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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1901
Page
3
A beggar asks for food and receives a penny from Mr Pompous. The beggar jokes about dyspepsia and asks for a pepsin tablet, illustrating a brief urban vignette from the Philadelphia Press.
In a Flushing exchange Harriet defends belonging to two Dont Worry clubs. Mrs Flushing, stern, questions the double membership while Henry and Harriet volley a guarded, humorous reply about avoiding worries. The dialogue captures a quick domestic comedy tone with sharp line delivery.
An advertisement extols Grain-O as a nourishing beverage for children that tastes like coffee but costs about the same. It claims Grain-O is made from pure grains and distributed health through children’s systems when given in proper preparation, noting retailers Ie and Zic.
A reader note from Ohio State Journal recounts moving on a Friday and realizing that waiting until Saturday could have prevented rent-related goods attachment, arguing Friday is not an unlucky day for such tasks.
A child asks which form is correct in a relation, the punchline hinges on whether the man had money. The judge traps the speaker with a witty exchange about who married whom depending on money, exposing playful misdirection in word order.
Price listed at 76 cents. A brief advert states Hailes Catarrh Cure is to be taken internally. The notice presents the product plainly as a medicinal item in a traditional old style ad.
A historical note explains crows as the chief predators of terrapins and diamondback turtles. Crows guard warm uplands, peck eggs after female turtles nest, breaking into nests with beaks and claws. The article claims crows destroy thousands of terrapin eggs and are the greatest enemy to diamondbacks.
Mrs. Anna Jones Keeman of Hodgeman County suffered chronic headaches and kidney ailments until using Dodd's Kidney Pills. After a week her headaches and pains vanished, giving hope that the remedy may spread across Pawnee and Hodgeman Counties where her story is known.
A collage of ad slogans and snippets includes a pledge of love between Mr Straits and Miss Slasher, pawnshop mention Misa Eisenheffer, a shoe powder ad for Allen’s Foot-Ease, missionary remarks, a roasted steam joke, a squandrel suitor, Piso’s Cure testimonial, a quip about fools and wise men, and teething remedies from Mrs Winston.
A westbound Wabash Limited train derailed on a washed-out culvert near Cass Indiana nine miles east of Peru. Forty-foot embankment plunge killed fourteen Italian immigrants en route to Colorado and left about fifty injured. The wreck destroyed the emigrant car and two chair cars, many sleepers crushed. the private car of the Iron Mountain superintendent survived. The crash occurred on a sharp curve at full speed with no warning.
A group of twenty Osage County Kansas farmers halted a westbound Santa Fe train to force release of harvest crews. Four armed men entered the engine cab, stopping the train and compelling crew to detach two emigrant cars. After clashes injured several, a compromise let about two hundred harvesters work in Osage County at $3.50 a day.
Washington issued orders naming Gin Chaffee military governor of the Philippines and Taft civil governor. The Ayuntamiento and Malacayan palace are to be vacated by military authorities and occupied by civil officials. Malacayan, former seat of Spanish captains general, will become Taft’s headquarters with the Estado Mayo serving as Gen Chaffee’s military HQ.
The Orient Line steamer Lusitania from Liverpool to Montreal with about 500 passengers wrecked Tuesday night near Renews after mistaking her course in fog. The vessel ran onto a reef and hung on a cliff. Passengers, mostly emigrants, panicked but officers and crew regained control after a prolonged struggle with unruly travelers.
Unknown man assassinated Webb Nors in London Tennessee. C F Peterson editor in Chicago dead in a grotaga brewery fire in Mechanicaville New York with an estimated loss of 50 000. Edward’s coronation may be on June 25 1902. Richmond California suffered a 20 000 fire. Ceely Simonds a baby perished. So Stevens a balloonist nearly fell at Mt. Vernon New York.
The Pan American Special of the Michigan Central, Niagara Falls Route, leaves Chicago daily at 6:00 p.m. for Buffalo with dinner service and arrives next morning at 7:45. Returns Buffalo daily at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time, arrives Chicago at 12:30 a.m. Breakfast served. Elegant Pullman and dining cars. Only line via Niagara Falls stopping all day trains at Falls View Station. For illustrated souvenir, send 4 cents postage. O. W. Ruggles, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Chicago.
A Paria unveiling last summer drew a lively group of American students who cheered the moment with their college yell. A French woman asked why the noise was so loud. the reply deemed the incident as showing the savage in them.
Northwestern Iowa southwestern Minnesota and South Dakota offer good lands. Excursion tickets valid 21 days are sold on the first and third Tuesdays each month to all Burlinton Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway points. Details available from Liten & Brooks, industrial and immigration agents, Cedar Rapids Iowa.
A fair young woman respects boarding house rules and resigns to fate after a suitor, Wiley, delivers a courteous apology. The scene echoes social conventions and the cost of propriety in early 20th century daily life.
An 1890s style advice column urges women to seek Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for nerves and uterine discomfort. It claims prompt action ends misery, notes confidential letters to Mrs. Pinkham, and promises free expert guidance.
Mrs Valentine of Camden New Jersey testifies to dramatic relief from nervousness loss of appetite stomach pain back pain and weakness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She continued for four bottles and regained health praising the remedy and vowing to recommend it.
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