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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1900
Page
3
On Feb 10 a new ice breaking steamer built on Lake Baikal gave a trial trip from Cistvennitschnoye to Pereyemnaya and back through ice 2 feet 7 inches thick. Eighty miles were traversed in twelve hours. The journey was highly successful and the engines showed power to keep the lake open for traffic during winter.
A promotional note extols Grain-O as a nourishing coffee substitute made from pure grains. It claims children gain health as more Grain-O is given and notes the drink tastes like coffee when prepared properly. Available at grocers for 15 and 25 cents.
In a terse exchange, Hicks concedes his abilities have declined, addressing Wicks and signaling friction within the Boston Tran script community. The dialogue underscores a strained dynamic and questions of standing.
A historic note describes Lane's Family Medicine as essential for daily bowel activity and overall health. It claims gentle action on liver and kidneys, helps sick headaches, and lists a price of 25. It mentions an Ale A Malne Civil War veteran preserving hardtack from the last army ration issued thirty years ago.
Riverside Park in New York will plant over 40 000 trees from 100 varieties. Mia Winslow's Soothing Error for Children teething relieves inflammation eases pain and cures wind colic. Two bottle kit. A pup chews the best curtains in the house.
A stark meditation on universal hardship and the illusion of ease. The author contrasts outward appearances of health and virtue with inner struggle, urging readers to confront real suffering rather than comforted illusions.
London erupts as news circulates that Pretoria may fall to British forces in what is described as the end of the war. Reports suggest Boer surrender without sustained resistance though initial announcements proved premature. Officials later confirm Lord Roberts entered the capital with a portion of his army signaling a turning point.
Reports state all foreign observers viewed Pretoria as heavily fortified, yet the Boers opened it to the British to avoid further bloodshed. The war’s end nears as South African republics vanish, Britain claims victory under Lord Roberts who enters Pretoria amid jubilant scenes in London with crowds cheering and bulletside news.
Reports from Pretoria quote Gen. Botha urging continued fighting as British forces close in. He annuls a special order replacing civilian control with military rule, while Gen. Liners Meyer urged burghers to stand firm. Boers fight to avoid encirclement as Lord Roberts presses toward Pretoria.
A modest retailer’s wife seeks social glitter via a wealthy suitor for one daughter. The husband resists, vows to show appreciation when the suitor arrives, and returns with a painted card warning the wife to consult him before purchasing elsewhere. She deranges himself, and he retreats to the store.
A recent census of the worlds railways reports Europe rising from 141,552 to 155,284 miles, Asia from 22,025 to 26,800, Africa from 6,522 to 8,169, America from 212,724 to 209,722, and Australia from 12,322 to 13,888, totaling 433,953 miles. Africa shows the largest proportional gain, over 25 percent, with Europe 9 percent, Asia 22 percent, America 12 percent, and Australia 8 percent. The 1895 total exceeds the earths equator circumference seventeenfold, and the United States has more railway miles than the rest of the world combined.
In haste to build the Siberian and Trans-Baikal lines engineers used twelve pound rails instead of twenty four pound rails and erected wooden bridges with distant crossings. Maximum safe speed drops to twenty miles per hour while heavy engines push speeds to at least thirty five on steep grades. Reconstruction costs are set at 7 725 000 dollars for Trans Babel and 25 750 000 dollars for the Siberian system.
France's ministry of public instruction supports art with an annual expenditure of 3,600,000 dollars including the Ecole des Beaux Arts and ten other state fine arts schools. Cable system construction costs run about 2000 dollars per mile with submarine line investments over 200,000,000 dollars to date.
An old remedy claim states Straight Road To Health purifies the blood by expelling germs and impurities to remove disease. Hood's Sarsaparilla purportedly enriches and vitalizes red blood cells and enhances nutrient delivery to organs, tissues, and muscles.
Frank Gould plans a 390000 indoor exercise building for his horses. He purchased a plot on West Fifty-seventh Street in New York, fronting fifty feet and extending toward Fifty-eighth Street to connect with his stable by a sheltered driveway. An exercising ring building will cost over 10000 dollars.
A Hartford Courant anecdote recalls Charlies Dudley Warner, editor of the Hartford Press in the 1860s, who galvanized patriotism with his vigorous appeals. A compositor told him he would enlist, but he admitted he would rather be shot than set Warner's copy.
The St. Giles district board of works in London avoids sand and fine gravel on wet pavements for horses. They scatter small seashells stored along curb stones as a substitute for gravel, hoping to improve traction on slippery streets, similar to a practice in Paris.
The Science of Life and Self-Preservation guides are advertised by the Peabody Medical Institute at 4 Bulfinch Street Boston for 235 cents or 1.00 by mail. The 386 page volume claims popularity with a million copies sold and promises health vigor success and happiness.
A country matron scolds a New York urchin about to eat, insisting on a grace before meals. Henry, eager for his first country meal, protests that prayer might spoil his appetite, highlighting a clash of urban and rural dining customs.
An advertisement invites customers to send a special image price to Bears Roebuck & Co binder twine department in Chicago. It promotes Sisal, Standard, and Manila twine and promises to quote a price that either secures the order or forces a lower price from suppliers.
Mr Jackson-Mose Johnson faced a fine and costs for drunkenness. His wife paid the penalty and escorted him home. The wife suspected he sought jail to dodge house cleaning duties.
Try Grain O. Ask your grocer to show you a package of Grain O the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. Grain O has the rich seal brown of Mocha or Java but is made from pure grains and rests without distress. Priced at 15c and 25c per package. Sold by all grocers.
It claims Wesleyan female college in Macon Georgia was the first in the world, established by the Methodist Episcopal Church South in 1830. Also an ad notes Allen's Foot-Ease powder relieves tight shoes, corns, bunions, and sweaty feet with free sample offers.
In England a pair of Oom Pauls old boots serves as collection boxes to raise funds for wives and families of the absent minded beg gars.
Farmers urged to write T M Roberts Supply House Minneapolis for a special offer of binder twine. The firm is well regarded by commercial agencies. Includes brief notices of Mrs Julia Clark a California gold rush survivor and other items.
Danish lighthouses are supplied with oil to pump on the waves during 2 storm. Hall's Caterrh Care is taken internally.
A vintage advertisement claims vitality restoration with Dr Kiine's Ininquesting Tonic. It notes treatments priced at one dollar, cites Dr Kiine's Institute on Market Street in Philadelphia, and mentions the Sutlej River descent in India over 190 miles.
An aging bookkeeper recalls a brutal foray into Central America on a quest for romance and whisky. He describes a store raid, a mountain howitzer, arrest, and eventual release by the American consul before returning home aboard a banana steamer. The tale contrasts red life with lighter pink existence back home.
Auntie Rodgers, a hundred year old centenarian, dropped dead at Perry Oak. She had been married six times to four Black men, one Indian, and one white man, and she loved the last husband, the white man, best. The story comments on sentimentality about loving only once.
A reporter asks how business is. The marriage license clerk replies dull and jokes about advertising a free oil stove and a pound of candy with each license, as cited by the Indianapolis Press.
Clara Kepyp and Charma Kopp of Rockport Ind share how Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound aided their health. Kepyp describes years of doctoring with little relief for back aches nervous tension and irregular menstruation. Kopp recalls prior guidance from Pinkham and credits full recovery to the remedy urging other women to seek her advice.
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