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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1903
Page
2
A nostalgic poem recalls a deserted house and a child’s dreams. The speaker contrasts the decaying dwelling with visions of vast universes, moon and star, and a longing for lost innocence. He recalls Leslie's Weekly as a source of early prophecy and a life’s-changing gaze from the eastern window.
Caleb Frye, a fragile New Hampshire student seeking health in Dakota, bonds with Frances Darrow while sharing nature’s wonders. A spring gun trap set by John Driver endangers Frances as Frye chases her and cries out to stop, but the wind muffles his warning.
Ernest G Judkins a Kineo company bookkeeper recounted a wild chase with a bull moose along a Deer Head Farm carriage road two miles from town. Riding a horse, Judkins repeatedly encouraged the moose to return to the road, then spurred forward as the animal calmly fled, finally the moose turned into the forest after about half a mile of pursuit.
John Driver and Howard Deane carry Frye after a trap wound at a prairie site near a spring. Frye calls to a girl who fled into bushes before a stall and a deafening shot ends the pursuit. Caleb Frye reflects on summer and eternal song as he dies.
A Philadelphia Press item recalls a young reader’s vivid fantasy about travel and geography. The tale features a girl imagining England Australia and a wandering Jew-like figure, reflecting early 20th century curiosity and biases. A manager character quips about a poor actor unable to change his faults.
The United States postal department handles 7 250 000 letters and cards a year, a figure comparable to Great Britain Germany and France combined. A wry line warns not to ask a man how he married in his wife’s presence to hear the truth and notes absence of soft water as a reason for hard living.
A meditation on home as a living spirit rather than sterile cleanliness. It argues that cheerful, relaxed households foster true comfort, while obsession with perfection breeds rigidity and loss of hospitality. Parents should teach responsibility, nurture happiness, and greet children with a smiling, calm approach to daily routines.
A compiled snippet presents several recipes including a maple sugar sauce for ice cream topped with shelled English walnuts, corn pone or Southern hoe cake, tomato soup with beef stock and rice, and a walnut salad. It shifts to social life commentary noting East women pursuing careers beyond millinery and dressmaking, highlighting Mia Mackay and Mia Whitney as authors.
A jumble of household tips on stain removal ironing and fabric care contrasts with a feature on busy mornings. Mothers struggle with kids waking late and rushing to school, causing stress and broken routines as caps and maps go missing.
Notes describe birch bark pyrography for frames and mats, a beaded hat rack from a white wood bed panel, and a decorative tread board. It covers transferring designs with rouge or chalk, working with brass and copper fittings, burn relief on leather and velveteen, and using leather-like board for crafts and portfolios.
Seventy five years ago pauperism led London to lease vacant lots for the poor to garden free of rent. The US bought corn for France while later facing imports of wheat and other farm goods. A Guernsey County Ohio sect founder called himself God drew many followers. Webster’s spelling book sales topped four hundred thousand in the US. President elect Andrew Jackson traveled through Philadelphia with his family in a four white horse carriage toward Washington after voting concluded in some states.
A clash occurred on the east bank of the Missouri River in Iowa between whites and Indians. Other items note Gen J Urquiza elected president of Argentina, the Oynane dispatched to survey a Darien Canal, U.S. papers alleging Britain seeks to move enslaved youths to Cuba, and President Franklin Fierce's serious fever illness.
General Grant was tricked by Bragg into early preparations for the Ridge assault. Union troops under Sheridan and Palmer stormed Orchard Knob on Missionary Ridge and moved toward driving Bragg from Chattanooga’s outskirts. Rebel sympathizers in Scott County, DL, tore up railroad tracks, while Gen. John Morgan and Capt. Hives escaped from Columbus Ohio penitentiary after their raid.
President Grant says the United States will annex Cuba as the natural course of events. Fenian Joseph Poole in Dublin is sentenced to hang for killing John Kenney in a bid to free Ireland from Britain. Steamer Virginius arrives at Havana with four survivors and its captor Tornado. William Txxeed, implicated in over $1,000,000 municipal-contract theft in New York, is sentenced to ten years and to pay $12,750.
A garbled passage recalls nineteenth century events involving Col Coetogan and Lt Khartoum amid Egypt’s unrest. It mentions British cabinet debates on Egypt protectorate, Mahdist threats, and troop withdrawals, with scattered references to Tonquin and Prenth troops. The text is fragmentary and difficult to parse.
Ten years ago J. W. Reng and Joseph Ge Millions proposed a large urban development with a mandate for public works and a projected cost around 94 million dollars. The plan outlined construction timelines and a fee structure, with emphasis on meeting city needs.
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