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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1908
Page
7
The piece describes Pere una tablets as a tablet form of Peruana with the claim to contain the medicinal ingredients of the liquid remedy. It follows Professions interest and notes a one legged beggar near Central Park who hawks trinkets to passersby, later asking a passerby what his line is.
A Gallatin Tennessee man, F. A Rippy, claims kidney gravel and back pain vanished after years of illness following use of Dean's Kidney Pills. He reports rapid improvement after four boxes and no relapse. Read by all dealers, 50 cents a box, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Fragmentary extract mocks the idea that governments derive power from consent. It quotes a quip attributed to King George II criticizing populist governance and mentions sending troops to crush rebellion. The passage appears as a late 18th or 19th century commentary in a Chicago Tribune context.
A mother from Atton Kansas reports her baby boy suffered a nickel sized raw patch on the cheek for three months. After failing other treatments a doctor recommended Cuticura. Using Cuticura Soap Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Resolvent the child's face cleared. Two years later eczema returned. May 14 and June 12, 1907.
A professor returns from a short country visit and cleans a dimly lit lawn. He quips Leaves of absence while pondering life in a lighthearted, satirical scene.
The United States annually produces and exports leading amounts of corn wheat tobacco hops and oilcake while outproducing all other nations in multiple crops and products including corn 2 027 000 000 bushels wheat 634 000 000 bushels tobacco 600 000 000 pounds hops 14 000 000 pounds oilcake and spirits of turpentine 16 000 000 gallons among others reflecting its dominant role in world agriculture and commerce.
The cholera outbreak in St Petersburg worsens with virulent cases and rapid deaths. Authorities in Russia Austria Sweden and other nations impose quarantines while the Philippines deploy 200 constabulary to Manila. Separately experiments show Maxim’s silent gun reduces noise by about 74 percent with lethal potential.
John Martin surveys the shift away from pure laissez faire in America toward public responsibility. He notes Civic Federation like groups and health, child labor, immigration efforts, and executive intervention in industry as signs of reform. The mood favors order over brutal commercial warfare and supports social agitation as healthy.
The article argues fires hinge on weather and human carelessness. It contrasts Indigenous practices that curbed sparks with white settlers who neglect prevention, noting dried leaves and bark become tinder. It warns fires threaten farms, forests, and towns.
The text records August Foedera arguing that labor injunctions are not grounded in law but resemble judicial legislation. He contends injunctions undermine jury trials and challenge state law obedience, criticizing their adoption by ticket managers in labor plans.
A man calling himself George Arnold faced a police court judge on a charge of stealing a ride on a train to Dagupan. The exchange with Judge Low featured cryptic questions about waiting for money and who it was for, ending with a gasp from the judge.
A surgeon staying at Bushby Inn encounters a stranded man who offers his services in exchange for medical fees. The patient promises to work after recovery, listing blinds hanging, lightning-rod installation, or cornet playing as possible trades. In a separate case, a man denies stealing a watch, claiming he was merely told the time.
A traveler explains missing a summer vacation though suitcases were sent ahead and returned with 7.75 in storage and express charges. The envelope, invented in 1683, faced long disfavor.
An older bachelor admits to Miss Jeasie he wishes to be twenty years younger to marry her. She delicately declines, saying he would still be too young for her, and the pair part with mutual restraint as a fox scent warning emerges in the scene.
An advertisement extols a scientifically approved remedy sold by the Well-Informed of the World, describing Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as the premier laxatives. It urges buyers to seek the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product through licensed druggists.
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