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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1920
Page
3
A fragmented street quote from Kan sas City Star notes a boastful line about wealth and a wary remark about a stylish man. The passage includes slang and stray phrases about a liar, money, and a label Silk Shirt Stick of Twelfts etreet.
An editorial mentions Freezone sold by druggists to remove corns and calluses with a few cents, claiming painless results. It also discusses sun therapy, citing a British doctor M J de Thezac and a revolving cabin with a lens to concentrate sunlight, tested near Quimper, France per Popular Science Monthly.
The ad warns that many women’s complaints stem from kidney or bladder disease and urges prompt treatment with Swamp-Root, a physician’s remedy. It promotes buying a bottle at drug stores or requesting a sample by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer & Co. It also notes a letter about bricks from England.
An ad copy proclaims Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as proven safe by millions and prescribed for over twenty years. It urges customers to accept authentic Bayer packages with directions for headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain. Small tin boxes of 12 tablets cost a few cents. Druggists offer larger Bayer packages. The product is described as a trademark of Bayer Manufacture.
Archaeologists secured a collection of vaustic historic tablets from Babylon excavations dating to about 350 BCE. Several fragments show distinct finger marks from hands that molded the pieces over two millennia ago.
Quote from John Ruskin about endless luster and the unique gift each person holds. The weakest among us possesses a peculiar trait that, used worthily, becomes a lasting gift to humanity.
University of Missouri expert W K R Gardner outlines a pruning plan that starts with heavy harvest season thinning and heading back in early years to build a strong framework. As trees age pruning shifts to thinning large limbs, reduces heading back, and aims to prevent overbearing while extending life and bearing regularity.
Open centered trees expose leaf surfaces and fruits to sun, aiding pruning spraying thinning and picking. They offer orchard operation advantages but are mechanically weaker than leader types due to fewer larger scaffold limbs prone to splitting at crotches in high winds.
The advisory urges timely spraying in orchards and berry patches including pruning and thorough coverage under dense foliage. It recommends a full strength time sulphur application on apple trees before beds commence, to protect against insects and diseases and ensure marketable fruit.
A chaotic scene at a Christmas bazaar features an unscrupulous display of animal and insect toys that resemble nightmarish creatures. A customer buys a terrible beetle for half a dollar saying he will place it on a table during a dinner party to signal when he should go home.
A mother finishes her five year-old daughter's haircut and jokes about baited clippings. The child quips about patching her father's head, prompting light domestic banter. A printer’s office rumpus is blamed on forgotten consequences, and a man in debt crawls out.
A stylish woman always seeks the latest fashion, from hats to dresses, while her husband protests, then asks for her to stop wearing hair over her ears. She responds with a smile and a bold demand to buy her diamond earrings.
A man used a cemetery to distill moonshine and was raided. He faced police action after the illicit whiskey operation was uncovered, keeping neighbors wary of the site.
A concise note reflects on a promoter who built a fine new house perched on a bluff. The correspondent quips, So is he, highlighting parallel pride in both endeavors.
A Daniah proverb notes a woman’s admission of male superiority in translating a railway timetable. It contrasts good intentions ground out by political machines with the value of such material, suggesting not all who turn their backs flee.
London Tit-Bits quotes a wife and husband about a new maid whose quietness masks disruption. The husband notes the maid is unobtrusive. the wife says she left this morning. The proverb on ability versus stability concludes the brief item.
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