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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1902
Page
7
By products once cast aside are reused in steel and paper making, shoddy wool, and fertilizer. Old iron is remelted, tin becomes weights, rubber is recast, and coal tar yields valuable by products. The article traces innovations turning waste into profitable materials across iron, textiles, and chemical industries.
The article details distillation of coal tar producing ben zine carbolic oil creosote and anthracite oil at increasing temperatures. It lists drugs such as antipyrine phenacetine sulphonal antifebrin and ace tanilaid and notes saccharin is a tar product nearly 300 times sweeter than cane sugar. Aniline is highlighted as a key tar product enabling vivid color production since 1858.
In Philadelphia a trader supplies travelers with authentic looking luggage labels stamped from distant hotels and steamship offices. The labels promise proof of worldly journeys, letting owners travel incognito while signaling status, though the fake authenticity comes with a cost.
The Philadelphia Times notes labels for travel routes can be fake or mislocated, with some hotels named on labels not existing or having mixed locations. The paper adds a Cuba tour costing more than a similar European trip, suggesting Cuban labels may be more familiar and thus riskier.
The piece argues meat shortages and high prices can push people to widen diets. It cites the Brooklyn Eagle on meat as habit and promotes seafood, vegetables, bread, and dairy to boost vitality. It lists a vegetable heavy meal plan including soups, onions, turnips, eggplant, asparagus, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, pudding, fruit and coffee. It notes education of appetite and temper through diverse foods and urges trials beyond meat and potatoes.
A meat peddler recounts his near death by lightning with vivid scenes of the electric trance and returning to life. He recalls watching his horses die, a white cloak spirit, and a fear of lightning, then switches to a lake fishing misadventure where a boat fills with fish that revive after being tossed overboard, suggesting the fish are centuries old and immortal.
Harold Simpson recounts a tall fishing tale from his days in Canada in the Fishing Gazette. A Major, a quartered unit, and a settler’s hut frame a trek through a primeval forest to reach a mysterious lake that locals claim has not been touched since creation.
A set of literary notices reports forthcoming works by Aldrich Hall Caine and others. Aldrich’s new short stories arrive after a four to five year gap, with Houghton Mifflin. Hall Caine’s novel scenes Isle of Man and scandals. Frouder heir hesitates over Carlyle letters amid prior debates. Rieber writes Herbert Spencer study for McClurg with Jordan intros. Rand McNally issues Stevenson school edition A Child’s Garden of Verses illustrated by Mars and Squire. Falt Gloucester sailor life ballads Wharf and Fleet issued by Little Brown, Conway to publish Mount Aconcagua ascent via Cassell. Merejkowski’s Tolstoi study praised as first complete portrait by a fellow Russian author.
A Minneapolis party of two couples seeks the best restaurant in St. Paul for luncheon. Conflicted about propriety they ask a police officer for guidance and are advised to visit McG's, despite earlier doubts. They eventually dine at the suggested venue amid a noisy Western town scene and a cat’s howling comparison.
A long report highlights labor activity nationwide. It notes 244 establishments employing 9,889 glovemakers in the United States, AFL calls for mass Labor Day meetings to protest injunction abuse, and mentions key unions including the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and the Brotherhood of Painters Decorators and Paper Hangers. It covers wage increases at Illinois Steel Joliet mills, Japanese migration to Hawaii concerns, a New York Cotton yard mills trust plan, and Baltimore retail drug clerks organizing. The Allis Chalmers machinists strike ends with a 4 percent raise and a shift to a 55-hour week. strike benefits total $35,000.
A droll tale unfolds in a tavern setting as a stogie man riffs on liars and a town deacon. A cheeky voter recounts a reformer’s clever plank caper, ending with a rural joke about a woman and rain for crops. The narrator’s pithy commentary closes the morsel.
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