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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1941
Page
7
Review Classifieds appear in all three publications and offer advertisers results in two counties, Croll and Rock Island. Rates are based on a reasonable charge for the service and territory, with ethos restricted to proper classification and the Review style of type. The Review is responsible for only one incorrect insertion.
Bug Screens and deflectors offered for all cars by Cut Rate Auto Supply Co at 423 Second St Clinton LA 3238. Do it our way since it is the best. General Auto Co Bear Service Station at 115 4th Ave So Clinton.
Thursday Sterling Sales Pavilion livestock auction opens at 10 30 at Sterling Illinois listing horses cattle hogs sheep. Brookville Sales held Wednesdays at 12 30 listing horses and cattle. Sale ads for DeWitt and Savanna area farms and services. Job seekers and housework wanted plus auto insurance and well drilling ads appear from Lanark Savanna Hillsdale Mt Carroll Freeport Thomson and DeWitt with names and addresses.
The ad promises converting idle attic space into an extra bedroom at low cost. It urges immediate action with a bold call to place your order now. It mixes light humor about life with a sales pitch and a note on coal as a long time topic of discussion.
Calendar notes the Dairy Cattle Congress in Water loo Iowa from Sept 29 to Oct 5. A separate domestic scene shows a mother and father debating baby names Imogen and Mary, illustrating family dynamics. Imogen echoes the mother's favored choice, while John recalls a former sweetheart named Imogen.
Unloading another car of BC Red Cedar shingles. If you need a new roof buy now because wood shingles are going higher.
Classified items show sale of 1941 model combines and farming gear from Van Matre Implement Co Monroe Wis and Earl P Dailey Albany NY plus Ace Hybrid Seed Corn from Marvin Naeve Bryant IA with pricing. Also serial notice of Seventh Assessment of Benefits due March 10 1942 for Savanna York District Carroll County Illinois and a hospital update on Rube Bastian in Rochester Minnesota.
A humor column by Wade Guenther includes quips on prejudice vanity and politics. The column ends with a note that Maquoketa will host a circus on Monday May 26.
The Sabula Gazette notes County Attorney Paul Ahlers seeks a boy to assist in a case. It records a birth of John Paul to the Ahlers family in Maquoketa. The paper also mentions a Sabula man recalling his wife’s prior flirtation and now being under her thumb.
A crowded trolley scene shows a young man persistently offering to pay a young woman’s fare while she gropes her purse and unbuttons his suspenders. The exchange reveals social tension and embarrassment as the man repeats his request.
Government lands tract FI-164 known as the Carroll Farms in the Mississippi bottoms south of Savanna are posted. Violators will be dealt with by law and a $50 reward is offered for information leading to a conviction for molesting the land.
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