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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1908
Page
2
A verse from LaAtes' Home Journal recalls the green lanes and quiet hills of memory. The speaker longs for past days, preferring the blossoms and birds of nostalgia over uncertain futures and passing painterly visions.
Dick Matson deserts law and cattle theft to live with Dolores and prosper on the range. A sheriff and posse fail to capture him as he contemplates potential life sentences and possible pardons.
In a frontier river scene Dick Matson spies Escalante the cattle thief guarding his cabin. Matson reclaiming his riata traps Escalante with the sheriff’s aid as Escalante’s daughter appears. Matson proclaims marriage to the girl, provoking the thief’s fury and a grim confrontation.
University of Pennsylvania expert notes Germany gains soft power in Argentina and Peru through education and moral influence. He warns this intellectual expansion surpasses commercial conquest, urging awareness of Germany shaping regional values and policy via closer ties. The speaker contrasts deeds with words as the path forward.
The Montpelier factory turns out over a clothespin per person in the United States each year and manufactures many varieties including spring steel wire pins and clips for papers bottles and test tubes. Workers, mainly girls, assemble parts at tables, with springs made locally and finished pins packed for shipment worldwide.
The Boston Transcript lauds Henry Arthur Jones for stagecraft in The Hypocrites noting his subtle tricks such as a sprained ankle scene by Miss Rachel and a curate's unpolished boot to reveal poverty. The reviewer argues these devices reveal audience perception and deepen dramatic distress without overreliance on stage directions.
An analysis traces various U S money forms from gold and silver certificates to greenbacks and national bank notes. It explains how bank bonds, the bond market, and legal tender decisions shaped note issuance and currency value across eras.
A Chicago woman shares a homemade process using red apples to produce apple sauce jelly and vinegar. She details washing and saving skins for a sauce, pressing juice for jelly, and fermenting the remaining skins with molasses to create vinegar, yielding several quarts of sauce, seven jelly glasses, and two quarts of vinegar.
An old biographer recounts Bismarck famed for cigars and a last smoke. In a siege a wounded dragoon craved relief, the biographer found only gold but kept a single treasured cigar. He lit it for the grateful soldier, declaring it the one he did not smoke.
The Rev Zed H Cobb proposes a fresh idea on hell diverging from the late Sam Jones who linked the hot place to the town he preached in. A Jackson Citizen-Press note and a Houston Post quip reflect public commentary on religious rhetoric and domestic life.
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