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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1935
Page
2
The masthead credits Foster L. Stagg as publisher HL G. Stagg as business manager with Harriett Smith and Kenneth Whitney serving as reporters. This confirms the paper’s leadership and key newsroom personnel.
A miscellany of humorous clippings features tales of pig theft in the countryside, a jurors’ quip about a man’s guilt, rambling musings on greed and politics, a wry war diary excerpt, and roaming jokes about traveling salesmen, a university rumor, robins on relief, and a dime versus nickel gag in a small town.
The Review urges residents to support churches, organizations, and county life. It stresses hard work, paying taxes and mortgages, and providing for families as the county’s vital backbone.
The 1935 Revie w Platform calls for a bank for Milledgeville, paved routes from Thomson to Argo Fa Chadwick, a county patrol highway, and promoting competitive sports in Carroll County. It urges reducing office expenses and supporting graduates with guidance on finding jobs, resilience, and self-reliant ambition.
A man named Jorel Don Juan escorts his date to her doorstep after she rejects intimate behavior saying she did not engage in those acts. He informs her it was not amateur night, implying she should head home. The exchange centers on boundaries and social expectations.
The text shows confusion over the five billion relief fund and how it is spent. It mentions officials and agencies delaying clear announcements on how, when, where, and by whom the relief work is allocated. It cites Senator Long, Father Coughlin, and General Johnson in shaping public ideas without firm details.
A patchwork of small-town items covers taxes, open streets, youth baseball, and local ads. Savanna’s Main Street opens to traffic while gardens, plowed lots, and softball start up as chilly weather eases. Henry Rash warns with a “We Buy No Chain Letters” sign. folks await dimes and dollars from chain-letter schemes gone slow. Thomson highlights juvenile baseball, Scouts activities, and a seven-up partner ad. F. L. Stage promotes expert pie sampling while local crafts and vocational meetings receive nods.
MT. CARROLL saw Kittenball debut with two games at Point Rock Park Monday night. A P defeated Browne Insurance 16-15 while Red and White overwhelmed Creamery 23-7. The janitor at the courthouse repaired screens, the May fete at Frances Shimer College on the south campus is set for Saturday, Skip Force and Bill Wires redecorate the A and F store interior, Robert Hansen was moved to Hines Hospital in Chicago, and Dr and Mrs G S Mersbou attended a Rockford medical convention. The first band concert of the year will be held.
This week features a series of Thursday night concerts continuing through the summer. The eighty second commencement will be held at Frances Shimer Junior College on Monday June 10 at 9 30 a m in the gym with Rev Charles W Gilkey of the University of Chicago delivering the address. Jane Mitchell of Romney Ind was elected May queen and will be crowned at the fete Saturday. Mr and Mrs John Squires and Mrs Emms Reynolds who spent the winter in Sarasota Fla have returned home. Elmer Guenzler is rehired as city park caretaker for the coming summer. John Gare, the killer of William Antone in Savanna Sunday, might be boarding with Sheriff Eber Shepherd.
A 1915 slice shows Lawrence of Ux tick as Thomson supervisor and York Community School leader, Neva Gierson visiting with Carpenter friends, and Ernest Graves at the Geisinger home. Notes record Civil War veterans, alumni banquets, WWI era mail delivery by auto, local weddings and moves, weather hopes, and baccalaureate planning with Rev G Ebert speaking.
A playful mathematical trick asks for a person’s age and pocket money. Subtracting and multiplying steps yield a result where the first two digits represent the age and the last two represent the change. The trick ends by adding 115 to the computed figure to reveal the final number.
A rambling Sharpe column blends a personal memory about opening a door to hornets in school with social and political commentary. The narrator recalls a former teacher’s playful threat of punishment, laments politics and fund structures, comments on small country banks and farm prices, and ends with downbeat town observations and a humorously blunt note about helping others.
A fragmentary radio feature recalls Rudy Vallee stopping a show to calm a disruptive audience member. The report mentions John Langsland, Isiam Jones orchestra, and details about Vallee and other musicians, dating to early 20th century New York state and radio broadcasts.
Fragmented unreadable OCR text mentions a plan to pay Senators a lifetime salary and references U S Congress. Also alludes to historical anecdotes and a general war era scene with a book agent and a doorbell, plus stray remarks on driving and language.
Hap hapnes will hold an auction Friday May 7 starting at 1 o clock featuring horses cattle sheep and farm machinery. A dairy cow sale by Ten A Wood is set for Saturday May 20 at 1 20 starting at the barn in the northeast tower of Vernon with channel cows and Jerseys.
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