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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1939
Page
4
The producer announces a new 40 percent Hog Balancer to be State tented. It uses only good feeds with no home grown grains and includes Murphy's Cut-Cost Concentrate and other protein feeds. Due to low overhead, the price is 40 cents per hundred below competing balancers, and grinding and mixing services are offered.
A dense roundup chronicles shopping ads at Memier's and Sweney stations, hospital news, travel to Chicago for shows, and visits among neighbors. It highlights Christmas offerings, lamp trades, and church events while noting residents in hospitals, travel to St Louis and Selfridge Field, plus local farming and livestock movements.
John Ludolph Sr will sell at public auction at his farm three miles northeast of Edwarda starting at 11 oclock. Items include three head of horses eleven head of cattle mostly Holstein four dozen Buff Orpingtons some straw and a full line of farm machinery. Terms cash. Sweeney and Andrew Hobelsberger will sell at public auction on the farm 212 miles north of Laura on Route 78 beginning at 11 oclock.
Th ursday December 21 auction offers three head of horses three young cows and three calves including a Jerecy Guernsey and a pure bred Guernsey bull calf. Also ten pigs five butchering hogs chickens a butchering kettle and barrels plus full line of farm implements and household items such as a new living room suite range Round Oak theater walnut dresser wardrobe chairs settees two extension tables and more.
Nellie Carson offers a line of meas ties and the Pat Cravat in silk and wool with prices from 0c. Safety Belts, also called beadle-bags, promise security for money and jewels. Also hot pan holders and table mats for dining or living rooms. The article recalls Prince Alberts and beards as marks of maturity in the nineties.
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