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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1935
Page
4
An article urges careful planning amid uncertain times and suggests housewives use weekly bargain specials in butcher shops and grocers. It highlights larger canned goods to stretch meals, keeping food safe in refrigerators and reducing weekly food costs by about a dollar or more. Sample recipes include Melon and Grapefruit Cocktail and Jellied Salmon Mold with practical instructions.
Local note items greet readers with Memlers School Sale ads offering pocket dictionaries, percolators, binders, and aluminum items at low prices. Community updates recount visits, family gatherings, travels to Peoria, Laura, Davenport, and contact with relatives, plus a bake sale by the Brimfield Home Bureau.
A collection of notices includes wanted to buy eighty acres unimproved farm land and a 110 acre farm with a modern home for sale, plus exchange offers for oats corn or livestock. Also listed are coal at Cusack Coal Company Edwards and Jay Bird mine shipments near Oak Hill. A lost dog notice warns of a warrant if not returned. Additional items advertise a color portrait feature and an article on the ancient Hawaiian hula dance.
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