For Sale and Lost Notice Fragments
FOR SALE 6 10 and 40 gallon Coca Cola kegs cheap C N Cruse 9-12% FOR GALE Canaries dahlias flowers pots ready now and other plantain season FOR SALE Beautiful small Grand Piano with duet bench may be had for small balance due transfer of account payments as low as 8.00 monthly P STARCK PIANO CO 1018 Olive St St Louis MO LOST Man s dress coat between Blue Goose garage and Fred Blacks Notify Howard Adams
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. N. Cruse
P. Starck Piano Company
Olive Str
St. Louis
Blue Goose Garage
Fred Blacks
Howard Adams
Local visitors and upcoming events noted around town
Mrs. Maggie Roberts and son from Pulaski visited with Mrs. Lucinda Belcher and family over the Fourth. Cecil Brown and family from Decatur and R. L. Hutter and family from Chicago also visited. J. W. Delassus from Martinsville visited Sunday into Monday with home folks. the youngsters stayed through the week. Fred Gilley and Centralia group toured Starved Rock for Legion Picnic and Mortgage burning events on Sept. 2–3. Vincent Aye of Charleston, State Department of Agriculture, visited on state business. Post Office examination will be held at Vandalia on Saturday with about nine applicants. Ed Coper of Shoboneh was a Patoka visitor Tuesday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maggie Roberts
Pulaski
Lucinda Belcher
Cecil Brown
Decatur
R. L. Hutter
Chicago
J. W. Delassus
Martinsville
J. W
Starved Rock
Fred Gilley
Centralia
Legion
Vincent Aye
Charleston
State Department of Agriculture
Vandalia
Ed Coper
Shoboneh
Hatchery Offers Week-Old Chicks at 10 Cents Each
Farthing's Poultry Farm & Hatchery in Odin Illinois advertises week-old chicks available in lots of 25 or more at 10c each. The hatchery notes it can keep chicks hatched for up to seven days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farthing’s Poultry Farm & Hatchery
Odin, Ill
London
Stores? It O KES e Stores?
Fragmentary text mentions two thoughts about faults at night. No clear event or proper nouns to identify. Reads like a reflective aside rather than a reportable incident.
Ambidextrous Pitcher Quip Sparks Baseball Scandal Tale
A New York World excerpt recalls a baseball scandal with players using lofty slang. It mentions Bugs and Raymond discussing a Kansas City pitcher who pitched with either hand, prompting a weary quip about ambidexterity and violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bugs
Raymond
Kansas City
Matty
New York World
Outrage over police car recovery in Lansing
Detroit News notes protests may arise as police recovered five cars in a weekend while only two were stolen. The item mocks thieves and highlights alleged unfair tactics by authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing
Mich
Detroit News
A toast compares life to a glass of wine
The orator delivers a measured speech and proposes a toast. He claims life resembles a glass of wine, noting that removing the froth leaves little, as reported by Tit-Bits in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Christmas Gifts Spark Quiet Domestic Banter
In a playful exchange a wife praises a lace curtain gift for the dining room while the husband reveals a practical present a compact portable typewriter for his desk Life. The lighthearted scene highlights domestic humor and mutual appreciation during the holiday season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles
The Growth of Grandmas and Scraps of Wit
A collage of light joke lines and quips from various voices. A four year old imagines his grandmother grown, with snippets from Father and Son exchanges, prison visitors, a wood alcohol vendor remark, Abe Martin humor, Dorothy and Harold exchanges, Coolidge speech banter, Solomon, armor auction reactions, and Cincinnati Cynic jagged with puns and puns about manners and misfortune.
Fairman Preaching Draws Large Sunday Attendance
Local church services at Fairman drew a well attended Sunday and Sunday night gathering. Residents and families including the Belchers, Steeles, Carsons, and Meridiths were mentioned visiting neighbors and kin around Kinmundy and nearby communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairman
West Frankfort Visitors Dot Patoka Weekend
Carl Meador and family of West Frankfort spent a week visiting local relatives. Neil Davidson and wife were weekend visitors with family in Patoka and Salem. Vernon guests L E B Green and two daughters, with C V Doolen and Irene, visited Patoka. Dr. Dean Dolen of Lincoln dropped by Patoka. Ray Gray and W H Cain drove to Decatur to watch the Cardinals play the Three Eye. Ros and Frank Walker of Clinton spent the Fourth with T B Walker and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Meador
West Frankfort
Neil Davidson
Salem
L. EB. Green
Vernon
C. V. Doolen
Irene
Champaign
Patoka
Dean Dolen
Lincoln
Ray Gray
W. H. Cain
Decatur
Cardinals
Ros
Frank Walker
Clinton
T. B. Walker
Sapitation and farm practices improve disease control
The piece notes that confinement of young chicks away from turkeys reduces gapes risk and turkeys carry the parasite. It mentions a new Department of Agriculture leaflet on preventing roundworms in pigs, the impact of the common roundworm on pig health, and the need to sterilize milking equipment and promptly cool milk. It also discusses chestnut blight replacement by various oaks and egg shell color affecting price differently by market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Mixed kitchen tips and local notices in county publication
The item lists price notes for brown eggs and general market weight for eggs, then provides cooking tips for baked potatoes and apple butter, plus cheese straws and biscuit dough. It closes with local project figures and contracts such as the Wabash railroad equipment spending and village paving bids in Niles Center and Bowne, plus a Windsor Standard Oil station plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wabash Railroad
Niles Center
Bowne
Windsor—Standard Oil Company
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American Steel Wire Co
Bran
Corno Dairy
Nutro Dairy
Bes Rae
George J. Wasem
Peoria
D. T. Farrow
Dept
Illinois
R. C. McGuire
Hoffman
Earl Graham
Auto Insurance
Helen Chandler Mac Eagan
THE
Illinois Motor Casualty CO
Grandmas
Billy
Charlestin
Harrisburg
Abe Martin
Indianapolis News
Dorothy
Liberty Magazine
Mooney
Harold
Grace
Stella
Oklahoma
King Solomon
Brother Bones
Cincinnati
J.L. Simcox
Iroquois Automobile Insurance of
Danville, Ill
Matt Belcher
L. E. Iams
Boyd Steele
Dave Carson
Kinmundy
Viola. Harker
Rose
Merle Snyder
Orville Britt
P. H. Bopp
Henry Troutt
Emma Schmitt
Fairy Dell
Mary Meridith
Bertha Detterman
Leo Sebastia
Theo. Meridith
Melvin Martin
Wm. Snyder
Springfield
Roxie Snyder
Susie Snyder
R. M. Carigan
Sandoval
U. S. Department of Agria Culture
Love Brothers
T. E. Irvin
Totta
Flizieis
WM. Wessel
Victory Music Store
S. Locust St
Wasem
Burger
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