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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1902
Page
7
A westerner notes a method near Jerome Aziz where water from Senator Clark's United Verde mine yields copper when scrap iron is added. The copper precipitates to the pool bottom in irregular shapes, reportedly yielding about $600 to $700 worth of nearly pure copper every twenty four hours for Clark's people.
Mr William Catterson of Laska Springs Indiana recalls twenty years of his wife’s paralysis neuralgia and rheumatism. He credits Dodd’s Kidney Pills with a remarkable recovery from the treatment, noting she improved from the start and is nearly well now. He praises the pills as the great help.
A young man asks Miss Quickstep how to dress for the foolkiller role in a charade. She deflects, noting there is no such person, while glancing at the clock and showing despair.
The Detroit Free Press notes Mrs. de Sneere has no slanders toward friends. A separate testimonial from Mrs. F Callahan of Parkersburg West Virginia dated April 16 1901 extols Piso s Cure for Consumption as the best medicine for croppy children.
A Boer commander questions the English retreat and a spy quips that they dropped only a few hats as they fled, highlighting a dry exchange amid pursuit.
An old style ad notes that dull garments can be brightened with Red Cross Ball Blue. It promotes a 2 oz package for five cents sold by grocers. The rest of the snippet mentions clean water and salt as cleaners for willow ware and matting, and an erroneous line about the Dead Bea river being 1,300 feet deep.
Mrs Idal Roser describes two years of marriage with no child and long suffering from female troubles and painful menstruation, noting recent relief from the ongoing health issues. She has faced complications affecting her personal life and wellbeing.
Mine owners keep 3500 guards and nonunion crews to pump water from anthracite mines. Locking in $511.5 million in capital, operators fear future losses as engineers and pump workers quit. Miners demand about seven cents per ton more, while arbitration is rejected.
The report details indictments of four public men in St Louis and exposes a broad range of city corruption. It cites a former mayor and a retired registrar tied to contracts and funds, plus a speaker of the house of delegates using alias names to approve self-provided supplies. In Philadelphia, school directors allegedly sought bribes for promotions and elections, with teachers pressured by ward leaders. Immigration records show 85,000 arrivals in the month, about 25,000 this week, with deportations and disease-based restrictions limiting citizenship uptake.
Honorary dedication marks world’s first McKinley statue in a public school gift by Charles H Hackley. bronze figure by Niehaus stands on granite court with mosaic center, 5000 to 6000 attend. A 2500 strong parade includes infantry, Michigan National Guard, revenue cutters and civic groups.
A devastating Monday night rainstorm flooded Joliet Illinois causing widespread damage. Masonic Temple and Chicago street areas submerged, mills and factories flooded, communications cut, and two deaths reported in Wisconsin from a tornado. Separate items note Senator McBride and Mrs Schyichtenberg wedding in New York and Rep Bartholdt renominated in Missouri.
Police used clubs to clear thousands of strikers and sympathizers as meat wagons for the packers struggled through downtown Chicago from Twenty second Street to South Water Street. Rioters hurled bricks and missiles, blocked traffic, and coal rained on the crowd while officers formed hollow squares and beat back assaults. two hundred policemen charged under orders to beat them down with clubs with no shots fired.
Senate approval 48 to 3 authorizes the Philippine commission and offices of civil and vice governor, with limited rights from the US Constitution applied. It covers governance, electors, courts, citizenship, and bonds for friar lands, plus a Manila mint and expanded War Department insular affairs. Also notes Saengerfest decision in Baltimore and a fatal flood incident near Paris Arkansas with a monk surviving.
A postal clerk lists odd town names from many places including Wales Scotland Hawaii New Zealand Victoria South Australia Cape Colony Transvaal Natal Queensland and British Guiana. The tongue twisting examples include Llanfairpwllgwyngyll Anglesey and Oodlawirra with others such as Hamaquapoko Kealakekua Waiohula and Yackandandah.
A New York Telegram excerpt imagines a prank calling a janitress by the invented term janitrix. The dialogue riffs on shocking a janitress with the word, and the imagined court and social consequences illustrate humor about language and propriety in late 19th century urban life.
Ticket offer from the Grand Trunk Railway for Chicago to Boston with one fare plus one dollar for round trip. Selling dates June 12 14 18 and July 7 8 9 to various destinations including Portland Maine and Providence Rhode Island. Consult Geo. W. Vaux A G P and T A 185 Adams Street Chicago for limits timetables and details.
A satirical exchange notes the president issuing an order that reshuffles revolutions into the classified service, reflecting political maneuvering and civil service reform humor. The dialogue highlights bureaucratic change and political commentary.
Advertisement for Allen's Foot Ease powder to relieve tight shoes and foot ailments. Claims to cure corns bunions swollen hot and sweating feet. Sold by druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents. Sample offered by mail from Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy New York.
A brief back and forth about car etiquette on a train or tram ends with a polite gentleman directing an argument toward the smoking car. The exchange showcases old fashioned manners and social rigidity in a confined public space.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional treatment priced at 75 cents. Also notes an ancient wooden statue from Egypt depicting a village chieftain 6,000 years dead with crystal eyes.
An advertisement touts Ball Blue for five cents per two ounce package and mentions Newcomb College Mississippi offering Spanish as a study with instructor Prof Nunez de Villavicencio.
In Chicago at 427 Monroe Street Mrs Kate Taylor endorses Peruna as the finest tonic for convalescents and general weakness, noting quicker relief compared with other tonics and renewed vitality. Dr Hartman offers free treatment guidance to female illness cases through the summer, with The Peruna Medicine Co in Columbus, Ohio handling inquiries.
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