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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
8
An old medical notice describes kidney nerve control as the true weakness, warns restorative cures are futile, and advises seeking proper medical diagnosis if back pain urine changes or other dangerous symptoms occur.
A fragment discusses dry rot as a social metaphor and a 1908 Brimfield Illinois tax ordinance levying 1359 20 dollars for electric lights police and street work. The document notes the village board action, with specifics on assessment and filing to Peoria County, dated August 3 1908.
The Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition in Seattle Washington runs June 1 to October 16 1909. On August 1 the project was 65 percent complete with two months left to finish. кер The capital stock is 800000 with over 200000 from Washington counties.
Mrs Mary Lee of Zanesville Ohio recounts how her husband James Wee trusted Dr King’s New Discovery for severe lung illness that threatened consumption. A friend recommended the remedy and after using it his health returned. advertised as throat and lung medicine with a guarantee and trial bottle offered at Wm Robinson & Co drug store.
Mrs Chas E Smith of West Frankfort Maine says she believes in Dr King’s New Life Pills as a gentle effective laxative for her family. The purifiers are sold at Wm Robinson & Co drug store for 265c.
The piece recalls soldiers and widows homes created after the war and the need to keep veterans and their wives together. It credits Governor Charles S. Deneen for backing a Quincy home with 132 500 dollars in state support and notes GA R advocacy to maintain the Quincy site and educate orphans.
Brimfield township Law and Order League offers 825.00 reward for any person furnishing evidence leading to conviction under intoxicating liquor laws by order of the league.
Prayer meeting tonight at 7 30. Sunday services Sunday School at 10 00 am Junior Endeavor at 6 00 pm CE at 6 45 pm Yours truly C D Shoemaker Pastor
Mrs Davison of San Jose California extols Electric Bitters as a powerful family remedy for headache biliousness and liver and bowel issues. She claims a bottle provides more digestive health than any other remedy and notes it is sold with a guarantee at Wm Robinson & Co drugstore for 60 cents.
The report mentions Swiss plans to electrify all rail lines and expand water power usage. It cites Freiburg and Swiss municipal services including pawnshop and cinema, with cheap cemetery interment and opera rentals. Britain’s major railways issue gold tickets granting free travel on any line as a gratitude gift to notable earners.
NYC faces fourteen weeks of water supply at typical use levels. Belgium reports telegraph delivery times under fifteen minutes in many cases. A Geisenger Norway snowslide kills thirteen as people are buried and later rescued. The British Museum holds 5 to 4 million volumes, needing over forty three miles of shelves. "Home Sweet Home" debuted in Philadelphia in 1823 during Payne's melodrama.
An ad touts Lewis' Single Binder straight 6c cigars as equal to the best 10c cigars, claiming strong reliability and rich mellow tobacco. It urges smokers to seek the Peoria Illinois factory origin and warns that imitators cannot match the brand.
A scattered digest notes on electric posts in England and Italy, traffic limits on vehicles, a 25 million ton annual pig iron capacity of United Sister Steel, and reforms including youth speed controls in England. It mentions a jade mine in Siskiyou County, a planned Nigerian railroad of about 400 miles, Norfolk peat briquettes in Massachusetts, and Liverpool tram deficiencies. It cites population density near Liverpool and trends in streetcar and cable car construction around 1890 to 1908.
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