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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1943
Page
3
Brookville sales every Wednesday feature horses cattle pigs hogs chickens and farm machinery. Closing out auctions planned near Stockton and Chadwick list horses cattle hay grain and household goods with start times around 10 to noon and locations along Telegraph Road Route BS and near Oak Church corner.
Multiple farm sales listed near Thomson Milledgeville Morrison Chadoick Argo and Savanna with dates December 22 27 28 and January 12. Auctions feature horses cattle hogs hay grain poultry farm machinery and household goods. Sales begin around noon 10:30 or 1:30 p m and occur at various farms including Roy Heitman Dr Burger F Runnels Vincent Marschang Mrs John Grawe Miller Martz and others.
George Dambman Jr and family moved Monday to the Pete Sweilh uth house and Emil Hartman will move to the place vacated by Mr and Mrs Dambman. Mr and Mrs Henry Janssen attended memorial services for Wm Rosenow in Morrison Sunday. The young man was killed in action Oct 21 in Italy.
The piece laments rising costs and shifts in modern living noting how a simple concept like a minute steak now reflects price over speed, and that households with few resources face stricter budgets while old comforts fade.
A classroom exchange features students using beans in sentences and a playful line We are human beans The passage then shifts to memories of unrationed gasoline allowing women to clean gloves and still have gas to blow up kitchens
A humorous exchange shows a porter shoving a stout passenger off a train as he insists on disembarking backward. A voter denounces a candidate, who quips that the voter would not be in his district even if St Peter endorsed him.
Dialogue depicts a probate judge replying and a widow seeking appointment as executorafter her husband dies leaving seven children. The exchange touches on status and authority amid a broader moral proverb note about money and integrity. Henry Van Dyke poem lines appear as an inscription for a Friend's House emphasizing humility, honesty, and hospitality.
Sunday callers to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Farthing were Mr and Mrs Marchall Farthing and family. Mrs Lloyd Ferris and Edna Ferris visited Mr and Mrs Charles Ferris. Maude Waldross of Minneapolis Minnesota is visiting Dr and Mrs A A Calkins.
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