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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1915
Page
7
A fragmentary notice mentions Mrs Joem Ham of Shamrock Missouri and Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co issuing confidential advice. The readable text presents a personal appeal linked to home life and medicinal guidance.
Paris dispatch from The New York Sun labeled Inside diary entries describe harsh conditions near Reims with heavy shelling. The correspondent records late night ration runs, a humorous encounter with officers, a soldier’s sleep deprivation, and reports of German artillery driving madness among troops. Mention of promotions and ration raids appears amid front-line hardship.
In New York City the daredevil Johnny Reynolds balanced on a cornice two feet out from a five story building. He stacked three kitchen tables with unstable legs and used a chair atop them while juggling balls. A large street crowd watched breathlessly as he finally descended unharmed.
Author recounts shelling tests and battle noise half way between Craonelle and Blanc Sablon. A new volunteer fires a bad cartridge to shoot at two rabbits. A French aviator is attacked by multiple batteries, returns safely, and is not fired upon. Observers aboard aeroplanes reportedly flash signals via a wire spark.
A veteran of 1870 General Maunoury, recently decorated by King George with the order of St Michael and St George, reflects on four decades of service and revenge for 1870. The aged commander led at Verdun, organized reserves, and directed Paris defense, visiting front lines daily until wounded by a bullet at a trench peephole.
A Warsaw dispatch says the war grows like Napoleon’s campaign as civilians partly women and children join defense. They take risks, serve as sentries, capture German prisoners, and bind their weapons for safety. The Grodno district signals notable peasant devotion and valiant volunteer guards.
In Lawrenceburg Indiana Samuel A. Powman and Richard D. Grimsley landed a 137 pound catfish in a river net near the Great Miami River mouth. The fish endangered them as Grimsley shot and secured it. Bowman nearly drowned, buried by the strike, then escaped back to the boat.
The article notes spring seeding complete by May 1 across Western Canada with oats, barley, corn and alfalfa expanding. It highlights increased cattle raising, new fodder crops, and large land offers including 160 free acres from the Dominion Government, railway lands, and company holdings. It cites rising sales to new settlers and those seeking to broaden holdings.
The pupil requests afternoon absence citing a relative’s death. The teacher grants pale reassurance, noting it would be preferable if the relation were nearer.
Clean sweet scalp may be kept so by Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. Free samples by mail with Skin Book from Cuticura, Dept XY, Boston. Sold everywhere. It is estimated that 760 billion cubic feet of illuminating gas are burned yearly worldwide.
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