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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1901
Page
1
Short items report a soft will celebration and land sale, Hayward’s prices for gas and stoves, visits by Mrs. N Edson, cattle prices, farm notices, social events, rust damage to crops, a harness maker resting, a neck wiggle sales pitch, a scholarship win for Norman Asp, a fatal scalding incident, and a cherry harvest season with few accidents.
The draft stallion Confusion No 6746 will be shown this season on Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays at P Maher's with the balance of the week at home. The colt stock is praised for size and bone and buyers are urged to inspect the young stock and insure foals at nine days old for eight dollars.
Wenona Bourbon, a six year old Percheron stallion, has led Robert Burgess & Sons stables in Wenona for three years and will stand the 1901 breeding season at BE M. Maher’s farm three miles southwest of Brimfield. He is praised as well bred and a grand individual. See him for terms and extended pedigree on bills.
To Horsemen. Do you want road horses that work and drive and keep value? Young Redwood is the horse, with large size and style. He will be at Brimfield Tuesdays, Elmwood Saturdays, and other days at home two miles north of Elmwood. Call for prices and see his colts.
Brimfield travelers may buy round trip Pan Am Exposition tickets to Buffalo from May 1 to Nov 1 1901. 30 day tickets cost 27.10 with sale May 15 to 81 and final limit 80 days. 15 day tickets cost 22.40 with sale May 1 to 31 and final limit 15 days. 6 day tickets cost 17.80 on sale May 7 14 21 28. Final Saturday after sale. Also special low rates to St Paul meeting of MW A from June 10 to 15 and Epworth League in San Francisco July 18 to 21. Colorado and Utah low rates. Hone Seekers tickets sold on first and eighth Tuesday monthly. R. BR. Murray Agent.
An ad invites readers to explore Nebraska as a land of opportunity with cheap land, abundant grain and fruit, healthy climate, and growing towns. It promotes pamphlets The Corn Belt and The West Nebraska Grazing Country and announces cheap excursion tickets on the first and third Tuesdays of each month to visit Nebraska, urging inquiry to ticket agents.
Cough stopping remedy claims to cure a cold in one day with no cure no pay. Advertises Luxatate Bromo Quinine Tablets priced at 25 cents, promising rapid relief and a guaranteed result.
Mrs W K Haviland of Armonk New York reports a near fatal whooping cough and bronchitis, but Dr King's New Discovery saved her child. A niece with advanced consumption also recovered. the medicine is described as infallible for coughs and colds with trial bottles free.
Contractor offers roof painting using Elastic roof paint claimed to last long and save money. Also advertises savings on iron wheels wagon gear and wagon scales with prices designed to please. Contact for the listed goods and services.
Advertising claim for eczema saltrheum tetter chafing ivy poisoning and other skin ailments cured quickly by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salvé. Mentioned by Wm. Robinson & Co. as a pile cure and remedy option.
An advertisement touts Enamel Roof Paint for shingles or tin with 5. T. Hill guaranteeing work at low prices. The copy urges readers to see him for roof coating and mentions the product as the best roof paint available.
G H Conn advertises a line of bug gies and carriages from a top factory. He invites cash purchases and samples at the shop, promising money savings on all lines.
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