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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1901
Page
8
Georgie faces a choice between romance and art as Rex asks for Madge's hand. She tests her resolve, learns of Madge's sway, and endures a month of quiet sacrifice while awaiting Rex's final question and her own growth. The scene captures tension, humor, and a costly vow to art over love.
In a dramatic scene Georgie learns a man confesses he and Madge staged lovers for a month. He reveals his proposal to Madge and her refusal, saying the test would reveal Georgie’s true feelings. Georgie admits she loved him after the truth is spoken, ending with quiet reflection.
Kansas City Journal columnist argues the potato receives too little credit among America’s gifts to the world. He traces its origins from South America and Spain to Ireland and New England, noting its global spread and tobacco’s broader impact as a comparison.
A fable-like tale contrasts a proud Big Buck Deer boasting of hunting a man with a fawn’s moral doubt. The deer recounts tracking and killing a man to impress the fawn, who questions bravery and ethics. The piece closes with a moral about pride and consequences.
An acre of bananas is reported to yield about 133 times the weight of an acre of wheat. Banana flour is entering use, while brewers test bananas as a substitute for barley. Banana fiber is used to make rope and fine textiles as well as thin clothing.
The Staten Island ferry Northfield was rammed by the Mauch Chunk off Whitehall Street and sank within minutes in the East River near pier 10. About 800 passengers, mainly women and children, scrambled for life as the vessel went down, with uncertainty over fatalities and claims of cowardice during the scramble.
A transport vessel in a South Brooklyn dry dock slipped from supports and capsized killing many and injuring over fifty. About 240 workers on site and thirty Italian laborers in the hold were aboard when ballast or block shifting caused the ship to list and the dock to sink in fifty feet of water. Rescue efforts aimed to free men trapped beneath wreckage.
The article covers Columbia University’s teacher placement committee and free service, Missouri Simmons bill pushing compulsory education, and Indiana State Normal recruiting teachers for the Philippines with salaries of 900 to 1200 dollars yearly and a three year contract. It notes several senior class members may apply.
A new revenue act cuts stamps on twenty six articles effective July 1 including bank checks telegraph and telephone messages bonds leases mortgages and more. Revenue may fall by forty to forty five million annually as banks rush to redeem stamped checks and the government sorts out redemption rules and returnability of stamped instruments.
The document lists numerous duties and changes effective April 1901 including rates on bonds, certificates, mortgages, tobacco products, cigars, express and telegraph fees, freight, and various stock and bank instruments. It also notes modifications for cigarettes, foreign bills of exchange, and exemptions for certain charitable legacies along with new taxes on bucket shops and broker classes.
The Minois reached 17.31 knots along the Cape Ann course, surpassing Alabama and Wisconsin in speed within its class, making Illinois the fastest of its kind in the American navy. Birth rates rise in New England, Fall River leads at 38.75 per 1000. Holyoke, New Bedford, Waterbury, and Cambridge follow. Vice-Admiral Sir Edward H Seymour is promoted to admiral after serving as China Station commander since 1898.
Boston social column notes fashion and dance trends while San Jacinto lime burners switch to crude oil. Siam appoints Phys Phetchada as minister extraordinary to the United States. Teachers sail for the Philippines. California expects 4,000,000 boxes of citrus shipped this season. Yavapai County Arizona values Senator Clark’s copper property at 6 million. United Verde mine tax totals 24,000 on 600,000 valuation, raising Clark’s Arizona tax to 240,000 annually. Sophronisba Breckinridge, daughter of Col. Breckinridge, earns PhD after MBA. She was Kentucky’s first woman lawyer in the state bar.
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