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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1931
Page
5
With the wheat surplus affecting farmers, the upcoming season stands to change as harvest remains uncertain. Trade and market dynamics loom over the growing period, influencing planning and income prospects for agricultural communities.
Lang Brothers Herd heads the County Cow Testing Association with an average 86 percent milk and 36.2 pounds butterfat, a strong start to the testing year. Ben Williamson’s nine Holsteins posted 823 pounds milk and 30 pounds butterfat, with a grain mix of corn oats oil meal cottonseed and bran. one cow produced 640 pounds butterfat.
A fragmentary humor column presents a string of cartoonish exchanges and one liners. Dialogues revolve around antiques and Louis XV motifs, bald jokes, a Russian march, a nurse with twins, a waitress with animal dishes, a love vs money line, a fortune teller, wind changes, jokes about change of air, and light schoolboy humor.
A collage of jokes and quips unfolds with alternating scenes. The dialogue covers dogs and prices, a frazzled patient and doctor, profanity and sermons, an astronomer awaiting a car, a judge and locksmith, and a hunter meeting an elephant. The fragmentary text hints at humor and misheard lines.
A fragment notes Dr Davia from Rockford being in Thomson News on Sunday to examine tubes. Details are unclear due to garbled text.
Thomson features next Monday night comedy sketch by Mrs Sylvia Griswold and Louise Ores at the Elkhorn sehay near Milledgeville. Various social visits include Ely Cochran and Merrice in Chicago, Kimbro Shake family from Tuscola staying with Frank Rush, Jennie Lowry visiting in Galesburg, and a Home Economic Club program at Argo church. George Beck and Michigan visitors with Ollie Atherton host family. Ada Lewis and Yalta Bower called in Davenport. Philip Switzer visits Forrest Nickerson in Iowa City. Glen Moriz and friend of Water- (text cut)
A fragmented article reviews how early social customs around Washington's Day emerged from U S traditions and Bicentennial sources. It mentions attempts to balance formality with efficiency, noting etiquette on addresses to the President and ceremonial table settings featuring Roast beef veal lamb turkey and game preparations and display.
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