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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1902
Page
7
The article explains ostrich feather plucking, noting no pain for the bird. A bag with a breathing hole is placed over the head, one worker holds the bird while another cuts long wing and tail feathers. Short ripe feathers are plucked, stumps remain for weeks, and male birds yield more valuable plumes.
In June at Breed Wisconsin Charles F Peterson Justice of the Peace recounts years of backache eased by one box of Dodd’s Kidney Pills. He praises the remedy’s effectiveness and urges others to try it. A Chicago News joke dialogue about dyspepsia follows, highlighting common ailments and remedies.
A jumble of early 20th century ads and light humor notes. It includes remedies and consumer products like Allen’s Foot Ease, Hall’s Catarrh Cure, Red Cross Ball Blue, Piso’s Cure, and Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. It also contains brief stage quips about Valentine’s Day and a mock dialogue about a doctor misdiagnosis. The overall page is a collage of promotional blurbs and comic lines with no single event.
A severe storm swept across Illinois including Bloomington Peoria Champaign Urbana and damage extended into central Iowa. One dance hall disaster near Merna killed three. In Pekin and surrounding areas homes barns and streets were destroyed with power out and many injured or missing. The Des Moines area also suffered unroofed buildings and sinking boats along the river.
An Arizona ice mining venture led by E B Dutton aims to exploit ice caves near Flagstaff to supply small towns camps and northern railroads into California. The caves run deep with temperatures around 60 degrees below within minutes and vast ice stores feed a potential widespread ice business.
Ex Boer officer Col Arthur Lynch, elected MP for Galway in November, was arrested Wednesday on arrival from Dieppe. He was taken to Bow Street police station and arraigned for high treason, remanded after evidence presented. Lynch said he would return to England to take his seat, believing Boer war end and amnesty would protect him. British detectives warned they awaited his landing.
An epidemic of lockjaw has struck cyclone victims in Go Had Texas. Five people died last week and physicians warn blacks are more susceptible. No recoveries among the attacked yet. Also noted is the 101st anniversary of Brigham Young's birth celebrated in Bab Lake City.
Thomas A. Edison claims to have solved the storage battery problem, promising an alkali battery that makes man independent of horses. He notes the battery cannot be eaten and will not be sold to the public until it proves capable in road use tests, though exact formulas remain undisclosed.
The Arkansas governor Jefferson Davis faces removal after church members sustain accusations of improper conduct. The piece notes pardoning a convict to Massachusetts and Davis’s remarks on Massachusetts sympathy for Black people, hinting at race and prison policy impacts.
Railroads push for faster schedules as 24 hour and 20 hour trains expand. The New York Central and Lake Shore routes debut a 24 hour flyer to Chicago with electric lights and top Pullman gear. Officials predict a nationwide running-time upshift across major lines next year. Local items note a new evening paper in St. Joseph, Mo, plus drownings in Oklahoma and Missouri and fire losses in White Horse, Colo. Cantalope growers contract to ship east by rail. A Missouri penitentiary riot over hash meat is reported. Senator McLaurin of South Carolina linked to a federal judgeship vacancy. Thomas F. Wood drowns during a fishing trip on White River. companion survives.
The article profiles John Alexander Dowie and his followers building Zion City on Lake Michigan as a religious metro hub. It notes expansion from a small settlement to 5,000 residents with 1,000 houses under construction, and plans for a 30,000-seat temple and a global capital for his church near Jerusalem. It also describes theocratic political aims and opposition from clergy and medical professionals.
C F W Neely, sentenced March 24 in Havana to ten years in prison and a $50,701 fine for Cuban postal frauds, is released under a presidential amnesty that frees Americans convicted or awaiting trial during the occupation. Also noted are sentences for Reeves and Rathbone, Reeves pardoned April 22, Rathbone later reviewed, and two deaths in the United States including a Pittsburg shooting by a wife and a seven year old drowning near Junction City Kansas.
Mrs D Arnold of Los Angeles praised Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing a womb tumor after four years of illness. She used twelve bottles with no relapse, crediting the remedy for restoring health and avoiding surgery. The ad urges women with related symptoms to try the product and avoid others.
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