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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1902
Page
5
Mrs W E Stavenory of Brimfield announces readiness to weave all kinds of carpets on short notice with a full range of warp colors on hand. The notice emphasizes best possible workmanship and ready service.
Brimfield Post Office opens 7 80 a m to 12 m and 1 p m to 8 p m Mails close at 8 20 a m and 5 p m P M D B Stray provides note of hours and service.
In a Chicago Medical Journal vignette Dr. Frank Rose describes celebrating a newborn, speculating on weight and future paths, noting a wish for a daughter, and ending with a playful, affectionate exchange between parents about the baby and doctors.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society meets with Mrs. Mary McMullen on Thursday May 1 at 3 PM. A committee is appointed to plan the Epworth League Thirteenth Anniversary for Sabbath May 11. Baptisms performed at the morning service include Marion Jessie James London and others, with Walter Ray Gowdy also baptized.
Report states last year s US petroleum output would belt the earth when bottled in standard barrels. Coal production would supply three and a half tons per person for 76 million Americans, while gold output would furnish every American with a gold dollar.
General Eugene Griffin holds the American flag taken by the Galters in Lieut Gilmore's party after rescue from insurgents in Luzons wildest region.
The Seniors are busy with orations and May Hayes was absent part of Monday. Commencement date undecided. Mary Clute and Louise Blundy visited the High School. Juniors take daily forest excursions for botanical specimens. Misses Prue Miller Birdie Marshall of Peoria Cora Marshall Olive Herriott Lizzie Ibeck May Slyter visited last Friday afternoon.
The Executor of Thomas O'Hara now deceased in Peoria County Illinois gives notice of a June term appearance before the Peoria County Probate Court on June 16 to adjust all claims against the estate. E. D. McCase, Executor. Peoria Illinois April 29, 1902.
Five years ago attorney Geo. 8. Marsh of Texas suffered severe stomach distress and tried pepsin and medicines with no relief. He found rapid improvement after using Kodol, praised as the only preparation that reproduces natural digestive juices and digests any good food, promising cure for stomach troubles. William Robinson & Co.
This quotation extols farm life over urban trades, claiming a farmer’s investment of 3000 dollars or 1000 dollars is safer and healthier than a town store. It argues plow and mow are as honorable as handling goods, and rejects envy of merchants or manufacturers as misguided for the farmer.
A native cassia tree root decoction is claimed to cure Blackwater Fever once deemed incurable in central Africa. The discovery, described as a remedy, targets the dreaded fever known for its terrors in the region.
A London Pal Mall Gazette correspondent recounts a crowded omnibus scene where a fretful baby prompts a speaker to warn of possible hospitalization for the child amid jokes about smallpox. Senator Hoar quips on a friend believed to have appendicitis actually suffering indigestion, noting the joke rests in the table of contents rather than the appendix.
The prefect of the Seine allocated 26000 francs in Paris arrondissements to buy toys for poor children on January 1. The sum, bequeathed to M. Vincent, a friend of Victor Hugo, funds an annual distribution following the poet's death and continued by his will.
London ad seeks a very stout household with no other boarders as the advertiser, being over weight, desires companionship of equally stout people. References exchanged and only written responses preferred. Ad dress inspired by a gently humorous plea from a local newspaper.
A butcher found a gold scarf pin lodged in a slaughtered cow's heart in Carrollton Georgia. The pin had grown into heart tissue, indicating it had been there for some time. The cow had been bought by East End farmer Robert Gaston from Mrs Wilbur Helton who identified the pin as hers.
The passage enumerates anniversary milestones by year: cotton first, paper second, leather third, wood fifth, wool seventh, tin tenth, silk and linen twelfth, crystal fifteenth, china twentieth, silver twenty fifth, pearl thirtieth, ruby fortieth, golden fiftieth, diamond seventy fifth.
The ancient wooden chair once used by Apostle Peter is preserved behind the Basilica of St Peter’s tribune in Bernini’s gilded bronze church. For over two centuries the relic was unseen until 1867 when Pope Pius IX ordered it shown to the faithful for veneration.
German papers report rising attention to artificial clay used for artificial stone tiles gutters and more. The composition includes sand chalk cement liquid glue and petroleum forming a claylike mass that hardens well with heat and can be shaped freely.
General Weston reports a transferred American soldier maintains appetite in tropical climate and teaches Filipinos to eat heartier. Doctors confirm feeding reduces disease and boosts vitality among the troops and local helpers.
A compact sketch of New York living conditions shows canal boat residents moored in harbor for winter, families crammed into single tenement rooms, and a famed oriental hotel above a tenement on Washington Street. The piece notes diverse foreign communities alongside Irish neighbors and contrasts bed shortages with improvised rest spaces.
A printed English magazine from 1828 notes boot blacking shops were unknown in England at the time. In Paris hundreds of small shops let gentlemen sit on raised benches to read newspapers while a garçon cleans their boots for two sous. Shops are neatly fitted and often near theaters or public promenades.
Alexander R. Shepherd, once DC head for three years and accused of corruption, is returning as a self made millionaire. Critics claimed his $40,000,000 spending shaped Washington, and new admirers say his imprint remains a monument to progress. He left in 1879 amid boos and tax disputes, then went to Mexico penniless before success in mining. He is 67.
The 1900 cotton seed added 1.14 cents to each pound of cotton, totaling 54 million dollars in value to cotton raisers. If all seed had been crushed for oil, the return could have reached 80 million dollars.
Capt William H Chelton, a Baltimore man, has saved eighty two lives on land and sea over forty three years of service averaging nearly two rescues per year. He is recognized for his steady courage and lengthy career.
The phrase attributes to Dr. Johnson a description of Bathurst the physician as a man of decisive character. It notes Bathurst’s dislike for both fools and rogues and his aversion to Whigs, portraying him as a candid, strong willed man who spoke plainly.
An Essex clergyman unable to secure a bell ringer has devised an electric bell system. By pressing buttons in the vestry he rings his own bells, using an arrangement driven by electric current.
Sir Vincent Sheffield returning from South Africa spoke at Eaton England on February 8. He reported that about eighty to ninety Boer commandos remained in the field, each comprising roughly 200 men, totaling between 16 000 and 18 000 fighters.
Professor Seybold at Stuttgart reports discovery of a 600 year old Arabian manuscript in Tuebingen University Library that may be the original of The Arabian Nights. He also found manuscripts detailing the Druse religious system.
Describes the Ganges delta marshy ground as the cholera’s native home where cholera and plague persist yearly in a pestilential region. The tropical sun accelerates decay of vegetation, creating conditions conducive to disease for much of the year.
A letter to The Great Apple Grower in Kansas North America arrived at Judge Fred Wellhouse known as the apple king in Topeka. Another note addressed In His Steps went to Rev Charles M Sheldom of Topeka.
The text argues flight is not a modern concept. It cites Friar Bacon in 1273 predicting general flying and Bishop Wilkins in 1652 claiming people will ask for wings on journeys as readily as boots.
Two cyclists collaborate to convert a bicycle handlebar into a gas generator for an acetylene lamp. The device splits into water and carbide chambers with a water valve controlled from outside, and a central gas chamber channels output to the lamp.
The article notes the bay of Naples between Cuy and Capri yields about 750000 dollars yearly in coral. Fishermen use old nets and ropes dragged along the sea bottom. coral branches entangle, break, and are hauled to the surface.
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