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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1942
Page
5
Classifieds offer advertising across Carroll and Rock Island counties with a reasonable rate. Ads are restricted to their classification and the Review style of type, and the Review accepts responsibility for only one incorrect insertion.
Notice warns against hunting or trespassing on land leased from the government along route 80 north of Thomson and on land occupied by Guy Turney. Trespassers will be prosecuted according to law.
Public sales livestock auctions listed for Sterling Illinois Mendota Illinois Mt Carroll Florida Chadwick Morrison Unadilla Farm Milledgeville with horses cattle hogs sheep pigs and related farm equipment. Dates include November 6 10 12 19 25 and December 19 with times around 1030 am noon and 11 am. Prices and exact stock vary by sale and location.
An assortment of classified items and notices from Fulton and surrounding towns. Listings include used 20-gauge Winchester, 22 Winchester Automatic and shells, creamery and farm equipment, hay and straw buys, and rental and sale offers. Also features a satirical column on wartime shortages and humor.
A batch of quitclaim and warranty deeds records transfers in Fair Haven North Walton Chadwick and Savannah. Separately a Chicago Stock Yards report notes Carroll county hogs selling at top prices for November with Orville Woessner as top hog owner. 66 head averaging 259 pounds sold at 14.50 per cwt. Cattle and replacement calves reached record highs with steers at 17.45 per cwt and Hereford calves at 16.50 per cwt. hogs averaged 14.60 on Wednesday, November figures unseen since 1918.
Poet Perry Buxton responds to criticism in the Des Moines Register over publishing pictures of bathing girls and "Queens" in abbreviated clothing. He argues modern women are beautiful and not vulgar and laments prudish attitudes, praising the freedom of today’s attire and the public’s mixed reactions to garments that reveal form.
Article 2 section 11 of the game and fish code of Milne ois prohibits entering another's property without permission. Trespassers on lands listed will be prosecuted. Jesse Jurgens and Sons Thomson cited. additional names will be added through hunting season for 50.
Report summarizes the desert recluse known as the Hermit of Giant Rock and hints he may have been a Nazi saboteur or a sun worshiper. The piece notes his strange conduct and a spectacular death, with a side anecdote about an engineering student and a river bridging exam question.
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