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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
8
Annual sales exceed nine million as Lewis' Single Binder cigars gain praise for reliable quality and mellow tobacco. Advertisers claim the 19th century favorite matches top cigars, warn against imitators, and urge buyers to request Lewis' at the point of sale from origins in Peoria.
Riverview Exposition opens with a grand, multi‑facet celebration surpassing past fairs. Five million spent to create a premier attraction with 7.6 million visitors last year projected to reach 10 million. Highlights include Caesars Circus Maximus scale, a 100‑piece band, and The Creation spectacle by E W McConnell’s team.
Miss Wolfe of Peoria visits Miss Hazel Cullen and Miss Magaret Perry from Peoria stays with Miss Susie Maher this week. Roy Bale and Ray Slocum visit friends in Galesburg. For sale burlap sacks at Clark's. Mrs. Frank Hamilton and children visit Peoria relatives. M. W. A. picnic attendees from here in Wyoming. Caroline Blundy visiting uncle Geo Reed in Washington Iowa. Charles Homason with daughters Nellie and Bessie returned from Peoria. Auto brand overalls marketed by Clark & Sons. Lightning hits farm animals near Breach Grove. Mr. Dosk of Mendota and Mr. Doak of Madison visit Brimfield. Princeville and Monica ball game at Monica next Sunday. Lemon pie recipe and bake notes. Rev C D Shoemaker reports his father ill in Findlay Ohio and then dies. Henry Memler's Wisconsin trip home. W M Carter buys 1910 White Steamer agency for Stark County. Storm causes trees to fall near J Hibbs and near W T Cowley with fires to south. Edward Fisher rescues drowning boy at Lake Senachwine with help from Dr Corcoran and Dr Henderson. Fisher praised for heroism. nearby depot accident where coach passengers saved by Fisher.
The Popular Music Publishing Co. of Indianapolis Indiana offers three or more performer names and twenty five cents in silver or postage to receive postpaid a collection of songs marches and waltzes for piano or organ including Red Knaver's Flight of the Butterflies Manila March and The Girl I've Seen.
A collection of miscellaneous items notes Germany as a duel hub and radium rich oceans. Africa tops gold, America follows. Cleveland to be called Concrete City in ten years. The Queen of Roumania writes thirty volumes. Earthquakes total 30,000 yearly. Roller skates date to 1768. Bread origin credited to a Chinaman. Alaska railroad length around 3,800 miles. Philippines cigars reach 2.5 feet. Microphones reveal fly steps. Japan illiteracy about 10 percent. World Sunday schools total 262,000 with 26 million attendees. US Navy coal bill for 1908 about 5.545 million. Germany hosts half of roughly 51,000 world breweries. Pail bearers' Union forms in Alexandria. Japan sells coal to China about 5.9 million yearly. Concrete stockyard laws possible in New York. Russia boasts a powerful dredge moving 7,000 cubic yards per hour. Elmore’s island washed away near New Hampshire and Vermont. Two large vessels for Pacific use. late Duke of Fress leaves 4.15 million pounds to heirs. servants largely excluded. Gas restriction proposal in Washington. France has 23,656 miles of national routes costing 303.975 million. local highways total 316,898 miles at 808.8 million. Moving vans in New York show new arrivals seek lower floors then move to suburbs. A new Socialist paper in Paris led by Paul Broussaz titled The Proletaire to voice a protest faction.
A scattered compilation notes diverse data points including inventions, production, demographics, and natural phenomena. It lists violin invention about 1200, linen industry in Ireland, world coffee from Brazil, and many numeric trivia such as milk yield, Sunday school totals, and steam power estimates.
A pixelated OCR fragment hints at a scene where a person strikes a smirked expression from ten feet away and a small impact or action follows. Details are unclear due to fragmented text.
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