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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1902
Page
10
A letter offers roof painting claiming lasting quality and quotes high savings on iron wheels wagons and wagons. The writer invites the reader to contact them for services and promising first class work and low prices.
Paul Hull writes to the Princeville Republican reflecting on his late friend Charley Fast. The prose recalls youth in Princeville twenty five years ago with scenes of swimming skating and porch songs. The piece honors a man who lived for family and friends.
An old advertisement touts DeWitt's Little Early Risers as a remedy for costiveness. A user from Depauw Indiana, J. O. Greene, claims nine years of trouble with constipation and praises the product as providing best results. William Robinson & Co. markets the pills.
Brimfield Post Office hours are from 7 30 a m to 12 m and 1 p m to 8 p m with mails closing at 8 20 a m and 5 p d Steam. A Profitable Investment advert relates to Kodol Dyspepsia Cure from Wm Robinson & Co claiming cure for stomach troubles after years of suffering. Letters uncalled for include Mrs Irene Wagener Mrs Susie Honan Mr John Corney and David B Strars P M.
W C Williamson of Amherst Virginia says he suffered from Lambago for over a year before using Chamberlains Pain Balm which gave him complete relief after other remedies failed. Sold by Wm Robinson & Co.
Tuomas Resa announces lease of the Gold Post Office building and plans a tin shop offering tin work steel and iron roofing spouting and related metalwork opening September 1. Repair work will be given due attention and old customers plus new friends are invited.
Essay extols farming in Nebraska and northern Kansas, praising climate and grasses, cheap lands, and strong crops. It cites a thriving school fund from land rents, and uses Nebraska yields to argue farmers can earn large incomes on 640 acre holdings with favorable price increases and corn yields over 16 years.
Letter from W. S. Winger of Farmington urges a son to choose between a Dhnow and a Nebraska farm, arguing opportunities favor the west though many factors unsaid. He notes past farmers taking risks led to success and a debt free home. He ends with a nod to the Emigration act and rail lines.
Instructions from the Baltimore American describe a trap employing strong odors to attract rats. The method dresses bait with scented powders, then hides bait under paper on a barrel top leading rats onto a water-filled barrel and a rock, triggering a sequence that draws more rats as they fight for the dry spot.
The item cites Holland with 10 100 windmills draining 310 acres each at one shilling per acre annually. It notes Germany owning twenty four of sixty one palatial ocean racers afloat and mentions a California raisin crop for 1901 of 72 million pounds, down about 20 000 900 from the previous year.
A technical journal notes rubies are rising in price and popularity. Three varieties oriental Siamese and spinel are discussed with origins from Ceylon India and China. The largest ruby and historic carat sizes are cited while warnings about imitations and risky market bargains are given.
The Italian brig Anita 8, famed as the slowest vessel afloat, has been condemned as seaworthy unfit after arriving at Teneriffe following a 205 day Brazil to Baltimore voyage. Sold for a few dollars to be broken up for firewood, the years long relic of the sixteenth century remains known as the Sea Snail.
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