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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1925
Page
6
An oral Red River style column recalls a local game with Cork on the sideline and players Grange Pozzi and Dale sparking a rough, fast chase. The piece jokes about horses, hot seats, and a late Derby-like scramble as Princeton faces the Wil Cats and Indians in earnest.
The passage questions the value of a town paper versus multiple dailies and asks readers to support a local paper that serves the town, its residents, and local business. It presents the paper as a mirror and a constant service to the community.
Senator Randolph Boyd of Galva, serving in the Illinois General Assembly, declared for re election as a Republican. He has twelve years in the House and four in the Senate, contributing to the Million Dollar Road Bond Issue and serving on key committees. Also reported is the death of Lester Geiger, 30, whose body was found in Railroad Creek near Kakusha Park Mendota after he disappeared Friday. Geiger, a Mendota native and son of Mrs. Minnie Geiger, graduated from Mendota High School and Illinois University. He later worked in Sublette and had paralytic illness prior to his death, believed suicide.
In Spring Valley a Rathbun's Drug Store window featured an ice cake display to advertise antifreeze. The display showed two bottles inside frozen water and unfrozen Zero antifreeze, attracting pedestrians and threatening traffic on Main Street.
The ad states catarrh worsens when run down, claims a local ointment provides quick relief and an internal tonic improves general health. It notes sales by druggists for over 40 years and lists F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, Ohio.
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