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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1908
Page
2
A speaker feels drawn to a distant king whose face shines with light as the world moves blind. The heart awakens to a bright truth and a new, unspoken joy while the king, deep in thought, passes by without a glance, focused on a star or a stone.
In a dim campfire tale a corporal recalls Jim Darrel's daring rescue in Bengal. Darrel confronts six Gulgulias with a jammed magazine rifle, drawing fire and holding the line to free a prisoner, amid jungle fighting and fever country.
In a Cleveland Leader item a naive young woman boasts of eight brothers and four sisters while the man named Maudel confesses the exchange was flirtation only. He asks for understanding as he pivots from proposal. The piece notes general kindness with a hint of criticism for a few people.
A column notes the double standards about married men and women, arguing that wives and families constrain husbands while single men are treated with more leniency. It reflects social stereotypes and humor about domestic life in disapproving tones.
Visitors and workers report rival enthusiasm over canal excavation. Earth moved last month nears one million cubic yards left to dig. March and May figures show sharp increases. A Gatun dam earth dike will form a twelve mile lake for ships to pass full speed, while locks and dam work continue alongside trench progress.
The text debates how nations adjust daylight by shifting schedules rather than clocks. It argues habits affect adoption and notes clocks are human-made tools tied to precise Greenwich markings. It mentions the United States and a sensational line about John Ball ahead of the New York Globe.
The Philadelphia mint produced 137,133,777 coins in the year ending June 3 valued at 128,73,848 dollars. Mints nationwide convert bullion into coinage each year as population grows. The article questions who holds the vast new money, noting over 81 million pennies issued last June.
The Chicago Inter Ocean analyzes rising living costs over a decade highlighting increased prices for coal despite cheaper coffee and vegetables. It cites government data to show overall index gains around 44 percent since 1897, with notable rises in meat, fuel, lumber, drugs, and clothing driven by labor costs shortages and industry returns.
A Philadelphia social figure, described as fair and well known, walked along Chestnut Street when two painters called out insulting remarks. One worker yelled Painted, be blren, to which the woman calmly replied Yes, exactly. Painted, and by heaven.
A quote from Speaker Cannon about frankness opens with a jab at a former legislator who built a costly house. The tale links money from Springfield to politics and ends with a moral on empathy and scrapes that tests the head.
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