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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1937
Page
4
A quaint local notice highlights a News office sale: a box of 10 assorted Christmas cards for ten cents and 21 pretty cards for half a dollar. The item showcases small town commerce and community life through the period’s brisk card trade.
Canada maintains a system of twenty park units covering more than 12,500 square miles. The text notes diverse national approaches in land preservation and governance during a period of expansive park development.
A light column offers general wisdom on staying cheerful, respecting women, and balancing bachelor life with home. It jokes that wild lives can yield good books, warns summer insect nuisance if windows aren’t screened, and notes romantic love lingers despite long life.
Community notices list George Tennery offering coal hauling from any mine ready to haul any time with rates, along with multiple farm sales including Poland China and Barred Rock stock hogs and cockerels, rental of a room apartment for Mrs. Carrie Dungan, and cider from Elmwood Cider Press, all by local residents and businesses.
Notice after December latitude states charges for shelling corn based on bushels: up to 100 bu at 11.2 cents per bu, 1000 to 1500 bu at 15.00 total, 1500 bu or more at per bushel price. Also advertises Child Life Christmas gift package: 12 magazines for children, 2.50 for a year, 5.00 for three years plus a marionette set. set available only with two one year or one three year subscriptions.
A collection of pithy aphorisms about fortune character and learning. It contrasts fortune and merit with wit cleverness and moral improvement drawing on Ben Johnson Addison Locke Richter Colton and others to reflect on life.
A long haired pianist mocks casual chic and music puns. The piece compares habits to alarms and jokes about funerals and gossip, weaving satirical takes on self discipline and social trends with wry humor.
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