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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1902
Page
3
An officer concludes a visit to Ireland with a garbled farewell line. The exchange ends with a quip about a bald pate and a torch Hight procession, implying humor over belief in future glory.
In Bea Three Months, Oolitic Indiana, Sept 15 Mr W A Terry suffered months with kidney trouble nearly bed bound. After starting Dodd's Kidney Pills he improved in two days and soon could move about. He endorses the remedy as the best medicine for kidney or bladder trouble based on his experience.
A quirky exchange mocks speculation when a cashier succeeds. The piece alludes to Nero's fondness for a greasy pork and game pie and mentions Mrs. Austins Pancake flogy as a quick breakfast option, blending humor with culinary nods.
A week of monster fires across Clarke, Cowlitz, and Skamania counties near the Oregon border has swept homes and logging camps, destroying timber stretches along the river. Dozens of survivors were found with little more than rags, some forced to flee without clothing. Thirty lives are reported lost amid widespread desolation and fear.
Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco sues the Mexican government at The Hague for interest on California’s Pious Fund. The case involves 990,862.77 dollars tied to a fund started in 1697 to support Jesuit missionaries, later seized and managed by successive powers.
Refugees from White's mill near Centralia describe being trapped by flames as fires spread through Multnomah and Clackamas counties. About 800 people lose homes, with rivers and grotto refuges offering scant shelter amid widespread destruction and fleeing wildlife.
Henry Watterson denounces the New York Four Hundred as morally abandoned and corruptive. He likens America’s elite to European smart set, condemning their wealth driven ends, discarded morals, and social vanity. He portrays them as self entitled, hypocritical, and controlled by money.
Defects in the Panama Canal Company's title to Colombian concessions cast doubt on completing the sale of its rights and property to the United States. Two large mills rise on the Kansas City Southern each with a daily capacity of 200000 feet. Central Coal and Coke builds at Burt La and Hudson River Lumber at DeHidder.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat notes Sir Isaac Newton proposed a duodecimal thermometer based on body heat with 12 divisions and freezing at 0. Fahrenheit later refined the scale to 24 degrees and then to four subdivisions, yielding the current thermometer, starting from ice and salt as a limit and body heat at 24.
The letter from Charles Lindgren of La Porte Indiana praises Doan's Kidney Pills for curing severe back pain and lameness after a fall 1897 trial. He reaffirmed faith in the remedy today and invites free trials mailed to any U S address. Sold by druggists at 50 cents per box through Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A brief exchange suggests Mamie and her partner expect approval from her father. The dialogue reveals the father recently inquired about their marriage plans, indicating his desire to live with them.
A dramatic dialogue unfolds as a blaze engulfs the barn prompting a frantic call to the fire department. In the tense exchange a husband dismisses the danger while noting a ping pong set inside, heightening the urgency of rescue.
A father reports his daughter cured of five year indigestion after Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. One fifty-cent bottle enabled her to walk a mile and later 3 1/4 miles in a day, despite two doctors saying she could not improve. Letter from J. H. M. Crocker of Nixon Tennessee dated Aug 6 1900. Also notes Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin sold in fifty-cent and one-dollar bottles with guarantee.
Prospective buyers urged to view rich productive soils along the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway. Lands along the line are described as good grain farms and stock country with reachable markets. Round trip and home seekers excursion tickets to Northwestern Iowa Southern Minnesota and Southwestern South Dakota offered on the first and third Tuesdays of September and October via the O BR I P Ry. Tickets available at penctant stations with rates through local agents in Cedar Rapids Iowa.
The Italian ship Anita, registered at Genoa, has been sold at Teneriffe to be broken up. Built in Genoa in 1548, she last sailed from Naples to Teneriffe in March 1902 and earned fame for storms and a notably slow voyage of 205 days from Baltimore to Rio de Janeiro.
A collage of lines shows a child envying another for ears that wiggle and a mother asserting strength, followed by a dramatic bomb reveal to an editor and a quip about poems. The piece includes travel fare ads and a note on the Essay on Man's multiple revisions before printing.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is a constitutional remedy priced at 75 cents. The United States has built 850 schools in Porto Rico. Auber's table offered Paris markets dainties. he claimed all he ate went to appetite. Teething remedy soothes inflammation and wind colic at 3 cents a bottle.
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