Brimfield News Highlights Local Happenings and Campaign Spirit
Brimfield items report visits from Mrs. Ryan of Peoria and Wm. Dempsey’s stay with relatives, a new coal shaft west of town, and local millinery orders. Mentions of a railroad survey crew, Ellwood football prep, and the Arion Lady Quartet performance. Campaign notes cover McKinley-Yates-Graff club setup with officers and marching plans.
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George Mulvaney
Jackson
Jacob Hockenbery
William
Hampton
Nebraska
Brimfield
Kelloxy
Chicago
Wm. Beiord
E. L. Howard
Yates City
Elmwood
Brimfield and
Chichester
McKinley, Yates & Graff
C.M. Miler
Addison Pacey
H. E. Chichester
D. R. Strain
Frank Ford
McKinley,Yates & Graff Club
Marching Club
Rough Riders
The Corn Belt Monthly Subscription Offer
An illustrated publication promising exact farm information and letters from farmers with pictures of homes barns and stock. Send 25 cents in postage stamps for a year to The Corn Belt Adams Street Chicago.
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Adams Street
Chicago
Sturgeon Decimation Signals Endangerment Nearing Extinction
A historical survey shows sturgeon populations collapsing from 1,000 daily catches in 1880 to 8 per net in 1899. Delaware Bay and River yields dropped from over 5,000 in 1898 to 2,510 last season, with a $1,000,000 investment in sturgeon fishing and caviar linked to Russian markets. Concerns rise over looming extermination within five years without prompt action.
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Delaware River
Behring Sea
United States
England
Pennsylvania Fish Commission
Bayside
Delaware Bay
Giant steam watch to loom over St Louis 1903 fair
Philadelphia Record reports plans for a colossal watch exhibit at the St Louis Purchase Exposition of 1903. The 75 foot diameter, 40 foot high brass structure will let visitors walk inside among moving wheels, with a one ton balance wheel and a 300 plus foot main spring.
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Philadelphia
Fire Insurance Agent for Phoenix and National Firms
An insurance agent offers Fire Insurance from the old Phoenix and National Fire Insurance companies. He promotes best companies and best rates at the Exchange Bank, encouraging patrons to inquire locally.
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Phoenix and National Fire
Best Companies
Best, Rates
The
Exchange Bank
Miss L Terry Belling Agent for Stevens & Bros Chicago
Miss L Terry acts as a selling agent for Charles A Stevens and Brothers of Chicago manufacturers of ladies cloaks gowns and coats. Elegant dine o measure taken and suits made to order. Call and inspect.
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Chas. A. Stevens & Bros
Chicago
Nebraska farm lands described in Chicago Burlington pamphlet
The Chicago Burlington and Quincy R E has issued an illustrated pamphlet detailing Nebraska’s farm lands. Copies are available free upon request from P. Eustis, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Illinois.
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Chicago Burlington & Quincy R. E
Nebraska
Eustis
Chicago
Burlington Route Completions Enable Through Trains
The Burlington Route from Chicago to St. Louis and Peoria is now completed, with daily passenger trains running through Lincoln Nebraska and caster North Dakota to Deadwood. Sleeping cars are provided to Deadwood and also to Newcastle Wyoming.
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Burlington
Chicago
Peoria
St. Louis
Lincoln
Neb
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Deadwood
Newcastle
Wyoming
Measured Chinese Wall Height Described by Engineer
An American engineer Mr Unthank recently measured the Great Wall of China. His findings place the wall at eighteen feet high with towers every few hundred yards standing twenty five feet tall. The wall spans 1 200 miles across plains and mountains, with foundations of solid granite and the rest of the masonry solid.
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China
Unthank
For Sale Near Town Two Large Farm Tracts To Be Sold
Notice offers a bargain sale of the J W Foster place of 20 acres and the J W Johnson place of 60 acres east of town. Seemed today, code, for leave for Kansas City tonight. M C Johnson.
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Riggen
Rochester
J. W. Foster
J. W.johnson
Kansas City
M.C. Johnson
Doug HConnell Auctioneer Brimfield Ill Ad
Doug HConnell announces auctioneering services with statewide sales across Illinois. Customer satisfaction guaranteed and reasonable terms offered. For bookings call or write to Brimfield Illinois address.
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Brimfield, Ill
Mortgage rate savings offer at Gazette Office
A private note invites readers to meet FP. B Puusteger at the Gazette Office in Elmwood every Saturday to hear options for lowering mortgage payments. It promises lower rates for current, due, or upcoming loans and faster payoff possibilities.
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Gazette Office
Elmwood
Puusteger
G. H. Coss Promises Bug Gies and Carriages Sale
A local shop owner claims to offer a line of bug gies and carriages from a renowned factory and urges customers to call for samples, promising savings on all lines.
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G. H. Coss
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