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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1908
Page
3
The article describes empire style girdles, velvet toques, and short form fitting coats with Japanese influenced sleeves. It notes plaited skirts, lace sleeves, revived dangling lace trends, and gentler fur care. Health tips include skin care, makeup caution, and a dry bread method for a throat bone.
The readable text offers moral guidance on courteous speech and privacy, notes on keeping promises, and shifts to fashion and home tips. It mentions respectful behavior, avoiding interruptions, and maintaining confidences, then shifts to straw hats, veils, fur care, and garment trimming with period details and styling cues.
Reports from cities across North America and Britain show unions advancing wage scales and benefits and laying groundwork for new labor temples. Key items include a Kansas City temple project, Oregon ten hour day ruling upheld, Montreal and Boston papers for workers, and rising union charters in Minneapolis and England.
The coroner faulted faulty construction and a single two foot eight inch interior partition for the loss of 167 children in the Collinwood high school fire. He exonerated janitor Fritz Hitter and urged an overhaul of aging schools to install safer exits and fireproofing.
Dun & Co reports gradual improvement in production and distribution, larger movements of breadstuffs and hive stock, and increasing money demand. Funds ample from deposits ease discounts. construction rebounds though railroad work stalls. Dock activity rises with lake traffic, factory employment up modestly, ore stocks high but pig iron light. leather, footwear and furniture shipments rise, building materials in demand, packing industry busy, and mercantile collections easing. Failures total 30 with higher liabilities under 5000 dollars at 11 cases.
At a New York judiciary hearing delegates from the Socialist party including Morris Hillquit argued for striking male from the constitution. Samuel Gompers urged labor influence in the upcoming campaign. In Minnesota the Public Ownership party challenges a $10 filing fee for ballot inclusion while the state Democratic committee backs Gov. Johnson for president after a Bryan opposition fight.
Subdued buying remains the norm as general trade strengthens in appearance yet remains conservative in practice. Collections lag, staple prices ease, and employer earnings shrink with wage cuts and shorter hours. Iron and steel demand shows little expansion while cotton goods face ongoing large production cuts and wage reductions. US failures for the week ending March 12 total 276 with Canada at 31, marking a strong year-to-year gap in 1908.
Chicago markets show cattle from 4.00 to 6.65 per cwt hogs 1.00 to 6.65 sheep 3.00 to 6.25 wheat No 2 Se to BC 64e to 5c oats No 2 mixed rye No 2 82c hay prices 9.50 to 16.00 butter 25c to 2c eggs 0 to 18c potatoes 2c to 12c. Other cities list varied ranges for cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye and barley with similar grain and dairy prices.
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