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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1934
Page
4
Brimfield and nearby towns bustle with social calls relatives and visitors from Peoria Rock Island and Monmouth. Local merchants advertise oil stove wicks fans and baked goods while noting band concerts and summer outings amid measles cases and chinch bug battles.
McCowan and McCowan offer ice delivery from their ice house. Saturday doughnuts sold. For sale rotary hoe in excellent condition priced at 20 dollars. Manford Harding contact 81F3. Four tons of hay at I B Schenck’s barn, inquire W F Murphey 1208 W Oregon Urbana Illinois. Well digging and drilling by George Strom in Victoria. White Leghorn and other poultry from Whiteview Hatchery Peoria Illinois with prices listed and state approved stock.
John R. Powers, agent for Standard Oil Co., offers chinch bug oil at 912c per gallon. Keith Cady returns from Lake Forest after completing his sophomore year. Dorothy German of Princeville visited aunt Mrs. Ben Germano and family last week.
Elliott James performs a liquid air trick in the Science theater of the World’s Fair in Chicago. The act involves holding liquid air at 312 degrees below zero in the mouth during a free show. The crowd laughs as a flirtatious exchange follows when Tom Huggins professes audacity after a kiss.
30 day tickets good in sleeping cars upon payment of the usual Pullman fare six dollars twenty five cents.
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