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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1927
Page
2
Bill Hart stars as Dan Carver in Tumbleweeds a United Artists release retelling the 1889 land rush in the Cherokee Land Strip. Director King Gaggot emphasizes the home and nation-building spirit with Hart delivering bold riding and action in a western drama amid moving crowds and frontier upheaval. The York Cooperative Theatre screens the film Saturday night.
Public performance scheduled by the On Timer's Class of the 1 hoist Sunday School on March at the Opera House. A clever farce set in a summer hotel where women lack men. The Worsted Man attempts to fix things and overdoes it, inviting audiences to a lighthearted critique of social dating rituals. Admission 25 and 36 cents. $10 2 day salary plus bonuses for actors. $20-$30 daily potential. Also ads for Douglas Pear sales, alfalfa seed, chick hatchery, and matchmaking service.
A jumble of farm goods and ads lists plants like grapes, rhubarb, spirea, hedges and fruit trees with prices per unit. mentions Shenandoah Iowa nursery, palmiter and son Janesville Wisconsin, and many farm for sale notices. Also poultry, hatcheries, eggs, chicks, used cars, alfalfa seed, dill pickles, and various commission and shipping notices. Prices range from 30 cents to a dollar and up, with bulk listings and prepaid offers noted.
Classified notice from Brookside farm in Buffalo Gap South Dakota advertising Acs seeds and plants for sale with price and sample requests. Includes a cleanup note urging sending old gold silver or false teeth to A C Elliott Savanna Illinois with check mailing same day and five day hold subject to approval referencing banker A C Elliott Savanna Illinois.
The week’s obituary adds that John Pape was a brother of the deceased. Ruby Stores returns from the State Normal at Macoms for the weekend, school dismissed due to a basetrar tournament, and Ruby plans to travel home. Tucker sale at Fulton barns drew strong Thomson participation. Farmers hauled limestone early in the week, useful for later work. Shippers Waite and Housenga, and Bert Hollinshead, sent three loads. Jr Harding moved to a Savanna area farm with a sale Friday. Earl Bailey plans to move near Holman farm. Mrs Hubert Cate and kin visit Camp Point Illinois. Otto Switzer drives on Route 7 during vacation.
Listings advertise pure bred and healthy high producing chicks with 11 rarities and 100 percent live delivery guarantees. Also promoted are Grunma lfafa seed, White Collie pups, Elberta peach trees, alfalfa seed, and various hatching services from hatcheries in Illinois Minnesota Kentucky Kansas Iowa Indiana and Missouri with discounts and price folders available.
Quick service and Peoria is near by fast mail. Offers include White Leghorns 11.00 to 21.50, Barred Rocks 25.50, Reds 25.50, Anconas 25.50, White Wyandottes 27.50, and Seramas. Special matings Pure Bred Farrow Chicks at 3 cents each with 4 chicks higher. Catalog free. Dept. 500 Peoria Illinois. Delivery claims 100 percent alive with factory-cost brooders.
A fragmented classified listing shows a mix of items for sale and wants. Includes a sulky for sale, various breeds of milk goats with prices, baby chicks from prize flocks with delivery in February and March, new hats at a millinery, a farm rental in Carroll County, and sales jobs with a nursery company. Also notes on Plymouth Rocks poultry, walnut timber, and a nursery offering strawberry plants and fruit trees. Names and places include Chant Ohio Harrisburg Illinois Beez Millinery Lyons Iowa Hamilton Ohio Carroll County Argo Peru Indiana Plain City Ohio Saw yer Mich and Mason City W Va.
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