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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1929
Page
7
Representative James M. Beck remarks at a dinner about public sentiment toward Brownlow who faced heckling during a stormy campaign meeting. The campaign manager notes voters increasingly listen, recalling how opposition once hurled bricks and rotten eggs, while Brownlow laments his battered appearance and the need to be immaculately dressed for a flower in his buttonhole.
A New York woman endured a four month siege of a wrecking crew to save her home, the site known as the birthplace of Santa Claus for Clement C. Moore who wrote The Night Before Christmas. The article narrates Moore’s life, his poem’s rise, and annual memorials at his grave and St Peter’s church, detailing the poet’s family and the Chelsea Square locale.
A Katherine Edelman written piece from 1929 reflects on Christmas joy across diverse climates. It contrasts snowy northern scenes with sunlit southern greetings while stressing that the season’s spirit of happiness, friendship, and goodwill transcends weather and place.
A reflective note argues that if we resolve to forget minor feuds every day, Christmas cheer would endure year round. The piece frames forgetting petty disputes as a lasting, universal goodwill practice.
The British steamer Siltonhall caught fire hundreds of miles from land in the South Indian Ocean. The crew fled in two boats and drifted 44 hours in a gale as an albatross circled menacingly above. The tale recalls Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and its ominous bird. Premature Burials rise across Europe with a society promoting death tests and a Munich style mortuary with a bell system to signal life.
A saying notes that in many cases a woman's confidential disclosure ends up traced to a man. The remark implies male involvement as a common factor in secrets becoming widespread. The line reflects social perception about trust and intrusion.
Mrs. Clarence Appleby of Kenedy Texas rode a bus to Victoria and found later that her diamond necklace missing. Three days later she searched near Front street bus station and found the necklace near the curb, two stones loosened but otherwise intact, left on a busy city thoroughfare for three days.
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