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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1902
Page
9
A terse sales note offers roof painting for lasting quality and money savings. It promotes iron wheels wagon scales and low down wagons with price appeals and a closing sign off by JosterH Hiuu.
The village of Brimfield Illinois passes a special annual appropriation ordinance for the fiscal year starting April 1902. It allocates funds for streets and sidewalks police and street commissioners fees and salaries and miscellaneous pur poses totaling 1200 dollars. The ordinance was approved and signed by President L G Capy and Village Clerk Appicon Pacgey on July 7 1902.
Peed Park merchant Mr Fo Welle lauds Chamberline Pain Balm as the best liniment for strains. The item, sold by Wic Robinson & Co, is noted for quick relief in a reported winter lameness case. The Yonkers and Gotham chatter question the branding "The Senator" for a new oil.
In Durban South Africa frozen meat eaten heavily since the war is held responsible for a prevalent dyspepsia. The report ties the illness to the popular wartime staple and notes concerns among residents.
Mrs John Schetkopf and Mr Me van visited Joliet relatives. A 50c on the dollar stock sale closes out Minneapolis repairs. Funeral for Mrs Matthewson attended by Mr and Mrs Murphy. Marshall's offers a special buggy sale. Dr Knapp assisted in leg amputation of Mrs Lambertson after a road accident. Dr Pershing from Chicago considers locating in town. John Reed lost three head of cattle in French Creek when crossing. one survived. Zylka Lodge K of P installed officers with fried chicken and watermelon. Mrs Joseph Phares joined Mr and Mrs Brown to South Dakota trip. party sightseeing included Hale Memorial church. The four ladies became accidentally locked inside the church, escaped after an hour by window.
The Committees on Old Settlers Day are requested to meet at the village hall Wednesday evening July 30 at 8 p.m. All citizens interested in the picnic are also requested to be present.
When rheumatism strikes the kidneys must be attended to at once to eliminate uric acid from the blood. Foley's Kidney Cure is presented as the most effective remedy. A Polar Wisconsin resident reports three years of failed treatment with doctors before Foley's Kidney Cure cured him.
The ad promotes immediate relief from coughs colds croup throat and lung troubles. William Robinson & Co. markets the product as a sure cure and urges cooling off after exercise to prevent worsened symptoms.
The passage recounts medieval remedies once used for teething wounds and blood stopping. It describes a live mole burned in a brass pot for teething pain and a four-letter blood ritual to staunch bleeding. It also cites Mithridates antidote mixtures of walnuts figs rue and saite for poison defense.
A Yale Divinity School dinner speaker recounts a French visitor misusing grammar and a Chicago mayor tale. In Philadelphia an exodus of about 1,200 Italian berry pickers heads to New Jersey fields under padrones contracts with farmers.
An old ad narrative urges guarding children outdoors and touts DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve as the quickest remedy for cuts, bruises, and wounds. It cites testimonials like T. Bo Johnson and warns against counterfeits by Wm Robinson & Co.
A visiting Englishman at a New York hostess dinner politely demands to dine immediately, turning the event into a memorable moment. Other notes recount a Kobe Chronicle tale of a bicycle theft by a student misled by the idea that a free wheel exists.
Gen. R. Shafter tours his birthplace site at Galesburg Michigan near the family burying ground and visits the log house where he was born during his trip.
Green tea is made from leaves dried immediately after harvest while black tea undergoes fermentation before drying. This processing difference results in black tea having much less tannin than green tea.
Portuguese authorities take active steps to suppress spitting as a spreader of consumption. Offenders face heavy fines.
Verona Missouri resident W Spalding credits Kodol for transforming his 76 year old mother’s health after years of distress from indigestion and panic. He notes she now earns her own income and fears no bad effects with a bottle of Kodol Bundy, praising it as nature’s own tonic that rests the stomach and aids digestion.
Sergeant James Condon is the oldest enlisted man in the United States Army, serving from November 1838 to May 7, 1885 when he retired. He saw duty in Florida Mexico and during the Civil War.
Post Office hours listed as 7 30 a m to 12 m and 1 p m to 8 p m Mails close at 8 20 a m and 5 p m. Public notice attributed to D R Strais P M.
Well known Henderson citizen Mr Kelley relates a summer experience similar to many neighborhoods across the United States. He explains he purchased a medicine called FCbateerans Colic Cholera and Porurrborn Kemrey which, per directions, gave entirely satisfactory results and controlled the trouble quicker than prior attacks. Switzerland's big export record noted, highlighting its status as a leading exporter.
Alfred Hobgood died after swallowing a shoestring with a brass tip during a Confederate reunion in Dallas Texas. The incident led to blood poisoning and his death.
George L. Snow of Salt Lake City, a noted diamond enthusiast, causes trouble for Bat Masterson and other gamblers. He is described as a large man who wears a huge gem charm on his watch chain a massive stone in his necktie and several large diamonds on his fingers.
Swedish sculptor Stephen Sading completed a War group showing a dead soldier prone beneath a fierce partially draped woman with bound arms. A raven hovers near the fallen man. The binding will visit the United States this fall.
A Fifth Avenue Bridge collapse survivor recalls waking from unconsciousness and thinking it would have been a bad day to play poker. The remark appears in the New York Post.
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