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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1902
Page
5
An Oct 15 1902 editorial argues rising coal prices threaten homes and families and urges buyers to choose energy efficient heating. It endorses the Great Estate Oak Heater and Majestic Malleable Range from Freeman & Co, claiming a one third coal saving, plus notes on stove features and a plug for nails sale.
A listing details multiple farms near Muscatine Iowa and nearby Louisa county with 160 acre parcels on main roads and rural mail, yielding 105 bu per acre corn and 34 tons hay per acre. Prices range from 40 to 90 dollars per acre, with several improved plots, school access, and telephone lines. Another Mississippi bottom farm near Windfield Missouri offers 800 acres with rich soil, low waste land, and 47 1/2 bushels per acre wheat yield. a second 217 acre tract sold at 50 dollars per acre, with town amenities and banks noted.
A wide mix of items from Brimfield and nearby towns includes election reminders, theatre and hall events with speakers like L Y Sherman, marriage notices, travel between Peoria and Kansas, farm sales, hunting warnings, and local commerce notes. Community updates cover visits, sales of horses and mules, catalog announcements, and an accident injuring Mrs. Susie Moore.
America's famous beauties look with horror on blotches sores and pimples. They don’t have them nor will anyone who uses Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. It cures eczema salt rheum and vanish sores lips chapped hands and chilblains. Infallible for piles 25c at Williams Robinson & Co’s drug store.
Miss Agnes McLaughlin was surprised with a birthday party at home on Monday evening Oct 18 1902. Friends including Raymond Miller Hazel Hayward Charles Travis Mary Mulvaney Marion Littlefield Allee Cady John Fuchs Clara McParren Blook Mercer Florence Stansbury Herbert Davia Carrie Church Leo Crahar Maud Mulvaney Hugh Bowman Francis Moore Bert Hayward Lizzie Fuchs Harry Hayes Clyde Littlefield attended and gave gifts.
Fall colds may linger through winter risking pneumonia bronchitis or consumption. Foley's Honey and Tar cures quickly prevents serious results. It is old reliable tested safe and contains no opiates and will not constipate. Wm Robinson &
A New York physician told a reporter that gout is rising rapidly among the wealthy, outpacing population growth. He attributes the uptick to more clubs, fashionable restaurants, cafes, and cab use, especially for short trips. He urges more outdoor exercise to curb heavy meals, noting rich foods contribute more than wine, though both often accompany meals.
In Switzerland planners construct V shaped earthworks along mountain slopes to disrupt incoming avalanches. The design directs moving snow masses into breaks, breaking them apart before they gain dangerous velocity, rendering them harmless for travelers.
Capt. Crawford J Smith of Philadelphia, late master of the Corunda, received a gold watch and chain from President Roosevelt on behalf of the United States for rescuing the crew of the Ella which foundered 220 miles south southwest of Bermuda on January 17. Despite a terrific gale, none of the Corunda crew volunteered until officers and men manned a boat and saved all hands.
During eleven months ending June 1 1902 eleven hundred libraries received gifts totaling 9 977 798 54 dollars. Of this sum seven million five hundred twenty one thousand fifty dollars sixty three cents went to new buildings. Andrew Carnegie made two hundred eight gifts totaling five million five hundred sixty six thousand dollars besides giving four hundred ninety one thousand five hundred dollars to Canada and other sums in Newfoundland Cuba and Great Britain.
The Villa Borghese in Rome, a private park under Cardinal Scipion's will, remains open to the public but heavily mortgaged. Auction failed as no bids were made, and locals resist leasing or dividing the land, preserving the venerable trees and public use.
A widow at her husband's funeral in Altoona berates the broad floral display from railroad colleagues, contractors, and the mayor. She mocks a cross from the division superintendent and flings out a grand anchor bouquet, shouting at the band’s taste.
In the Paris Matin an amusing tale describes a professional beggar who posed as different trades in letters to gain sympathy. He studied the Encyclopedia Britannica to craft plausible backstories, using the word kaolin to explain pottery work and secure bank notes and postal orders.
The Western Advertiser extols steady, patient advertising and persistent effort. It compares the relentless worker to a farmer and a steady editor, arguing long term plans build business and keep a local paper thriving.
Rumor in Newport places James J. Van Alen ready to dispose of U S property and move to England. He is quoted saying England is the only fit place for a gentleman to live. His departure hinges on daughter May Van Alen’s willingness to leave the United States.
Snails as food spread beyond Paris into southern Europe and parts of Africa. Dr Edward notes 90,000 pounds daily sent to Paris from Poitou Burgundy Champagne and Provence. Garden snails fed on aromatic herbs. price ranges 2 to 3 francs per hundred, hedgerow snails fetch less. A Dijon area snaffery owner nets over $1,400 yearly.
In Austria at Eisenthal a rapid experiment converted living trees into newsprint. At 7 36 am three trees were felled, by 9 34 am bark stripped and pulp produced, by 10 00 am the first copy was printed and folded, showing trees become newspapers in 145 minutes.
A Philadelphia Record item quotes a passenger and the elevator operator explaining that a new elevator man suffered seasickness like symptoms from rapid vertical movement. The ascent redirects blood flow downward causing nausea while the descent brings dizziness. The operator says the condition should pass after a day as the man becomes immune.
Mayor Low's secretary James B Reynolds recalls a flirtatious exchange with Rosalie Loew attorney for the Legal Aid Society The anecdote centers on a hearing when she said she must visit Ludlow Street to procure release of a jailed man The remark sparked light humor about scarce prisoners in the city legal aid scene.
A London Spectator excerpt argues happiness requires sacrifice of laziness and self centered behavior. The piece stresses shared atmosphere and collective effort to foster joy rather than selfish gains, urging sincerity and communal focus.
The Canadian founder of the Society of Christian Endeavor, Francie Edward Clark born Francia Edward Symmes, celebrates enrollment near four million members across 60,000 branches in more than twenty nations. Adopted after parental deaths, he remains its driving force at age 51 with remarkable energy.
Sir Harry Thompson stands out as a versatile English figure. He is a physician and surgeon, an exhibitor at the Royal Academy and French salon, and an authority on lithotomy. He runs a private observatory, wrote on surgery and topics like Food and Feeding and Motor Cars, and has served as professor of pathology and surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons. He also presides over the Cremation Society and is Surgeon extraordinary to the king of the Belgians. The Marquis of Salisbury is mocked for bad dress, with a tale of a baggy suit from a Hanover Square tailor who claims fitting a gentleman who sits to dress is problematic.
Reports from Prague mineral springs describe water turning brown then red for an hour after Martinique’s eruption. Scientists cannot explain the shift, while locals attribute it to the volcano and note a similar event in 1755 during the Lisbon quake.
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