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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1906
Page
5
A selection of cabbage tomato mango cayenne pepper eggplant celery plant cauliflower yellow potato plants offered for sale in their natural seasons. Supports gardeners with ready planting stock for timely harvest.
The administratrix of Charles Yous estate in Peoria Illinois invites all interested persons to appear before the Peoria County Probate Court at the June term on June 4 to present claims and seek payment under the will annexed.
All parties having piles of hedge or brush along the highways of Brimfield township are requested to remove them at their earliest opportunity. My order of the Center y of Highways.
Reader recalls Nang Harm, famed as the all women and children city of Siam with high walls and veiled harem women, while a bridge accident near the Kuba caused a wagon to crash and spill its contents. A revenue officer notes an organ grinder sighting with a monkey that afternoon, and cashier Jack Lampton entertains with comic antics as he jokes with the ex mayor about a seven year tale and a two cent stamp.
Ceva McCoy writes from Barston Kansas describing spring weather with farmers plowing corn. planting underway. oats and wheat looking good with crop prospects solid. Potatoes gardens peaches and other fruit doing well as season advances.
A Milwaukee area tale centers on Henry Kirch of Mazomanie Wisconsin who was told 14 gallons of Devoe lead and zinc paint were needed. He bought four gallons and wired for ten more from H Lappiey. After completion six gallons remained unused and were returned to the dealer. The note ends with Devos & Co. branding and a postscript about Dengas & Co. selling their paint.
Farmers sowing corn as plows work the fields. Howard and Mrs White visited Stenger family. Lilling King from Princeville brought Edna Mae Stenger to see King grandparents. Jubilee college baseball team won afternoon games against Elmwood and Princeville. Two odd tramps wandered through the area, entering Greenbush schoolhouse and taking items.
A terse notice warns beaters to remove themselves from the premiens of the undersigned with dogs. The message asserts resolve and threatens full enforcement against violators.
A London Daily Express note recounts Victor Hugo's courtship of Princess Helena of Mecklenburg Schwerin. The tale, shared by Paul Meurice, recalls their 1837 meeting in Paris and Hugo's 1838 work Ray Biss, marking the star-crossed romance amid royal circles.
A Los Angeles Times interview with a former sailing ship officer recalls extreme hardships. He describes 156 days from Liverpool to San Francisco by sail, eight weeks circling the Horn amid snow and ice, freezing clothing, and hands split by sea cuts from handling wet ropes.
Men and women in each county as Field Managers to represent advertise and distribute samples of our goods. Salary 8000 per month paid weekly and cash advanced for expenses. No capital or experience necessary. Position permanent. Address Northwestern Co Dept 1K 338 Wabash Ave Chicago.
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