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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1923
Page
6
Report from Quincy states Judge Floyd E Thompson of the Dilinoig Supreme court will run for president on the Democratic ticket. The item notes Thompsons candidacy intention and location of the communication.
Pope Pius moves the Alton bishopric seat to Springfield. Martin Bolt of Springfield named director of mines and minerals, succeeding Robert M Medill of Harrisburg. Soy bean costs around 28.95 an acre in Champaign and Pratt counties based on 15 farms. A 50 year romance ends in the marriage of Miss Etta McDonald and George Framing at Rock Island.
Gorden Oyler aged 24 and Or val Samples aged 26 admit to the hold up of Ira Westler the Sharpsburg postmaster in which $275 was taken and to the robbery of a Roby jewelry store where $800 worth of jewelry was stolen.
Two young stock-raisers Martha Ann Sundusky ten and Maury Jane fourteen from Georgetown Illinois will exhibit baby beeves in the boys and girls live stock feeding contest at the International Live Stock exposition in Chicago December 1 to 8. They join other rural youths in a national showcase of farm industry and youth achievement.
Cornet, a renowned Percheron stallion imported from France in 1900 and bought by WS Corsa of White Hall for 10000 dollars, died at age nineteen. His progeny won the grand championship at the international show for ten consecutive years, from 1912 to 1921, a feat not equaled. Vermilion County motorcars exceed livestock in assessed value by 111703, Danville board of review reports. Automobiles valued at 1148221. total livestock value 1086518. A 10000 Holstein bull named Big Joe, a standout at Senator Medill McCormick’s Rock Haver farms, died of paralysis weighing 2200 pounds.
Washington reports National Geographic bulletin details a very ancient city found near Ferrara. Tombs under the Po mud predate Rome and suggest Etruscan origins. The piece recalls legends of Romulus and Rome’s founding and notes Pisa’s historic Etruscan ties and Renaissance Ferrarese heritage.
The Court of Claims awarded the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company $1,015,272.33 plus interest from Jan 18, 1919 for the steamship Caroline sunk by a German U-boat off the New Jersey coast on June 2, 1918. Passengers and crew escaped in lifeboats amid German raids along the eastern seaboard. The Shipping Board had requisitioned the ship and paid $1,250,000, a sum the company deemed unsatisfactory.
The text recalls Savonarola's mighty sermons that led crowds to repentance, humble dress, and political upheaval. Enemies plotted his death. he and two followers were condemned, hanged, and burned. Amid Ferrara's quiet streets, the story adds an era defining memory with the town’s discovery.
Eighteen sailors aboard the Narwhal left the Golden Gate for the South Seas and are said to be navigating the Cobra river in Borneo in a bid for hair raising adventure. The vessel carries film cameras and hunting gear as they attempt to push upstream, facing legends of cannibal tribes and deadly wildlife.
Cheyenne Wyoming scouts dedicate what is described as the finest lodge in the world cost 20000 dollars. The gift from Harry P Hynds funds a timbered hilltop site overlooking Big Springs near Cheyenne.
A fragmentary item notes a conversation about expenses and a family noting a child’s single quarter purchase. The piece hints at financial strain and a casual home discussion captured by the Boston Evening Transcript style.
An old advertisement promotes California Fig Syrup as a harmless laxative for babies and children. It claims to regulate bowels, sweeten the stomach, and stimulate liver action without narcotics, urging mothers to insist on genuine product and to say California to the druggist.
Mrs Upstairs asks if married life is cloudless as Mrs Nexdore answers that she prevents any smoke from clouding their home. The couple's domestic scene is sketched with tongue in cheek dialogue and social bustle.
An advertisement claims Allcock's Plaster is the quickest safest and most certain remedy for local aches and pains with persuasive promotional language intended to drive use and sales. The copy emphasizes speed safety and reliability as its main selling points.
In a brief satirical item Kansas Sour Owl questions why George married Angy after a two year engagement and daily proximity. The quip hints at fatigue with constant company and reflects light local humor.
An old advertisement touts Cole's Carboliaaive etope for cuts and burns claiming immediate pain relief and rapid healing without a scar. It mentions He and He or J W Cole Co Roche ford NL and invites readers to keep it on hand. The text also asks a rhetorical question about a fortune teller's prediction regarding a girl's marriage to a certain kind of man.
A vintage advertisement extolls Brandreth Pillas as a superior laxative and purifying agent used worldwide. The copy also suggests dogs possess a heightened sense, surpassing even horse sense, with a mention of an Airedale.
An old advertisement touts a harmless vegetable butter color named Dandelion used by millions for 50 years. Drug stores and general stores sold this product for 35 cents, while the copy also mocks algebra as a distractor from real intellect.
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