Cheese Day draws nearly 300 visitors from far and near
About 300 visitors signed the Chadwick Review Office guest book on Cheese Day, with many from Chadwick and nearby towns and others from up to 50 miles away plus a few from distant cities such as Sarasota Florida Westerly Rhode Island Union Bridge Massachusetts Battle Creek Michigan and Glendale. The long list includes John D Turnbaugh John Witmer Herman Aude Mary Reap and many others across Illinois Wisconsin Iowa and beyond.
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Chadwick
Sarasota
Fla
Westerly
R. 1
Union Bridge
Battle Creek
Mich
Glendale
John D. Turnbaugh
John Witmer
Herman Aude
Mary Reap
Mr. Carroll
Flave der
Delmar BR
Boscobel
Wis
Sunny Jim Gerber To Appear At Milledgeville
Sunny Jim Gerber, a noted comedy sensation, appears in Milledgeville with a ladder act, acrobatics on a stable, slapstick bumps and falls, and juggling. He attracts crowds with strolling clowning and a platform routine prior to performances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunny Jim Gerber
Milledgeville
Sunny Jim
Sterling Pastor To Speak At 4 H Roundup Picnic
The Kev. William D. Pratt, pastor of the Sterling Congregational church, will speak at the Carroll county 4 H Roundup and Farm Bureau picnic in Lanark on August 25. Four H members planning to show beef heifers must have tubercu losis and Bangs disease tests. TB tests were given free August 8 by W. E. Miller, state veterinarian. Bangs disease tests available from local veterinarians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William D. Pratt
Sterling Congregational Church
Carroll County
Farm Bureau
Lanark
Four-H Club
T. B
W. E. Miller
Cucumber Bargain and Fossil Paperweight Unearthed
A nursery garden exchange ends with a penny deal on a cucumber, and a two pound mammoth tooth found near Bear Lake becomes a paperweight for Reed W. Bailey of the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. The report notes boxer Slugem as inactive before ten, reflecting local chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bear Lake
Wasatch Mountains
Reed W. Bailey
Inter-mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station
Bailey
Utah
Thrill Stunts at Whiteside County Fair
At Morrison's Whiteside County Fair on August 29, B Ward Beam's International Congress of Daredevils presents 15 greatest motor thrillers. The program features a car crashing through brick wall at high speed with driver inside, a high ramp launch into air then nose-first crash, moa2ng jumps at 70 mph, sliding through burning gasoline, and twelve more stunts making the largest daredevil program yet seen.
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B. Ward Beam
International Congress of Daredevils
Whiteside County Fair
Morrison
America
Candy flashes depend on flavor in dark breaks
Scientific note explains that only certain wintergreen lime lemon clove and sasafras flavored sugar wafers flash when bitten in darkness. Chocolate licorice and cinnamon flavors do not flash, showing candy sensory effects vary by flavor.
Boot Trouble Sergeant to Raw Recruit
A brief wartime drill scene shows a sergeant ordering a weary recruit to mark time while the recruit complains his shoes are too large. The recruit insists he is ready and can’t fit inside the boots, illustrating tensions between authority and obedience.
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Raw Recruit
R. R
The Poor Wise Man and the Peaceful Path Forward
A sermon-like meditation echoes Ecclesiastes praising wisdom over war and Micah’s prophesy of swords beaten into plowshares. It argues that true peace rests on spiritual awakening and united effort to abolish warfare, viewing war as pagan and civilization’s test. The piece urges a prudent, God-centered approach to resolving global conflicts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ecclesiastes
Micah
God
Divine Wisdom and Moral Courage in Christian Science
A religious reflection urges overcoming jealousy and greed through divine wisdom. Citing James and Mary Baker Eddy, the text advocates humility, selflessness, and prayer as paths to peaceable conduct and spiritual welfare, urging faithful reliance on God’s truth to guide daily life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James
Mary Baker Eddy
The
Mother Church
Art
Mrs. Edd
Metal alloy near diamond hardness announced in 1940s
A new metal alloy nearly two tenths of a percent as hard as diamonds was announced to the American Chemical Society. Invented by Phillip M. McKenna of McKenna Metals Co Latrobe PA, the alloy combines tungsten titanium and a carbonaceous pigment with nickel melted at 2000 degrees Fahrenheit then cooled and treated with aqua regia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Chemical Society
Phillip M. McKenna
McKenna Metals Company
Latrobe
Aqua Regia
New Hard Metal Alloy Promises Ultra Fast Cutting and Strong Parts
A new metal alloy chemistry creates a powder then heated and pressed into tooling harder than steel. It promises tools that cut at 90 feet per minute, far faster than prior hard materials, and alloys that withstand immense pressures. Applications include valves for pneumatic systems and other high-stress metal parts.
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Ebomitel
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Robert Kitson
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Irvin Edgerton
Harlan Anglese
Albany
Florence Gartner
Lillia
Bing
Charles
Binz
Floyd Lester Conley
Christine Eckel
Florence Lauis Hederick
Sterling
Pat Norman
Lester Dommel
Freeport
Lillian Hadley Soltow
Henrietta Sikkema
Elyanor Stage
F. L. Stagg
Paul Heusinkveld
Harold D. Barnes
Miriam Barnes
Emmett W. Barnes
Clinton
Chris Bricklen
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Herman Blaser
W. J. Hummel
Hiram H. Green
J. W. Klitz
Coleta
Howard Giddings
Marion Geison
Chicago
Zola Ricketts
Veryle June Ginther
Argo Fa
J. R. Seloover
Ira Abney
Clyde Gibler
Vey
Anna
Zerita Potter
Jean Rawlins
Arlette Hartman
Arlene St. Ores
Pat Cate
Allen Sikkema
Eugene Johnson
Thomson
Mildred Traum
Ruth Traum
Margaret Pentnack
A. M. Wolfley
Rex Martin
Clinton R. Plock
Ray M. Keeney
Hugh Spellman
Nonna Spellman
Agnes Rippy
John Freeman
Todd
E. V. McGrath
Verne Hoffman
Behnelta Bonjour
Colby D. Loechel
Floyd Albert
Joann Albert
David Albert
Christ J. Mackey
Carroll
Jonas F. Nice
Venita Doss
Max Doss
Maxine
Eleanor Doss
Morrey Cain
John Mating
Henry Vogel
Charles Nettleton
Savanna
Elizabeth Ratcliffe
Bloomington
Violet Heimbaugh
Dixon
Ed Drake
Penny Rice
Nick Rice
E. Marcucci
Clarence McGinty
William Nipe
John Gelwicks
Blaine Peck
Robert Matthews
Ila
Jose Armstrong
Marguet McKeen
L. V. Bradley
Mes
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Myrtle Bull
Henry Young
Lorraine
Clarence
David Young
Fred Davidson
Mary Jane Davidson
Rock Falls
Joyce Ditzler
Pearl City
Dick Carpenter
George Stauffer
Robert Dame
Marshall Lee Kaiser
Ransom Folgate
Dorothy Reiland
Clinton Wilkins
Stanley State
Doris Garner
Thelma Kingery
Rozella Brandenburg
Gerald Carpenter
Vernon Lindstrom
Florence Disworth
Clara Dale
Chas. N. Diffenderfer
Thomson Rendering Works
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Pee al
Fulton Paint & Paper Store
Fulton Ae
Gil
Stokol
Magic
Stokol-Mercury
Home Appliance Company
Fulton, Illinois
Macpherson
Mik Binty
Northwestern
Illinois Utilities
Auburn
Stoker
Smaltz Bros
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Patek
M. C. Crouse
Purina
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