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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1925
Page
2
A small local announcement notes a one year paid subscription for the Spring Valley Cazette at $2.00. The notice marks post office handling in Spring Valley Illinois as a second class mail matter.
Henry Ford, famed for cutting prices to expand demand, now maintains prices despite new economies and a larger market. He announces improved products with changes in color, form, and functioning, signaling a near revolutionary upgrade while keeping current pricing.
The flivver is seen as improving in looks and performance. Henry Ford is hailed as a typical American. The public now wants better and cheaper products, with a preference for quality over mere low price, signaling hopeful esthetic application to everyday goods.
The article argues that land value tracks population. It notes fertile land near cities and sand piles near Chicago rise in value as population and business activity grow. Chain stores and proximity to markets boost front foot prices, and farms nearer towns gain value due to shorter hauls and better schooling.
An automobile owned by Mike Koteski was badly damaged in a collision with a second car owned by John Rigazio of Oglesby. The Rigazio car, driven by a juvenile, fled the scene but Koteski obtained the license number. Police identified the Rigazio car via licensed owner records.
A Chicago Union Railroad Station feature highlights clean sanitary practices with no cuspidors in Smoking and rest rooms. The piece notes spitting spreads tuberculosis and colds via airborne droplets and dust, urging continued discouragement of careless spitting to curb contagion.
A newspaper note describes a fundraising style in which a letter to ten valued readers prompts renewal payments. Five paid, one promised next week but died, another went blind, another rheumatic, one found religion and could not keep the promise. The tenth reader is the target.
Miss Ollie Enyart daughter of Mr and Mrs Mack Enyart of Ladd and Mr Harry Frolich of Covington Tenn were quietly married Monday September 7 by Rev James Shanks at the Baptist parsonage in Princeton The bride a Hall Town High graduate taught in Ladd schools the groom an ex soldier and sailor who studied at Bradley Peoria engraving and watchmaking now employed in Covington after a South honeymoon the couple will reside in Covington.
Ad claims gas on the stomach presses on the heart and organs causing nervous restlessness and sleeplessness. Adlerika is praised as a fast acting intestinal evacuant useful for constipation, often working in one hour and without gripes. The Thompson Drug Co.
Thomas Kirkman of Spring Valley, an employee at Union Shaft Company in Peru, sustained serious injuries when a large rock mass fell on him last Friday. He was carried to the hospital by coworkers for treatment.
A man was reported at the hospital with serious injuries but authorities say he is not believed to be in a dangerous condition. Further updates were not immediately available.
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