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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1931
Page
6
A fragment from a pamphlet or newspaper note questions life in Soviet Russia, asking what happens to people and why freedoms vanish. It references arrests, Siberia, and the G.P.U. while contrasting daily life in shops, health, and work with fear and control.
Tuesday night the ordinance of the Lord's Supper will be observed. The event will be preceded by prayer led by the Rev Jot Tisdall of Quincy.
The event lists a men’s banquet on Wednesday evening addressed by Rev I J Cabill and Carl Vrooman of Bloomington. Indianapol is Mia Alda B Teachout named principal speaker for the women’s sessions run by Mrs Wa Hart of Benton. The fifth annual young people’s conversion set for Sept 11 and 18 under C T Mattox Bloomington.
Officials urge tree lovers and growers to aid the U. S. Department of Agriculture in locating elm trees affected by Dutch elm disease Graphium ulmi found previously in Cleveland and Cincinnati. Four more trees are reported in the Cleveland area this year. Pathology teams in Ohio and the Mississippi Valley search for infected trees while stem tissue shows brown sapwood discoloration.
Scrambled lines indicate specimens suspected of carrying a disease may be sent from any state to a central laboratory in the United Kingdom. The text mentions the laboratory and experiment stations, suggesting a historical public health procedure for testing and surveilling contagious conditions.
An obscure mix of quips and vignettes appears, including a driver’s miscue, a note on Miss Blackwell married to a famed antiques collector, playful animals, and a young doctor interrupted by a servant. The passages read like a collage of street anecdotes and social oddities from a bygone era.
The Illinois Cooperative Crop Reporting Service notes price declines from July 15 to August 15 for grains fruits hay sheep lambs milk cows and horses while hogs beef cattle veal calves and dairy and poultry products rose by August 15 compared with July 15 based on Illinois and Pedera department data.
INVENTORS The new book Success or Failure discloses over one hundred reasons why inventors fail Why the ten succeed and how they do it Every inventor possessing the knowledge is assured success Postpaid $1 25 Fred Poole 1738 W College Street Springfield Missouri HULLED OATS We hull then right on the farm Call 367 Morrison and reverse the charges Jim Ball Union Grove OL Taco 11 1 1
The text shows a fragmentary report on agriculture with references to corm prices, relative position for farmers in August, and a comparison to five-year averages. Names and precise details are unclear due to damage, but indicates price levels and farming context in the period.
The August 15 1910 report notes higher butter and butterfat prices from July, a $3 drop per milk cow, and state corn at 46 cents per bushel while wheat sits at 7 cents and oats at 15 cents. Farm prices fell about 4 percent US wide with corn and oats down three cents per bushel and wheat down one. Livestock prices steadied. dairy products gained two percent and poultry products ten.
A partial transcription notes that the United States index of form prices on August 16 was 70 percent of prewar levels. The remainder of the text is garbled, leaving unclear details or names.
A railway carriage conversation features a phantasmagorical mix. An ex doctor recalls losing patients after a slip in death certificate details. A pithy exchange with a seedy man contrasts small stature with success. The Coast to Coast Store offers lamps at 17 cents each.
The readable portion notes buying a car removes the need to walk to a location called felly or WeRG with unclear references. The text is garbled and lacks coherent events or identifiable entities beyond the car purchase idea.
A farmer replies darkly as a sales pitch touts Gamble Stores Clinien Iowa offering a solid trainload of tires at two for the price of one. The listed deal includes 29x4.40 tires priced at 7.05 per pair starting September 6th.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Mig Campbell and several garbled phrases. Details unreadable. no clear event, date, or proper names beyond the uncertain references to individuals.
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