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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1901
Page
8
Just What the Boys and Girls Need prints weekly on Saturdays a bright page titled Talks with our Boys and Girls with entertaining illustrated stories curious facts and world news condensed items and the Open Window Club department that has organized thousands of club chapters for mutual improvement and entertainment The Sunday edition also features a young people page full of engaging content for boys and girls.
Wm Robinson & Co quotes QQ Buck of Beirne Arkansas praising DeWitt’s Little Early Risers for relief from constipation. Buck claims complete cure and urges others to try the remedy.
A Kansas minister and a neighbor credit Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with curing severe bilious colic and persistent bowel trouble. The minister recalls giving a bottle to his neighbor who improved after taking a single dose, while a infant teething case also showed rapid relief after a few drops in water. Both endorsements appear in an advertisement for the remedy sold by Wm Robinson & Co.
Post office hours listed as 7 a m to 11 2 m then 1 p m to 8 p m with mail close at 4 20 a m and 5 p m. P B M R Srkam P M B posted in local notice.
Edward J. Brooks administrator seeks order to sell estate real estate to pay debts. Defendants Oscar Brooks Blanch Gerbrich Jessie Brooks notified to appear Oct 1901 before Peoria County Probate Court. Parcel described as lots 3 and 4 in block 14 in Brim town, Peoria County Illinois.
A midwestern pitch extols Nebraska and Kansas farming advantages with climate, cheap land, rich soil, and robust school funding. It contrasts Illinois yields and rental income, cites state land sales limits, and argues Nebraska farms yield higher returns per acre, urging settlers to choose western opportunities over renting. The piece ends inviting readers to compareNebraska with Illinois and touts westward emigration via the C B and Q Railway to Farmington Indiana.
Ad copy urges consumers to take Rocky Mountain Tea to deter facial pimples and blackheads. It promotes daily use and directs readers to ask their druggist for the product.
An advertisement touts Dr King's New Life Pills as a cure for liver trouble and skin blemishes. It claims the pills purify blood and improve complexion, with a price of 25 cents at Wm Robinson & Co's drug store.
Report describes a chaotic Democratic gathering in Campaignus where Col Crisp delivered a biting rebuke to critics. The clash featured loud roars from delegates as Crisp denounced rivals amid tense political theater and a crowd in turmoil.
An advertisement from William Robinson & Co promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a permanent solution to indigestion. It claims the product digests what you eat and relieves stomach tiredness by aiding natural digestion and providing sustained relief.
The life size portrait of Mme Marie Theresa Chouteau, wife of Pierre Chouteau, preserved by descendants of the Chouteau family in St Louis, is owned by Miss Martha Berthold. Painted on wood to resemble canvas, the portrait shows her seated outdoors in a shawl and kerchief from the late 18th century. Believed painted after 1774, it hangs in the Berthold home and may be exhibited at the World's Fair.
A Nature report on Northwich Cheshire detailing subsidences caused by upper rock salt mining and rapid brine pumping. Water dissolves salt pillars, roofs fail, and framework buildings rise on screw-jacks to lift sinking structures. The town increasingly relies on movable frames to restore alignment.
The article describes kites as tools for sport including partridge control and fishing. Edward Horseman, a kite expert and manufacturer, popularizes air line fishing, allowing fishermen to stand on shore while bait is dropped far out. A pulley system drops weighted line and reels in fish as soon as a bite is felt.
Hans Winkler reports curious botanical experiments at a zoological laboratory in Naples. A flowerless aquatic plant with submerged leaves and sand rooted growth was inverted, leaves buried in sand and roots floating in bright light. Roots transformed into stems and leaves, while buried parts became roots.
In Vienna three youths Marie Fried 16 and Felix Kopstein 13 and a helper carried an old woman's heavy package. A policeman arrested them for carrying parcels without a license under a city statute that vests carriage rights in a Messengers corps. They were held six hours, warned, and released.
The California Supreme Court in Atkinson v Clark holds that inmates of a lunatic asylum are not presumed dangerous or unskilled from their status alone. A superintendent may allow inmates to assist in tasks like brickwork if not shown to be careless or unskilled in selecting workers, as doing so reflects facing difficulties directly.
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