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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
2
A poem laments a vanished bygone day and a lonely city life. The speaker recalls green meadows, flowers, and childish art, expresses longing for freedom, and pities being caged while the world remains wide.
A bronze age era narrative recalls three men trekking toward Yellowstone headwaters with a trapper companion. A doomed raft drifts into a whirlpool near a cliff as the trapper reveals the murdered prospectors Pierre and Mart condemned to haunt the Black Gap.
A rugged expedition uncovers stolen gold trapped in a phantom raft that circles a whirlpool for eleven years. Two men Pierre and Mart hid the treasure, which is recovered by a trapper and companions after enduring peril and pursuit.
The piece extols the common farmyard bird as the true feathered friend of man praising the hen as comfort and usefulness. It contrasts rustic choice with brighter birds and ends with a joke about a hungry fashionable dinner guests leaving as hungry as they sat.
A vast bush fire in east Kootenay Manitoba rains death and ruin across about 100 square miles. Fernie and Michel are devastated, with 200 known dead including 74 in Fernie. Thousands flee to open prairie as rail lines burn and towns vanish. Relief pleas reach Winnipeg Vancouver Spokane and Helena.
The Cincinnati Enquirer describes a factory where 100 pounds of molten potassium cyanide boil in a central caldron as workers in glass masks handle fumes that allegedly boost health. Foremen claim the fumes are wholesome and workers resist but feel a strong craving to taste the drug.
A New York realty company accepts plans for the largest apartment house on record. The block long building centers on an interior court designed as a shared summer garden for all tenants. All sleeping rooms will face the court, with common access to the green.
The National Educational Association voted down a proposition to endorse re formed spelling. Arkansas suits against the Waters-Pierce Oil Company ended with a $10,000 settlement. In Georgia convict bids investigation ex-Gov Terrell showed ties to convict lessee James W. English as attorney.
A tale of Hezekiah Doolittle who avoids worry as poverty grows. He zaps hardship with cheer while Annie Warner works hard, debts rise, and a child is born. Annie dies after overwork. Hezekiah wanders away, muttering Providence is inscrutable, and his wife is remembered for worrying.
In a Philadelphia Presa snippet, Jimmy and Tommy debate inventive ideas including carrying a knot hole and a wand in a fence. The playful exchange shows children imagining clever devices and practical tricks for mobility and storage.
A Philadelphia Press quote notes Dorcas societies focus on local aid while wry remarks about social life hint at relationships. A street scene comment adds a remark on marriage prospects tied to a couple seen together with a girl on the arm and a country man.
Arrangements for disbursement of about 750 million dollars are being made to government officials controlling supply contracts to restore normal business. Roosevelt urged departments to avoid delays in annual contracts as hundreds of bids are opened daily. The Treasury and War College events are noted with Navy, immigration, and tariff policy comments and a Mayflower voyage incident.
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