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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1917
Page
4
Local notes cover town visits by Mendenhall and parishioners, Red Cross hours, and wartime thrift stamp drives. Posts mention family travels, Thanksgiving gatherings, and small business movements. Roads, lumber, and gas concerns mix with community notices, sales promotions, and farm labor chatter.
A series of tiny classified items list sales and wants from Hood apples and kitchen ware to two residences and livestock. Listings include Polish China boars, Daroe Jersey pigs, Jersey cows, roosters, and a registered Jersey boar. Found items mention a ladies watch and necklace, with owners seeking return near the depot and at Elmhurst farm Brimfield area. Users are urged to enquire or recover items.
A vintage ad invites readers to mail a form to Foley & Co in Chicago for a trial package. The offer promises Foley Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and colds, Foley Kidney Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets, with the sender asked to include their name and address.
Mrs Effie B Kleppe of Avrill Minnesota reports three weeks in Fargo sanatorium for rheumatic and kidney trouble ending with relief after using Foley Kidney Pills. She states a bottle completed the care and immediate relief followed. Signed Geo Howard.
Montgomery writer James Edwards reports Foley's Honey and Tar helped his family with coughs colds and chest issues. The testimonial claims the product stopped sirs passages healed inflamed membranes and removed chest congestion from both little children and adults.
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