20 Dec 1917
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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1917
Page
1
In Rev Starr's house Prudence waits for a wedding as Carol and Lark navigate embarrassment. Carol catches measles triggering delays to Prudence's marriage and prompts Carol to try converting local roughnecks as the town reacts to the comic scene.
At a Sunday school program in Mount Mark the twins Lark and Carol face a daunting moment when Lark falters during a poetry reading. Carol motivates her sister, rises to the occasion, and the two gain applause for their daring rescue and humorous bow to the audience.
A city judge seeking re election spoke in New York touching on civic virtue and keeping a good bench. A club member then asked whether a straight flush always beats four of a kind, challenging the judge on the outcome under all circumstances.
The 315 foot steel steamer War Dog is the first of its type built in British Columbia and was launched at Vancouver. A contract was placed by a public company through an English firm, and since the launch she has been sold to a British firm.
A couple sits at home tracing Europe from memory and misplaces countries and regions. They mixed Greece with the Adriatic coast and left Austria out, while Spain and France sit side by side on an east west line. The piece notes such errors are amusing and suggests mapping other continents and even local areas to see how memory shifts with time.
An excerpt discusses how music affects women more subtly than other arts, arguing that melody taps deep emotions and can spark instant, intense attraction. It contrasts musical influence with painting and poetry while noting medical cautions about prescription waste.
The article describes colonial Mexico where mayors used a ceremonial stick with a gold or silver head as a symbolic scepter. When a crime reader was sought, a subordinate would place the stick horizontally on the suspect’s chest, forcing plea to the mayor under penalty, a practice borrowed from Spain still seen in major actions.
A nearly intact skeleton of a tall man was uncovered in Farnham Surrey during surface water drainage alterations. No horse bones were nearby. Near this site lies a Norman cemetery where first century urns were once found, with some now kept at Waverley Abbey.
In Longstock Ireland during wartime three or four girls chime the village bells weekly and Sundays. Trained by a local instructor they maintain a cheerful message over the countryside. A correspondent notes it may not be essential war work but boosts neighborhood morale and would be left undone without women at home.
Frank J Cheney swears as senior partner of F J Cheney and Co that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for any catarrh cure. This oath was sworn in Toledo Ohio on December 6 1986 before Notary A W Gleason. The ad touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a blood and tissue purifier sold by Hall's Toledo Ohio.
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