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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1944
Page
6
A brief ad item lists Boraxo at two retail units with a price around 25 cents. The readable text is fragmentary indicating a sale or stock note for Boraxo soap or cleaner. Named brands or organizers are not clearly identified beyond Boraxo.
Thomson brief highlights numerous Sunday dinners and weekend visits among Collins, Kness, May and Gaar families in Clinton Morrison and Savanna. Includes cake walk at carnival, Brick House dining hours, and updates on servicemen like Cpl Blair Stratton and Sgt Arthur Witt. Foster Lance injury and Mary Gaar connection noted.
Chadwick News reports new subscribers to the Review Louis B. Miller of Mt. Carroll route 4 and L P Mackey of Mill edgeville route 1. It lists weekend visits and Sunday dinners among neighbors including Eubanks of Danville Morrison Savanna Cordova Garden City Milledgeville Morrison and Carroll, noting guests, callers, and birthday acknowledgments.
Local families hosted weekend social gatherings and weekday dinners featuring guests from Sterling Morrison Rock Falls Lanark Buffalo Chicago and families including Deets Oncken Smith Englekins and Yost. Attendees shared celebrations and Red Cross activities with multiple dinners and visits noted.
A swimming instructor shows how to keep the head above water as a hollow body sinks. The student asks for a demonstration and the instructor agrees to dive in to illustrate the technique.
Mrs. George C. Ottens underwent surgery at Iowa City hospital last Saturday and hopes to return home next week. Miss Helen Mae Lyons married Elmo Newell Heffernan of Williston North Dakota in Immaculate Conception church with a large Fulton attendance. The couple will reside at 605 Eighth Avenue Fulton after a wedding trip.
A wartime public health piece urges vigilance against tuberculosis on the home front. It stresses early detection by tuberculin tests and x rays, cites transmission risks from parents and caregivers, and notes mass screening at army induction as part of ongoing control efforts.
Friday night game vs Lanark announced. Home economics club has initiation week for girls with activities and a dish penalty. A War Fund carnival sponsored by the Woman's club and PTA is planned Saturday at the high school featuring a pancake supper sideshows games and performances. Seniors selling stationery. honor roll lists for each class with multiple students listed. perfect attendance and semester honors noted for several students.
Savanna high school cagers overwhelmed DeWitt 62 to 26 in a Hiowa league game played in Savanna gym. The Savanna lads built a 25 to 6 first quarter lead and eased through the remainder as Cravatta scored 16 points and Engaldo added 14.
Director Livingston E. Osborne of the Illinois Department of Conservation said Tuesday that lowering pool levels endangers fish life in the Mississippi. Superintendent Sam Parr of the state fish division noted thousands of pounds of game and rough fish face suffocation as surface ice cuts off oxygen. Iowa and Illinois officials seek help from War Department engineers, Osborne says, to ensure navigation for the war effort.
The week’s social notes list visits and dinners among Milledgeville and area residents. Chadwick Nel, Mrs Maurice Meat and others, with Schroiners and Mest families, joined Mr and Mrs J Miller for Sunday dinner. Ed Mest and Ed Schreiner from Lanark also attended.
American Utilities Service Corporation asked the Securities and Exchange Commission for permission to sell its interest in Northwestern Utilities Savanna NL to Fred D. Ellis Chicago for 840000 dollars. Proceeds would retire 800000 dollars of American's series A six percent collateral trust bonds.
Mrs C C Kier of Morrison visits Mr and Mrs George Daehler and others in Lanark while Mrse Jeanine Emnyre stays with Lenora Queckboerner. Orval Reehl of Moline calls on Harve Queckboerner. The Hartman and Goetz families, Marvin Hartman of Sterling, and George Baylor of Milledgeville travel to Chicago to see Mr Baylor stationed at Great Lakes.
Mr and Mrs Clarence Hartman and Bernice spent Saturday afternoon with Mrs Maude Alexander. Florence Alexander of Sterling visited her parents Mr and Mrs Chester Alexander. Mrs Howard Baker visited by Mr and Mrs Charles Demeter near Prophetstown. Evening callers included Mr and Mrs Ray Real of Milledgeville and Leona Real of Washington DC. Several other couples and families are listed as visitors through Friday to Sunday, including Morgan, Morrison, and Mill edgeville residents.
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