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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1925
Page
10
The Spring Valley Cazette offers a one year paid in advance subscription for $2.00. The post office confirms it is entered as second class mail matter in Spring Valley Illinois.
A reflective Thanksgiving piece extols simple rural life over city living. It celebrates family meals, quiet retrospection, and the joy of living where the geese fly and snow falls, rather than grand speeches. It highlights gratitude for ordinary, tangible living.
A young farmer on eighty acres turns a profit through diverse crops and livestock. He buys mares that yield two colts sold for 150 dollars, oats at 72 bushels per acre bringing 1152 dollars, corn at 50 cents per bushel worth about 1600 dollars, 43 pigs fattened to 220 pounds for hog money near 3000 dollars, 390 hens producing about 300 dollars, a 200 dollar monthly milk check, and 200 bushels of potatoes stored for future value. Total receipts exceed 8000 dollars in nine months.
Telegraph wires to carry on the system of the United States require 1 500 000 miles of wire. Russia ranks next with about one third that mileage. Germany is third and France fourth. Canada has 220 000 miles, about half of France. The United Kingdom has 265 000 miles while British India is somewhat better equipped.
Harry J. McNamara of Lafayette Indiana a federal prohibition crusader was held for the federal court after police detectives arrested him Saturday night in the act of accepting a $200 bribe from a victim. Special federal agents had engineered raids with a trap that led to his Monday arrest and $200 in marked bills was found in the car. McNamara had been part of the raiding party at a brewery near Ladd recently.
Prospective Bureau county candidates in the Republican primary drift toward neutrality in the McKinley Smith contest. A grapevine suggests Small will remain neutral, avoiding Smith due to Smiths alliance with Carlstrom. If the governor leans to McKinley, local support could shift. McKinleys congressional record is cited by allies.
Elmer Williams of Toulon Illinois won the interstate corn husking contest in Burgess Illinois with 2504.3 pounds husked in 1 hour 20 minutes. Walter Olson of Rio Knox County Illinois took second with 2412.6 pounds and Zudick of Nebraska placed third with 2335.6 pounds. Prizes were offered by Farm Journal.
Oscar Pierson of north of Wyanet nearly lost his right hand last Tuesday while clearing corn and husks from a corn picker in operation. His fingers were crushed between rollers and he held the machine until bystanders freed him after over a half hour, using crowbars to break the casting.
A DC district official inspected the freshly completed gap in State Route 7 near Spring Valley. An occupant examined blueprints against the work and, finding consistency with specifications, departed. The incident is presented as proof there will be no errors in the highway construction program.
Adlerika mix includes buckthorn bark magnesium sulphate glycerine and related compounds. It claims quick relief from gas and stomach upset and notes it acts as an intestinal evacuant for constipation, sometimes working in one hour without gripes. The Thompson Drug Co.
The American Press association profiles country weeklies in a pamphlet noting their impact on towns. It argues local papers reflect community activity and prosperity, with ads reaching whole families and benefiting local stores. Arthur Brisbane is cited praising the newspapers as vital community services.
A testimonial from Mrs Andrews of Chicago touts Pink-N-White Tablets as rapid relief for headaches fever back aches colds neuralgia and neuritis. The ad promotes Smucker's Pink-N-White Tablets as doctor prescribed safe and effective with a 25 cent package and urges readers to ask their druggist.
A fragment notes that country editors act as distributors of information within the United States. The passage hints at shared roles among editors in disseminating reports and materials across regions.
A fragment quotes a critic calling certain institutions the nation’s mental police force, implying pervasive monitoring or influence. The remark suggests concern about psychological control and societal regulation by authority.
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