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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1902
Page
3
A front row chorus girl is asked about summer travels. Other girls name Switzerland by auto Aix les Bains Newport the White Mountains Paree and fashion work. The judge notes the first girl replies I washed dishes.
In New Providence Indiana on October 13, the Moon family celebrates the recovery of three-year-old Helen Moon from dropsy once deemed hopeless by doctors. After using Dodd's Kidney Pills, the child improved and now shows no symptoms, leaving physicians puzzled by the case.
J Pierpont Morgan presents to President Roosevelt a formal arbitration plan to settle the anthracite strike. The proposal names a commission including a military engineer, a mining expert, a U.S. judge, a sociologist, and a mining insider to decide employment terms for three years. Miners' union is not directly recognized, and operators urge return to work while agreeing to the commission's findings.
United States census data shows 18 226 newspapers and periodicals, up 22.3 percent since 1890, with 12 979 weeklies and 1 817 monthlies. Declines occur in religious, medicine, science and fraternal journals, while overall circulation tracks city population growth. Average daily paper readership held steady at about 4 170 inhabitants per daily paper in 1900.
Short news item notes the fatal train accident that kills George Roberts in Cumberland. It also reports Bolivia and Peru have signed a boundary treaty and that the London Chronicle notes a movement to appoint President Roosevelt as a colonel in a British line regiment.
Detroit convention calls for government seizure of Pennsylvania coal mines and railroads, with state operation to meet public needs. It urges a special Pennsylvania session to authorize eminent domain and compensation, plus federal inquiry into the strike’s causes and responsible parties. The measure argues right of eminent domain can avert public suffering.
Senator Hanna's daughter in law Mrs May Harrington Hanna created a stir in London society by her beauty and sprightliness during the year. She previously shocked American society by divorcing her husband Dan R. Hanna.
A Cleveland divorcee who secured custody of her three sons has reportedly won the heart of an English nobleman close to King Edward. The couple plan to marry in the United States. In London she gained social distinction and was celebrated for her culture and vivacity alongside her American poise.
An array of brief ecclesiastical and public matters include Loyola Louisville Seminary admitting women students, Bishop Warren canceling a planned India visit, Prohibition impact in Samoa, Rev Dr Canfield resigning from the Universalist Church of Our Father, a will contest over an Advent society gift tied to immortality beliefs, Lyman Abbot’s Outlook essay on religion as living action, and Prince Bernadette elected president of a world union of Christian associations with a large assembly in Christiania.
Miss Kate Brown recording secretary of the L C B Association of Kansas writes from Kansas City that after a severe cold led to kidney and bladder catarrh and digestive failure she spent years and hundreds of dollars on doctors before using Peruna. She reports nine months of treatment and a complete cure with health restored. Dr Hartman offers free advice for those not helped.
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