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Newspaper

Brimfield News

Location

Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jan 07, 1937

Page

3

Rats Hide in Farmhouse Behind Barn Story

In the tale Billy Mink fails to locate the rats that fled the barn. The rats, led by a cautious gray leader, choose the big farmhouse as their safe haven. Snow covered tracks, ample food, and hidden attic access make the house ideal to raise their babies while Mink hesitates at the edge of the woodpile.

Billy Mink Mink Billy

Rats Make Home in Attic and Pantry at Buress Farm

In a dilapidated attic cluttered with trunks and boxes Thornton W. Buress’ family discovers rats nesting in paper and cloth. The mother rat tears up items to form nests while the father rats gnaw through pantry walls in noisy search for food. The farmer and his wife hear the scurrying and gnawing, exclaiming in concern.

Rats in Barn Bring a New Clue to Town

A compact exchange hints that rats abandoning a barn and moving elsewhere reveal a practical truth. T W Burgess notes the remark from a WNU Service item, reflecting on how small observations expose larger realities in local life.

T. W. Burgess WNU Service

Eve's Epicrams Ihe thanes they mean ere the

A fragmentary line promises prose on relationships and meaning. It hints at reflective themes but lacks clear persons places events or dates to anchor a readable summary. The readable text yields no concrete entities or actions suitable for a factual card.

Fresh Coconuts and Cassolet in a Gentle Home Menu

Fresh coconuts inspire a salad with apples celery onion parsley and red pepper paired with french dressing. A later head lettuce dish blends whipped cream chili sauce vinegar and roquefort cheese. Cassolet features lima beans chicken or duck tomatoes broth and kitchen bouquet baked then parsley. Boiled potatoes with bacon dressing and vinegar finish the hot serving. The remaining notes discuss will power as seen in the thumb joints and how flexibility relates to stubbornness.

The Capitol On The Hill Is A Workshop Of Freedom

A poem by Douglas Malloch from WNU Service argues that government is by the people not rulers. The power rests with citizens who elect public servants to act as their tools, controlling where they toil and reside. True sovereignty lies in ordinary freemen who may err yet remain free.

Douglas Malloch WNU

Know Thyself by Dr George D Greer

In his piece Dr Ernest Groves notes magic used for luck shows a human recoil from unpleasant facts. People seek charms due to insecurity and inferiority, revealing obstacles to happiness or safety they cannot cope with.

Ernest Groves Wnju Service

Cleveland doctor builds 3535-match nerve test tower

Dr Thomas H Staggers a Cleveland mech ano-therapist stacks matches on a beer bottle mouth to test nerves. After nearly two days his tower reached 3535 before a heavy tread toppled it. This is his second attempt, aiming to outpace the first, with an observation on coarser thumbs and appetite.

Thomas H. Staggers Cleveland Ohio

Household Tips From Old Columns On Food And Habits

Practical household guidance covers sewing with snap fasteners, paint cleanup with lemon and whiting, fruit salad pairings with dates or nuts, garlic seasoning without overpowering flavor, crumbled bacon in omelets, salvaging curdled mayonnaise, patient bedside conduct, handling overboiled potatoes, squeezing moisture into a floury ball, and ginger cookies baked with cold coffee as water substitute.

Bayer Aspirin Remedy For Cold Relief

Two Bayer Aspirin tablets at first signs of a cold, repeated if needed. For sore throat, crush three Bayer tablets in water and gargle twice daily. Internal aspirin fights fever and pain while the gargle soothes throat irritation, offering quick relief. Ask for Bayer Aspirin by full name at your druggist.

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