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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1925
Page
1
The Chautauqua opens this evening on the schoolhouse lawn with a big top set and active ticket solicitation. Readers are urged to get a program and attend multiple sessions as preparations and advertising have been steady. Local notes cover sports, marriages, coin finds, and ongoing clearance sales with ads from Yates City and Thomson.
Obituary for Jacob Green 1851 1896 and other Thomson items noting his marriages, children, and survivors. Additional notes report a doll party hosted by Mrs Luthel Lewis, birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Johnny Johnson, Marion Slayman studying at Clinton Business College, a flu marks rodeo crowd deciding to stay home due to small pox fears, Fourth of July quiet, and local car owners Con Berthoff and Jake Miller racing challenges.
Bill Strubb purchases Chase Porter stake in the billiard hall and also buys the store building occupied by Yates Cafe, both previously Porter owned. Possession of the billiard hall starts the 15th this month and the building on May 1, 1926. They plan to continue summer resort operations as before.
Chas Renz of Sabula died last Wednesday aged man survived by his wife and children John and Henry of Argo Mrs Wm Johnson and Mrs Nicklas of Canada. Funeral held from Savanna last Friday with burial in Black Oak cemetery. Attendees included Wm Johnson and family John Johnson Mrs Johnson John Grawe and family and Ray Rupple and family.
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