Local notices and jokes mix in Sabula Gazette page
A long list of names and dates appears for Nov 5 to 11 with many residents and towns named including Mt. Carroll Thomson Chadwick Lanark Milledgeville Rock Falls Polo Sterling and Shannon. The page also contains humorous quips about politics honesty and a railroad detective with brief quotes.
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Ernest Miller
Mt. Carroll
Alfred St. Ores
Thomson
Emma Kling
J. B. Lee
Milledgeville
Lloyd Schryver
Robert Hubbard
Ralph Milroy
Jerry Blaine Spencer
Chadwick
Wallace Ware
Lanark
Ivan Crofton
Wesley Sack
Dwight Brown
Army
Lauvel Hartman
William Albert Miller
Paul Unzicker
Upper Darby
John Magill
Harold Stoner
Fred Daehler
Oscar Daehler
Harold Rahn
Charles Shuman
Phineas Bashaw
John Brandenburg
Lois Wolfley
Marjorie May Mellhattin
Ted Davis
Arlyn Adams
Lyle Greeley
Earl Green
Roland Schroth
Harriet Fisher
Fulton
Lizzie Kustes
Low Moor
Arthur Crofton
Rock Falls
Glyde Collinson
Gordon Milroy
Ernest Bornemeier
Darlene Torrance
Sterling
Charles Deets
Lois Dykstra
Arnold Yenney
Kenneth Gaul
Chief Amuses Wolfed Job Advice in Old West Tepee
A touring Eastern man tells an Indian chief to work in a factory for a bank account and retirement, but the chief asks why repeatedly. The exchange ends with the chief noting he already isn’t working and wouldn’t need a bank. The piece blends humor with social observation.
Everlasting Punishment Featured in Christian Science Lesson
Sunday services across Christ Scientist churches centered on the theme Everlasting Punishment with Golden Text from Psalm 150 7 and citations from Isaiah 43 14 25 and 55 7. The study also quoted Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health page 839 describing divine pardon and the denial of sin as mind or reality.
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Churches of Christ
Scientist
Israel
Mary Baker Eddy
Quipny Exchange on Cakes and Bills at Home
Mary asks why that cake is called run away cake as Mabel explains the joke about four eggs. The dialogue turns to money before and after marriage and a practical tip about waxing rockers to protect floors.
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Mary
Mabel
Ration News on Sugar Meat Gasoline and Tires
Detailed ration notes list valid periods for sugar brown red green and blue coupons in multiple books plus expiration dates for airplane and gasoline coupons. Instructions cover renewal applications and required tire inspections with deadlines and unit values. A cartoon exchange about verbs and a quip about a hotel clerk closing with a joke are included.
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OPA
Illinois history quiz about Jefferson and Lincoln era
In 1839 Joseph Jefferson III came to Illinois with his father, touring from Chicago north to Galena and south to Pekin where a pork house performance occurred. A Springfield fee dispute was settled by a young Abraham Lincoln who refused reimbursement. The era favored Richard III Othello and Hamlet. Chicago’s first theatre opened in 1847 on Randolph near Dearborn, built by John Rice. McVicker’s Theater followed in 1857.
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Joseph Jefferson III
Illinois
Chicago
Galena
Pekin
Springfield
Abraham Lincoln
Middle West
Richard III
Hamet
Randolph Street
Dearborn
John Rice
McVicker
Crosby's Opera House theater built in Chicago 1865
The famous Crosby's Opera House rose in Chicago in 1865. In 1867 ownership shifted by lottery winning.
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Chicago
Crosby
Opera House
Not addressed request prompts a kiss for cheer
A playful exchange between a couple shows one seeking comfort with a kiss and the other reluctantly agreeing to provide reassurance through a kiss. The dialogue centers on affection and mild resistance.
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The
Thomson Review
Village Echo
Thomson Broadax
A. G. Stage
H. G. Stagg
Kenneth Whitney
Geneva Hazen
Lin
Doc Saunders
Thomson, Ilinois
A. E. Bowles
Telephone
Ill
OASIS
Albany
Cordova
W. H. Foster
Wilson
Clinton
Iowa
J.H. Potts & Son
Main Ave
Imminds
O. A. Kinsel
Naprapath Morrison
Ili
6Th Ave
S. Clinton
P. W. McAndrews
D. C
Sixth Avenue
Carroll County
Wade
Sabula
Congress
Brown
Denver
C. S
Phinful
Sigma Pi
Bill
Grad
Henry
Mountain District
United States
Roosevelt
G. W. Blohm Chiropractor
4Th Ave. S
W. L. Domsalla
Phone Morrison
Johnson
Artcraft
Morrison Clinton
England
King Sweyn
Chicago Herald
Christian Science Churches
Ration News
Joe
Jack
Mrs. Jones
Mr. Jones
Nebraska
Colorado
Montana
LOW Moor Sales CO
E. E. Krukow
D. J. Doyle
Tucker
Clinton, Ia
Handel Brothers’ Sale
Chadwick, Ill
Kenneth Schneider
Mount Carroll
Elmer Middendorf
Mt. Carroll National Bank
Hebner
Shannon Brothers
Savanna Sales
Wm, Ehredt and Son
Milwaukee Stock Yards
Savanna
Glenn Teeter & Son
Kipnis Sales
Wisconsin
Fred Johnson
Rugby
N. D
North Dakota
MT. Carroll Sales CO
O. P. Miles
H. Kipnis
Ralph Dulen
Billy Beaton
Aucts
Furniture Company
Wealtho
Considine’s “Fulton's Meeting Place
Lincoln Way
Cigars
Garret Sterenberg
Morrison
Miller White & Woods
Earl A. Brotzman
Presiden
Union Stock Yards
Housenga & Bronkema
John Deere
E. Doorenbos
Township 22
Whiteside County
Ustick Township
Spring Valley Store
Hollinshead’s Corners
Fletcher & Hammer
Zuck and
Flickinger
Floyd Zuck
Good School House
Shannon
T. B
Berkshire
McCormick-Deering
Delmar Flickinger
Audi
Teeter and Son
Bowers and Johnson
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