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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1938
Page
2
Carroll County readers enjoy the Cubs as fans hail strong games while Thomson reports showy melon sales and high water events. Local musings include apple displays, gas pump upgrades, curve safety, and a humorous story about a horse and whiskey cure.
The Carroll County platform calls for a bank at Milledgeville, extending Route 171 to Chadwick and joining with Route 40, electing efficient local officers to cut expenses, promoting community competitive sports, and marketing Carroll County as the sports men's paradise.
A set of political slogans promotes tax relief safety constitutional fidelity and agricultural advancement. The phrases emphasize lower taxes safer communities adherence to the constitution and support for farmers and farming communities.
A long list of birthday observances runs from September 30 to October 6 across Chadwick Milledgeville Thomson Lanark LaGrange and surrounding towns. Names include Mary Waters Blanche Beck Henry Hartman Lillian Wagner Donald Weatherwax and many others with via dates and places noted. The fragment ends with a pair of jokes about weather in the South Sea Islanders.
In Iowa and Illinois river lands the memoir describes Buffalo and Morehouse Landing once home to prominent men and rafts harbor, Muscatine island famed for produce, Port Louisa by Muscatine, New Boston harbor of raft safety, Thieves Island near Keithsburg, and Boeing river features.
The article describes a growing horse illness with varied symptoms such as sideward movements, head drooping, weakness, heavy sleep, and loud snoring. Veterinarians are puzzled, noting similarities to a past outbreak called blind staggers, with old timers recalling a feed-related origin.
Notice to all interested parties that the third installment of the seventh assessment on lands in the Savanna and York Drainage District, Carroll County Illinois, is due by March 10, 1939. Nonpayment will trigger sale of unpaid tracts to cover the installment and costs. Roy I. Houghton, Treasurer, Thomson Illinois.
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