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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1908
Page
8
Fragmented notes reference annual sales and a tobacco shop's figures. Names and places are unreadable, but terms imply cigars and commerce. The text lacks coherent structure or full details to form a complete news item.
Laura and John Shaffer serve on the present petit jury. Elmwood visitors include Frank Carter and Art Whittaker with Clyde Thruman. Miss Nellie Terry returns to Hickory Grove to teach after a two week vacation. Heavy rain and thunder hit Laura Sunday. Williamsfield guests include Henry Terry James Terry Chas Matz and Will Hopkins. Revival meetings begin Thursday evening in Warner with the West hates pastor assisting.
A. B. Hardy of East Wilton Maine says for fifteen years Arnica Salve cured every sore boil ulcer or burn it was applied to and saved them many a doctor bill. Price is 26 cents at Robinson's drug store.
Peoria county and rural school pupils will forward corn exhibits to Springfield today for a statewide display. The four part corn exhibit runs through the 28th. Notable exhibitors include Patrick McGonagle and Patrick Cahill of Brimfield, C. S. Hunter and Andrew Streitmatter of Princeville, M. J. McDonna and Bettie Pulsipher of Princeville, Madeline Burt and Charles Lucas of Brimfield, Reed of Brimfield, Hubert Chichester of Brimfield, George Sturm of Edelstein, and Louise Bloody of Brimfield. Three pop corn entries come from Alice Crouch of Edelstein, Marion Wood of Alta, and Blundy of Brimfield.
A county clerk notes that about two thousand hunter licenses have been issued this year, with only twelve to women. The November list, though only three weeks into the month, shows 420 licenses. the monthly total may exceed 500.
A rustic admonition urges citizens to shop locally, pay promptly, and support home businesses while praising their town. It lists commandments on patronizing merchants, keeping money in local banks, and avoiding envy, with a San Diego Cal News attribution.
A dramatic profile describes the Doukhobor sect in northwestern Canada. Leaders order cattle sales and bans on mirrors and luxury. families live in cramped quarters with limited food and clothing. The community, once Hussite Quakers, is reported to number about 500 in two houses near Lake Winnipeg with 800,000 acres reserved for colonization.
In New York a dinner honors a playwright who stresses the need to make a point clearly and capture it by fair means. A joke about a leap year proposal shows a woman cornering a reluctant suitor with clever persistence and silence as consent.
An advertisement by Miles Medical Co of Elkhart Indiana promotes a rheumatism remedy with direct curative and soothing nervous effects. It claims many cures after long suffering and offers free advice by mail for complicated cases.
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