Proud of Her Boy and the American School Ethos
The mother of Captain Wilkins praises her son for his polar flight achievement and credits a country school with building character. The piece promotes the American school system as opportunity and cites P M Wooley of the American Radiator Company discussing a vacuum cleaner for horses and cattle, tested as superior to hand cleaning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Captain Wilkins
North Pole
George
P. M. Wooley
American Radiator Company
Practical dairies embrace new air current method
The article extols a ventilation system that carries air into a receptacle, keeping horse barns clean, reducing dust for grooms, and aiding milk production. It advocates compulsory use in dairies of all sizes to curb disease carrying flies and improve hygiene. It also touches on quake fear and regional notes.
North Carolina praised for industry and power
The piece notes North Carolina as an economic model with major plants by B. F. Gimbel and Marshall Field, highlighting abundant water power, a strong workforce, and rising manufacturing. It contrasts flood threats in Arkansas and Mississippi, with calls for large federal flood control spending to protect crops and lives. It mentions W. Gifford of American Telegraph & Telephone planning $2 billion in new construction, and argues Uncle Sam can spend significantly to protect the Mississippi Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
B. F. Gimbel
New York
Philadelphia
Cannon Tower
Chicago
Marshall Field
W. §. Gifford
American Telegraph & Telephone Company
Sam
Mississippi Valley
Church Observance and Local Visitors Report
Morning and evening services at Luster and Haley Chapel will observe Mother's Day next Sunday. The notice invites attendance and recalls the tradition of churchgoing with a poem verse about Mother's Day. Local residents and visitors are listed, including families from Decatur, Seminary township, Watson Illinois, Rose Hill, Potoka, Vandalia, Carbondale, and Sullivan, with several travels and minor accidents noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luster
Haley Chapel
C. M. Miller
Edwin Sprinkle
Decatur
Maggie Haskell
Murda Smith
Cyrus Spencer
Seminary Township
J. E. Martin
Watson, Il
Rev. Miller
S. D. M. Cowger
Earl Cowger
Rose Hill
Jasper County
J. E. Cooper
Cowger
Harry Metzger
Ella Emerson
Dallas Robinson
Thompsonville
Robinson
Pearl Eyestone
Hazel
Effingham
Robert Ballance
Potoka
H. L. Oates
Fehren Willett
Vandalia
Geo. Willett Jr
Floyd Bethard
Fred Session
Ernest Hawkins
Herman Meyers
Dee
Paul Rush
Smith
Rush
Stickler
T. S. Bailey
Sullivan
Fred Sasse
Albert Perry
Carbondale
Chestley Pees
John Enloe
Vlake Libel
Noah Linton
Yamily
Simon Lewis
Geo. J. Metzger
Wood River
V.A. Smith
Catherine Shaw
Sullivan, DL
Lewis Denning
Vie
Aire
Will Beck
Fred Stickler
Illinois Weekly Industrial Review highlights regional construction
Chicago ground to be broken for Edgewater Hospital at Ashland and Hollywood. O C Mickelberry to erect three story brick apartments at 9501 Ashland Ave. Route 151 survey south toward Finney for road work. Several towns report school and street projects, new buildings, and infrastructure upgrades including gymnasiums, warehouses, bridges, and paving plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Edgewater
Ashland
Hollywood
O. C. Mickelberry
Ashland Ave
Percy
Finney
Brownstown
Griffith Bros
Sparta
Cottage Grove Avenue
79Th
83Rd
Coatsburg
Flora—Flora Lumber Co
Sigel
Sigel Review
Virgil
Route 64
Woodstock
Alemite Die Casting Company
Oliver Typewriter
Casey
Mattoon
Seaton
Local Family Update and Hospital News
The community reports flu and sore throat cases amid social visits. H. H. Bailey and family dined with Prof. I. S. Bailey in Alta mont. William Ehlers, after weeks in a St. Louis hospital, underwent surgery with Mrs. Ehlers noting serious condition on his return home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Bailey
Altamont
Mr. Bailey
I. S. Bailey
William Ehlers
St. Louis
Ehlers
Fred Donaldson
William Turner
Decatur
G. C. Johnson
Vandalia
Forrest Heckathorne
Ardmore
Okla
Hillard Blalock
Cincinnati
Ohio
For Sale Classifieds Include Pigs Cows Furniture and More
A late era classified listing shows numerous sale items including Chester White pigs two fresh cows a bookcase and writing desk a kitchen cabinet a cabinet radio set with built in speaker and various farm and household goods plus notices for tractor parts horse and buggy and saddle as well as two homes for sale and lost check book along with a strawberry plants order and other miscellaneous sales and requests across several names and locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Fred Lutz
J.S. Hudspeth
W. L. Parks
Reed
Orval Hopkins
Geo
C. M
Harvey G. Hudspeth
Minnie C. Carmean
Vernon
Ilinois
Senator Dunlap
A. L
IRVIN
Patoka
Ill
Ford tractor _ pulley
Julius Chausse
Fairman
Illinois
Claude Adams
P. J
Mojonnier
Sandoval
G. W. McNeill
West
Clark St
Champaign
Fosterburg
F. Gillet
Keyesport Bank
Reward. Co
Chandler
Waterhouse
Favorably Ave
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bulgaria
Libson
South
Union
Miami
Asheville
N. C
Olvaney
James F. Foley
Bernard F. Gimbel
George le Boutillier
Pennsyl
Vania Railroad
The
Long Island Railroad
Arthur Foran
White River
Arkansas
Mississippi
Tombigbee
Luxapalilla
Ross’ Flower Shop
Inoss K
Centralia
Illino
Life
Hague
Nathan Cigale
Gonrainear
Shobonier
Shobonier M. E. Church Notes
Linois Weekly Industrial Review
Odin
Fairy Deli
Jersey
Colantha Mutual
H. B
de Kol 2d
s_ Mutual Paul
Pontiac Korndyke
Pontiac Pet
Hampshire
Ben Merrill
John A. Jennings
John L. Simcox
Oakland
Studebaker
West Side Used Car Exchange
Langenfeld Buick Co
C. Colbert
Mer
Centralia, Ill
Goodyear Pathfinder
Goodyear
Roy Jones
Patoka, Ill
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