07 Feb 1877
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Newspaper
Brimfield Gazette
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1877
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR shows multiple attorney names and firms including Cratty Brothers Lasuis Rosisox Noel Wortamaron Rodibon Worthington and Quinn and Lee with addresses and titles. The readable portion indicates a directory style listing of lawyers and offices in Peoria area.
Brimfield officials opened bids for the new Brimfield district schoolhouse last Thursday. Bryson & Silloway of Brimfield won the complete building contract at 8900, with multiple bidders including Harris & White of Peoria and J W Bramble of Peoria offering varied sums for brick, stone, tin, and carpentry work. The paper endorses local contractors, noting the choice benefits Brimfield workers and keeps funds in town.
A Brimfield hamlet diary records splendid week weather, visitors to Peoria, and local notices. It notes photo studios Daft and Cameo vignetti, a county fair in Knoxville, church services, schoolhouse plans, and business ads for hats, furs, book-cases, and furniture.
The column reports tax notices due by Mareti 1877, arrests in Washington Simons case, and a plea to refill medicine counterfeits at Prince’s Peoria House. It notes the Eyre and Spottiswoode Bible arrival, hotel remarks at the Probria House, Holloway ointment fraud warnings with signatures, and a recount of Knox county votes with Boyd ahead of Wilson. Also mentions a hog cholera remedy claim, a young O Connor escape tale, and local marriages, deaths, and a field day notice for Brimfield.
Monthly meetings and religious activities for the Brimfield department outline prayer gatherings on Monday evening and a general meeting next Monday. It invites new members who accepted Christ recently, and lists Sabbath lesson on Elijah and Baal with devotional notes, scripture references, and exhortations about commitment and truth.
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