16 Aug 1899
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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1899
Page
1
A jumble of vintage quips and social scenes from the Chicago Record and Boston Traveler. It notes a seaside album inquiry, a park joke, a hydrant water line humor, trolley inspections, and Kipling’s wary stance toward interviews. An anecdote shows a reporter duped when Kipling staged a mock interview for money.
A comic fragment recalls a line about lovers from Caesby and a Philadelphia Worth American remark on love. The scene shifts to a rainy village tavern where men joke about rain and a man teases a widow, prompting a deadpan reply about burying a wife.
An Alaska prospecting note praises hardy Siwash dogs for travel and team fights, comparing their behavior to untamed packs and their loyalty to their master. It also includes a testimonial from Nance, a high school principal, about One Minute Cough Cure curing a severe fever in a baby after other remedies failed.
George D Williams of Manchester Michigan recounts his wife’s five year helpless condition and credits Electric Bitters with her drastic improvement after two bottles. The remedy is praised for female diseases nervousness melancholy headaches backaches and fainting spells and is offered by J F Pander at 60 cents with a cure guarantee.
A jumble of brief items reports lightning victims in Baltimore, ship measurements for the Shamrock, Chinese emigrants sailing to San Francisco, steel wage cuts in Johnstown, a fatal family feud in Lookout Pa, a Colorado smelters strike ended, a double homicide by Solomon Quinter, mining conflicts with DL&W, Denver police deaths, a Boston fire total loss valued at 50 000, and Admiral Dewey ill with fever aboard Olympia in Leghorn awaiting medical care.
Daily market report from Chicago and East Buffalo shows Hoge estimates with cattle at various grades, hogs and sheep receipts and prices, and grain quotes from St Louis and Milwaukee. Key entities include Hoge, East Buffalo, Dunning & Stevens, St. Louis, Milwaukee, No. 2 red, No. 1 northern, and July to December futures ranges.
London reports claim Premier Chamberlain seeks a peaceful solution to the Transvaal franchise dispute while warning that Kruger may stall negotiations. France Russia tensions rise as Delcasse explains emergency. Milner told to watch Rhodes. In New Orleans officers seek American mules for South Africa aid. Capetown dispatch notes Natal volunteers ready for defense.
The Navy Department says Captain Longnecker of the cruiser New Orleans, at San Domingo City, reports all well aboard his ship and the Machias. The dispatch also states quiet prevails in Sagimomgg.
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