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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1938
Page
8
Local residents share visits and calls from Burlington to Clinton and Savanna. Families welcome relatives from Fulton Hanover Stockton and Albany with alumni banquets at Mt Carroll and Savanna Palisades. Observations include hospital tests for Alvin Bieleman and teaching assignment for Otto Switzer.
Local families in Argo and nearby communities hosted relatives from Dixon Clinton Fulton Savanna and Rock Falls over Memorial Day weekend and Sunday dinners. Guests included Thompson Wilhelm Sheller Dykstra Stichter and many others as they visited Willard Cooper Palisades state park Mt Carroll Savanna and Mt Carroll area.
Births and deaths listing with names ages and death dates from April. Emily Lichty Spanogle 87 died April 14 in Lanark. Charles Breese Vosburgh 74 in Lanark. George Feltman 91 in Rock Creek township. James Edward Aubrey 68 in Freedom township. and other local residents are interred in Lanark West Grove Oak Hill Chadwick Savanna and dern cemeteries with birthplaces noted.
Mrs Alta L Kinanne of Los Angeles and Mrs Dy Rice and Mrs Dr Cole Howe visited Mrs J Y Stickel Saturday evening. Mrs Kinane, sister of Mrs Cole, taught in Mt Carroll long ago alongside Mrs Stickel. The two had not seen each other in twenty years.
It's a compact poem on virtue and character by Dr. James C. Tobin praising honesty, effort, and fair play as success. The second sentence notes Japan's transport expansion with thirty eight motor bus lines covering over 1303 miles.
A travelogue along Route 41 notes pecan stands near Southern Georgia with shelled pecans at 25 cents per pound and pecans in the shell at 10 cents. The author details a 285 mile journey to Atlanta amid a fire at the Terminal Hotel and describes Stone Mountain’s granite mass and the Confederate carving in progress by Borglum, with history and terrain descriptions.
A travelogue recounts a northern to southern circuit visiting Atlanta landmarks and Dalton, then exploring Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park. It describes Lookout Mountain caves Ruby Falls Rock City Gardens and the Bat tle Above the Clouds monuments, plus Fort Oglethorpe and Stones River National Military Park with casualty figures.
In a humorous exchange, a mother accuses a son of attacking the doughnut dish, while Tommy defends the idea that a home run only counts when a fellow hits the plate, illustrating a playful domestic metaphor about sports and dessert.
Notice to interested persons that the fourth installment of the sixth assessment of benefits for land in the Savanna and York Drainage District Carroll County Illinois was due May 20 1988. Payment must be made to the district treasurer in Thomson by March 10 1989. if unpaid, lands will be sold to cover the amount and costs.
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