Corn and local notices mix with community life in Brimfield
The item reports corn reaching fifty cents a bushel and local calls and visits in Brimfield and nearby Elmwood. It notes a high school meet at Averyville causing a county holiday for public schools, plus social events at Miss Mary Mulvaney and Mrs. J M Dungan. It also mentions a tragic self inflected death of Herman Ewalt and a promotional notice for Dr Shoop remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Averyville
J. K. Wilson
Edward Brooks
Peoria
Progress Club
J.M Dungan
Herman Ewart
Yates City
West Grain
Misa Leona Green
Mr. Ewalt
Insect Fossils From a Lake Bed Stone Chest
Striking fossils reveal insects preserved in lake bed shale near Fiorissant Colorado. Bees beetles spiders ants are visible in marble like rock, with leaves and sequoia fossils also present. A 19th century expedition followed. scientists note insects unchanged since prehuman times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ranapol
Bohemia
Oentagen
Bavaria
Fiorissant
Colorado Springs
Colo
Samuel Scuddar
Wheeler
American Museum of Natural History
Cockerell
University of Colorado
Louisiana
Earth
Climate and tectonics shape earthquake prone nations
A country with a seismic active zone and varied climate faces frequent earthquakes. Geological plates interact beneath the surface, causing tremors that impact communities, infrastructure, and safety planning nationwide.
One Hundred Years Ago In America
A portrait of life in early America notes lack of public libraries, strict social rules, and slow travel. It describes queues and powdered hair, a fined horseman, stage coaches between New York and Boston, Virginia’s population share, open fireplaces, long journeys, posts and pillories, Peruvian bark in medicine, and strict courtship and church customs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
6Th Avenue
Frankin Street
Peter Cartright
Louis
Wisconsin
Peoria
England
United States
New York
Boston
Virginia
London
Household Health Tips From A Historic Column
Practical advice for daily care includes drying warts with Castor oil, avoiding excessive Boda for hair loss, and fifteen minutes of daily rest. Remedies mention dried fig with milk for gumboil, vinegar for chapped skin, olive oil before shampoo, and careful nightly grooming. A Turkish bath is described as improving flesh and providing monthly luxury.
Proverbs and Phrases. Goodness Forgives in Bryos.
The fragmentary text references forgiveness and moral sentiment with the name Bryos. It reads as a reflective or devotional line and does not provide a clear event, date, or identifiable person beyond the generic phrase.
Antioch Poverty Amid Ruins From Ancient Flourish
The article notes Antioch once a Syria capital and Christian cradle now a poor city near the Orontes with 25 000 residents including 6000 Christians. It highlights olive oil soap and silk industries, cheap living, rising food prices, and a 5 to 10 dollar monthly food-house lease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antioch
Syria
Mediterranean
Orontes
Suedea
Seleucia
Marseilles
Aleppo
Turkey
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Batiste
Panama
Lorraine
Dimitfes
India
Challies
Cady Brothers
China Son
Maple City Soap
Monmouth
Illinois
Catarre Wrinkles
Dr Shoop
Shoop
Europe
Dr. Shoop
Cardu
Chen
Hitle Pilis
G. W Cloyd
Plank
Wm. Robinson & Co. Drugzista
B. B. Catton
Patrick Maher Jr
Mrs
Patrick Maher
Tom Fennell
Brimfield
H. L. Fisher
Mrs. Earl Kemp
Elmwood
Mra . B. McClellan
Mary Mulvaney
A. M. Marshall
Harry
Maqnon
A. S. Herriott
Eslinger Farm
Southport
Congregational Church
M. P. Lackland
Willie
Mr. Sprat
John
Goosie
Mra Spratt
Rio
Japan
UU Piguly
Vici
Memler Bros
Mississippi Valley
Charleston
Philadelphia
New England
Bryos
Sisowath
Cambodia
Paris
Pariars
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!