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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1899
Page
16
Brimfield's new telephone system is finished with lines and instruments placed in houses offices and stores. The central office has handled calls this week and youth enjoy the novelty. Eighteen phones are now on the line with prospects of expanding as business settles in.
The central office at Robinson & Co's drug store links with long distance lines enabling residents or offices to converse with Chicago and beyond. A toll station at the depot charges five cents to non-subscribers. Officers include Dr A A Knapp president and C L Duncan secretary. Stockholders listed with share counts and subscribers named such as Central Robinson & Co store and various residences. The B Y P U meets at the Baptist church next Sunday evening.
Auction style notice describes sale of unencumbered western land and merchandise stock. Includes references to horses and general merchandise with inspection arranged via a local firm in Peoria Illinois. Caution on fragmented phrasing indicates an old classified advertisement format.
A French writer imagines America expanding its reach across the Caribbean and Central America, absorbing Costa Rica Nicaragua Honduras and Guatemala while pressuring Mexico. Britain sells Jamaica to the United States and Haiti joins the West Indies, with America growing strong enough to threaten Canada and India, risking a dual clash with England.
The article details London’s public transport system and traffic scale. It notes 180000 riders per hour and 3 to 5 million daily journeys across 6am to midnight. Daily travel costs reach about 200000 dollars. Drivers collectively cover 700000 miles per day amid narrow streets and heavy goods traffic. About 300000 horses support metropolis transit.
A playful catalog of compact definitions and ironic twists. Each entry rewrites common terms into humorous alternate meanings, from Laundry to Or in relation to names, with a punchy satirical edge.
A missionary recounts a funeral near a Celes tial resort where a bachelor dead man, age 60, was to be buried with a newly found fiancé seven miles away. Relatives, fearing wandering spirits, arrange a double burial and halt the Christian ceremony.
Holiday excursion sale announced by station agent Ri R Morphy offering return travel within 200 miles on December 28 24 25 80 81 and January 1 1900 at one and one third of standard first class fare valid through January 2 1900.
A Hannibal Massachusetts resident recounts recovery from typhoid fever that progressed to pneumonia. He credits one bottle of Dr King’s New Discovery with relief and full recovery, praising it as the fastest cure for lung troubles. Trial bottles free at Wm. Robinson & Co’s drugstore.
For a limited time only we will make six beautiful little photos for 25c. These are not cheap photographs, but the best of everything used Men elo cards and up to date picture. Cabinet photographs 1.60 and 2.00 per dozen. Cloudy weather good as sunshine. Open two days each week Fridays Saturdays rain or shine Brimfield Illinois.
The Burlington Route offers Personally Conducted excursions via Denver to Colorado Springs Salt Lake Ogden Sacramento San Francisco Stockton Merced Fresno Bakersfield and Los Angeles at low rates. Pullman Tourist Sleeping car through without change. Leave Chicago every Wednesday. Inquiries to T A Grady Excursion Manager Chicago.
A vintage advertisement touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for skin eruptions and a long list of ailments from fevers to boils and burns. It claims cures for running sores, ulcers, felons, corns, warts, cuts, bruises, burns, scalds, chapped hands, chilblains and piles. Sold by Wm. Robinson & Co. druggist for 25 cents with a cure guaranteed.
Notice warns hunters not to trespass or hunt on J. B. Porter property under penalty of the laws. The message emphasizes trespass prohibition and asserts legal consequences for sequence of violations.
Pierson drug store manager Martin reports strong sales of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy amid la grippe season. The product is praised for stopping coughs soothing sore throats and speeding relief with prompt action. Sold by Wm. Robinson & Co.
Texas reports invasion of mysterious insects described as odd creatures with a body like a patent smoothing iron and hairlike red bristles. The bites have stunned people and officials have not yet determined whether the hair or feet cause stings.
An unclear text fragment about an aware winner and amateur post prompts mentions a line fragment. It is unreadable for full meaning but preserves the gist of a recognition claim and a nonprofessional posting context.
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