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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1938
Page
3
The Review classifieds offer advertisers access to Carroll Whiteside and Rock Island counties with rates based on service territory and classification. The paper limits ads to proper classification and Review type, bearing responsibility for a single incorrect insertion.
A humorous note on using apples in bread to cut surplus in the Pacific Northwest. Quotes compare US and Canada apple varieties and seasons, ending with a rural farm camp anecdote about a man grooming himself with a comb and brush as a puzzled tourist asks if he is always that much trouble to himself.
A collection of humorous quips and social sketches from a small town page. Notes on court cases, marriages, civic life, and the odd bit of local color feature jokes about banking, music lessons, coal needs, and a policeman’s pun. Named locals and places appear amid light satire and neighborhood anecdotes.
A freight locomotive requires a half ton of coal to start and reach running speed. This key fuel load enables the engine to overcome initial resistance and achieve operational speed for moving heavy loads.
Used cars and parts advertised by Sam Ethridge two miles north of Hazelhurst Til phone Milledgeville 545 G. For Ford or Chev we have it for less money. Cut Rate Auto Supply Co Strand Theatre Building Clinton Ta.
An eastern daily publisher extols his secretary stating she knows her job. He reveals her habit of arranging the morning funnies on his desk in his preferred order so he need not turn a single page.
No other city in the United States with a quarter million population is so far removed as Denver five hundred miles or more from other large cities.
The second bassoonist, with Ernest Grunsfeld, took a busman's holiday to hear Carmen from the front of the opera house. He bought a $5 seat and returned to rehearsal the next day, recalling the orchestra's familiar ooompah rhythm and the Toreador melody as the rest of the ensemble hummed da da de da.
The note states names will be added to a list to run through the hunting season for fifty cents and instructs mailing to the Review office at Thomson.
Mrs. Wilbur Hall, a retired nurse, offers room board and nurse's care in an aged home. Desires a lady boarder not under 70 years, accepts a non serious mental case, no objections. Board, room, laundry, and nurse care offered for ten dollars weekly if not bed fast. Mailing address Thomson, MI. 11 9-8
The United States Civil Service Commission announces open competitive exams for multiple posts. Applications must be on file by August 8 or 11 depending on region, with later closing dates for other positions including Senior Attorney and Safety Inspector. Full details from the Secretary of the Civil Service Board of Examiners or the Commission in Washington, DC.
Postage stamps stuck together can be separated by placing a thin paper over the stamps and running a hot iron over it. The method works without harming the mucilage.
Extremes of population density in Latin American republics show Haiti at 294 persons per square mile as the most densely populated, while Bolivia and Paraguay register the lowest density at five persons per square mile each. The figures highlight wide regional disparities in settlement patterns.
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