Brimfield News Briefs Show Local Happenings
Local items report visits by residents from Champaign and Maywood, travel to Peoria and Macomb, and family news. Community notes include Memorial Day preparations, church activities, business ads, and road plans discussed by Chamber delegates with state officials in Springfield. A drought relief update mentions water shortages and a forthcoming gravel project.
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Chamber of Commerce of
Kewanee
Brimfield
State Highway Department
Springfield
M. R. Clark
Elephant learns to put money in box at circus
A young man asks if the elephant can perform tricks. The keeper boasts the animal can deposit coins into a wall box for half a crown. When asked to retrieve it, the keeper admits the trick isn’t taught yet, prompting a dry joke.
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Heeper
Answers Magazine
For sale items and farm products listed in brief
A list of miscellaneous sales and offerings including Guernsey cows copper range ice delivery antique lamp hogs grain tools chicks and assorted poultry breeds with contact details and prices from Whiteview Butchery Peoria Illinois and local lines such as Elmwood McCowan Brimfield and Oscar Harding referenced.
Plant varieties listed for garden cultivation catalog
The notice lists tomato varieties including Barliana Break O Day John Baer Stone Grand Pacific Ox Heart Marplobe Ponderosa Beef Steak and cabbage varieties Golden Acre Norsemen Copenhagen Danish Bald Head All Seasons Yellow Resistant Peppers Mango Pi mento Cayenne Beg Plant Black Beauty Cauliflower Dry Weather Celery Giant Pascal Golden Plume Sweet Potato and Garden Huckleberry Flower Plants for general planting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Baer
Stone
Copenhagen
Wise Men and Witty Quotes Parade The Page
A garbled OCR fragment presents a string of epigrammatic lines from various authors. It includes aphorisms on envy praise cross and armor along with a Nero anecdote about music critique. The legible bits name Gay Pope Arnold Quarles Johnson La Rochefoucauld and Nero with brief quips about cross crowns and theater.
Cowboy Uses Airplane to Check Ranch Quickly
A modern Texas cowboy now uses an airplane to survey his ranch in just hours, a process that formerly took his father days by horseback. This turnaround highlights a shift in ranch management methods and technological adoption in rural Texas.
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Omeken
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Zern Pharmacy
Durant
Essex
Sweney
Harding & Reinhart
Cliff Goudy
Carl B. Moore
Champaign
R. A. Harris
Harris
Maywood
W. E. Nolting
McMinnville
Tennessee
Verr Clark
Elmwood
Claude Merrill
John Powers
Peoria
Helen Clark
Bert Slocum
Johnson—Arbet Loc
John Conley
Princeville
Alice Dempsey
Ed Richford
Verna Forney
Clarence Murras
Sannemin
Mr. and
Mire
John Snyder
Charles Welch
Mrs. R. Wright
Macomb
Mrs. Wright
Rudolph Savage
Keith
Eloise
Richard
Arthur
Frances Ekena
Maurie Sherman Orchestra
Jim Dawson
Tom Hughes
Wyoming
Fred Dawson
Memler’s
Delmar Grossaint
Chicago
Mr Creasaint
Ford Assembly
CD of A
Wenal Price
Clyde Culbertson
Shirley Jean
Culbertson
Baby
A. S. Kelley Home
Williamsfield
All Church Men’s Club
Henry Memier
L. F Pacev
Neikirk
J S Harker
Willard Pacev
R W. Newell
Jobn Zern
Mian
Elizabeth Johnson
Madison Theater
Keith Savage
John Babenck
Stanley Cady
Donald Corner
Donald Hayes
Donald Sollenberger
Wm. L. O'Connell
Illinois
Seventh Federal Reserve District
Federal Deposit Liquidation Board
Iowa
Indiana
Wisconsin
Michigan
Blue Ribbon
St. Joseph's Church
Willie
Thaddeus Fuchs
Misa Elizabeth
Fuchs
Johnson- Archer Inc
Orval Meyers and Sons
Monica
Ed Meyers
George Neaggie
Gaylord Randolph
Philip Kelstadt
Henry DeVries
Clifford Cady
John Friling
Clfford
Langdon
Katherine
Geraldine Claybaugh
R R Claybaugh
Milan Claybaugh
H.C Cady
Charles Ekena
Lenora
Frances
Gladys Harms
Caleb Rosenbohm
Milton Drake
Bernice
Minnie Ekena
Washington
BR. Bruninga
Shissler
Porters
Moore, McMullen, White Road
Eorth
Guernsey
Raymond Kingdon
Foremost Cleaners
McCowan &McCowan
Zela Krieger
Hampshire
Poland
China
Oscar Harding
Ralph Carter
Rhode Island
Sussex
Whiteview
East Franklin
Vogel Hatcheries
Elmwood and
Farmington
Pope
Arnold
J. K. Jerome
Johnson
Rome
Nero
Mustc Critica
Brimfield Illinois
Addison Pacey
Mildred Pacey
Eves
Hoga
Farrow
Franklin S
Farrow Chickeries
Everett Catton
Brimfield II
Kettner
Seven
Oo Wen Aha Titele Pictures
Trolce
Sie
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