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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1901
Page
8
A banker and robber tale from Thornville highlights health recovery after using Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption and lung trouble. The testimonial claims it to be the best medicine for severe colds and lung issues, with bottles priced at 50c and 1.00 and free samples at Wm Robinson & Co's Drug Store.
King Oscar of Sweden and Norway donates 10 000 kroners to support archaeologists Dr L Kiellberg in Asia Minor and Jerbos Island. The item includes an advert for Herbine medicine praising quick effects and improved digestion with price 50 cents by Wm Robinson & Co.
Brown's Business College hosts G N Arnold and K C Kastle guests, while Ed M Maher hosts an oyster supper for about 40. March 2 marks the 30th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs W H H Phares with a surprise gathering at Elmwood. Fifty neighbors from Princeville, Brimfield, Elmwood and Peoria attend. Henry Phares humorously recalls an oyster problem, music by the West End mandolin club, and gifts of a stand mirror and bonbon dish.
The article records aging road conditions for hauling. Chas. Savage moved from a farm leased from Fred Korth. Miss Francis Slocuta visited sister Mrs. F. T. Keefer. A large crowd attended Fred Korth’s sale. Will Marshall recuperated at his father’s in Brimfield. Miss Etta McDonnell and scholars hosted a box supper and entertainment Saturday evening.
By unanimous vote Mrs Henry Adams is elected superintendent of Bethel M E Sunday school. The Bethel Sunday School gains a capable leader for its 30 members, with expectations of substantial improvements. An advertisement notes White's Cream Vermithage as a general tonic priced at 25 cents from Wm Robinson & Co.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat report recounts authors blaming readers for careless edits and the chaotic nature of proofs. Several anecdotes illustrate editors patching text, including a heroine half shaved during a ball scene and a character firing at a burglar, provoking author ire and editorial risk.
A brief notice notes money to loan on solid real estate security by the School Trustees of Brimfield Township. The text references various historical curiosities and then mentions philanthropic shifts in leadership, a presidential spouse denying rumors about music, and a sixty sixth wedding anniversary in Miami Indiana with extensive family tally.
A claim that The Great National Weekly News paper serves all states and territories with plain facts and editorial matter. It promotes serialized stories and family content, noting over 178,000 yearly subscribers and nationwide circulation. Subscriptions cost one dollar a year and a free specimen copy is offered.
A London woman near Big Ben has combined a restaurant and dressmaking in her private flat to serve young female clerks and typists. The sitting room doubles as a dining space with low prices, offering lunch, tea specials, and a three course dinner from 6 30. An adjacent room conducts dressmaking, attracting around fifty to sixty diners daily and featuring simple blouses to elaborate costumes.
A Mexican doctor living in Sierra Mojada discovered a process to extract rubber from the hule plant about a year ago. The plant, a small sage brush like shrub reaching three feet, contains about forty percent rubber and grows in the Mexican mountains as well as some areas of Texas Wyoming and Nebraska.
American copper mines paid dividends of 33 million, gold and silver mines under 14 million, while petroleum dividends exceeded both combined at nearly 49 million. The figures illustrate the dominant role of oil in sector profits last year.
The $5,000,000 estate of the late Dr. Thomas W. Evans, famed American dentist of Paris, is settled. Relatives who challenged the will receive $800,000, while $250,000 goes to relatives and the rest to the Thomas Evans Museum and Institute in Philadelphia.
An article recalls the national capitol crypt under the dome where Washington's body was once prepared and remains interred at Mount Vernon. It notes Mount Vernon holds those remains while other figures lie elsewhere and discusses a cultural anecdote about Koreans and idolatry.
A Victorian ad asserts that a cold can be helped by Ballard's Horehound Syrup carried home and used as directed. It claims strong relief for any cough or cold with prices listed at 25 and 50 cents, attributed to Wm. Robinson & Co.
Quick safe painless cure offered by Tabler with Buckeye Pile Ointment. Price 60 cents per bottle, 75 cents for Taber, listed by Wm. Robinson & Co. The ad markets relief from piles and urges purchase and trial.
Ohio physician confronts a group of boys taking apples from his orchard and defends his stance on the proper line of work, revealing a mistaken choice of profession.
George W. Waitt of South Gardiner Maine praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the only medicine that relieved his cough cold chills and grippe after numerous useless substitutes. He reports one bottle cured him and congratulates the manufacturers. For sale by Wm. Robinson & Co.
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