21 Jun 1928
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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1928
Page
1
Col Linbergh was awarded an honorary degree by Madison Wisconsin university officials during a ceremony celebrating his seventy fifth birthday. The article notes strong rainfall in the vicinity over the weekend and records a large amount of valuable goods and improved pasturage from the steady rain.
A horse belonging to George Hammond died after being startled by a passing car near the new underground crossing west of town. Clifford Davis attempted to anchor the horse, but the animal bolted into a seven by two foot ditch and could not be rescued despite efforts by Davis, Charlie Michael, Floyd Tripp, others, and Harry Engles with a wrecker. The Lanark Gazette reports the tragedy and the unsuccessful rescue.
David A. Hoag of Canandaigua New York sues two Syracuse newspapers for 1 million dollars each claiming the comic strip Andy Gump caricatures him. He says a 1915 jaw cancer removal and Sidney Smith drawing created the humiliating likeness. Links local attention to his appearance and distress of mind. Lanark Gazette report.
The Burlington will abandon the 16th street boathouse because of river straightening and erect a new 450 by 60 foot facility south of 22nd street. It will serve all freight except coal and load directly into westbound cars from the east, with three parallel tracks handling 36 cars. The old house blocked the river channel and handled about 5 000 carloads in 1927.
In a memory filled note from the state journal a reminiscence recalls a girl from school days who vowed not to marry until finding a rich husband with status. Years later at a reunion she reappears with her husband running a hamburger stand and a cheerful, if reflective, mood amid past regrets about the back seat.
United States District Court in Freeport filed a condemnation suit against land in Whiteside County Illinois near the Mississippi River for the Upper Mississippi River Wildlife and Fish Refuge project. About 107.2 acres valued at 5.00 per acre are involved with many heirs and unknown interests, aiming to clear title for purchase and reclamation from Rock Island Illinois to Babasha Minnesota.
A collection of light jokes and puns from a newspaper humor page. Bits include a waiter salad dressing joke, a deaf man with finger injuries, haunted houses, wedding plans, a hen laying three eggs then dying, a boy at a church wedding, a name change joke about Central Park, and a Mayflower Plymouth Rock quip. Also short ads for Hardy Alfalfa Seed and sweet clover with a Toronto-style CJ address and a box offer from Cleveland Ohio.
A classified notice from Cedar Garment Factory in Amsterdam New York advertises sewing bungalow aprons at home with spare time work. Thread furnished no button holes. Send stamp. Located at 411-412 Howes Building Clinton Iowa. Tac-6-21-X.
Fragmentary OCR references Herbert Hoover Curtis Lowden and a political discussion across a river. It mentions a front porch scene in West Branch and a fire in an ecommunication, implying a hesitant note on statewide political planning and a potential running mate choice.
Readable fragments describe a tense moment near a convent with a man pleading to depart. A woman shivers as another figure insists the plan remains, revealing a dramatic but incomplete exchange that hints at broader local intrigue.
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