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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1947
Page
5
Mr and Mrs Harold Holm visited recently in the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Herman Galitz at DeWitt Ia.
Hunters flocked to the Mississippi river hunting grounds near Thomson as the season began on Tuesday and continued into Wednesday. Mild fall weather kept ducks farther north, leaving many with few shot opportunities though a few birds were harvested or seen. Showers and cooling temperatures on Wednesday raised hope for more game later in the week.
Members of the Milwaukee Road board of directors and a group of officers will undertake a four day inspection tour covering 1500 miles of the line across Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota South Dakota and Iowa starting from Chicago on November 10. Travel will be by special train with city stops for facility inspections and conferences with business groups. The special is tentatively planned to pass Lanark early Friday November 14.
A group led by Lloyd Handel of International Harvester traveled from Chadwick to Chicago to attend the IH centennial celebration at Soldier Field. Thousands from Iowa and western Illinois joined special trains for the event. The exhibit tents showcased early McCormick reapers to modern harvester threshers, plus processes like twine making and welding. A large outside display featured TH equipment including a 112 horsepower gas engine.
Grading on the Chadwick to Route 78 project nears completion with culvert work continuing. Remaining heavy machinery will finish culvert sites and maintain the grade awaiting surfacing. A fall crushed rock base depends on culvert work finish. The Mill Edgeville to Ideal road has first gravel course done and second starts. Jack Emnyre, three, hospitalized in Clinton Tuesday with an ear infection.
A large fair program featured diesel powered earth moving gear and big trucks in a morning display. In the afternoon an excellent stage show entertained attendees in a big tent with the latter portion broadcast on Station WBBM. The Chadwick group was led by Mr Handel and included Walter Queckboerner James Morgan Henry Livengood Reuben Geisz Kenneth Whitney Will Handel Arnold Traum Roy Queckboerner Harlen Handel Charles Harris and Ernest Remmers.
Garden fallow has yielded valuable results on vegetables like Irish potatoes tomatoes beans and peas as well as wheat. The report cites agricultural trials conducted in Room 4 Walter Building Fulton Illinois with practical outcomes for crop production.
Rural areas were hardest hit as forty percent of counties, mainly rural, had no recognized general hospital in 1940. Sleepwalking sleepers may act and perceive while still asleep, including movement, speech, touch, sight and hearing.
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