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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1907
Page
5
Brimfield Directory shows services for multiple churches with pastors, service times, Sunday school, and young people meetings. Includes Catholic Mass times, parish activities, and local fraternal organization meetings.
Officials warn farmers to keep cattle from running at large on roads to avoid damage. Citizens urged to monitor stock and prevent incidents on highways.
A historical medical pamphlet argues life has a potential beyond current limits, citing a critical period in middle age. It touts bitters as a scientific remedy aiding all organs, guaranteed by a druggist firm.
Mis Olive Harriott and others visit Peoria relatives as Canton Chatauqua week unfolds. Electric light plant consolidation bids emerge in Bureau county towns with Bourtevant Linley of Chicago backing the syndicate. Old Settlers close season with $205.60 balance. special train earnings and Burlington arrangements noted. Community church events highlight Sunday services and union gatherings after camp meeting with multiple ministers and conversions.
Church invites all who do not worship elsewhere to join a Thursday meeting at 7 80 p.m and the Sunday morning and evening services. Pastor J W Smith signs the note urging attenders to come in His Name.
Congregational Church notes show a union service Sunday night at M D church with Rev. M. P. Lackland preaching Prayer Service tonight at 7 30 Sun day School at 10 00 a m Mrs A A Knapp superintendent Preaching at 1100 a m on What the risen Christ in to His church P P C E at 645 with topics Teoan and I cant Leader Burt Hayward No evening preaching due to union service at ME
Mr and Mrs C E Waters visited in Peoria Sunday. Maude and Mabel Clark are visiting relatives at Monica. Verne Arcer is spending a few days with friends in Peoria. Mrs H O Cady was called to Canton yesterday by the death of a relative. Piles get relief from Dr Shoops Magic Ointment. Large nickel capped glass jars 50 cents sold by all dealers.
An oddly phrased promo cites routine sun patterns and urges use of a dubious product. It mentions Us liven véragd bowels and New Life Pills with brand-like wording attributed to Gonsabtiet Se FW and Robinage & Oy.
King Leopold of Belgium avidly collects pagodas in his Laeken and Brussels residences. His hoard includes porcelain ivory ebony silver and various other materials with some mounted on elephants. He even hunted through Paris curio shops for oriental bronzes now among his treasured possessions continuing after past intrigues.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions sunflowers and roses with scattered odd phrases. The readable parts name plants and a list of unrelated terms, without coherent events or identifiable people, places, or dates.
A fragment presents two aphorisms: Envy is the sorrow of fools attributed to a named man, and habit is ten times nature linked to Welling ton with period punctuation.
A historical piece catalogs long fasting claims by Sacco and others, noting hours without sustenance, water, or both. It compares cases in Vienna Paris and London, mentions San Francisco 1896 and shipwreck survival, and warns that abstaining from both food and drink differs from liquid-only fasting.
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