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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1928
Page
5
Secretary Hoover notes wages and employment show little unemployment except a late-year recession with real wages high globally. Rockefeller inspires listening and adapting advice, while Columbus memorial plans include a $4 million lighthouse and a burial site reserve in San Domingo.
Local column records muddy roads and multiple short visits and social calls. Claud Norris and Claude Hatch families are mentioned with Sunday visits, a Vernon trip for business, and several residents attending court and school events. A birth is announced for Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Wilson, former pupils and teacher spouses noted.
Public sale to be held at the seller's place six miles west of Patoka and one to two acres west of Mound Chapel Church. Further details to follow in subsequent notice.
Samuel M. Spurgeon, Republican candidate for Illinois State Legislature in the Forty-Second District covering Marion, Clay, Effingham and Clinton counties, promotes moral values, constitutional government, and civil liberty. He backs river and waterway development, flood control on the Mississippi, practical aviation, balanced taxation, and opposition to child and woman labor, plus support for vocational education and a robust public school system. Spurgeon, an Illinois native educated in public schools, previously taught in Marion County and works in agriculture and insurance, with affiliations to the M E Church A F and A M O E S Y M C A and community council.
Beginning at 1 00 P M the sale lists live stock farming tools and household items including a roan horse a black mare a red cow seven years old a Holstein heifer an oil stove coal heating stove a Wheeler and Wil son sewing machine wagon storm cab breaking plow one horse plow wheel barrow plus miscellaneous items such as a telephone stock ladder oil barrel wire stretchers horse trough chicken trough and other farm articles.
Terms state cash sales up to five dollars, over five dollars receive a nine month credit with a note and approved security before removal. Notes to draw. Interest seven percent from date. Cash discounts offered on time sales. Elisha Paine owner. John Jennings auctioneer.
A short squib notes how an allegedly pureminded person reads sexual innuendo into a harmless joke. It mocks self interested readers who claim fair treatment while pressuring others to pay subscriptions now.
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