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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1900
Page
1
An inexpensive subscription invitation promotes The Corn Belt monthly with farm letters and pictures. It advertises 25 cents postage-paid for a year and lists 209 Adams Street Chicago as the address.
Local notes report hands on screen doors and Delft ware sales. Mentions visits by Master Pert-Hayward to his uncle, Lambs visiting Bushnell, and Knights of Pythias officers being installed. Includes births, school attendance, cemetery fund contributions, crop reports, a Filipino bead gift, and aWoody Woodmen anecdote. Updates on One Minute Cough Cure promotion, Brimfield Telephone expansion, and village governance actions plus a special election for a police magistrate and sidewalk repairs.
Brimfield Illinois shop J C Coxe and Box offers cabinet photographs at 100 dollars per dozen. Cloudy weather is good for funshine while customers are informed the studio will be open Fridays and Saturdays with no weekly break. They mention moving the car and promise top quality.
Asherville Kansas resident A N Noell tried self treatment for chronic diarrhoea with no relief before using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which he says cured him. The ad notes the product is sold by Wm. Robinson & Co and includes a pharmacist endorsement from Charles Holzhauer of Newark New Jersey praising its safety and efficacy for coughs hoarseness.
Loch Lynn Heights Maryland faced a sparse town election with only fifteen votes. The tally showed a ticket created for amusement won, highlighting political indifference in the mountain town.
All officers and citizens interested in the coming picnic are asked to meet at the village hall Monday at 8 o clock July 9 for preliminary arrangements for the annual meeting. Respectfully H Chamberlain President.
Local feed mill invites farmers to bring corn and oats for quick grinding. New corn shelter added. Ground feed and corn meal available. Grinding offered on Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays. Signed CLARK BROWN.
For sale a house and three fine lots on Knoxville avenue plus two good lots in the southeast part of town. Inquire of W R Weeks Brimfield.
The Burlington Route offers a personally conducted excursion via Denver to Colorado Springs Salt Lake Ogden Sacramento San Francisco Stockton Merced Fresno Bakersfield and Los Angeles at low rates. Pullman sleeping car through without change. Leaves Chicago every Wednesday. Contact T A Grady Excursion Manager 212 Clark St Chicago.
Via Burlington route. Dates of sale May 1 and 15, Juned and 19, July rates one lowest first class fare plus $2.000 for round trip. Final limit of tickets 21 days. Tickets sold to all points West and Southwest, North and Northwest and points in South and Southeastern states. R R.Murphy, Agent.
The text notes that despite public awareness of high tension electricity and its use in executions, there is no documented case of a person choosing to die by electric shock. It frames the paradox as a curious historical fact about self-inflicted electrocution records.
Special Ordinance by the Brimfield Illinois village trustees outlines budgeted sums for street and sidewalk maintenance police and street commissions salaries fees miscellaneous costs totaling 1200 dollars for the fiscal year beginning April 1900. The ordinance was passed and approved on July 2, 1900 by President W. L. Haywarp with Clerk Addison Pacey attesting.
Executors reveal a year long sift yields a completed ballet Cinderella to be staged next at the Berlin opera house, plus an operetta and eight sets of waltzes. Several pieces from former operas, unused in life, are also found among Strauss's works.
The Haines Gauge Company of Philadelphia declines to furnish naval apparatus to the United States Navy because the proprietors are Quakers and oppose war. This marks the first such case on record.
Notice of village election in Brimfield Peruria Illinois on Tuesday July 31 at the village hall. Opens 7 a m and remains open until 7 p m for election of one petty marshal. Clerk Appison Patty signs the notice dated July 5 1900.
The long running quarrel over the 1801 survey interpretation has reached the Supreme Court. Tennessee Attorney General Pickle filed a brief on Tennessee's behalf amid claims from Virginians in Tennessee seeking incorporation in Virginia.
A Chicago wanderer, touring vendors and diners, entered a South Illinois restaurant and tried to order with quirky phrases. He demanded navies with Armour’s product, flirted with dialect shifts, and requested pork and beans milk pie and Java, while the waiter responded with cautious acknowledgement.
The office operates daily with specific hours and dates. Regular examinations for teachers certificates occur on the third Friday and following Saturday in October January April and July, starting at 8 a.m. The program assigns subjects by session with limited private exams.
C. C. Carson lists Phoenix and National Fire Insurance Companies as reliable options with best rates. Offered at the Exchange Bank, the ad promotes selection of top insurers and favorable pricing.
Miss L Terry as selling agent for Chas A Stevens & Bros Chicago offers an elegant line of ladies garments including gowns cloaks waists and more. Measure taken and suits made to order. Call and inspect these sample lines.
Auctioneer Doug Kell onnell offers sales across Illinois with satisfaction guaranteed and reasonable terms. For details call or write Brimfield, Illinois.
EF B Pustester advertises mortgage loan options at the Gazette Office Elmwood every Saturday. He invites borrowers with current due loans or upcoming payments to hear what he can do, offering a chance to secure money or payoff before maturity.
Local shop advertises bug gies and carriages from a renowned factory offering savings on the line. The note invites customers to visit and view samples at the store smilingly signed by G H Cosr.
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