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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
8
An old advertisement touts Chamberlain's Pain Balm as best for sprains bruises burns and alike injuries. It claims instant relief and faster healing about one third the usual time. Sold by Wm Robinson & Co. The passage also contains a long anecdotal line about a suitor who, after courting, feels ready to marry.
Mr J Egleston of Maple Landing Iowa reports severe winter cold developing into grip with aches congestion and fever. He credits Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for relief and recommends them, sold by Wm Robinson & Co.
The Court of Honor will hold its annual election Tuesday evening, Dec. 19, with full attendance hoped for. A bomber from the area attended the oyster supper at French Grove church yesterday afternoon and evening. Polled Durham bulls and Plymouth Rock chicks are for sale. call or address CFE Seblota Elmwood. We print farm envelopes at fifty cents per hundred with return card and place name. Henry Reed's driving horses caused a brief town scare near an electric wire, but no serious damage. A copy of an eastern paper recalls old turkey drives as seven hundred sixty birds were paraded for ten miles in Franklin County Vermont.
Reduced round trip holiday tickets offered on December 22 28 24 25 80 B1 and January 1 to all points on the Burlington Route and other lines across multiple states including Arkansas Iowa Indian Territory Kansas Missouri Nebraska Oklahoma Texas Wisconsin and northern regions. details appear garbled in OCR.
Miss Ada Dowdall of Princeville and Mr Fred Murnan of Brimfield were united in marriage at the Dowdall home in Princeville on December 7 1905. Rev A A Randall officiated in a ceremony attended by about twenty relatives and friends. The bride wore a dove colored gown and a wedding supper followed. The couple will reside in Brimfield where the groom has prepared a home.
A reader from Masonville Indiana praises Bucklen's Arnica Salve for relief of Blind Bleeding Itching and Protruding Piles calling it the best cure. The ad notes 25 cents at Wm Robinson & Coists for cuts burns and injuries as well.
Burlington offers a special round trip fare of 5.95 from Brimfield to Chicago for the International Live Stock Exposition December 16 to 38. Travel good December 16 to 20, return by December 24. Exhibitors’ tickets go on sale December 15. venue includes a new pavilion and larger crowds. R. Br. Morphy, agent.
Brifield post office hours are 7 00 to 13 00 and 1 00 to 7 30 pm. Mail closes at 8 10 a m and 4 50 p m. Taos Jouxzcon is listed as postmaster.
A fragmented notice recalls a remarkable religious revival among Methodists at dawn, highlighting a strong personal will to seek spiritual aid. The text underscores communal energy and ongoing faith efforts amid turmoil.
Brimfield lists church services for M. E. Church Exv. M P Lacknasp at 10:45 a.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday school 9:30 a.m. Minnie Phares, Sup’t. Young People’s 6 p.m. Prayer meeting Thursday 7 p.m. Congregational Church led by Rev A J Buaing with services 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday School 10 a.m. Prayer meeting Thursday 7 p.m. Young People’s 6 p.m. Baptist Church Rev P H Haney services 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday School 11:04 a.m. Prayer meeting Thursday 7 p.m. Young People’s 6 p.m. St Joseph’s Church with Mass 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. High Mass 10 a.m. Confessions Saturday 3 p.m. and daily before Mass. Choir practice Friday 7:30 p.m. Holy Mass 7:00 a.m. in summer 7:30 a.m. in winter. Community groups include G A R Post First Friday meetings, K of P Zylka Lodge 479 Fridays 8 p.m. Brimfield District Court of Honor No. 437 third Tuesday 8 p.m. Royal Neighbors and Arbor groups meet weekly. Women’s groups meet monthly and welcome visiting members. The W M S meets the first Monday afternoon at the cemetery. Many local fraternal and social clubs listed with officers and meeting nights.
A father with six children travels to the seaside and seeks cheap lodging. They find a furnished room to let with one bed. The landlady confirms the room is available and the father jokes that they will sleep on the door, insisting they are used to roughing it.
The Halifax packing plant holds 45,000 square feet of floor space, reputed as the world’s largest dry fish packing house.
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