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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1907
Page
7
Dialectic between Towne and Browne on literary achievement as Philadelphia Press notes their differing views. Towne claims authorial success. Browne asserts mere writing success without broader acclaim.
In the countryside a day set aside for prayer for rain is disrupted as Uncle Hank Hard refuses to attend a religious populist gathering. Farmer Stebbins asks if he will join, but Hank declares a standpat refusal to participate in the weather driven meeting.
In a brief overheard exchange Halligan denies telling Wimmick about Hewilgus’s finances. Hewilgus retorts that Halligan claimed Hewilgus could not afford a decent hat and asserts the liar is Wimmick. The dialogue centers on social vanity and trust.
A reader testimonial praises Dean's Kidney Pills for restoring kidney health. The ad notes the product is sold by dealers for 50 cents a box, with Foster Milburn Co of Buffalo, N.Y. as the distributor.
Dialogue notes a tiresome phone call with Mrs Highmus about hiring troubles and not allowing a chance to speak. A casual aside mentions Chinese boat imagery on junks and a random reference to a factory in Peoria Idaho.
About 2 980 000 acres south of the Arctic Circle are slated for settlement on Sept 80 by order of the Secretary of the Interior. The tract, once a national forest reserve near Norton Bay, was abandoned for settlement amid labor shortages and a regional strike. Alaska’s population and economy are expanding as land openings attract new settlers and potential statehood moves intensify.
The report lists varied union activity and wage changes from 1906 to 1908, including Detroit hosting a Steamfitters convention, Stockton carpenters gaining a 50 percent raise to four dollars fifty per day, and Atlantic drug clerks uniting with Retail Clerks International Union. It notes strikes and policy developments in New York longshoremen, Hamburg labor groups opposing socialism, and British dockers benefiting from workmen's compensation.
A stylish young woman hurries into a bookstore asking a salesman to find a red, not thick book she has not read. She recalls a picture on the cover and mentions a train to New York and hearing someone laugh at it. She leaves declaring clerks are stupid.
A Brooklyn mother credits Cuticura Ointment and Remedies with curing her twelve year old son's severe eczema after doctors failed. The child’s skin was rough and inflamed with burning and itching before treatment. The testimonial dated April 16 1905 cites dramatic improvement after the first box and full cure after the second.
The item requires the workmanship of twenty men and the use of costly machinery to produce the delicate household article, the thimble. The passage references locations in Pilletsiphia Pennsylvania and mentions a free bottle and SER.IL KEINE, L4 Arch Street.
The original curtain call occurred February 26 1748 in Paris after Voltaire’s Me rope premiered. The crowd dragged him to the box of the Duchess de Villars where they urged a kiss, a moment recalled as a public act of acclaim that shaped authors’ later stage appearances.
Ask your dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease a powder to shake into your shoes. It rests the fret cures corns bunions swollen sore hot callous aching sweating feet and in growing nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores 25 cents. Sample mailed free. Address Allen 8 Olmsted Le Roy NY.
A Washington Star quote features Plodding Pete debating his attitude toward work. He asserts he respects work but jokes he would rather delegate tasks to someone less likely to spoil them, highlighting a humorous take on diligence.
Edinburgh has adopted a scheme for collecting for charity through a central office modeled on the Liverpool system. The Baltimore American quotes a remark about a son choosing the unwritten law as a cheaper path.
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