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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1943
Page
3
Classifieds offer four advertisers a chance in two counties Car i and Rock feland with rates based on reasonable charges and covered territory Ads are directed to proper classification and the Review style of type The Review handles only one incorrect insertion.
A wartime home economy piece urges housewives to conserve food through careful peeling and cutting, gentle handling of fruit, proper storage away from light, and washing meats and produce before use. It stresses planning meals, defrosting and cleaning refrigerators weekly, and using scraps creatively to minimize waste.
Ball Brothers Home Service director Gladys Kimbrough outlines methods for safe home canning of berries with little or no sugar. Steps include selecting ripe berries, sterilizing jars, hot or cold packing options, and water bath processing with tips on sugar syrups or using berry juice as a substitute.
163 acres near Rock Ford Illinois with buildings. Possession by March 1st at 1535 per acre. 384 acres on Hard Road near Prophetstown Illinois at 100 per acre. 184 rolling acres with buildings at 60 per acre. 500 acres good black land with buildings in Bureau County at 105 per acre. 243 acres Newton Township at 135 per acre. 80 acres Garden Plain Township at 75 per acre. Many other listings. Paul D Carlson, Erie Illinois.
The piece argues for larger, more productive flocks to meet meat needs and reduce waste. It cites rising mortality rates from 1935 to 1940, improvements in egg production from 86 to 113 per hen, and compares unfavorably with the Northeast. The writer advocates policy-like steps to boost poultry meat and egg output.
Fowler Farms announces purebred Holstein bulls from high testing dams and will receive another truck load of spotted saddle horses in two weeks. Also offered are Guernsey springers, 24 Holstein heifers, 115 feeding pigs, and a two year old grey colt. Listings include breeders Fowler Farms Garden Plain and Louis Bush Coleta, with contact phones.
A column of WWI era jokes and quips on rationing, nurses, maids, soldiers, and daily life. A farmer and job seekers share light lines about exams and civil service. Humorous asides reflect social humor of the period with brief punchlines and mischief in ordinary scenes.
Q and A style facts cover Nicholas Perrot as an early Illinois visitor in 1671, his mission for a peace convention with Green Bay tribes, and exploration aims. It notes French and Spanish powder support during the Revolution, Sauk and Fox lead supply, a 50 ton lead interception in 1780, LaSalle’s Griffin ship on Lake Erie, and the 1730 Fox extermination battle location between the Illinois and Wabash rivers near Starved Rock.
An American soldier tours the Australian bush and learns to distinguish bullocks sheep and kangaroos with humorous misidentifications. The piece notes reluctant recruits pleading fragility to serum and war weariness as discussed in The American Weekly bundled with the Chicago Herald American.
A rhetorical prompt urges readers to consider how much beyond 10 percent of their family income they should invest in War Bonds each payday. It frames victory by Hitler as a threat to living itself and challenges personal sacrifice in wartime finance.
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