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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1950
Page
4
Local ads highlight Johnson-Arber Inc offering lawn mowers starting at 99 95 with promotion across the region. A busy set of social notes describes visits, hospitalizations, and family gatherings among residents including Gorman Linscher Miles and Catton families, plus church postings and community events. An Easter newborn is noted as well as a radio item and upcoming public notices.
Millbrook Grange notes a week of activity including a county recognition event at Alta to honor their Grange mother and a meeting next Tuesday March 9. A recent meeting featured two comedies, officer installations, health updates, and a cancer crusade fund drive with thanks to donors.
Market item lists values with percentages and codes for bears and others. The readable fragments show terms like 38 percent, 135 percent, and numbers such as 2 94 16. No clear event or date is established.
Miscellaneous listings show for sale items including Ford motor 1942 rebuilt with 90 day warranty at 150 dollars, 4 used Chev truck transmissions 10 to 25 dollars, diamond T motor and transmission 35 dollars, and several other farm and household goods. Also notices for seeds, lard, locust posts, and a 1959 Illinois license plate found. Local phone contacts and exchange options listed for Brimfield and Winsfeld areas.
Farm fires claim average 3500 deaths annually. In steel strike news, two weeks of walkouts reduce fluid milk consumption across eastern Ohio cities.
An easy method suggests placing a paper with household ammonia between the grids of a waffle iron and leaving overnight to loosen grease followed by wiping. The ammonia approach is also proposed for oven interiors and is credited as an effective cleaner.
Short classified note seeks work washing secondhand cars. Don Howe provides a contact phone in 2014. Also a for sale item lists 1935 long wheelbase Chevrolet trucks in fair condition. Claude A Helton Brimfield offers details.
Registered Curve boars for sale listed by A Kellogg located 7 miles northwest of Brimfield on Route 140. Potential buyers can contact A Kellogg for details.
Elsie Huey collector announces winter work hours for Brimheld township at the Johnson Arbor store with collections from 0:00 to 12:00 and 1:00 to 5:00, except Thursday when hours differ. note pending votes and North Carolina’s leadership in lumber plants.
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