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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1944
Page
7
A mixed wartime notice advertises a welder for sale to farmers and repairmen, with personal contact in Elizabeth Rt. 1. A collage of war economy quotes urges efficiency, workforce cuts, and skepticism about quick Axis defeat, ending with a peculiar family-identity joke.
A collage of wartime religious and social topics including Catholic and Quaker welfare work, missionary education abroad, alumni events in Nanking exile, Hungarian church leaders urging Christian ethics, and postwar church rebuilding plans. It mentions leper care, civilian service camps, ministering efforts, and a chef joke.
Wade Guoniher recalls a stormy day forty two years ago when a tornado carved a path across Iowa and Illinois. The narrative describes hailstones the size of goose eggs, near misses to towns, and the writer witnessing the funnel from the Gazette office corner.
The document catalogs items for the Schick camp and hospital service council including lawn furniture, tables, chairs, umbrellas, electric fans, bed lamps, card tables, globes, maps, magazines, display cases, slip covers, and dictionaries. It also specifies musical instruments such as trumpets, cornets, clarinets, basses, trombones, saxophones, horns, drums, plus records and orchestral works.
Women from the Grand Army of the Republic United Spanish War Veterans Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion will again observe Poppy Day with artificial poppies made by disabled veterans. Gov Green proclaims May 27 as Poppy Day for downstate funds. Poppies were on sale in Chicago this week.
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