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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1901
Page
1
Local ad promotes 10¢ per gallon kerosene with a splendid wall paper deal at 3i per double roll. It claims best line of work clothing, shoes, and garden items. Green trading stamps offered with purchases, urging buyers to seek out the seller for lowest prices.
Local notes advertise house and lot for sale by J. W. Johnson, Hayward's grocery, and a Peoria ice cream shop. The Elmwood fair runs Sept 17 to 20 with plans for strong attendance. Travel deals to Pan Am Expo in Buffalo and other destinations are listed with dates, fares, and sale windows.
Advertises roof painting with promises of lasting quality by Elantic roof paint. Claims to save money and offers additional deals on iron wheels and wagons with low down prices. Author signs as HILh in a cordial closing.
An old advertisement claims Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets stop the cough and work off the cold in one day with a no cure no pay offer priced at 25 cents. It emphasizes quick relief and a straightforward guarantee.
A notice from Mrs W E Staxcoury of Briosfield announces readiness to do various carpet weaving tasks on abort notice with all warp colors on hand and in the best possible manner.
An old rail advertisement extols Nebraska as a land of plenty with cheap land and easy terms. It promises rich grain and fruit potential, healthy climate, churches and schools, and profitable cattle farming. It offers free illustrated literature and notes biweekly cheap excursion tickets to Nebraska for prospective settlers.
Hunter Joun Rusk warns against hunting or trespassing on his property under penalty of prosecution. The notice states strict enforcement and private ownership rights.
Brimfield village imposes a six hundred dollar levy for current fiscal year. It covers streets, police and street commission, salaries, and miscellaneous costs totaling 2 960 dollars and directs filing with Peoria County Clerk. The ordinance is dated August 5, 1901 and signed by President W L Haywarp with Clerk Appison Pacey.
Editor 8 C Brown of Bennettsville recounts his wife’s long dyspepsia and weakness. After four bottles of Electric Bitters she recovered fully, regained appetite, and can eat anything. The tonic is praised for torpid liver and digestion. Sold by Wm. Robinson & Co.
The Burlington Route C B and Q from Chicago Peoria and St Louis now operates daily passenger trains through Lincoln Nebraska and Custer South Dakota to Deadwood also to Newcastle Wyoming with sleeping cars to Deadwood. When painting remember 5 T Hill offers Enamel roof paint for shingles or tin with guaranteed workmanship and low prices.
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