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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1901
Page
3
A rich woman and a poor but honest man discuss marriage with a twist. He asks to see how it feels to lose a fortune, revealing the joke that she is worth 1,250,000 dollars and will not marry him. The tale mirrors Stray Stories tone with crisp quips and a moral about money and sentiment.
Margaret B. Sangster argues in the Ladies' Home Journal that twentieth century women possess privilege and responsibility unlike earlier eras. She contrasts grandmothers and great grandmothers with modern women, noting improved activity fields, health, and resilience, while recalling harsher traditional limits.
In Council Bluffs Iowa on January 21 1901 an elderly officer named A G Swanson is profiled as well liked after seventeen years in local police service. He reveals kidney and liver trouble cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills noting a two month course brought full recovery. The piece also mentions his role as vice president of the Dannebrog Brotherhood and the pills’ popularity in local druggists. A stray Chicago Post joke about chorus girls closes the clipping.
An 19th century style advertisement extols Lane's Family Medicine for daily bowel movement health, claims benefits for liver and kidneys, mentions price 25 and 30 cents, and features E. W. Grove's signature on each box. It also notes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets for cold cure and compares British army recruit standards with thin men.
Hugo Kreig of Hawthorne swears to a bizarre pledge to win back his wife. He agrees to return home by 10 o clock, work to support her, attend prayer meetings, and abstain from intoxicants and tobacco while living soberly. Magistrate John Keys administers the oath after initial skepticism.
A Virginia man living in a wretched log cabin with seven in his family squatted on forty acres he says is a coal bed. He has no deed or papers yet cites three would-be owners who were killed when attempting to claim it, insisting his seven foot gun is his best security and rights here.
A scattered set of old notices and dubious claims includes Kemp's Balsam promised to stop coughing immediately with free sample bottles, Copper mine rumors in Ireland, Carter's Ink expense versus quality, Spain schoolmasters salary worries, and a garbled children’s soothing product mention.
A Greensboro Georgia pastor Rev E G Smith testifies Peruna cured his family ailments after other remedies failed. He cites his seven year old boy with catarrh of the lower bowels improved after two bottles and calls Peruna a near specific. Merchant J Rossman also endorses Peruna after kidney catarrh relief. Readers urged to write Dr Hartman for free advice.
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