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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1924
Page
8
Brimfield merchants announce their first anniversary with reduced prices on nearly all stock. Posters will note anniversary bargains as the event approaches, inviting local shoppers to take part in the sale.
Thanksgiving day observances filled by families in the area with dinners and gatherings. Several residents reported illnesses including flu and whooping cough quarantine. Family visits noted among McCoys, Reed family, and others, with local travel to Peoria and Brimfield. Welch sustained a finger injury at the corn elevator Saturday morning.
A string of public auctions scheduled in Brimfield and nearby towns features Geo. W. Hoffman selling cattle hogs horses and farm goods on December 16 led by Col. M. R. Clark. Albert Best auctions farm implements on Heinz farm near Kickapoo with Col. Doug Mc Donnell as coeer. Mrs Goudy sells household goods December 13 with lunch by St Marys Ladies. John DeVries and H H Park hold a sale on the Knoxville road 6 miles east of Brimfield and 2 miles west of Kickapoo on the Thursday date listed.
Public sale listings advertise daily prizes for largest cash purchases including a Seal Brand Coffee can or fountain pen and three grand prizes a Coleman lamp or 1847 Roger Bros knives and forks. Also announced are farm stock lots and machinery with auctioneers Col. M. R. Clark and Col. Doug McDonnell.
An advertisement proclaims yeast vitamin feed the greatest market product for livestock resistance to disease. It suggests treating sick animals with a yeast diet, usable in self feeders or slop pails, and claims increased milk flow when fed to cows.
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