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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1901
Page
7
Thornville Ohio cashier J Garrigan, robbed after health failures from lung trouble, praises Dr Kine’s New Discovery for Consumption. He recommends it for severe colds and lung sickness and notes trial bottles free at Wm Robinson & Co’s Drug Store.
Berlin will host an Italian exposition at the zoological gardens featuring imitation streets of Naples Rome Florence Pompeii and Venice with canals among its recreations.
An ad promoting Herbine a concentrated medicine claiming to improve digestion and restore pallor, with benefits to eyes lips and step. It notes a price of 50 cents and lists Wm Robinson & Co as the sellers.
The lunch room needs new benches and a new smoke stack was purchased by the board. Horace Moon returns after lagrippe. Harold Cady and others miss classes due to illness. Juniors finished book keeping exam and resume botany. eight new beginners enroll led by Mary Knapp and others. Seniors noted for strong reading interest.
Regular preaching services planned for next Sunday the 20th century birthday party at Mrs. John Rook's was well enjoyed with proceeds reported. A Young people's meeting at 6 30 next Sunday evening on Christ our High Priest led by Nettie Johnson and Edith Rook. Due to bad weather attendance was small last Sunday with sermons noted as interesting and music by Joe Mercer and Win Johnson of Canton.
The monthly temperance meeting is set for next Sabbath at the Methodist church with Rev Chas McCluer preaching and special music. Miss Mary Peters of Princeville, Idaho, a missionary lately from China, will speak Friday evening March 15 under WF.M. Society auspices. a bank offering will be taken.
Muddy roads slow travel as the politician tours abroad and farmer restives after winter. John Bays hires Frank Fuchs for a clerkship while Herman Gentz plans summer trips to Peoria. Columns note digestive woes in children and promote White's Cream Vermifuge at 25 cents. Uncalled letters listed at Brimfield post office include Day Rynearson Moler Tracey Turner Swanson Winters Strain and Postmaster.
Renick Hamilton of West Jefferson Ohio suffered 18 months from a rectal fistula and doctors warned death without costly surgery. He reportedly cured himself using Bucklen's Armca Salve, advertised as the best pile remedy, with a 25 cent box at Wm Robinson & Co's Drug Store.
Money available on farms at five percent interest with privilege to repay in multiples of one hundred dollars. Funds ready any time. Mail or visit F W, Reen & Co., at 540 Woolner Building, Peoria Illinois. List says lender offers quick money for agricultural needs.
The article notes Schiller and Berghaus as figures who depicted the Alps with accuracy without having seen them. It highlights Schiller's Wilhelm Tell sources from Scheuchzer and Berghaus pioneering Alpine cartography, creating maps and alpine descriptions valued by geographers and travelers.
The Prince of Wales receives 200000 dollars yearly with 50000 to the Princess of Wales and 180000 shared by his children. Dowager German empress preserved 40000, late Duke of Edinburgh 125000, Duke of Connaught 125000, Duke of Cambridge 60000, queen’s daughters and Albany widow 30000 each. The royal civil list totals 1925000 and pensions push yearly outlay past 2500000 dollars.
A historical note explains a policy that no living person can appear on U S banknotes or postage stamps, even famed figures like Grant. It contrasts with the Catholic rule requiring decades after death before canonization and saintly memory decisions.
A Philadelphia charitable society, active eighty three years, has given daily for fourteen weeks each cold season seventy five gallons of soup and four thousand three hundred loaves of bread. The superintendent has served sixty four years.
The report notes sparse Texas counties with small populations including Bailey four, Cochran twenty five, Andrews thirty seven, Lynn seventeen, and Dawson thirty six. Twenty five more counties each have under six hundred residents.
A Brimfield township School Trustees plan to loan on good real estate security amid a note about the Organ-Grinders Strike snag in Boston. The piece notes a Boston ordinance allows objection within three hundred feet of a resident, with police enforcing if the musician does not move.
Sir William Huggins successsor to Lord Lister as Royal Society president along with Sir Joseph Hooker has received three society gold medals the Copeley Rum ford and Royal. Huggins elected fellow in 1865 served five times on council and holds several honors from Oxford Cambridge Edinburgh Dublin St Andrews and others. 威
Edward Kaehn testified in a Cleveland lawsuit with a bizarre role play as Prof. James Smith who claims expertise in being buried alive for exhibition. He described a coffin 6 feet 4 inches deep with an air shaft and ceremonies to resurrect him, saying he could live a week in a grave if guarded by a trustworthy committee.
The description promotes a weekly paper aimed at all states and territories. It claims broad circulation with 178000 yearly subscribers and offers news stories and family departments. Subscriptions cost one dollar per year with a free specimen copy offer.
An advertisement touts Ballard's Horehound Syrup as a cure for severe coughs and colds. It claims the remedy cures the worst kind of cold when used as directed and lists prices of 25 and 60 cents from Wm Robinson & Co.
An advertisement for Tubler's Buckeye Pile Ointment promotes a quick safe and painless cure for piles. It lists prices 50 cents per bottle and 75 cents per tube with Wm Robinson & Co as the sellers.
An Ohio physician who chased away many boys stealing green apples from his orchard may have erred in choosing his profession. The incident highlights tensions between property rights and local conduct in a rural area.
George W. Waitt of South Gardiner Maine endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the only medicine that cured his grippe cough chills and cold after using inferior products. For sale by Wm. Robinson & Co.
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