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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1902
Page
8
A terse ad promises roof painting with lasting plastic paint and savings. It also markets iron wheels, wagons, and wagon seals at discounted prices, inviting readers to contact the sender for “first class work.”
Paul Hull writes from Chicago on New Year’s Day 1902 in memory of Charles Fast, recalling boyhood days in Princeville Illinois. He frames grief as softened by time, celebrates Charley’s family and memory, and notes the late man’s rest and peace. Probate notices from Peoria County and Brimfield follow, detailing estate actions against Oscar Brooks and others with a January 1902 court date.
A testimonial from J. O. Greene of Depauw Indiana claims nine years of costiveness improved by DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. The advertisement from Wm. Robinson & Co. promotes the product as an easy bowel movement aid without distress.
Brimfield post office hours are 7 30 a m to 12 m and 1 p m to 8 p m Mails close at 8 20 a m and 5 p m plus a dated note. The listing includes the letters uncalled for Mrs Irene Wagener Mrs Susie Honan Mr John Corney and David B Strars P M. A testimonial for Kodol Dyspepsia Cure from E Derick of Somerville Ind claims the product cured stomach troubles after years of illness and high medical costs.
W C Williamson of Amherst Virginia says he suffered Lambago for over a year until Chamberlain's Pain Balm gave him complete relief whereas other remedies failed. Sold by Wm Robinson & Co.
I have leased the Gold Post Office Building and will open a new tin shop on September 1. I will do tin work steel and iron roofing spouting and all kinds of work that can be made of tin or iron. Repair work will be given or JT attention. Soliciting a share of your patronage I will be pleased to see all old customers and friends and many new ones. Resa certainly yours, 2 TS Tuomas.
Analysis extols Nebraska and Kansas farming advantages. It notes climate, year round grazing, abundant alfalfa, cheap land, strong school financing from public lands, and high crop yields. It provides example farm economics with 160 and 640 acre figures and corn yields over 16 years.
In a letter from Farmington W. B. Winger urges seeking counsel from his young son on the best investment between two farms, arguing that western opportunities outweigh caution. He recalls farmers who took risks decades ago and prospered, noting current rents and debt-free homes as outcomes. Emigration net.
A Baltimore American excerpt describes a rat trapping method using specific odors like foetida powder and oil of aniseed to attract rats. The setup involves a barrel with waterproof paper, a top platform, scattered cheese scraps, and a water-filled lower chamber with a rock to trap rats as they fight for the dry space.
Holland boasts 10 100 windmills each draining 310 acres at one shilling per acre annually. Germany owns twenty four of sixty one palatial ocean racers afloat. California raisin crop for 1901 about 72 million pounds, down over 20 million from last year.
A technical note from Le Dismant outlines three ruby types oriental Siamese and spinel noting oriental rubies top in beauty and rarity and fetching ten to twenty times diamonds by weight best sources include Ceylon India and China. It warns that cheap rubies are often imitation or low value and advises buyers to trust experts and beware market sharks.
The Anita 8, famed as the slowest vessel afloat, is condemned as seaworthy unfit after arrival at Teneriffe from Italy. Sold for a few dollars and broken up for firewood she holds a 205 day Brazil to Baltimore trip record. The equiarailed brig, steered by tiller, resembles Columbus era but failed to sail well. Known worldwide as the Sea Snail, she is a relic of the sixteenth century.
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