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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1935
Page
4
A long list of social notes, visits, and local events from Brimfield and Peoria area residents. Among highlights are firework sales at Overen''s Cafe on Saturday, family visits in multiple towns, piano lessons, store discounts, and upcoming community events plus health updates and travel.
A collage of small ads lists items for sale including Ililini soy beans cleaned, a fresh Guernsey cow and heifer, a John Deere disc plow, navy beans, and baby chicks at 7.50 per 100. Also notes requests to buy or store a used piano, tap dancing pupils at 25 cents a lesson, a community hall sale date, and a hatchery offering custom hatching services in Toulon Illinois.
The estates of James M. and Catherine Cluskey offer 80 acres of tillable land with improvements and wells in Brimfield Township and 160 acres in Princeville Township, including 40 acres tillable. The public auction by Master in Chancery D. Peoria County is set for Monday July 15 1935 at 10 05 A M at the Adams Street door of the Peoria County Courthouse. Full sale details are available through the Master in Chancery office.
An advertisement from Vogel Hatchery on Route 78 offers baby chicks and start ed chicks along with feeds for cows calves pigs hens roosters and other poultry and livestock needs between Farmington and Elmwood.
For sale seed corn Reid's Yellow Dent Utility, early maturing, yielded over 100 bushels in 1932 and 45 in 1934 despite drought and bugs. Germination test 97 percent. Good seed corn is the cheapest seed farmers buy. Contact F. M. Oakes.
A compilation of disparate facts and curiosities from various countries and eras. Notable items include Manx building bans, Japan’s medical schools, France silk worm farming, and a quoted exchange about sisterly gifts.
A boss scolds the tardy office boy after a delay, noting he should have arrived at eight. The exchange references Pearson's Weekly as the publication context for the dialogue.
Mrs Speedmore accuses former suitors of chasing her before marriage while her husband quips that they would still chase if he did not pay her bills. The brief exchange showcases light domestic humor from Pathfinder Magazine with two named speakers, a wife and husband, in a playful quarrel over finances.
London reports describe a new link between science and crime detection using radio to send fingerprints. Experiments began months ago, showing improving results as image clarity increases and life size fingerprint photographs can be transmitted over distance. Police anticipate practical business applications and faster identification through wire and radio methods.
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