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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1900
Page
1
A fragment notes a youth named Hoon Clarence Broadhead as remarkable while discussing a church festival and rising stimulant use. It cites Jostet ter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for dyspepsia constipation and nervousness alongside a remark about the British government using 124000 fellows of corn whisky in smokeless powder production.
A collage of ad copy and notices including cautions to take Hood's Sarsaparilla for early symptoms, a photograph-on-entry apparatus note, Iowa Central Railway home seekers excursions with dates and destinations, Marshalltown police night duty stat, various patent medicines for teething and pain, a note on Unmarried women in Russian universities, and Walter Baker chocolate claims. The piece weaves health, travel, and commerce in a period newspaper snippet.
The House lays out standing committees including Ways and Means, Judiciary, Appropriations, Railroads and commerce, Municipal corporations, Banks and banking, Printings, Private corporations, Suppression of Intemperance, Elections, Constitutional amendments, Insurance, Public health, Building and Loan, Compensation of public officers, Telegraph Telephone and express, Agriculture, School and text books, County and township organization, Roads and highways, Domestic manufactures, Mines and mining, Animal industry, Soldiers' and orphans' home, Penitentiaries, University State University, Senatorial districts, Representative districts, Normal schools, Labor, Military, Retrenchment and reform, Pardons, Warnings suffrage, Public lands and buildings, Police regulations, Wish and game, Civil relations, Institutions for the blind, Insane asylum, Industrial schools, Public libraries, Enrolled bills, and more being assigned under various members.
The excerpt muses on loving the heart's judgment over criticism, noting that affection dims friendships when esteem is involved. It suggests mind direction outweighs progress, questions what a wind can carry when trapped within itself, and likens gravity to a bark that both hides and preserves wisdom.
A miscellany of tips and trivia on household care and product trends. It mentions Flatirons guidance for avoiding cracks, bakery inspections costing New York 200,000 dollars, sugared fruit cooking, Milka salds in Switzerland tied to musical voices, a woman inventor earning nine thousand dollars yearly from a patent glove-buttoner, and lamp chimneys cleaned with alcohol rather than porp and water.
Ex-congressman David G. Colson and Lt. Mthalbert Scott opened fire in the Capitol hotel lobby in Frankfort Kentucky. Scott died instantly after being shot six times. Bystander Luther Demaree died, Charles Julian perished later, and Commonwealth’s Attorney I L Bolden survived with critical injuries. Colson was wounded twice, Marty McEwing and W Ridpnteh were injured.
A Sterling dispatch from Sterlstrom dated January 15 reports Gatacre’s troops probing toward Molteno while Boers wait elsewhere. British hold Molteno as 4,500 Boers, mainly revolted colonists and Free Staters, are estimated at Stormberg. Wrench shells Boer positions with no decisive action. Methuen’s collapse at Magersfontein erodes confidence, and General Wauchope’s last letter hints at a possible change in command, with Lieut. Gen. Tucker rumored to succeed Methven.
January reports from Honolulu indicate twenty two deaths from bubonic plague with no recoveries so far and four cases in hospital. About 8,000 people evacuated to quarantine camps, a $250,000 sanitation drive begun, and a ten day quarantine enforced on departing passengers. Kauai island implements shotgun quarantine with landing bans and infected houses in Chinatown are being destroyed including the main joss house after a sick Chinese man is found.
London January 17 A Daily Mail dispatch dated Lorenzo Marques January 18 reports President Kruger has issued a proclamation ordering all burghers to the front The Volksraad urges that the gold industry be destroyed as soon as the British cross the border Kruger also issued a circular January 8 urging Boer commandants and burghers to show more energy in the Transvaal cause.
At Benspenc Cape Colony on January 17 Boers attacked a hill held by a Yorkshires and New Zealanders unit but were repulsed at bayonet point. Boers suffered twenty one killed and fifty wounded. The Daily Mail cites Le Creusot saying the Schneider company both works guns and ammunition for the Boers and has six heavy guns ready for shipment to the Transvaal with potentially thirty more forthcoming.
Captain W W Christmas of Copenhagen, a Danish government agent, has been in New York and travels to Washington regarding negotiations to sell St Thomas St John and St Croix to the United States. Initial asks were high but Danish authorities may accept about 1 million dollars to cover debt, with ongoing talks led by Consul Byun and Henry White.
In Berlin the Reichstag debates a signed interpellation by Terr Moel jer and all liberal MPs except social democrats and independents question federal steps on ship seizures by English agents. Reports suggest German reprisals and a possible neutral-coalition move if Britain delays.
FiorenoN Ala January 18 A private letter from Manila dated December 2 reports General Joe Wheeler has resigned his army post and intends to return to the United States to push legislation through Congress He writes he will devote himself to securing the bill while opposing mineral land sales until schoollands are protected.
Jan 18 report: General Buller surprised the Boers and occupied the hills beyond Pelgicter’s drift fifteen miles west of Colenso on Jan 10. He shelled Boer trenches to follow up the move. The dispatch refutes Warren’s Weenan direction and suggests Buller’s forces are concentrated rather than divided.
Washington January 19 the special house committee investigating Brigham H Roberts Utah reports unanimous affirming polygamous status while dissenting on procedure. Majority favors exclusion at the outset with Littlefield and Dearmond planning a minority report supporting seating Roberts. Pretoria January 13 British bombard Mafeking day prior results in Mastward fort demolition and one Boer wounded.
Senate introduces Mason measure to curb adulteration by creating a bureau of chemistry within the agricultural department and providing for food inspection by that agency. The proposal aims to safeguard consumer health and regulate examination of goods.
A collection of social quips and stories features Sir Henry Erskine quelling a riot in Edinburgh by sparing a tailor in the pit, Lord Beresford and General Buller debating the Nile route, a Washington court map joke by Justice Gray, and Otis Skinner in Memphis where debutantes tease that his lines were hard to hear while he praises their commentary.
The text notes Louisville & Nashville railroad services for Florida Cuba Puerto Rico Central America and Nassau with double daily sleeping cars from several cities. It also includes a Minnesota farmer's letter praising Manitoba settlement, detailing homesteading dates, land quality, yields of wheat oats and barley, housing, and a recommendation to relocate for affordable land at Manitoba markets near Virden and Hargrave with $3.50 per acre offers.
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