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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1932
Page
5
The item lists classified ad rates and rules for three counties Carroll White and Rock Island plus services offered auctions stock owners trucking and livestock buyers seeking space and contact details. It reflects old style newspaper classified guidelines with per line rates minimum three lines and printing deadlines.
A garbled OCR fragment references a search for a living man connected to a person named Ure dox and mentions Standard Janes, Gamble Stores, and a new code. Details are unclear, but the text implies a request for information about a person’s whereabouts or status.
Fragmented excerpts show farmers, Republicans, and Democrats debating economic policies, with references to William H. Thompson, Hoover, and Garner. The piece notes Cross-state influence, reapportionment fights, and calls for efficiency in state government amid bank failures and larceny indictments of Insull brothers.
A fragmented recipe listing includes ginger snaps instructions with flour, sugar, butter, and spices, plus a baked goods method. It also contains a separate Cheap Cake recipe using buttermilk like sour milk, flour, sugar, raisins, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and baking powder with hot water and soda steps.
A fragment describes cooking pears with pineapple to make a thick preserve. It mentions mashing softened pears with a masher and adding sugar to reach desired thick consistency, suggesting it as a tasty homemade preserve.
A motorist calms a hurt boy after knocking over a butcher's helper at a station. He apologies and offers 50 cents for a sandwich for the boy and himself. The boy later asks where his kidney is while gathering the basket contents. As the train departs, the boy asks for the remaining quarter, noting only one sandwich was bought.
Farmers Wert Schreiner and John Pisteller post land in Chadwick Illinois against hunting trespassing and strapping with a 50 cent charge for additional names to be added during hunting season. Violators face legal penalties under state law.
William J. Stratton, Secretary of State, reports that since taking office he has paid all interest earned on office fees into the State Treasury. He notes $1,076.88 earned in the latest quarter ending Sept. 30, 1942, bringing total interest paid to $41,666.17. He pledges to continue this practice if reelected on November 5 and to provide efficient service at low cost.
A University of Illinois survey reports average annual operating cost per truck at 184 dollars with 6.7 cents per mile. Across 2818 miles per truck, gasoline accounted for 19 percent of costs. repairs 21 dollars. license, insurance, and shelter 38 dollars. tires 11 dollars. depreciation and interest 76 dollars. Average load 2425 pounds and voyage 2818 miles yield 0.52 costs per ton mile.
A fragment notes humor about front gate notices and peddlers with jokes about a wolf at the door. A quip mentions a boy and a police dog in a secret service joke, reflecting light community humor.
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