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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1900
Page
4
A man enters a cheap restaurant and asks if a 25 cent or 50 cent dinner is same. The waiter explains the difference is that the 25 cent meal costs 25 cents more than the cheaper option. The exchange ends with the guest choosing.
Mrs Archie-Young of West Superior Wisconsin praises DS Drops for neuralgia relief after five years of suffering. She details quick improvement after the first dose and improved sleep, appetite, and energy. Sample bottles priced at 5e and large bottles at $1.00 offered by Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co. Chicago for information.
A brief dialogue notes a water shortage claim six weeks without rain in the locality. The colonel downplays the severity, calling it an inconvenience rather than a famine in a reported Chicago Tribune exchange.
Try Grain-O. Ask your grocer to show you a package of GRAIN-O the new food ink that takes the place of coffee. Children may drink it without injury as well as adults. Grain-O has the rich seal brown of Mocha or Java but is made from pure grains. It leaves the stomach without distress. Price 15¢ and 25¢ per package. Sold by all grocers.
English match factory workers endure dangerous exposure to sulfur and minerals that corrode jaws and bodies. Wages average about 1.50 dollars per week, while Hillworking style factories spread hazardous chemicals throughout the work.
Advertises a Sears Roebuck offer in binder twine with Sisal Sundard or Man itis options. Customers send the desired quantity and wood type by mail to Sears in Chicago to receive a price that beats the supplier or secures larger discounts.
A humorous note on travel costs as a speaker considers taking his family to Europe. The banter contrasts personal expense with others’ finances, ending with a wry reflection on practicality and value.
An advertisement claims Lane's Family Medicine must be used daily for health. It pledges liver and kidney benefits, relieves headaches, and markets the product with a price of 25. The copy asserts women are strongest when weak.
A fragment notes La E Pinkhaia's Vegitale Compe as a known remedy valued for aiding sick women more than other medicines. The piece mentions its wide circle of supporters and thankful letters appearing in the record.
After about six months of fighting England's force of 240000 men conquered the two Boer republics making them part of the empire. Kruger and Stein fled, likely to join Cronje in St Helena. Cost to England ran to 200 million pounds, with 10000 dead and 5000 prisoners awaiting release. The diamond fields and gold fields fall under British control with representation in governance. Boers lose identity and independence while Kruger's oligarchic regime is deemed despotic and paternalistic. War began with Kruger's October 1904 ultimatum to Lord Salisbury.
The Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor plans its first world convention in London at Alexandra Palace starting July 10. An estimated 10,000 Americans and up to 60,000 delegates from Britain and abroad are expected, with 1,200 dormitories for women and a canvas encampment for 3,800 men. Tent shortages loom as 1,000 tents must be sourced from small makers already busy with South African war needs.
The piece recounts the Natal invasion by Boer forces led by about 45 000 burghers after Kruger left Pretoria for Waterfallhoven. It notes British defeats and Boer tactics, the Burgomaster de Souza and Chief Justice Gregorowski leading order preservation, and hides Boer losses. It also mentions high ocean rates impacting travel and a royal welcome for Endeavorers in London.
A violent thunderstorm struck Byron St. wrecking the soldiers monument just after Civil War ceremonies. The speaker reached the roll of the dead when a sheet of flame and a ground-shaking blast accompanied the quake ruined the monument and drove crowds to Gill's hall.
United States Marshal Foley of Indianapolis seized the Neely Printing Company plant in Muncie with a writ of attachment pending a hearing before Judge Baker of Indianapolis. The action cites alleged liabilities tied to Charles F. W. Neely, a defaulter in excess of $40. Sheldon H. Barrett, longtime Fernpaul-Selis agent, died in Boston.
A Chicago Tribune fragment recalls a flirtatious scene where two girls discuss a whispered romance tied to a costly bonnet. One laments disappointment while the other urges secrecy, framing the tale as a light social anecdote from a pale blue taffeta outfit moment.
Homeseekers excursions via the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad offer round trips to southern states on the first and third Tuesdays of June July and August. One fare plus $2.00 round trip with fifteen days for outbound and twenty one days for return. New wide vestibuled train Chicago to Fort Worth via Waco daily at 1 50 p m with through Pullman sleeping cars and free reclining chairs. For details contact any railroad agent or G P and T A C L Stone Chicago.
The famous Gre nelle well in Paris flows 743000 gallons daily from a bore nearly 2000 feet deep. Its overflow supplies a large section of Paris with an abundant water supply and remains a world renowned artesian source.
In the Lake Country of Northern Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota and Michigan hundreds of charming summer resorts await thousands of tourists from the South and East. A list includes Fox Lake Delavan Lauderdale Wau-sheesa Oconomowoc Palmyra The Dells Kilbourn Elkhart Madison and more with Farther names Minnequa Starhauk quiontenac White Bear Minnetonka and Marquette. For pamphlet Summer Homes for 1900 or the illustrated Summer Book In the Lake Country apply to your nearest ticket agent or send four cents postage Geo H Heafford AGent Old Colony Building Chicago Illinois.
Nell reports that Bess-So Jeanette vowed to marry only a cultured man and fulfilled it by marrying a farmer, proving she kept her word.
An advertisement promotes Grain-O a grain based drink for kids claiming it substitutes coffee. It emphasizes health benefits and cost efficiency stating Grain-O costs about a quarter of a dollar per can and is sold by all grocers at 15 to 23 cents.
A visitor declares the smoking room beautifully furnished and claims only Mr Henpeck Yerf would be allowed to smoke there, in a terse, curt exchange reflecting social snobbery.
An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot Ease powder to ease tight new shoes and cure corns bunions and sweaty feet. It lists price 25c and sample offers free, with supplier Allen 8 Olmsted LeHay New York. A separate quip jokes that some men are too pessimistic to believe a mother in law could become a missionary.
A woman boasts to her friend about a newly rented bijou villa like an enlarged doll's house. When asked what she will do with the many small rooms she declares she will let them out, and the friend agrees that tenants will be needed.
The Libby McNeill Libby house advertises superior meat products ready to serve or quickly prepared at home. It promotes their booklet How to Make Good Things to Eat and offers it free on request, highlighting old reliable Chicago origin.
A note on critics and a claim of revenge from Novelist. It also mentions Fiso's Cure advertised as throat and lung medicine with a testimonial from Endsley of Vanburen Indiana dated February 10, 1900. A remark on marriage expectations concludes the fragment.
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertisement notes a price of 75 cents. The copy repeats the claimed remedy and cautions about multiplier factors and benefactors not increasing.
An advertisement touts Hood s Sarsaparilla as a pure blood maker that cures tiredness pimples sores salt rheum scrofula and catarrh. It urges readers to buy a bottle and start taking it immediately to raise blood to a good health point.
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