Albany Pastor and Wife Move to Penney Farms Florida
A Florida feature recounts Rev J Wallace MacGowans and wife relocating from Janesville Wisconsin to the Penney Memorial Home Community at Penney Farms Florida. The article describes the memorial home complex with twenty two apartments, a chapel pipe organ, the surrounding town’s facilities, and the foreseen futures for ministers and their spouses in a well developed community funded by the Penney foundation. It notes the village population totals and local amenities, the forestry project, and the house costs and selection process for ministers among thousands on a waiting list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. E. Olds
J. Wallace MacGowsan
Ralph W. Gwinn
Eva Hervey Gwinn
Penney Farms
Memorial Home
Penney
J. Penney-Gwinn Corporation
Memorial
Tee Farm
UV. S
MacGowan
Peaney
Howes
Poamey Fundation
Amd
Conjenae
Pelee Beleving
The Dying Year in Winter Winds and Wistful Cadences
The poem laments winter's deathlike season and the year’s passing. Trees moan in minor tones while the narrator recalls loss and awaits a dawn of renewal. The lines evoke memory, mortality, and the sea’s hidden depths as symbols of hope beyond the grave.
Advertising Boosts Profits Amid Depression Says Commerce Dept
The Commerce Department highlights advertising's role in stabilizing sales and profits during the depression. Case studies show a dresses maker profiting from continued ads while rivals cut back, and an electric clock firm cutting national ads but boosting local publicity. Overall business sentiment improves with steel, auto industry optimism for 1932. General Motors predicts higher employment in coming months as preparations for 1932 strengthen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Commerce
Theet
Winter Weather Quirks and Oddities From 1931 Ad
The piece notes an unseasonably warm December 21, 1931 with 45 degree shade temperatures and no snow, mentions the river's high water, green grain, and dandelions, then jokes about Christmas snow uncertainty and a playful exchange about a cow. It ends with a science joke about a South American insect using light, and a pun on an Austin with wanderlust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old King
Winter
Christtmas
South America
Austin
Review Force To Rest Next Week In Holiday Issue Omission
The newspaper notes no issue next week as the Review force takes a Christmas vacation week. Regular weekly issues resume January 7, 1982, with the paper promising a better world and reflections on peace, goodwill, and religious tolerance during the holiday season.
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Force
Review
Spirit of Christmas Tree Lights and Family Gatherings
The article extols outdoor Christmas trees lit with colored lights as a cherished yearly custom. It traces the decorative tradition to a symbolic practice and reflects on how the Christmas feast and tree evoke sentiment, memories, and a sense of shared joy across generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eryone
Balloon tires preferred over high pressure tires
Reece asks which tire type is better and prefers balloon tires while noting the absence of a car, prompting a puzzled response about not having one. The exchange highlights a humorous misunderstanding and a lack of vehicle ownership.
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Reece
Notable Exchange Reveals Harsh Parental Reproach
A fragment shows a stern father declaring to his child that he can never be a real son, labeling him good for nothing, as the youngster protests with a distant claim of going out briefly and asking for good behavior until return. The terse dialogue hints at strained family dynamics in a historical context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy
Wales
Battery gift for cold start powers Dad this Christmas
A battery promise aims to ease winter starts for Dad. A product named Gamble's Multi-plate claims the ability to spin the motor 265 percent faster, with Ford and Chevrolet mentions and a $676 exchange offer.
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Gamble
Ford
Fragments Reflect Aged Irish War Memory
The readable fragments sketch a distant Irish war memory with names and places briefly surfacing. The text hints at personal connections and a historic conflict, offering a glimpse into family ties and long ago events without full clarity of events or specifics.
Combined Farm Sale Notices From Chadwick and Morrison
John Schrader to hold sale at Chadwick on Saturday January 83 featuring 8 head cattle 20 calves 50 head hogs 4 horses 125 chickens full line machinery bay corn oats tires and tools. John Ashpole sale at his farm Morrison Mt Carrell Route 12 on December 1 with horses cattle sheep poultry machinery.
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John Schrader
Chadwick Saturdey
Jam
C. A
Lanark
Om Whedaeedey
John Ashpole
Morrison
Mt. Carrell
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Albany
Florida
Terian
Mrs. Macgowan
Penney Memorial Home
Paris
John
Mr. Close
By F. P. Fisher
Albany, Llinois
Richard H. Grant
General Motors
General ‘Aotors
Tri-Cities
the White-Phillips Company, Inc., Investment Banke
First National Bank
Davenport
Iowa
Tacr
Wilk
Christmas
Merry Christmas
G. W. Ivey & Sons Monuments
Mt. Carroll
Carroll
Whiteside
Rock Island
SNL Roebuck and CO. Jamyer
Satisfaction
Monety
Fulton
Tertee
Crah Tester and Linskid
Chadwick First National Bank
Clery
GROVE
Pines
Freak i. Jr
Thomson, I
Sh Np
Albany Il
Comic Fisherman's
Induyy
Detroit
Michard
Moore Monument CO
Ginelsze
Fine Prairie Farms
Choice Farms
Mercer
Island Counties
Willist Free
J. J. Graske
Agemey
Rosk
T. H. Herbits
Ae Witeen
Kurt Jaenicke
Steves Clinton
W. H. Foster
M. D
Wilson
Clinton
Ioewa
A. R. Johnson
Dr. Fisher
N. Secund
Kre Dents
Sth Ave
Claws, Lees
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