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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1940
Page
4
Town residents attend outings and family visits across Peoria, Avon, Princeton, and Galesburg. Noteably free movie night at Memler’s on Thursday, July 18 at 2 pm, and a July 12 birth at Francis Hospital. Several gatherings include picnics at Princeton and White Pines State Park, alongside community church society meetings and a range of kinship visits.
Dr. Ralph Oesper of Cincinnati studies gunpowder origins and notes Berthold Schwarz and Friar Roger Bacon as linked to its birth. He suggests Schwarz may have hinted at firearms around 1200 in Freiburg, while dismissing Chinese claims and emphasizing uncertain historic proof.
A mixed set of local notices offers items for sale such as a corn grinder and hedge posts, livestock including a freed cow and several heifers, Rainbo paper plates and related lunch box supplies, and a ten room house with garage on Knoxville Ave part of the J. B Marsker estate. Inquiries directed to Irville or Wilbur Tucker, Mrs Jad Harding, Brimfield, or W E Harker. A request for a long gentle rain is also listed.
The boll weevil causes yearly damage to the cotton crop estimated at 164.5 million dollars, highlighting the pest's ongoing impact on agriculture.
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