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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1943
Page
7
Wartime appeal calls on every American to invest 13 billion extra in War Bonds over the next weeks. The message stresses total sacrifice, outlines multiple government securities, and urges immediate action at banks or post offices to support the war effort and postwar peace.
A wartime prayer pleads to halt bloodshed and seek lasting peace for all, including the homeless and persecuted. It notes Lingnan University’s wartime exile from Canton to Hong Kong and Kukong, and cites the Save the Children International Union push for the 1924 Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child, urging protection and development for every child.
P Sorenson of the Lanark creamedery argues high young pig mortality this spring could be cut by feeding skim milk. He says farmers may lack skim milk as milk prices rise and commercial feeds replace it, noting skim milk and cream separation could become necessary. Authorities state 100 pounds of skim milk equals half a bushel of corn and its value to chickens is about one cent per pound.
A scanned listing shows many businesses and individuals across Illinois and Iowa, including furniture dealers mortician services, seed corn, motor company Chevrolet Sinclair, Greenhouse Fusion, dairy, osteopathic physician, funeral director, tavern, postmaster, poultry buyers, drillers, hardware, a bank, a treasure fund committee, restaurants, utilities, cleaners, jewelers, and foot fitters. The page reads like an advertising directory with multiple names and locations such as Milledgeville and Thomson in Illinois, Lanark, Savanna, Clinton in Iowa.
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