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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1899
Page
11
Mary Thayer finds a promissory note owed by Mr. Bent that could fund her brother Henry’s college. After losing it and facing rebuffs, she learns a sparrow nest holds a $200 note fragment. retrieving it, Bent pays the full amount.
A German man with a red mustache tries to open an account and walks away with a signature book thinking it is a receipt for 3500 dollars. A well dressed woman deposits 300 but cannot write, ending with an X mark in the book. Chicago Journal
A humorous scene in a church service as the deacon loses patience with a correcting brother. He whips the counter-critic into the outer darkness and resumes recounting the tale of Moses and Joshua telling the sun to stand still, provoking uneasy reactions from older brethren.
The Turkish system permits a nine year old married girl to manage her property and dispose of one third of her fortune. She may abandon her husband’s house for this purpose and profit from it. She cannot be compelled to labor for her husband’s support. When told a tale, she will work again if urged with reproach.
A survey of 1899 events notes Spain surrender in the Americas, the Transvaal war, ongoing Philippine fighting, Samoa settlement, Dreyfus trial, great fires and floods, notable deaths, strikes, and disasters across continents with highlighted dates and incidents. It lists deaths of Hobart Ingersoll Faure and others, storms in Chicago and Cleveland, shipwrecks, and political shifts shaping 1900.
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