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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1909
Page
7
Mrs McCall questions the servant girl while Mrs Hiram Offen notes continued slowing progress in a brief exchange. The line reflects a local newspaper’s tone presenting gossip or social commentary.
A Glasgow Herald correspondent reports near Elgin a blackbird stands by the road, ignoring footsteps of a pursuer, while four young weasels circle in a hedge. A parent weasel alarm cries, the young vanish, and the bird remains immobile until it flees to a tree, uttering a frightened note.
A Jackson Michigan nurse Mrs. Judson Hild also known as Nurse Baker shares her experience with backache and kidney symptoms. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills with restoring strength allowing her to work again. Sold by all dealers at 65 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A column-like sketch mocks consumer talk and promotes assorted remedies. Uncle Jerry Peebles proclaims self as ultimate consumer while advert sections tout Wizard On a chest rub, Dr Pierce's Pellets, Davis' Painkiller, and other quack cures. Consular reports note European industrial gloom amid falling American purchases. The Transvaal gold output is claimed to be 400000 ounces monthly.
The Circuit Court in St Paul declares Standard Oil Company of New Jersey an illegal restraint of trade and a monopoly and orders its dissolution within thirty days. The decision, based on the Sherman Act, views the company’s structure and methods as violations, promising sweeping changes if upheld by the Supreme Court and possibly restoring room for smaller firms.
The Panama canal project now shows a near 400 million dollar cost, far above the earlier 150 million estimate from 1902. The late figures come in an annual report signed by the chief engineer and secretary, noting substantial overruns and revised projections. A separate report details a fatal mine explosion in Martin's Ferry Ohio, with six miners killed, and a Kansas City saloon hold-up wounding a saloon keeper and his son. A lynching in Dellis Louisiana and a Black Hand member’s death in Leavenworth are also noted.
A Chicago man describes an initial eruption of small pus-filled lesions spreading to the body with intense itching that tore at his skin. After trying doctors and various treatments, he used Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills, reporting relief within days and complete eruption clearance in three weeks.
A Washington Herald fragment satirizes social norms and political intrigue. The piece touches on cigars, legal subpoenas, a border dispute over fruit salad, and ponderings on women voting for both candidates. It mentions an insurance payout to a widow as part of a broader quip.
A historic medicinal recipe praises a cure labeled Breaks A CQLD Is A Day And Cures Any Cough. It describes a whiskey glycerite mix with pine concentrate, instructing shaking and dosing every four hours. The text notes ingredients are available from a pharmacist or supplier and emphasizes the labeled Concentrated pine product.
Mrs Chugwater asks what animal magnetism is and Mr Chugwater answers by combining animal and magnetism to define anthmnal magnetism in plain terms.
A damaged OCR segment advertises Halla Catarrh Cure from FP J Cheney & Co Toledo offering one hundred dollars for cure reports. It notes deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tube and claims nine of ten cases relate to catarrh. Also mentions Take It All’s Family Pills for constipation and a child’s incident with a fallen book prompting a mother to demand politeness.
An old classified style notice urges mixing Rough on Rats with food to create bait for rats under floors and to seal larger openings for dogs cats and chickens while leaving small entrances for rodents. The ad mentions price 25c to 7hc and lists druggists in Jersey City NJ. A fragment also references a Boston dispatch about a Mrs Hancock of Brockton Mass dying at her predicted eighty first birthday.
A countryman strolling Argyll street in Gi gow jokes about the boastful shop signs. He notes ham and clothts shops claim best prices while a plumber’s window proclaims Cast Iron Sinks, quipping that one sign tells the truth at least and mocks others. Tit Bits.
Dr Blunt offers Rheumatic Remedy advertised as a permanent cure for rheumatism with a free sample and Chicago address. An England tramways investment figure of 320 million dollars is noted along with the 2 394 miles of track. A hoarse cough remedy Allen's Lung Balsam is advertised with prices six cents to one dollar. A man breathes about twenty times a minute.
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