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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1910
Page
7
An advertisement lists Munyon products including a cold remedy priced at 15 cents and Rheuma a remedy priced at 26 cents. It names locations near Jefferson Street in Philadelphia and promotes quick relief within hours or days. The brief notice emphasizes inexpensive self care options.
A caller accuses the Morning Thunderbolt editor of refusing a communication over a disagreement on woman suffrage. The editor recalls the incident, noting that both sides can be argued, and the piece was discarded in the waste basket.
Ray Lamphere, 38, long tied to the Belle Gunness case, was involved in the La Porte murder farm saga. He worked as a field hand three years before Gunness disappeared in 1908 and was arrested after the farmhouse fire. Authorities seek his statements while he denies knowledge of further killings. The Gunness crimes, likened to Holmes and Bender cases, remain partly unresolved.
Roy McKinney shot Dora Chapell, 21, a dining-room waitress at the Bearss Hotel in Peru Indiana, then killed himself. He had been sought in Indianapolis for a daring hold up. Letters found in his pockets suggest premeditation linking the two crimes.
In Santa Claus Indiana two young children ages two and one burned to death after their mother left them near a stove while helping in a barn fire. Smoke filled the rooms as she searched, shielding the survivors with a door. In Avalon Missouri Postmaster Cyrus Eastman, 60, perished in a house fire.
Harriet Smith of Hyannis Massachusetts was killed when her automobile overturned in Honolulu. Fifteen men were injured in a separate incident as a Delaware Hudson Railroad freight depot burned, logging property loss estimated at twenty thousand dollars.
Secret police uncovered a plot in Moscow involving two suspected conspirators linked to a Russian imperial assassination. Bombs filled with high explosives were found hidden in a house, tied to plans to target the Czars. Police increased surveillance of arrivals as the case sparked a citywide sensation.
Kansas City Judge Ralph Latshaw believes Daniel J. Lavery a former Chicago bricklayer turned criminal after a head blow. Lavery, sentenced to four years for burglary, was paroled to Charles Murray of an Illinois asylum. Lavery had been twice committed to Illinois insane asylums, with a recent discharge, and an operation is planned upon return.
Five Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern crewmen died after a head-on collision with freight Nos. 61 and 98 near Fort Ritner Indiana on a sharp curve. A rear railcar fire injured many in Shawnee Oklahoma as an engine exploded in Rock Island shops. A Denver police search seeks a killer of Mrs. Belle Rupp found in the Platte River. Many unrelated fatal accidents and fires are noted, including a Duluth death from a fall and a lighthouse keeper incident in Iwai Bay.
The article recounts immigrants and farmers prospering as yields reach 40 to 60 bushels per acre with 62 to 63 pound wheat, railways expand across Manitoba to Alberta, and towns rise around elevators and depots. It highlights government support, new churches, villages, and rapid growth, showing the wealth of soil driving development and future US import shifts.
A fragment from a Chicago Tribune page mixes quips about love and platonic compromise with health advice and patent remedies. It notes chest tightness signaling a cold, endorses Hamlins Wizard of quick and camphor oil, and mentions products like Pazo Ointment and Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. It also references Foochow distilleries and a Bronx zoo comparison, plus a claim about English penal servitude and a court in China with physicians and astrologers.
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