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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1935
Page
2
The Thomson Review declares its aim to reflect Carroll County citizens as average, honest people while encouraging support for local churches groups and businesses. It urges residents to pay bills, obey laws, and back banks, taxes, and mortgages as vital to the community’s well being.
A 1935 platform calls for electing efficient town village and county officers. It urges paving Route 171 from Thomson to Argo Fa and onward to Chadwick, promoting community competitive sports in Carroll County, building a county patrol highway from Milledgeville to Thomson, and aiding all officeholders in reducing expenses.
A fragmented editorial voice discusses how disease follows its course and the need for practical measures indoors. It hints at charitable giving and public information, contrasting wealth with food access and civic responsibility amid health concerns. The piece reads as a period voice on society and public welfare.
The piece discusses a proposed portable talking picture machine as a community entertainment for Chadwick Lanark Milk Digde, Thompson and Shannon. Merchants in each town would appoint a representative to organize weekly showings, reducing costs and boosting local engagement. Public interest is high as farmers report steady crops and voks.
Mt Carroll lists May and June activities for students including outdoor life talk May 7, senior stunt May 20, field meet May 16 at Point Rock Park, senior exams May 28 29 and June 1 4 6 events such as junior senior prom baccalaureate class play and commencement with speakers. Also notes coach B Walker entering track men in Gateway classic Clinton Iowa and other trip. Also reports death of Mrs Mary Reese in New York City burial at Oak Hill and county official visits Red Oak fa plus local mentions of Dr Donald Mershon Bert Huber Edith Goddard.
This Week Of Chicago reports visits by Dr and Mrs G E Mershon and Pet St Claire in Carroll County after long absences. Local residents Floyds and others traveled to Primgar due to a death. Redecoration of the courthouse halted for relief funds, and Mt Carroll prepares for kittenball with teachers possibly returning next winter.
A historic shade tree in front of the post office was felled Monday due to rotten limbs. Main Street now lacks shade except for a lone tree on the bank corner and a few in Virgil Wilts yard. Residents reminisce about listening to ball games under the cool spot as boulevard lights offer little relief from heat.
Enraged wife asks for a coroners report in a fragmentary exchange. The damaged text preserves a scene implying a legal or forensic inquiry with tension between a wisecracker and authorities. No clear names or dates are readable in the fragment.
A private trout pond in Clayton County offers free entry but charges 50 cents per pound of trout caught. The note imagines a future where Elmo Black would visit and get rich paying the same rate for game as fish, reflecting local curiosity about new cinema idols and oddities.
The feature profiles Annette Hanshaw, a famed radio singer heard on WCBS Tuesday nights and a Thursday time slot. It notes her New York City roots, height, blue eyes, and early ambition to be a portrait painter, her rise to radio stardom, major polls, and public persona as Amelia Earhart.
A playful remark notes ants as diligent creatures, yet they still forage at picnics. The line highlights their tireless work ethic while humorously implying they also enjoy human snacks.
A rambling pasted page notes humor and gossip from SHARPE and readers. The column riffs on social chatter and odd anecdotes, mixing quips about golf lingo, radio schedules, and daily life. It weaves playful insults, local slang, and odd observations into a busy, period-voiced collage.
A playful vignette recalls a mutt, a famous scientist, and a schoolyard scene. A girl refuses food, a bell marks a moment after marriage, and a water-fetching child causes a spill. The narration blends humor with small daily quirks.
Fragmentary notes suggest a man was shot by his wife at close range with powder marks cited as evidence. The text also mentions an Indian judge addressing a jury on a theft indictment and a historian discussing costumes and women in the middle ages, all from a noisy, garbled page segment.
A playful exchange reveals a bizarre line about an alibi and a hospital call. The speakers joke that a new mouth to feed is not a baby but a tapeworm, ending with a sarcastic congratulations over the odd line.
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