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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1936
Page
4
A garbled OCR fragment recounts a sequence of odd remarks and partial events. It mentions a campaign, a mayor or leader figure, references to a race or contest, and a bizarre exchange about a winner and a chief. The text is heavily corrupted with misread letters and incomplete phrases.
In the opening game of a three game series, Jo Vaviess defeated Farm Bureau 6 to 5. The two teams were to continue the series at Cooksville, with the local crowd watching as Carrell and his boys battled back to within one run early. A later miscue and base running errors contributed to the comeback bid by Farm Bureau.
The combined circus announces an August 10 Rockford engagement featuring African pigmy elephants and pongurs. Col Tim McCoy leads a world riders congress with western stars. The show travels by four trains with 1600 people and 1700 horses, occupying 140 acres of tent city and 31 tents including a giant top seating 16600.
The Chadwick Royals split results with Sterling Gyros and Rock Creek Farm Bureau, winning 22-5 over Dageotts and losing 16-10 to the Gyros. Chadwick later topped Freeport Kraft Cheese 12-9, then edged Rock Creek 9-8 in a tight finale. Handel led scoring with three runs, while Geisz and Schreiner added multiple tallies.
Criddle of Freeport nearly won his own game with four runs after tripping on the rubber. He walked twice and was hit by no pitches. Freeport led early, Chadwick tied it, Clinton pulled ahead in the third, Chadwick doubled the fifth to keep it close, Clinton extended in the third, Freeport answered with three in the seventh, then three more in the final at bat but fell short as Clinton won 15 to 13.
The Illinois Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs adopted a new state code creating a five man commission under civil service laws to oversee state fish hatcheries, game sanctuaries, public hunting and fishing grounds, and seasonal limits. Walter W. Wright of Jacksonville was named head of the committee to draft the code, and Governor Vierner was asked to set August 23 as a conservation day at the state fair for clubs statewide to review the plan.
A column of birthday notices with dates from July 26 to August 6 lists residents and relatives in Thomson Chadwick Milledgeville Clinton Albany Albany La, including Paul aunt Mae Turney Wil Hubbell H A Francke Leslie Grim LeRoy Senn Frances Halfman Dorothy 3 ner John Larson Earl Fas Mrs Aparlotte Isenhart Joe Grim Bessie Kugschveit Sepha Stein Helen Gable Agnes Dr Thomson Mrs John Beeman Betty Ler Mary Waris Jeanne Hoge Florence Smith Donald Angiese Don Carpenter Ruth Goef Laman Re Adina Mill A Watkins Chadwick and other local names, organized by date and name.
Fulton beat Thomson 12 to 11 in a Sunday game on the Thomson diamond. Indigo Indies were hampered by six missing regulars and costly errors, with Schaur pitching for Fulton and Niles likely catching for the Indies later in the season. Next Sunday the Indies face Clinton Vernons on the Thomson field.
Jean Harlow stars as a American chorus girl in London at war who becomes entangled with spies after a supposed murder. She flees to Paris, marries an aviator, reunites with her first husband amid danger and heroism, while a second feature, Three Cheers for Love, accompanies with Eleanor Whitney and a swift swing comedy.
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