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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
2
Poem-like reminiscence referencing brave soldiers and battles such as the Light Brigade and Curfew. It blends historical war imagery with callers to remember fallen comrades and aging veterans as echoes drift from Bingen to the Rhine.
The Midgely boarding house hosts Mrs Midgely and her carefully chosen guests. Mr Mink becomes the focal point as strange robberies plague the circle with open windows and ajar doors on the upper floors. Two permanent residents stand out amid recurring incidents.
In a tense parlor tale, Mink the new boarder is suspected of robbery. Tyndall confronts him, but Mink reveals a hidden trap and exposes the theft as a staged crime by Edgewood's man, ending with Mink as detective and hero.
The United States asserts vast wealth and control over world markets with exports of copper cotton wheat meat and wheat and other staples to Europe Asia and Africa. Calls for stable currency and vigilant finance follow mixed with a quotation about steadiness and endurance illustrating public faith in long effort.
Reports describe rapid land claims along a new railroad corridor spanning Missouri to Montana. Mobridge South Dakota is highlighted as a key hub with the Missouri River bridge nearing completion. The extension promises thousands of homesteads, new mills, elevators, and thriving supply towns as settlers flood into the Dakotas and Montana along the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul line.
A Scottish laborer at Cramp's shipyard in Philadelphia was hired as a laborer. After two hours he asked the foreman if his name had been told. The man had said Tomson, but the worker wondered if it was Samson. He found the pile of planks he still had to carry.
A compilation notes diverse tidbits including Werth Seeding, France boasting over 300 daily newspapers, the right ear typically larger than the left, rats as a growing nuisance in England, a gold to silver circulation ratio of fifteen to one, and Germany shipping 29 million feathers annually to England for millinery.
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