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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1942
Page
4
The public is invited to a concert with admission charged featuring Mezurka Joyce Schelkopf Hahn. Proceeds support unspecified community programs and local venues.
Sunday visitors and family updates fill this May through June community rundown. Entries include Leona Day returning from Moline to teach high school, military transfers, furloughs and training, farm work and weddings, visits in Peoria and Chicago, and long lists of graduations and religious society meetings. Nearby towns, families, and churches feature in the chronicled week.
A National Board of Fire Underwriters address warned that fire is a constant threat to wealth and life. Since 1900 fire killed more than 400000 people and destroyed about $14000000000 in property, a loss rivaling modern war costs. It cited the Normandie fire and the Fall River rubber blaze as examples and urged individual action to prevent fires at home and work.
A two stanza verse by Frederick Johnson and Roiland Cady, fifteen and fourteen, written in an evening collaboration. It calls for unity in democracy, opposition to oppression, and devotion to peace, urging Americans to defend liberty and rights.
Local notice lists multiple for sale items including beach gear, doors, screens, wires, farm implements, and a horse drawn cultivator. Names such as A T Babcock S A Kelory Oscar Harding Bragg and details for phone contacts appear. An auction of household goods is announced for Brimfield Saturday June 27 at 2 00 PM with watch for bills.
The Market lists prices for wheat hogs and beans with figures showing new crop data. Wheat at 105, hogs at 14, beans at 162, with other commodities including new ear and shelled corn around 73 and 580 respectively.
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