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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1902
Page
1
All persons knowing themselves in debt to me please call and settle at once. Respectfully, R A Coax. All parties are warned not to throw brush or pile up brush and grass in the streets. Any who have done so are asked to remove these obstructions at once. By Order Village Board.
A patrol of short items includes residents visiting relatives in Chicago and Iowa City, county politics in Peoria, and farm moves to South Dakota. Mentions Hayward, Brimfield, Sut ton Nebraska, Omaha papers, and a new gasoline lighting plant tied to a local store.
T J fliller 8 Son advertises lard and all kinds sausage fish game and vegetables in season. Special attention to town and rural phone orders with prompt delivery. Patronage respectfully solicited. Hone 26.
Sales note by JosEPry Hill offering elastic roof paint with lasting qualities. Claims savings on iron wheels and low down wagons, and wagon scales at pleasing prices. Encourages readers to see him for the above services.
A red heifer calf about six months old is missing. A suitable reward will be paid for information leading to its recovery. Return to or contact J. W. Callen at Laura, DL.
An 19th century advertisement urges prevention of fever by cleansing the system with DeWitt's Little Early Risers pills. It claims the pills do not gripe, move the bowels gently but copiously, and, as a tonic, strengthen the glands. William Robinson & Co.
A Geneva Ohio man, C. Haney, reports relief after 40 years of piles from DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. He calls it a cure and warns to beware of counterfeit products. Advertisement by Wm. Robinson & Co.
Benton Ferry West Virginia resident Owen Dunn reports years of kidney and bladder trouble waking him twelve times nightly. After using Foley's Kidney Cure, two bottles brought permanent improvement, as shared by Sam Dunn.
A promotional notice invites readers to request a book about Nebraska highlighting farm prospects and affordability. It advertises round trip Nebraska travel at half rates on October 7 and 21 plus $2, with further information from CB&Q agents and P. S. Eustis in Chicago.
A promotional notice extols Nebraska as a land of plenty with ample grain fruit cattle and cheap land. It invites readers to request The Corn Belt monthly paper and The West Nebraska Grazing Country booklet and to buy cheap excursion tickets on the first and third Tuesdays of each month to visit Nebraska.
Milwaukee Wisconsin address seeks 55 men to sell a guaranteed choice and secure a good situation for fall and winter. Apply to The Hawks Nursery Company for employment opportunities.
Advertisement from Clark & Co. offering agents wanted for a family endorsed biography of T. DeWitt Talmage. Promises enormous profits for rapid action with a ten cent outfit. Mention the paper when writing.
An advertisement urges readers not to ask advice from others about cold remedies and promotes Fol ley's Honey and Tar as a fast acting cough and cold cure sold by Wm Bob queon & Co.
A recently published illustrated pamphlet by the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad offers complete information about farming in Nebraska. Copies are available free upon request to P. S. Eustis, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Illinois.
The Burlington Route from Chicago to St Louis is completed and daily passenger trains now run through Lincoln Nebraska and Custer County South Dakota to Deadwood and Newcastle Wyoming. Sleeping cars operate to Deadwood.
A local promotion highlights fT Hill offering Enamel Roof Paint for shingles or tin. The ad promises guaranteed work at low prices and urges readers to “bee him” for roof painting needs.
The article lists park acreages for New York Chicago St Louis and Philadelphia including Bronx and Fairmount Park figures. It then presents a quip about Emerson and fame followed by a note on regional wage differences with North Atlantic and North Central averages. The piece blends civic geography with a light anecdote and preliminary wage data.
The passage links rain with specific plant and flower behaviors. It notes that fine weather follows the sorrel flower opening and pitcher plant standing erect, while other flowers closing or morphing signal changing conditions.
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