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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1907
Page
4
Local notes recount events around Brimfield including Old Settler’s Picnic plans, farm sales, haying delays from rain, visits from relatives, births and local losses. Names such as EB B. Catton, Mrs. Lew Baldwin, and Miss Nell Cosprove appear among scattered social notices and agricultural updates.
Datto Dodds, once a Massachusetts factory hand and a sergeant in the Nineteenth U S Infantry, drifted into the Philippine insurrection. He mastered a harsh language, aligned with insurgents, and rose to near royalty on Taw1 Tawi1 island while eluding U S soldiers. His notoriety fuels renewed efforts to capture him as a symbol of unrest in the region.
An excerpt paints New York as a city detached from its cabs, focusing on stone canyons and towering steel against a night sky. It recalls exile and memory, portraying the skyline as a line of yellow lamps arching into the air and shaping the urban mood.
A college professor famed for concentration returns from a scientific meeting and, upon entering his room, hears a noise beneath the bed. The intruder answers that no one is there, noting the professor's peculiarities as the man insists he sensed someone under the bed.
A quoted anecdote from Mark Twain recalls a journalist's obituary line about Dr Sawyer that praised his prompt and skillful treatment before noting the patient died on Monday. Twain notes the doctor was displeased by the phrasing, illustrating the limits of flattery.
Admiral Sigsbes faced a misstep at a Washington banquet as he delivered a swift, clever toast reply. He began confused, then drew on a parable about a fisherman saved by a hunter who asks why he fell in. The fisherman replies he did not intend to fall but to fish.
A Swift quote praises Sunday travel with church prayers to safeguard travelers by land or sea. The excerpt frames travel as a communal ritual, invoking divine protection and social propriety in everyday motion.
About three quarters of the illuminating gas now produced in the United States is water gas, derived mainly from water rather than coal. Modern methods yield far more gas per ton of coal, with coking and heating coal to drive off hydrogen and combine it with steam. Gas oil or naphtha is added to enhance quality in the trade.
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