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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1923
Page
4
A local note covers a forthcoming sale of John Ashpole's Duroc Jersey boar and gilt set for next Tuesday. The item lists other community notices and brief mentions of visits, shipments, and local events tied to farming and county affairs.
Born to Mr and Mrs Chas Hartman a nine and half pound boy. Charlie Stake miller of Chicago visited over Sunday with his parents. Mrs Orr and daughter Floy were Sunday guests at Harry Orr's. Ross Gleason improved after illness. John Ohm and daughter Evelyn visited Ohm's mother near Sterling. Will Peterkin near Morrison called on friends at Ideal. Joe Deets of Fair Haven delivered potatoes to the Idec store. Ed Newendyke offers 21 Chester White boars for sale and won multiple fair prizes. Ed invites visitors six miles east and twenty miles south of Thomson for stock purchases.
The item notes winter weather musings as frost and fodder loom, reports Mrs. Frank Brown recovering from a skin ailment, and touches on folks moving or renting farms. It mentions Charlie Segal renting the Miller farm with plans to move to Mt Carroll nearby, and reports on Mrs. Gus Leavens improving from eczema. It includes Rupple shipping more chickens to Iowa and a duck hunting incident near Sand Slough where nonresident licenses were involved and later settled in Justice Stagg's court.
Notice advertises spring fries for chicken dinners and white Pekin ducks with next day delivery by Fred Smith at R 2 Mt Carroll IM. It also invites requests to review office about buying squash and carrots, and announces a public sale of a Holstein cattle herd starting 1 PM on Wednesday Oct 31 at a farm one mile north of Wacker.
Florence Vidor and Monte Blue lead the cast in the Rialto Theatre adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's Main Street. The story follows Carol Kennicott as she tackling small town stagnation and urges progress in a Gopher Prairie that resembles a real life Main Street. Supporting players include Harry Myers Noah Beery Louise Fazenda Robert Gordon Josephine Crowell Gordon Griffith Otis Harlan and Alan Hale. Harry Beaumont directed.
For sale Standard bred White Wyandotte cockcails at $100 each during Mc tober Lucinda Greharing.
In the Circuit Court of Carroll County a notice is published for non resident Charles E Stearns in a chancery case filed by Lulu B Stearns. The bill was filed October 15 1923 with a summons returnable on the third Monday of November 1923. Valentin Boerner Clerk Mt Carroll Illinois October 15 1923. Charles E Stuart Complainant's Solicitor.
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