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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1932
Page
8
Oak Hill residents report weekend travels to Chicago and Galesburg for visits and a field meet. Harold Nixon enters a vocal contest while families from Yates City Elmwood and Perle Coons pasture plan a May picnic as school closes May 13. Gavendon may return for another term as teacher invites parents with baskets.
Edwards stems Mr P Hoffman Sross very oll as her same Mrs Dorothy King is spending few days in Peoria this week. Local residents Mr and Mrs Elmer Steeth and family visited Mr and Mrs Joe Miller of Peoria. Mrs Wem Devault dined at Mrs HH Stepherd’s home. Miss Dorothy Kine and Miss Margaret Mulvaney called on Brimfield Saturday. Mrs Katherine Keller returned from Chicago with relatives Miss Nora Cusack and Attorney T J Cusack. Margaret Mulvaney and Mary Mulcezney attended a Guadditan Anzle Orphanage celebration. Lucille Franks and Raph Cox spent time with her parents Henry Franks. George Wendly Jr recovering from head wound. Edwards placed batt Sunday noon at Pottstown scoring 6 to 1 in favor. ME Church Sunday evening hosted Mothers Day program. Mary ilssdiry Jiume, Flarricht George Halland, Kirkmno members noted. Miss Lucile Murphy, Edwards school teacher, spent weekend at her home in Peski. Large crowd attended the Mothers Day program at the ME Church.
A city column offers pithy aphorisms on prosperity, borrowing, farming life, quarrelsome religion, crowds, favoritism, artistic critique, government action, luxury, senses, humor, and the paradoxes of brotherhood. The tone is ironic and reflective, inviting readers to ponder social quirks.
Poultry hatchery ad offers White or Brown Leghorns Barred Rocks White Rocks S C Reds Buff Orpingtons White Wyandottes at 5.45 each per hundred 5.95 for heavy assorted 1.95 for light assorted 4.45 for light assorted per hundred. Chicks available on call at D T Farrow Chickeries 909 Sheridan Rd Peoria Illinois.
The list highlights tomato varieties such as Golden Acre Norseman Copenhagen Danish Bail Head Late Flat Dutch Red Bird Red Head Barliana Stone John Baer Marglobe Grand Pacific Ox Heart Ponderosa and Beet Steak Celery Golden Plume Giant Pascal along with Cauliflower Dry Weather Petunias Snapdragons Asters for planting this season. It reads like a catalog of seeds and plants including ornamental flowers and edible crops suited to home gardens.
The note lists showings featuring Marlene Dietrich with Loretta Young, Robert Williams and Jean Harlow in a Columbia cartoon program.
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