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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1902
Page
5
The Brimfield Congregational church choir presents American Heroines on Wednesday evening February 5. The program features fine music and other entertainment designed to please all attendees. The organizers promise novel content and a valuable, enjoyable night with laughter and sentiment. Full program details to follow next week.
J C EB Conasina thanks Brimfield friends and patrons after selling his business to L E McKown. He cites health advised by four physicians and expresses regret at severing long held social and business ties while endorsing his successor for satisfactory workmanship and dealings.
McDonnell Bros warns water-haulers hunters and others not to trespass on their premises in a concise notice likely published as a legal or public notice warning readers to stay off the property. The terse notice names the property owner and targets various user groups who might seek access.
Mrs Phebe Cherley of Peterson Iowa claims Electric Bitters cured years of kidney trouble backache and nervous spells. The 78 year old says she can now do housework after treatment at Robinson & Co's drug store with a 50 cent bottle.
The Sabbath day was ideal with large morning and evening attendances. A quiet, productive Normal Class session and business meeting occurred at the parsonage. Epworth League reports a $25 memorial window subscription and plans further spiritual work. New song books will be bought for the Sabbath school and league. Prayer meeting had strong attendance and interest. Aiming for full member and friend turnout tonight. Belated church subscriptions rise. bell pulpit furniture and organ to be installed soon. Junior and Intermediate Leagues host a box supper at Cady's hall on Friday Jan 24 at 8 pm with program including solos, duets, readings, dialogues, and a closing address. admission 10 cents. All are invited.
Notices warn hunters to keep off the Brimfield area farm of Mrs. Monday and other premises. Violators will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. trespassers will face legal action and fence and gate damage cited. The notices reference J. L. Murdock Lessee A R Moore Robert Boye Gruenewald Harry Learned and others.
The St Louis Mirror offers a twenty eight page weekly paper edited by William Marion Reedy with a staff of writers and literary authorities. It reviews books plays and music and covers social religious scientific financial and artistic topics for merchants teachers professionals students and homemakers. Mail the Mirror in St Louis Missouri for ten weeks at ten cents.
Miss Susie N. Travis of this place married Mr. John B. Geoff of Farmington at the Methodist parsonage on Wednesday evening June 22, 1902. Ceremony by Rev. J. E. Mercer with Miss Oma Hockenbury and Mr. H. A. Griggs as attendants. The bride is well known locally and the groom is a prosperous Farmington farmer. After a brief honeymoon they begin married life with warm wishes from friends.
A mother from Inwood Iowa testifies that Chamberlains Cough Remedy saved her young son from a life threatening croup attack. She recounts giving doses every ten minutes, the child choking and expelling phlegm, and credits the medicine with his survival. The product is sold by Wm Robinson & Co.
Officials delay slows county clerk as extending the tax measures keeps books from being completed on time.
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve touted as the world’s best healer for cuts corns burns bruises sores scalds boils ulcers felons aches and all skin eruptions. Claims as infallible pile cure. Box price 26 cents at Wm. Robinson & Co.
An old styled advertisement claims Luxature Bromo Quinine Tablets stop the cough and work off the cold in one day with a no cure no pay offer. Priced at 25 cents.
The Negroes of Jacksonville protest the city council ordinance enforcing racial separation on street cars. They threaten boycotts and using hacks or herdics as a response to the policy, marking rising tensions in public transport segregation.
Mrs Malaprop notes that a young Mr Jenkins is engaged to be married. Mrs Gabbie asks about the young woman with him, and Mrs Malaprop confirms she is the fiancée, as reported by the Philadelphia Press.
Harvard observers led by J. H. Freeze used an eight to eleven inch telescope and prism to split lightning into color bands revealing hydrogen lines in the spectrum. The study compares hydrogen lines in lightning to those in new stars and artificial bubbles, noting similarities and differences with solid bodies.
Cape Town correspondence notes Loxton's Horse also called The Forty Thieves. England furnishes gear but troopers receive no pay. Loot division gives each man about 4500 dollars for three months. A 5000 dollar ball耗 with noheldback funds and frequent property seizures characterized the unit.
In St Andrews the tower stands as a symbol of the bond between St Andrew and Scotland. The legend says monk Regulus carried St Andrew’s relics from Constantinople and buried them near Bir Andrew’s, around which the town grew. James VI tied the saint to Scotland, founding the Order of St Andrew in 1687 for the king and sixteen knights.
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