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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1942
Page
6
Thomson notes a flurry of visits and trips across towns. Mrs J Stickell reports Mrs Chas McGinty enjoys her Bost trip via Md Hagerstown and a 150 mile Penn Turnpike drive. Several local residents host relatives from Morrison Mt Carroll and Savanna.
Mrs. Ella Stumphy sold her house to Mr. and Mrs. Chester Faulkner who will take possession soon. Rev. Clarence Ploch and Mrs. Ploch enjoy their new home at Warren and are getting acquainted. Various neighbors, relatives, and travelers are listed visiting, staying, or traveling through Thomson and Savanna areas including Hartmans, Prins, and other local families with weekly social activity and travel notes.
Henry Young Jr and friends attended the White Sox day heater in Chicago Sunday. A stream of visitors and residents shared weekend stops in Savanna Fulton Chadwick Lanark and Clinton with relatives and friends.
Preston Prairie and Crofton residents baled hay on Thursday for Frederick Getz. Mrs. Glenn Bickelhaupt, Mrs. Fred Wolf and Harriett Hammond were in Clinton Friday. Spencer Henderson baled straw for Ward Gillespie Friday.
A note details Argo Delano Peabody of Oberlin visiting with his aunt Mrs Harriett Kneale and family. Peabody, over 80, previously toured Minneapolis and will travel home via Birmingham Alabama.
Dr. Frederick H. Falls reports Illinois maternal deaths dropped about two thirds over twenty years due to a joint effort by the Illinois State Medical Society University of Illinois State Department of Health and Chicago Health Department. The rate fell from about 70 per 10 000 live births to under 30 with significant progress in the last decade.
The University of Illinois WILL station offers educational programs, news, and music across most of Illinois and neighboring states. With 580 kilocycles and 5,000 watts, the schedule includes 16 classroom broadcasts daily and eight news casts, plus the Glee Club and Concert Band.
University of Illinois researchers Prof. J. R. Fellows and J. C. Miles unveil a smokeless coal burner for home furnaces. The device cokes fresh fuel to drive off fumes, burns smoke at the hottest fuel bed, and directs exhaust through two models: a future furnace firebox and a conversion unit for existing furnaces.
Director F. S. Siebert of the University of Illinois School of Journalism urges training competent newspaper workers to maintain America’s press. He notes special provisions allow credit for military service withdrawals, with degrees or semester credits for seniors and underclassmen based on completed weeks.
A salesman tries to display samples to a busy storekeeper who declines and then interrupts with a brief argument over viewing the items. The seller pleads that it will take only a minute but is again denied.
Readable questions and answers recount Illinois history from early manufacturers to canal funding, duels, Lincoln era threats, and prominent figures like Morris Birkbeck and Elijah Parish Lovejoy. Includes a public notice about school board bus driver bids dated 1942 and a few aphorisms.
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