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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1907
Page
4
Brimfield and vicinity listings show Christmas promotions from Cady Bros and local stores. Notes on farm sales livestock and equipment, with several arrivals, visits, and meetings mention community merchants and upcoming basketball doubleheader December 21 at Brimfield.
A promotional notice for The Youths Companion inviting gifts for all ages. It extols the paper as a home companion, highlights its regularity and sincere tone, and offers a year subscription for 1.75 plus a Four-Leaf Hanging Calendar for 1908, with free sample copies and an illustrated announcement. The publisher lists address for Boston based The Youths Companion.
Notice to all hunters to keep off the signed property and refrain from entry with dogs or guns. The owner warns trespassers will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Respectfully, Wm. Kinxey.
All hunters are notified to sign with dogs and guns. The notice lists L. H. Clark H. A. Blundy G. Claude Guyer Jake Plack Ed Richford Will Harding and J. B. Porter.
An old health advertisement warns against drugs that overstimulate stomach heart or kidneys urging readers to seek Dr Shoop's prescription known to druggists nationwide.
A New York World account describes the Vladivis voyage where a wildcat, labeled as a pedigree of a wildcat picked up at Im agua, and two white rats were encountered aboard. Fireman Gustave Shirmer retrieved fur fragments. more rats and fur were found in the hold but the crew avoided further trouble. Engineer Hanson and the native with two willcats are noted in the voyage’s odd events.
OCR reads as incomplete names and dates with unclear event. Readable bits point to a local notice or obituary fragment mentioning a person named Martha and a possible date but key details are missing.
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