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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1901
Page
2
A veteran editorial urges pride in America and its freedoms, celebrating education, worship, and equality under Old Glory. The piece praises the nation’s progress, taxes, strikes, and trusts, and ends with a chorus line invoking 125th anniversary patriotism. Aunt Huldah’s festive day follows a comic carriage ride to Pine Grove as the town marks independence.
A fragmented 19th century prose scene depicts a Chinese cracker and a boy named Tommy on the Fourth of July. The cracker plans an escape as a crowd gathers for a Black community picnic led by Parson Augustus Brownell. Aunt Huldah and Sam prepare a grand lunch, with Remus Green uneasy yet loyal, as a booted rider arrives at dawn signaling events to unfold.
Rural dialogue centers on Aunt Huldah preparing for a Fourth of July celebration while her household frets. Wrangling speech shows neighbors mocking her feverish planning and old time plantation voices, as Remus and Sam comment on her age and fussiness amid the festive preps.
In discussing Civic Festivals and Processions Charles RB Lamb notes the Stars and Stripes can be effectively used by massing over doorways or lining parade routes. He cautions the tricolor burnishing is hard to balance, suggests a broader color scheme, and cites the mural painter society’s Dewey parade proposal as an early recognition of using colors beyond red, white, and blue.
The piece argues that while some fear loud Fourth of July explosions, others justify the yearly fireworks as a rational source of sensation. It contends all life’s pleasures arise from sensory experience and celebrates the ritual as a patriotic, sensory thrill despite horror to some.
Mrs Cobwigger fears Freddie vanished after a day of play with a harmless toy pistol. Cobwigger dismisses concern, claiming Freddie is “having a good time with his firecrackers.” The dialogue hints at a shocking discovery likely at a morgue, prompting frantic search.
Early start to town on the Fourth of July as local residents prepare to meet visiting relatives. The note reflects a practical exchange about coordinating family welcomes and travel times amid Independence Day festivities.
A cloudburst overwhelmed Elkhorn valley from Ennis to Vivian causing massive destruction. Keystone and Vivian towns were nearly destroyed along with thirty miles of Norfolk and Western railroad track and coal mines in Pocahontas field. Authorities estimate millions in property loss and hundreds of lives possible, with the full toll awaiting assessment.
Desperate crowds of ghouls and foreigners hovered as lawmen were ordered to shoot looters in Pocahontas Valley Virginia. Cedar Bluff suffered near total destruction with seventeen houses washed away while few deaths were reported. Elkhorn creek flooded, dams collapsed, and a night of storms intensified the disaster as rivers rose and debris filled the valley.
Adelbert S Hay 26 son of the Secretary of State, and former US consul to the South African Republic, was found dead on the sidewalk in front of the New Haven Hotel in New Haven Conn. early Sunday morning after retiring at 1 oclock his body appeared about 2:30 am The Secretary of State arrived from Washington in the afternoon and collapsed upon viewing his sons body He was born in Washington DC and had succeeded United States Consul Macrum
Adelbert Hay, appointed consul to Pretoria in December 1899, remained there until after Lord Roberts captured the city. He acted for English soldiers captured by the Boers and tended to British interests, a policy criticized by his friends.
A catastrophic Elkhorn valley flood devastates Pocahontas coal country as heavy rainfall and a cloud burst wash away track, roadbed, and trestles. Miners and families lose homes, with water sweeping buildings, telegraph poles, and rail cars through Ennis to Vivian. Many seek safety in the surrounding mountains.
Thomas G Barker of Arlington New Jersey was found guilty by a single-ballot jury of shooting with intent to kill John Keller of the same town. The panel followed a strong court charge denying any unwritten law as justification. Barker’s counsel gave notice of appeal. Keller denied the allegations through a brief statement after the verdict.
The passage notes Young Hay's diplomatic education and time with his father in London while ambassador to Great Britain. It states Roberta believed Hay had completed the conquest of the Transvaal republics, but no successor to Hay has been appointed and Emile A. B Van Ameringen remains vice consul in charge.
Virginia gelding Robert Waddell owned by Mrs Bradley captured the American Derby over Terotinns and Parader in fast conditions before about thirty thousand spectators at Washington Park. The race valued at over 25000 drew a large field with Eastern and Western challengers and a festive crowd.
A Washington dispatch reports the Department of Justice is secretly investigating trusts under the Sherman antitrust law. If violations are found the issue could become a major legal battle, with large capital groups opposing federal action while secrecy shields investigators' strategy.
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