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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1902
Page
1
Short notices include stove repair orders for Arbers, sale ads for Wm George West End oysters and coal, a lost fur robe, a newborn son for Mr and Mrs Geo Koch, farm sales and relocations, a midwinter teachers meeting in Princeville, and a critical column on kerosene and a Knoxville barber.
Advertises attention to custom work for farmers and delivery of animals to slaughterhouse with stated prices. Claims a stock of a choice meat lot and respectfully solicits patronage from customers.
Forest and Stream recounts a 16th century tale from A New Herbal by Tarnott about a citron protecting a condemned thief from serpent bites in an Egyptian theatre. A guard asks how saved, thieves claim a citron piece fed en route, the citron eater remains unharmed while others die. Atheneus is cited as seeing the event.
An ornate Dutch palace described as a comfortable grand country house. The scene highlights stately living rooms arranged by a former king with refined taste and notes the adjacent old castle built in the early 1500s for a hunting lodge ancestor of the Duke of Portland. The piece touches on Loo’s confiscation during France’s first republic and notes the gardens as notable.
An advertisement extols Nebraska as a land of plenty with rich crops and cheap land. It invites readers to request illustrated literature on the Corn Belt and West Nebraska Grazing Country, and notes cheap excursion tickets available on the first and third Tuesdays of each month to visit Nebraska for firsthand observation.
An advertorial claim warns that children are especially prone to burns bruises and cuts and that neglect can lead to blood poisoning. It touts DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve as a sure remedy drawing out pain and speeding healing, warns against counterfeit products, and cites a testimonial from James Mack of N Webster Indiana about eczema relapse after physician treatment.
Wanted salesmen to sell a Choice line of Nursery Stock with steady work and extra inducements for the right person. Stock guaranteed. Apply at Tepas for a 200d position for fall and winter. Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Mrs. Mary Bird of Harrisburg Pennsylvania declares her child’s life was saved by One Minute Cough Cure. The ad boasts the remedy as safe for coughs croup throat and lung troubles and suitable for the youngest child. It urges every family to keep a bottle handy especially in cold season.
The Burlington Route C B and Q from Chicago Peoria and St Louis now runs daily trains through Lincoln Nebraska and Custer South Dakota to Deadwood Also service to Newcastle Wyoming Sleeping cars to Deadwood J T Hall offers enamel roof paint for shingles or tin with guaranteed work at low prices
Frederick W. Faber urges obligation and discipline in the duties of life gifted by God. He warns that neglect makes all else vanish in importance and calls for steadfast attention to one’s appointed duties and station.
A shop advertises a new line of bu cks and carriages from a well known factory. It invites callers to visit samples at G. Cozr shop and promises savings on the line.
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