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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1949
Page
1
The writer recalls a memorable summer with fresh watermelons and cantaloupes, sharing how flavor improves as season nears home. A friend sold small cull melons, delicious in taste, fueling a yearned-for patch and recurring desserts and snacks. The piece also notes market shopping lists, wartime coupons, and birds plundering cherry trees, reflecting daily household life.
A reflective column from 1949 muses on the abundance of Miss Carbondale titles and similar items, wondering if increased personal awareness or a genuine rise in such occurrences explains the proliferation. The narrator recalls a night tending a sick child whose question about birds singing at dawn prompts deeper thoughts.
Danville is described as a paradoxical city amid sulfur fumes from coal, with a 45,000 population. Noted lawyers Abraham Lincoln and Joseph Cannon hailed from here, and the area hosts a federal judge and Illinois Supreme Court justice. Coal mines, brickyards, and Fairview Collieries drive industry while hospitals and big plants attract workers.
In the dark I listened with her to a busy, unseen effort, once assumed to be silent until the east brightened. The scene suggests workers active before daylight, revealing a side of the city rarely noticed in morning light.
Hangar June 9 AP report says George E Chapman and wife have now 20 children after Mrs Chapman gave birth to triplets Tuesday, two girls and a bevy of boys. The article notes the family’s size and adds details on the newborns and surrounding circumstances.
A truck driver named Chapman and his 36-year-old wife are hospitalized at Eastern Maine General after a incident. The couple has triplets, an older brother and sister, and 15 half siblings. Chapman previously had ten children and his wife five by former spouses.
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