, silverware, Pyrex, aluminum ware, scissors and tools as gifts. Altoms advertises ladies garters bloomers gloves and collar sets while Cain’s store lures buyers with dolls, candy at 20 cents a pound and a rabbits buyback. Patoka Hardware features large aluminum percolators for one dollar.
Ill D D Lloyd city clerk of Danville dies of apoplexy. WhiteSide county board votes against dance pavilions. Four killed five injured at Standard Oil Wood River refinery explosion. Aurora Elgin passenger rates rise 15 percent pending ICC approval. Two Alton men drown in Mississippi while one tries to save the other. Heat death on a railroad near Pana. Illinois to prosecute dirty rancid cream under pure food laws. Galesburg Cottage Hospital nurses expelled after a walkout. Unmarked ballots have no effect in township election per attorney general. Carlinville man Thomas Rinaker dies of apoplexy at banquet. 29 CPAs certified by University of Illinois. Governor Small’s pardon of Ira Perry ruled illegal. Illinois road fund to receive about 3.18 million yearly. Quincy flood drenches city. sewers overwhelmed. Vernon Miles elected president of Minnot Baptist YPU. Peach crop outlook seen as record at 2.22 million bushels. Bond renewals for state officers clarified by attorney general. Rushville woman and granddaughter die in car accident. Rockford sanitary district initiative to vote in November.
Paris Post No 1 members and France Department leaders move to double membership and assemble a 1500 strong reception committee for the September 1927 Paris convention. Plans include a guard of honor, information services, and travel options via varied steamship and hotel packages from about 175 to 450 dollars.
John William Boucher of the Miami post claims to be eighty one years old as the oldest Legionnaire. He began his military career in the Civil War and served until World War I, hitting the front with the Canadian Two Hundred Fifty seventh Battery and handling Big Bertha shells at seventy one. He met King George at Buckingham Palace.
An 8,000 acre recreational center opens near Tupper Lake NY for the benefit of Legion members and their families. The camp is maintained by the Legion of New Sort under the Amy Jean Legion, Department of New York.
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