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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1902
Page
6
A brief notice from E D Feasree announces that the photograph car of J G Cone & Son will be open every day. He guarantees good work and solicits patronage from readers.
We sincerely thank Brumfield friends for their sympathy and assistance during our illness. Their kindness will be remembered and deeply appreciated. Mr. and Mrs. D. Thomas and family express heartfelt gratitude.
A buyer can purchase a complete threshing outfit in first rate running order including a Buffalo Pitt double cylinder engine with two runs, a Stevens separator and wing, an Adams sheller with 32 feet drag, all on about 100 acres. Cash or short time terms. Contact Brimfield, T or Hven Cargo four miles north of Brim field.
A daily section titled Meals for a Day provides three menus each day with recipes for breakfast luncheon and dinner. Households are invited to submit menus for cash prizes, with details published in The Cuwaceo Revorp Her- LD.
An advertisement extols Electric Bitters as a universal remedy from stomach to liver issues. It promises relief for kidney and bowel regulation, blood purification, and nerve and sleep problems, naming various ailments and urging trial.
The premium list totals 850000 in cash prizes plus numerous special awards. Increased saddle horse and combination ring premiums reflect rising interest in breeding. The fair expects record horse and cattle displays and aims to celebrate its golden anniversary with Roosevelt attendance and governors from neighboring states as guests.
An Ensign from a Philadelphia suburb writes home about a lottery draw in a southern city where a shipmate bought a $1 ticket with a tenth Chance for 100000 dollars. The ensign matched the winning number and fainted with joy. The next day an official delivered two bags containing 10000 dollars in gold aboard his ship.
A Duluth area tale recalls a meeting at a small station inn where six travelers from the Twin Cities and North Dakota share winter hardships. The conversation turns from pipes and frozen dwellings to blizzards and prairie cold, ending with a remark that Duluth’s coldest winter felt like summer to Oliver.
A young man, short of funds, trades worn clothes for bouquets from a gardener. He sends roses to his beloved but is met with a frosty reception after she reveals a note accusing him of sending flowers with a reminder about old trousers he promised.
A Pennsylvania railroad official tested two worker groups at a freight yard by measuring daily tonnage over a week. One group rested Sunday while the other worked, and on Monday the non resting group showed a 10 percent efficiency drop compared with the previous Monday, with the gap widening each day. The rested group remained as productive in the second week as in the first.
A millionaire employer addresses workers saying wealth creates responsibilities rather than happiness. He claims wealth funds employment, and he views riches as mainly providing basic needs. A heckler in the crowd jokes about getting more from riches.
The man of business exits a ground floor office and tells the chief clerk he needs about five minutes with Dudley. If he catches an express elevator he will return in about two hours. a local would delay him until the afternoon on the sixty eighth floor.
A judge in the west snores loudly keeping neighbors awake. His daughter’s sleep aid failed the ears, so he considers sleeping away from home. A worse snorer on the eastbound train keeps him awake until he pounds the partition and forces his neighbor to wake, then sleeps.
Conversation at the Lawyers' Club recalls Judge James T. Brady. A veteran says Brady began practice in a bare room with two chairs and a deal table. An Irish visitor asked what was sold there and Brady quipped blockheads, noting only one chair remained.
A missionary describes Congo Free State women as short yet strong enough to carry heavy loads. They wear two folded cloth wraps as daily garments and rarely wash. Smoking with a brass nailed gourd pipe is common and babies bathe outdoors twice daily regardless of chill.
The article describes how a sole’s eye migrates during development via twisting head bones, altering its symmetry. It also notes Sir James Crichton Brown urging asylum workers to read two standard novels yearly to refresh ward life and suggests a list of hundred suitable novels free of idiocy.
The article argues that a newspaper should uphold its eternal principles even if readers desert it temporarily. It asserts that founding on strong morals makes the paper invincible and worthy of respect, predicting a sad day if principles are sacrificed for business success.
Harper's Weekly notes a Meriden anarchist who blew himself up with dynamite and jokes about supplying rage for anarchists. The piece mocks self harm and suggests using traffic accidents to curb anarchist activity and pressure automakers to slow down.
Rear Admiral Coghlan recalls a tale from early Japan when Tokyo ladies ordered Anglo-Saxon wardrobes from Paris. Cases were labeled wrong side up, causing wearers to don garments in reverse order, from outermost to lingerie, with predictable humorous results.
The piece recalls a letter from Victoria’s coronation era noting MPs could not attend due to court dress costs. It suggests Disraeli’s stance shifted after aligning with the Tory party and becoming Earl of Beaconsfield, altering his view of such occasions.
The city teems with “while you wait” signs offering immediate repairs and services. Shoes mended coats pressed violin bows repaired and diamonds set are all advertised to be completed before your eyes. The trend highlights rapid, on‑site craftsmanship across retailers.
Dragomtroff argues in Razvedchik that rifle fire is overemphasized and bayonets decide battles. He claims South Africa shows war as waged but not real war, insisting both weapons have proper roles.
M Gallen the old socialist cremationist who died bequeathed about 10,000,000 francs to the French government and 30,000 francs to the Society for the Encouragement of Cremation. His will requires cremation and burial in a fifth class hearse with only the society's secretary as mourner, and his ashes to be placed in a receptacle like those used for the very poor.
Dr. Javal of the French Academy of Medicine argues that blindness does not increase touch or hearing but reveals a latent sixth sense. The sense, linked to obstacles, perceives warm vibrations and is believed to reside in the forehead.
The text notes Senator Ross of Kansas cast the decisive vote against impeachment. It also mentions Mr. Ress working as a printer in a newspaper office in Albuquerque New Mexico.
Christian Smith, the country’s oldest locomotive engineer, lived near Harper’s Ferry Maryland. He ran the first engine on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at six to eight miles per hour, a rapid pace for that era.
Norwegian entrepreneurs push reindeer flesh as a new food source in Europe. They plan large scale breeding for slaughter, aiming at markets in France and Belgium and even hoping to convert Britain’s beef eaters to this novel meat.
Coal firms at Susquehanna Pennsylvania and nearby areas report heavy mule losses after the strike as mules hoisted from mines face sun exposure. Many mules, unused to daylight after years underground, die daily from sun stroke.
British Columbia canneries form a morganeered salmon trust with a small capital of 3 million dollars. The plan saves by products once wasted, turning scales and bones into guano and glue as the canned product remains a fish in grease.
A note cites a claim that the 1860 four and a half inch armor plate once deemed invulnerable could be penetrated at short range by a 21st century 16 pounder. The assertion contrasts historic armor with modern firepower.
Episcopal rector Dr Evans in Middletown New York recalls a Presbyterian minister doubting 300 Christians in town. He replies I need in my church all there are and they not number three hundred yet.
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