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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1929
Page
7
A collage of celebrated and odd epitaphs from graves around the world, tracing self penned verses from Franklin to Yale founder Elihu Yale and many colonial markers. The piece notes playful, solemn and cautionary inscriptions, with examples from Bermuda, Bermuda’s St Peter’s church, and Cape May to illustrate attitudes toward death and memory.
Government action rapidly halted a dangerous European fowl pest outbreak in Morris County New Jersey. Reports began in June when farmers noted illness in chickens. Within two weeks all infested birds were destroyed and exposed flocks culled, with no further cases after a month.
A brief item notes two moments men feel finest when dressed in evening attire and when wearing grand lodge regalia highlighting vanity and social display as discussed in the St Louis Globe Democrat quote.
A concise Franklin quote defines wisdom as learning from others, power as controlling passions, and wealth as contentment, concluding with the question who fits all three. The aphorism emphasizes self mastery and contented living over external riches.
In Northampton Massachusetts a forest fire prompts a firefighting shower scene with a rabbit and a turtle enjoying cooling water, while a southern port records 32,000 bales of cotton sent by ocean liner from Galveston. A proverb about sowing the whirlwind closes the report.
Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, featured in Pathfinder Magazine for oddities. The article notes he slept on a custom cot in a hidden passage between his study and bedroom, with the cot rising to the ceiling by day. Rumors claim he feared for his life and used secret rooms and porthole openings for defense.
In Washington Chairman Young of the Federal Reserve Board remarks that high prices generally signal prosperity while low prices have ominous meaning. A school teacher tells a joke about a butcher’s boy: if a 400 pound beef is sold at 8 cents a pound its value would be meaningless to him.
Quote from Thomas A. Edison notes the true test of character lies in handling critique. The small minded avoid it by excuses or sulking, failing to see any benefit in feedback or growth from the incident.
A brief note values a 5 cent ice cream cone for a small boy and remarks that men who keep secrets make the best friends.
A flock of four-horned sheep, discovered years ago by Dr El Dunn during travels from Maracaibo to the Pacific coast, will be imported to the United States. Dunn captured 24 animals, 21 survived the journey, and the remaining likely will arrive. The ewes and rams all have four horns, two upright and two turned down.
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