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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1912
Page
8
Fashionable women no longer select corsets by waist measurement. New styles demand the entire figure be molded to the correct lines, and corsets should fit the individual figure rather than a neighbor's, even if waist measurements match.
Illinois Supreme Court upholds a ten hour daily limit for women workers across hotels restaurants telegraph offices amusement venues and public utilities tied to common carriers. The ruling reinforces a 12 month old measure urged by state women workers.
The Century article recounts the Russian mousetrap method used to arrest suspects by secretive, large-scale detentions. It notes the term, imported from France via Alexandre Dumas, and describes how authorities trap visitors and hold all in a house regardless of rank or appearance.
A Peruvian anecdote shows Indian debtors often avoid payment unless pressured by a creditor. An American observer describes one case at Caja Maren in the Cordilleras where a debtor pledged to build three or four hundred adobe bricks, then vanished until a man arrived with a lariat. The debtor finally showed up to work the next day.
Brimfield directory lists MoE Church led by Rev. E Jo Meuiaga with services at 1100 and 730 PM Sunday School at 930 AM and 130 PM Young People's meeting Sunday evening at 630 PM Prayer meeting Thursday 730 PM Congregational Church led by Aryv RaLpuE A HahkRBix with services 1100 AM and 630 PM Sunday School 10 AM Mrs RK E Burt Superintendent Young People's meeting Sunday 430 PM Service times vary with season Holy Mass at 1000 AM and 11 AM in winter at 11 00 AM Mass on fifth Sunday 9 AM weekly and winter hours noted All welcome Fraternal Societies Life Association Unionfield Lodge No 4 meets second Monday monthly Woodmen hall visiting brothers welcomed We Vickey Pres Me Who Werks Clerk W M 8 of the Methodist church meets first Thursday afternoon Eph Heraioti Commander Thos Jotovon Adjutan Brush Creek Lodge No 47 regular conventions Friday at 8 PM Brothers cordially welcomed GEO Cornrey Brimfield art of Lodge No 13 meets Tuesday evenings monthly W W A ha Ab! Kelley Chancellor Fred Arber Recorder Brimlin Camp No 847 meets alternate Wednesday evenings 7 30 PM Camp Hall Vilting neighbors welcomed GLENN SHANE V CC R E Burt Clerk
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