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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1902
Page
8
Mrs Craphil of Troy reports long indigestion and hyperacidity cured after using Kodol. The notice extols the product as transforming food into rich red blood, purging stomach issues, and boosting energy. Wm Robinson & Co. endorses the remedy with a hearty recommendation.
A. M. Hoppe of Rio Creek Wisconsin claims Chamberlain's Cough Remedy saved his one year old son from fatal croup this winter. He states the boy was choking and unable to speak, and after freely giving the remedy he improved quickly. For sale by William Robinson & Co.
Unmarried Brazilian woman’s funeral dictates scarlet mourning. Coffin hearse and horse livery must be scarlet, with all funeral trappings in the same hue. The custom marks a somber tradition reflecting social norms of bereavement.
QO. R. Larson of Bay Villa Sundays River Cape Colony runs a general store nine miles from the railway and twenty-five miles from the town. He serves farmers within thirty miles and notes fourteen cures with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in the past year, claiming a strong local record. For sale by Wm. Robinson & Co.
A London merchant recently received from a crack regiment an order for a peck of fleas. The officers aimed to place the vermin in the bed of an unpopular subaltern, indicating a pranks or harassment incident among officers and soldiers.
The text notes Saturdays as an unlucky day for the British Royal family. It lists William II, Queen Anne, George I, George II, George III, George IV, the Duchess of Kent, the Prince Consort, and Princess Alice as having died on Saturdays.
The obituary notes Lonie Wendell Paul Heinz born October 25, 1883 near Kickapoo Illinois died October 11 1902 of typhoid fever. He lived with relatives after his mother’s death and was beloved by friends. Funeral at St Joseph’s Brimfield with Rev Mainville and burial at Calvary cemetery.
The Rinersart family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness aid and sympathy shown during Louie’s illness and passing. Martin Rinersart and sisters Henry Herz and family express gratitude.
Robert P. Carter, pioneer citizen, died Sunday October 12 at his son Richard Carter’s home in Millbrook. Funeral services were held Tuesday at the residence, sermon by Rev. D B McCown of Henry. Interred in Brimfield cemetery. He was 79 and had wide acquaintance locally. extended notice to follow.
A famed English physician Dr Abernethy warns that kidney illness endangers life while noting Foley's Kidney Cure as a claimed remedy. Wm Robinson & Co promote the product as it supposedly restores healthy kidneys.
The advertisement warns that travel excitement and change in food and water often cause diarrhoea and urges not to leave home without Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy sold by Wm. Robinson & Co.
A sweeping portrait of The Coca Record Heralds rich content array. It touts William E Curtis and Walter Wellman letters, its own specials and dispatches, foreign news network, stock markets, sports page, editorials, humor, stories, book reviews, society, fashion, meals for a day, Great Lakes news, and more.
In Shragh village, County Kildare, Ireland, Anne Staunton has turned 111 and remains lucid with strong health. She recalls many historical events, while public attention focuses on Russell Sage and his potential charitable gifts. Other items note a Toledo youth offered a fortune for refusals and a German news brief.
New Orleans plans a home for orphan boys funded by the bequest of George Xavier Carstairs who at a young age faced hardship but accumulated a fortune to support the cause. In Portland, residents consider erecting a monument to William Pitt Fessenden, a former Maine senator and Lincoln era treasury secretary born in Portland.
The trouble about making a dash to the pole is that the explorer knows he must retrace every step of his laborious progress before he can be safe again. He may find that he has sufficient strength to push on to the pole by heroic efforts, but he must use that strength in getting back to his nearest depot of supplies.
Miss Estelle Reed is named the highest paid woman in U.S. government service. As superintendent of Indian schools she travels thousands of miles yearly to visit agencies and tribes and apply improved training methods.
The Hartford Courant remarks Russell Sage, famed for generosity and reform, deserves reward in the next world for pressuring elevated road management to grant concessions to its employees. The editorial views Sage as broad minded and philanthropic despite scorn for money.
A Baltimore columnist argues that hero-worship of famous criminals like the outlaw Tracy fosters crime. The piece claims such reverence corrupts public morality, turning admiration into a cover for illegal power and predation.
Henderson Grimett of Logan county West Virginia suffered partial paralysis and loss of use of an arm and side. After two bottles of Chamberlain's Pain Balm he is nearly cured according to GEo. BR. McDomaxp. The liniment is praised for rheumatism sprains and bruises with Wm. Robinson & Co selling it locally.
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