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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1945
Page
8
Dialogue sketches a domestic scene with a mother and children. The Practical Son questions telling, the Bright Boy offers sales resistance as a trait, and an Employer tests pay units while a girl’s date request prompts witty back and forth. Joe hesitates about acceptable pay terms.
Two Rock Falls men, Henry LaVerne Uhls Jr and Robert L Rice, pleaded innocent at arraignment on forgery related charges. They waived preliminary hearing and were bound to district court with bail set at 2000 dollars each. they remained jailed. Police credit Clinton merchants for helping foil the bogus checks at Martin Morris, Walgreens, and Milo Johns stores. A second finding showed they held two sets of selective service registrations, prompting the case to proceed.
Report notes a man released from New Mexico state penitentiary in April after a two year term for a Santa Fe robbery. The article mentions forged names including Comfort Allen Landreth and George Allen Mayberry with another note to Smith for five thousand and one hundred dollars. A hotel desk scene and a sleepless businessman add local color.
The Clinton Herald invites amateur boxers in the area to enter the Golden Gloves tournament in Clinton. Preliminary nights are February 19 21 and 30 with the finale on February 2. Entries to Syd Scholar, Sports Editor, The Clinton Herald, Clinton Iowa. Winners go to Chicago for the Tournament of Champions at The Herald’s expense. Weight classes range 112 pounds to heavyweight.
A newlywed woman learns her husband is downcast after he reveals a letter from a New York girl accusing them of breach of promise. The unusual marital dispute emerges as a domestic concern amid post wedding tensions.
In a fleeting scene a teacher asks what they raise most in China and a bright scholar replies Chinese. An usher addresses a dignified woman asking if she is of the bridegroom as the bride’s mother responds.
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