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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1938
Page
5
The Review explains that classifieds appear in four publications and reach Cartier Whiteside and Rock Island counties. Rates reflect service area and classification. The Review accepts responsibility for only one incorrect insertion and emphasizes consistent style and proper type.
Various local ads list auto insurance, monument lettering, wall texturing, shoe repair, radio service, well drilling, and medical services. Also advertised are weekly livestock auctions at Sterling and Geneseo stockyards with detailed sale items and dates, plus multiple farm sale announcements and closing-out auctions in Thomson Morrison Lanark Maquoketa and Geneseo areas.
The text argues that at 35 mph a car cannot stop as quickly as at 20 mph, so more space is needed between vehicles at higher speeds. It cites stopping distances of 89 and 20 feet at 20 mph and 120 and 61 feet at 35 mph, and notes road conditions affect figures. It mentions the New York World's Fair revenue estimates of 50 million dollars from amusements and concessions.
The Sabula Gazette column lampoons Iowa politics and editorial life with sharp witticisms. It riffs on Republican stockings, Democratic beliefs, and small-town club boasts while recalling old-time school days and a faint bus anecdote.
Authorities outline ideal chorus girl measurements with hips bust waist thigh ankle and calf figures. The item mentions auditions and a tape line while noting local figures Peter Wind tuba in the San Francisco WPA Symphony Albert Crum treasurer of a San Francisco bakery Fred Robbers a San Francisco police member is referenced amid reflections on Sabula’s deforested islands.
A listed mix of names and firms appears with instructions that offenders will be prosecuted under law. The notice mentions signs available from the Thomson Review office at five cents each and invites mail orders for the signs and list updates through the hunting season.
A Belleville Herald libelous note targets a Sabula editor with a jab about a locket containing a husband’s hair and a punch line about a mother’s parenting. The verse laments a lost child wandering from home and drifting into trouble in a family car.
Nearly a million clippings from newspapers and magazines in 50 languages cover both hemispheres and have been catalogued by the Department of Press at the New York World's Fair 1939.
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