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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1922
Page
2
Rules outline how the service recognition board will operate to provide compensation and benefits to World War I veterans. The document details forms, oath statements, residence questions, and eligibility standards, including marriages and divorces, with procedures for gubernatorial and Legion review.
City dairy inspector ROS Lundquist reports one child in four in Rockford schools receives milk daily with a graham cracker. Fifteen percent of eligible children reportedly do not get the supplement. Extension of milk feeding is under review. Also noted are exams passed by pharmacists, a hospital architect’s jury appointment, a veterans bonus commission meeting in Springfield, Chicago banks’ Christmas deposits, a Paris circuit court ruling, and a new $55,000 water works bond for Pittsfield.
Frederick Haskin presents a Chicago Daily News summary noting that from September 1916 to January 1922 the United States Internal Revenue Bureau recorded 42,230 estates worth 8.785 billion dollars. Taxes on these bequests reached 351.139 million dollars, averaging 6.49 percent, with 23 estates exceeding 10 million dollars paying over 92 million in tax.
The state division of highways announced an allotment among 27 counties for the pavement project. Surveyors have started state bond road No. 23 from Harvard to Big Foot along the Wisconsin line, with the route passing southward through Marengo Sycamore De Kalb to Leland in La Salle county.
Miss Ruth Spanier of Corona E I has been named as a beneficiary in her uncle's will and inherits $25,000 on condition she marries. At twenty one she declines to quit selling bread, rolls and pies in her mother's Corona bakery, continuing the family business rather than alter her life for the inheritance.
The Lee Highway Association reports Oklahoma bond action toward linking a 3000 mile transcontinental route from Washington to San Diego with expansion to New York and San Francisco. The project seeks to serve 15 million people, improve a 100 mile wide corridor, and promote tourism, industry, and geographic education as part of a See America First drive.
Rev W Nicholson introduces whistling of well known hymns at Belfast revival meetings. Men in the congregation whistle through all verses, creating a piercing but fervent spiritual atmosphere. He claims thousands of converts.
A Liberty Hall nurse bedbound by rheumatism reports kidney pills from Dodd's Medicine Co. relieved her, letting her walk again. Doctors link kidney weakness to rheumatism and urge strengthening kidneys with Dodd's therapy, offered at drugstores or direct from Buffalo New York. Large box 60c. Prompt relief or money back.
A quirky note reads like a domestic remedy for heartbreak. It suggests swallowing pride with a dash of common sense and adding compliments to settle disputes. The fragment hints at a lighthearted, playful approach rather than practical guidance.
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