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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1900
Page
8
Mr W A Hines of Manchester Indiana recounts near death from measles related lung disease with hemorrhages and coughing. He credits Dr King s New Discovery with a full cure after doctors warned of death. Regular sizes 50 cents and 1.00 trial bottles free at Wm Robinson Co drug store.
Mrs Brewer suffers scrofula with terrible head and facial sores for years. Doctors gave up. Bitters cured her. health excellent now. Electric Bitters praised as supreme blood purifier for eczema tetter salt rheum and ulcers. Boosts liver kidneys bowels digestion and strength. Sold by Wm Robinson Co druggists with guarantee.
The Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Advertising Department has published an illustrated pamphlet titled All About Nebraska. It provides complete information on Nebraska farm lands and is available free on request from P. L. Eustis, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Illinois.
Paris Nouvelles lauds American precision and energy in organizing the exposition. It notes Americans among the most prompt exhibitors and praises US preparations amid other nations.
The civil service report shows 16,137 applications for appointment with 1,709 appointments last year, including promotions, confirming the common claim that about nine tenths fail to secure positions and only about one percent are appointed.
An old advertises a cosmetic salve offered by Wa Robincon & Co claiming to cure skin eruptions cuts bruises burns boils ulcers and piles with a money back guarantee. The salve is marketed as improving the face by curing air related skin issues.
Local notes report warm weather and strong grain movement with Brimfield area elevators busy as good prices persist. Mentions crop prospects, a fresh cow for sale, visits by Mrs Slocum and Mrs Pursell, and community notices including a union service for Rev Miles and various local church happenings. Also covers a naval engagement tale and anecdotes from Brimfield and surrounding towns.
Griffith of the Peoria Herald Transcript, a longtime telegraph operator, returned from the Paris exposition after a month and a half away. He toured the fair for eleven days and found Paris not as grand as Chicago but still impressive, enjoying London sights and continental cities. He spoke French well, enjoyed the journey, and deemed the trip well worth it, though he is glad to be back.
Railroad agent notes several round trip specials from Burlington Route with destinations including Colorado Utah Black Hills and multiple western locations. Highlights include cheap one way and round trip fares to Peoria Chicago and California with sale dates in June July and August and special conventions in Peoria and Chicago.
George Williams of Boston attempted to rob Harry M. Battersby at the National Security Bank on Franklin and Girard in Philadelphia, dropping $300. Williams chased by Battersby and police, captured after fleeing into Cambridge Street. Bail set at 2000, case sent to court.
Cartoon-esque anecdote from Cleveland Plain Dealer recounts Jim pranking his wife by a window. He rigs a bundled press into a window, then in the dark tosses the sash up, hides, and hears his wife misinterpret the scene, calling him a spectacle as she sleeps.
The new Iowa school library law requires each school district to annually set aside from five to fifteen percent of the operating budget for library services. This provision aims to ensure sustained funding for libraries, materials, and related programs across districts.
Antique and obsolete cannon and projectiles are to be loaned or given by the War Department to soldiers' monument associations municipal corporations and Grand Army of the Republic posts under a 1896 act. Many guns are very old and ornamental but largely worthless beyond scrap iron.
The Royal Agricultural and the Highlane Agricultural Societies have merged to form a national agricultural examination board. They will grant prizes and diplomas to farmers after examination.
A depiction of a tree in Georgia that trembles as if in fear, with every limb quivering as if suffering, described as a vivid, almost animal-like response when no air or breath is present. The fragment paints a haunting natural scene centered on the quivering tree.
The Hon. John Douglas C. M. G. has published in Brisbane an engaging history of Thursday Island, the guard post at Australia’s northern approach, where he has served as government resident for the past 15 years.
The London Chronicle reports Queen Victoria's eyesight growing graverly concerning to those around her. Blue spectacles lose their effect, dispatches and letters are read to her majesty, and she writes little beyond her signature. An eminent foreign eye doctor has been consulted with no hopeful outcome.
Cephas Roberts of Winsted Connecticut has advertised for a thief likely "one that has been in prison for two years" to house and farm. He explains that watching the thief while not hiring honest tenants has left him to bear losses.
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