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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1931
Page
5
Oscar Seajen Savanna 15 released on $2500 bond. Owar Skaren and Glen Anderoo charged with stealing a Buick sedan owned by Mr Kennedy. They were bound over to the November term after entering a not guilty plea in Savanna police court before Fred C. Cole.
John Logan Carman Pegg and Mary Quinn of Clinton Iowa are jailed on charges of stealing chickens from D C Eaton's Savanna area farm. Detectives from Burns Protective Association in Chicago aided the investigation. Logan reportedly confessed under questioning by States Attorney Eaton and Sheriff Shiley, naming the others.
Sheriff Harry Shiley made two trips to Fulton Saturday night to pick up chicken thieves after a telephone tip. He locked one thief up and then received a second call to arrest the partner, noting his knowledge of the local roads. Real estate transfers listed include Sartwell to Savanna and Greenleaf to Sandholdt among numerous lot and block transactions in Savanna and Oak Park areas.
The report notes excellent fishing in Johnson Creek following recent rains near Argo-Fa. Miss Velma Luck plans to attend the Normal homecoming. In Dixon over the weekend at the Barnes home we gathered roses and found an apple tree blooming with blossoms, though some text is unclear.
A Carroll County farm boy Edward Sturtz of Lanark plans to exhibit a purebred Hereford and a purebred Angus steer at the 1981 International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago. The event runs Nov 28 to Dec 5 with junior classes and a feeding contest for youths ages 10 to 20. Entry deadlines include Nov 1 for livestock and Nov 10 for the grain and hay show samples.
Engineers from the Minneapolis Bridge Company will guide soundings in the Mississippi river at the Basa bridge site under Longyear Exploration Company direction. Core samples 75 to 100 feet into bed rock determine pier footing placement. Diamond drills used. Work expected to last one week to ten days before pier construction begins. Concurrently, a blacksmith shop and material housing are rising at Marquette park north end upper terrace, with a new dock to unload barge supplied materials.
A collage of light humor and quips. It features lines about counting money and cashiers, a painter and portrait, skating, an editor rejecting a poem, a Romeo joke, insurance, and a hatless sheik. Bits on burglaries, bread, and marriage delays fill the page with quick one liners and cartoonish anecdotes.
The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair includes a wind swept shore field where Jim Sconce raises 150 cotton plants outdoors near Soldiers Field Stadium. Florida and Massachusetts commissioners plan strong exhibits with fruit, citrus and fishing industry displays, signaling cross state participation for the event.
Fragmentary text references enduring value and legality around property and consent under a feudal or constitutional framework. It mentions rights, denial, and the rule of law, but lacks clear events, dates, or named entities to detail a coherent news item.
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