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Local Author A.K. Frailey Publishing Four New Books This Year

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BUZZ MAGAZINE – On January 30th, A. K. Frailey published her personal reflections on life, love, faith & family in her third book in the My Road series, My Road Goes Ever On: Rise Again. March 28th, she published the first in a new children’s book series, Wise Home. Her adult daughters, Laura and Rebekah Frailey, drew all the illustrations, creating heart-to-heart art without an ounce of AI. On May 28th, her third collection of short stories, Spice of Life: And Other Stories, was

Burma Shave Signs Were Staple of Highway Travel in Past Eras

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BUZZ MAGAZINE – Today, many complain about roadside billboards, calling them boring and an eyesore. In past eras, highway advertising was much more interesting. This year marks the centennial of Route 66, and it’s also the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the Burma Shave signs, a series of five or six simple signs that entertained motorists with rhyming poems. Today, replica Burma-Shave signs are found along Route 66 in Illinois near Towanda, north of Bloomington Normal,

Route 66 Helped the Massive Car Boom in Nation in 1920s

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BUZZ MAGAZINE – When Route 66 was created in 1926, it found plenty of traffic. Illinoisans, as elsewhere, were falling in love with the automobile throughout the decade, and highways like Route 66 began to crisscross the state. Route 66 was one of many improvements that revolutionized transportation and economic growth around the state. After struggling over paths of ankle-deep mud for decades, Illinois residents were ready for a major overhaul of their roads in the early twentieth century.

100 Years Ago: Women's Speech Contest Draws Crowd at Shurtleff College in Alton

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A June 4, 1926 article in the Alton Evening Telegraph described Shurtleff College junior Margery Elizabeth Fish’s unanimous victory in an all-college oratory competition, the Atchison Prize in Oratory, held on June 3. Eight women participated in all. A men’s competition, the Haynes Prize, had been held in the past, but this was the first women’s oratorical contest ever held at Shurtleff during the college’s ninety-nine year history. Fish’s oration, titled

NIU Spring 2026 Graduation List Includes Glen Carbon and Brighton Students

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DeKALB, Ill. – More than 2,300 students received their bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Northern Illinois University in May. Included among the graduates were the following students from your area: HOMETOWN, STATE; NAME, DEGREE, MAJOR Brighton, IL Thomas Schlafer, Bachelor of Science, Sport Management Glen Carbon, IL Jaren Alnutt, Master of Science, Sport Management About Northern Illinois University Northern Illinois University is a student-centered,

The Three Sisters Gardening Method

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BUZZ MAGAZINE – A great way to grow a lot of food in a relatively small amount of space is by using the indigenous gardening method, the Three Sisters Garden. A Three Sisters Garden is a companion gardening method that utilizes three different plants with three different growth habits that all support each other to maximize their yields for you. Doing this gives you three staple crops in one plot of ground, and if you are intentional, you can even add some cousins to the plot to add some