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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1903
Page
1
Local items report scarce coal, slow telephone building, snow snows aiding sleighing, and weekly laundry service. Mentions Miss Myrtle Hibbs, a Brimfield visit, several accidents including a boy’s arm fracture, and returning residents. Also notes stock offerings by Brimfield Telephone Co, old letters, charity ads, and a funeral for Joseph Armstrong with services led by Rev Slyter.
Fragmentary OCR text notes special attention to sausage fish and vegetables with prompt delivery. The line includes garbled words and likely an advertisement or notice about delivery service or procurements. No clear names, dates, or organizations identifiable.
General Pracore address listed as 502 504 Y MC A building in Peoria Illinois with unclear context and no additional details.
Money available for farms at 5 percent with privilege to pay in multiples of 100. Funds ready any time. Contact F. W. Reep & Co. in Peoria NL at 540 Woolner Ride for details.
Paxsimer and Canary of Elmwood Dil offer loans on farm property with five percent interest and the option to pay before maturity. The ad emphasizes favorable terms for borrowers seeking farmland financing.
Advertisement describes health claims for William Robinson and Co products. It touts longevity by keeping main organs healthy with remedies said to cure biliousness sick headache liver jaundice malaria and other liver troubles. It mentions crowned heads and all classes paying tribute.
An old advertisement offers roof paint claiming lasting quality and cost savings. It mentions iron wheels wagons and wagon scales at pleasing prices. The message closes with a sign off from Josrs Him seeking business.
A neglected cough or cold may lead to serious bronchial or lung troubles. Foley's Flonsy and Tar offers protection and is sold by Wm. Robinson & Co.
Friends of engineer G H Hansan of Lima Ohio and the L E W R B are pleased to learn of his recovery from threatened kidney disease. He writes I was afflicted. Sold by Wm Robinson & Co.
A garbled farm advertisement from Nebraska urges readers to consider life on a farm, contrasting renting high rents with ownership, and promising a free book about Nebraska that explains a place where contentment and progress may be possible for struggling farmers.
A parent recalls using Chamberlains Cough Remedy to treat a severe cold with chest pains and cough in a daughter. The product is claimed to counter act a cold’s move toward pneumonia and is offered for sale by Wm. Robinson & Co.
A letter praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for saving a child from croup. The writer bought it from A. E. Steere of Goodwin and administered the medicine as directed, noting the baby could hardly breathe before improvement.
New Brimfield office opens in a building on Knoxville Avenue with prompt day and night professional calls. The note places the Sar cmes e cecelenel one block north of the office and a second door to the west.
County Superintendent of Schools Peoria County announces office hours daily nine to twelve and one thirty to four with special sessions on first Saturdays. Regular teacher certificate examinations occur the third Friday and following Saturday in October January April and July starting at eight a m. The examination schedule lists arithmetic history grammar reading geography theory and practice physiology orthography civil government and natural sciences. Office in Court House third floor Peoria Illinois 618.
Burlington Route rail line advertising from Chicago to Newcastle Wyoming cites sleeping cars to Deadwood. Also markets Enamel Roof Paint for shingles or tin with guaranteed work and low prices, urging customers to see ST Hill for the product.
A strange animal described as having two beaks three eyes five claws on the left foot four on the right and three sets of brains. The creature died soon after its discovery suggesting unusual anatomy and a mysterious origin.
Frederick P. Hale, mining engineer, freshly home from South Africa, told a New York audience that no region will grow as quickly as South Africa in the next five years. He predicted the country will advance much like Greece did, in a thorough and satisfactory manner.
During the night about 3 000 Kaffirs and 4 000 Zulus attacked the Boer camp, not driven off till daybreak. The secretary slept through the fight and, waking at dawn, asked if people had been fighting overnight.
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