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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1938
Page
2
Carroll County promotes competitive sports through a new community program led by local organizers. The effort highlights men’s sports leagues, youth clinics, and weekend matches across towns in the county.
Birthday notices dated January 19 to January 27 list residents and friends in Chadwick Thomson Milledgeville Argona Savanna Lanark Rockford Mt Carroll Albany and other locales with names including Vera Warfield Argo Mrs Edson Holland Arlene Voeckel Ray Isenhart Mary Williams Clyde Leitz Marcus Fossett Howard Kness Ward Weber A B Puterbaugh Russell Nye Harold Hawkins H A Francke Wm Plock Matt Johnson E R Mest Lyle Deets Nicholas Jean Rawlins Kathryn Diehl Henry Boise Darlene Anderson Harve Schreiner Mary Diehl Charles Livengood Amy Stone Paul Voeckel Phyllis Harris Vernon Larson A H Wagner Juanita Cheeseman Maxine Miller Wayne Tobey Richard Adolph Floyd Hartman Rozella Brandenburg Roy Queckboerner W F Sunderland Sherm Oakley Maude Rahn Gayle Weber K B Carpenter Lloyd Smith Renetta Sikkema Herman Radatz Emma Ferris.
Ideal weather drew hundreds outside as pleasure cars filled streets on Sunday. February is expected to be heavy in auction circles while political candidates begin campaigning after winter ends. Webber Lumber Company offers free wood in Thomson, with government property rules limiting sale and encouraging hauling options via about fifteen available trucks.
Friday night in a close game Thomson and Milledgeville battled to a tie. In overtime, Thomson scored a basket to win by two points. Local notes: Fred Miller substitutes as barber for Hobart Holland at the Springs and tends his farm with three purebred Guernseys.
A reflective piece quotes sayings about blessing family and thrift. It contrasts need and purchase with moral values. The text muses on humility prayer youth conscience and judgment in time.
News flashes mix light gossip about William Bush and Hobart Holland at the springs with recollections of baseball legends like Brick Carley and Barney Gifford. The piece notes veterans from World War I, hospital work in Chicago, and changes in sport from baseball to kittenball, ending on aging and loyalty themes.
A reader warns the newsroom about a confidant who knows much of the paper's content days early and could derail staff jobs by supplying advance press. The letter laments potential harm to reporting and jokes about moral consequences if a bomb threat were real near the proving ground.
A satirical column notes political debates with Prof Glen Frank and media pokes fun at New Deal college professors. It jokes about aging, optimism, a stenographer’s missteps, Amos and Andy, Mae West, and a New Year resolution, ending with a line about facial expressions revealing thoughts.
A quirky collage of wry witticisms and aphorisms on wealth, aging, and modern life. The piece riffs on optimism, debt, traffic, enabling radio, and generational critiques with sharp, humorous asides. Readers see a stream of pointed one liners and social observations.
A dairyman asks for a name for a new butter brand and the customer suggests Samson if it resembles the last. They discuss vanity as a mare stops to look at herself in the potato, revealing humorous banter about pride and horses.
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