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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1943
Page
2
A compact historical listing detailing publication names and dates from Thomson Illinois. Includes The Thomson Review 67th Year The Village Echo 1875 Thomson Broadax 1879 and The Thomson Review 1895 with staff credits and schedule note. Issued each Thursday at $1.50 per year.
A dated birthday calendar records residents with April dates across Chadwick Lanark Milledgeville Thomson Mt Carroll Fulton Rockford Morrison Morrison Marinette Albany Albany and Chicago. The note ends with an odd line about a male reputation and ability.
A publication questions Goodrich Rubber Co claims about using new rubber products before the war and discusses substitutes, farm prices, packers profits, black meat markets, and media censorship. The piece blends economic critique with wartime anxieties and skeptical views on industry practices.
Nineteen hundred acres of peas are contracted for the local cannery this season. Mrs. Phoebe Yeager remains seriously ill after a long period of illness. The Will Plock farm of 120 acres was sold to Harold Hughes of Waddams Grove for 135 dollars per acre, with Donald Polhill joining the place. Charles Diffenderfer will serve another four years as highway commissioner in Cherry Grove Township. Mrs. Lee Fry, Mrs. Scott Nichol and Sam Thompson and son shopped in Freeport last Wednesday.
Local notices recap Sunday dinners and visits among families in Morrison Mt Carroll and surrounding towns. Guests include Durward Foltz Johnson Hook Green and others with social ties centered on kinship and local farms. The Kearns Post Review notes band changes and a six? week furlough plus discharge of older servicemen and transfer of duties in Thomson Clinton and Kearns Utah.
The 21st and 29th RAF bands braved a fierce dust storm on March 29 and still reported for the daily retreat parade. Staff Sgt Robbins ordered the bands halted as the weather proved severe.
A Chicago area firm with about a hundred meat markets found its poultry stocks emptying far faster than expected. The surplus from last fall vanished by spring as demand soared from Atlantic to Pacific. Hatcheries report mixed results with some doubling sales while others lag, and price ceilings distort live and dressed poultry flows toward local markets.
The Board of Supervisors of Carroll County Illinois will meet in special session at the Court House in Mt Carroll on Tuesday April 27 1943 at 10 oclock A M The clerk W R Watson will not act on any claims presented at this session.
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