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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1922
Page
4
Local notes report Sandridge melons on the market and scattered community items. Weather is cool, threshing nears completion, and nearby coal rail strikes are resolving. Headlines mention Tanlac sales, births, illnesses, and upcoming eye exams at the Thomson Hotel with optometrist E Musk.
Sadie K. Dunshee warns trespassers to stay off the Homestead east of Thomson under threat of full legal prosecution. Also mentions a separate item about baby chicks catalog and pullets, with the Farrow Hirsh Co. of Peoria, Illinois offering parcel post paid service.
Reports from Thomson describe a Lena Camp Meeting with a full daily program. Local events include a Boheman shooting in Savanna, a Milwaukee railroad freight derailment delaying mail, and fishing exploits by Mr. Peck. Community notices cover picnics, ball games called off by rain, frosty forecasts, residents visiting Chicago, illness at Jane Lamb hospital, a captured county monkey, a Savanna car ride incident, and a court fine for crop damage.
Ches Welch of Mt. Carroll paused in Thomson Saturday to see his sister Mrs. Lucinda Graharing before continuing to Clinton to visit his brother Edward, seriously ill at Jane Lamb hospital after surgery for appendicitis.
An old advertisement touts All Catarrh Medicine from Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as a tonic to build up the system and prevent repeated acute attacks. It claims internal action through mucous surfaces to reduce inflammation and restore normal conditions with free circulation of the medicine.
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