Brimfield Clippings From July 24 1858 and 1864 Notes
Historic Brimfield excerpts include a street riding ordinance fines range of three to one hundred dollars for dangerous traffic, Aunt Lizzie Aiken’s wartime hospital memories, and a 1936 church attendance curtailment amid shifting Sunday routines. The Brimfield News also recalls twilight cries of “Hurrah for Tilde” and local farm life disruptions.
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Brimfield
Lizzie Aiken
Memphis
Lizzie
Luizzie
Wilway
Passor
Chou
Presbyterian church across from Baptist Church built in school
Fragmentary note places a Presbyterian worship site opposite the Baptist Church and mentions its construction in connection with a school, indicating a local religious and civic context.
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Nis Church
Baptist Church
Harvest Home Week Opens In Yates City This August
Yates City celebrates its 50th Annual Harvest Home with festivities set for Thursday and Friday August 27 and 28. Store closings are announced for Thursday afternoon and evening August 2 due to events at the old Warehouse site once home to the Comma building.
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Yates City
Ita
Catholic Daughters of America meet schedule at Community Building
The C D of A meets in the club room of the Community Building on the second and fourth Thursdays each month. Sara Reed serves as Regent and Historian Nellie Carroll is noted.
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C. D. of A
Sara Reed
Nellie Carroll
Modern Woolmen meeting notice in community room
The M. W. A. Camp No. 847 meets at the club room of the Community Building every other Tuesday evening. Rudolph Savage is listed with H. B. Bowman as clerk.
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M. W. A. Cacp
Rudolph Savage
H. B. Bowman
Camp No 203 R N A meets monthly in Community Building
Camp No 203 R N A holds meetings on the first and third Wednesday afternoons in their club room at the Community Building. Oracle Eva Clark serves as Recorder and Carrie Arber is noted in association.
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Oracle
Eva Clark
Recorder
Carrie Arber
Women’s Relief Corps meeting schedule noted at Cady’s ball
The Women’s Relief Corps holds meetings on the second and fourth Wednesday afternoons each month at Cady’s ball. President Mary Sollenberger and Secretary Alma Eljis are named as officers.
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WRC
Sn Cady’s
Mary Sollenberger
Alma Eljis
Untitled dialect exchange at local church service
A fragmented parish joke centers on a gamekeeper and a minister debating church size and vision. The humor hinges on misheard words and miscommunication about attendance and clarity.
Diamonds in the Rough and a Radio Blues
A Prairie Farmer excerpt unfolds with a daughter praising a jazz tune on the radio while a father recalls a near collision of trucks carrying dairy cans and Loe ducks. Robinson pleads for kinder treatment of his friend Jones as he laments her plan to cut him for style.
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Jones
Robinson
Proverbs on Life and Self Reliance
A collection of maxims noting religious disputants shooting at flies and warnings against lawsuits. It warns against meddling in others affairs, folly burdening a man, bearing one's own burdens, and not seeking appreciation. Mentions Homer and a line about seven cities and birthplace. G. Western Newspaper Union.
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Homer
Western Newspaper Union
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Moarch
American Red Cross
wDverture—Gypsy Festival
Moonlight and Roses
Margaret Houman
Helen Clark
Walse Orienal
Iarch
Stella
Parcella
Hayes
Yradier
Lemare
McCoy
Carr Davis
Sweeley
Brimfield Motor Sales
Tudor
Laura
Dean L. G. Tillotson
Bradley College
Brock
Eleanor McKinney and Her Orchestra
Hazelton
Marie Hazelton
Late
Hollywood
Billy Quiram
Foster and Coleman
Laughlin and Laughlin
The
Chicago Civic Opera Company
the Cavaliers
Methodist Church
Hart’s Hall
Llirois State
Oes
Safa
Overen
Toxic
Ieee Hoge
fFnion
Stuui’s Hvaurel Cal Loitaeron
Stan
Wiemler's
Floyd
H Netkirk
Memier
H.O Cady & Son Johnson-Arber Cc
T Rovma
All Suiding
Catholic Daughters of America
Royal Neighbors
Women’s Relief Corps
Frank Schlehuber
Majestic Cleaners
Garden St
C.t's Away
Cyindir
John W. Holland
Frigidaire
Central Illinois Light Company
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