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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1930
Page
4
Ginger Ella and Marjory feign calm as Hiram Buckworth, a visiting minister, misreads family ties while Marjory hides under a bed and Ginger contends with a chaotic live-in scene at Red Thrush. Eddy Jackson navigates mistaken identity and lingering tensions escalate before a return to the farm.
In Red Thrash Iowa the Tolliver household prepares Marjory for a beauty pageant with escort Eddy Jackson. Marjory wins $50 and gives it to her father for medical help as Ginger envisions a Parsonage Home for the Blind and begins fundraising. Helen marries and departs the parsonage. Tolliver rests at a farmer’s farm while Hiram Beckworth is hired as substitute pastor.
A geologist party reports the Burning Mountain near Wingen in New South Wales sits atop a burning coal seam buried beneath. The fire has burned for about 1,000 years and is visible by smoke and steam issuing from several points. The site, known to aborigines, resembles a vast building consumed by fire and provides warmth to surrounding cattle and wildlife.
The term debenture refers to a customhouse certificate given to an importer or exporter to show entitlement to a drawback on the duty assessed.
Frank T Sheets named among seven general reporters for the Sixth International Road Congress to be held in Washington next October. Governor Emmerson endorses hospital day May 12 with 353 Illinois hospitals opening for public viewing to honor Florence Nightingale. Greenhouse pests handbook released. egg market improvement campaign planned by Illinois Department of Agriculture. Nurses and experts from the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness report vision issues from 7,215 schoolchildren. Building permits rise in March across 4 Illinois cities totaling 9,996,180.
A hunter from Holyoke hides in a Montgomery fence corner and misses a buck at six rods, then fails to shoot a doe and a second buck seen later. He returns to Paper City with no boasts about the day.
The medical laboratory of Vienna reports a synthetic bee sting has been duplicated and improved by Polyclinic hospital professors. They claim chemical analysis of bee venom proves its sting can cure rheumatism.
A humorous exchange plays on census enumerators and a pharmacist as a man asks for a wife and the pharmacist, distracted, quips that catching breath is quicker by standing still than by running after it. The scene evokes light local color and comic miscommunication.
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