Defiance Starch Sale Reported Across Regions
Readable fragments indicate a Starch sale event labeled Defiance with widespread distribution. Details are sparse but imply a commercial promotion affecting multiple areas and retailers.
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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1902
Page
2
Readable fragments indicate a Starch sale event labeled Defiance with widespread distribution. Details are sparse but imply a commercial promotion affecting multiple areas and retailers.
Mrs J H Haskins of Chicago speaks to Arcade President Club about comforting women after childbearing. She warns against fear and fatigue, endorsing a pink compound for strength. She notes personal dread of labor but emphasizes value of relief and care for mothers.
The article notes 5,664,811 passengers on Bante Fo lines in the last Becal year, traveling 6,140,047 miles for an average of about 90 miles per person. It suggests many short trips, editor travel averages of 60 miles, and jokes about reporters riding passes. It also remarks on family finances and Defiance Starch sales.
Defiance Cold Water Brand claims superiority with 16 oz for a few cents, superseding rival 12 oz packs. The text notes there are about 900000 more women than men in the German empire and observes the organ as a popular recital subject, with some people fond of free organ recitals.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad Co releases a beautiful calendar with ten color watercolors by Leon Moran depicting a popular actress. Each sheet is 12 414 inches. calendars are copyrighted by the railway and a limited edition costs 25 cents per calendar. Mail orders accepted on receipt of price. F W A Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago. Better a distant friend than an intimate enemy.
A scrambled 19th century ad collage touts remedies and products. Mentions Red Cross Ball Blue powder 8 cents, Nuss Company cough cures, Tino’s Cure for Consumption, Mrs Windows Syrup, Windoollo bottle priced 250, and various quips about matrimony, patience, and Cupid.
Landseekers advertise trips to Via North and South Carolina with affordable farm and stock land options. Promotions promise mild winters and no tornadoes. Includes teen and excursion rates via W P Agt for the 0 & C Ry at 24 Clark St. The ad concludes with a light note on love as gaining exclusivity in affections.
Kentucky Congressman Wheeler denounces foreign policy as flunkeyism and criticizes Secretary Hay and Lord Pauncefote. He accuses the White House of pro British tilt, cites British military presence in the Americas, and laments America’s drift from republican independence.
W E West of Grand Forks Minnesota was acquitted today after a three week trial in Ames Iowa for the killing of Frank March. The verdict ends the case concerning the homicide charge.
Vienna dispatch says the Nicus Wiener Journal repeats an unconfirmed rumor that Count Tolstoi is dead. In Congress Delegate Flynn introduces a bill for two extra judges in Oklahoma and sets territorial salaries at five thousand dollars annually.
Senator Hoar proposed an amendment to the Philippine tariff bill stating no person in the Philippine Islands may be convicted of treason by any tribunal unless two witnesses testify to the same overt act or confession in an open court.
Officials from the St. Louis exposition board and associated businessmen testified before the House committees on expositions about funding the government display. They seek $800,000 for the exhibit and a building costing about $450,000, with potential added cost if the opening is advanced.
Vienna dispatch describes Russian strategy amid a growing Anglo Japanese alliance. Experts expect Russia to provoke Afghan unrest while staying behind the scenes until Japan consolidates China’s military power and pushes Europeans out, leaving Russians secure in Manchuria. The discussion ties the treaty to Britain and Germany signals.
President Roosevelt left Groton School after Ted Roosevelt Jr. showed rapid improvement in his illness pleuro pneumonia. Doctors reported the lung condition clearing and the boy progressing favorably as the president and Mrs. Roosevelt shared happiness with those at the infirmary.
The United States cruiser Olympia under Captain Henry Lyman entered New York harbor from Boston and dropped anchor at Tompkinsville. The vessel will attend the naval reception for Prince Henry and then proceed south to serve as flagship of Rear Admiral Higginson’s North Atlantic Squadron in the West Indies.
Waterloo detective Henry Fields a taxi dermist for the state normal school was fined 126 dollars by Justice Hildebrant for shooting six quail He plans an appeal claiming scientific rights to kill the birds.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones announces formal tolling that the new Kiowa Indian lands leases covering 480000 acres in Oklahoma near the Texas border will begin on April 17. An attempt to postpone the date was made but rejected.
The Cal reports that Adams American United States and Wells Fargo may merge into a single firm. A private message from the east says E. H. Harriman, head of the Southern Pacific, will be elected president of Wells Fargo Express at the next stockholders meeting.
The House unanimously adopted a proposed constitutional amendment for direct Senate election. It also passed bills authorizing Confederate claims payments up to 50000, a Spanish claims commission expansion, and rights for White River Railroad across government lands in Arkansas. The session included debates on cable control and bridge projects in Fort Gibson, St. Joseph, and the Memphis area.
The Ohio House passed a bill making it a crime for a parent or guardian to willfully deprive a sick child under 16 of care, punishable by fines up to 200 dollars or six months imprisonment. The session also advanced a 75000 dollar state exhibit appropriation for St Louis and signaled canals policy by passing a measure to abandon part of the Wabash and Erie canal in Paulding County with only two opposing votes.
The German Nautical Society of Hamburg passed a resolution urging widening of the Kiel canal because traffic has reached its capacity and the waterway can no longer handle the volume.
Berlin report says the Association of German Swine Breeders met to discuss hog scarcity for butchering. General secretary Herr Burkhart explained that strained imports of American bacon and lard are wrecking Germanys fattening industry and making the nation dependent on US hog markets.
Judge John J Jackson of the United States district court is described as the longest serving judge in state or federal courts. At 77 he remains active and vigorous, with plans to die in harness, a future that may be distant.
John M. Creed of Berkeley California learned a woman in Ohio posed as his widow and drew his Civil War pension for years. She is the widow of another John M. Creed who did not serve and thus was not entitled to a pension. It is believed others have obtained pensions similarly.
Two Barings hold now four peer ages two earldoms Northbrook and Cromer two baronies Ashburton and Revelstoke. The founder of the family like the first Rothschild came from Germany. He was a Lutheran minister who settled with his son in Exeter about 200 years ago and started a cloth manufactory.
A Kansas piece recounts W H Ketchum's five month back pain cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills with renewed vigor after a second box. The notice blends other promos including Defiance laundry starch, a Red Cross Ball Powder package, and travel ads for Florida excursions via the Chesapeake and Ohio lines with contact details at Chicago.
Beginning March 1 and each month through April 192, Great Northern offers one way settlers tickets across most main line west of St Paul with very low rates from St Paul Chicago and other eastern terminals to Montana Washington and other western stations. Stopovers allowed after ten days. agents offer full information on land climate and crops by Max Bass or F I Whitney.
A housewife advocates Defiance starch as a blessing to households, noting it lightens burdens and lasts far, with a sixteen ounce package priced at 10 cents. The ad urges readers to clip and request their grocer to stock it, produced by Magnetic Starch Co. in Omaha Nebraska. The closing line claims brain power declines with intellectual refinement.
Brooklyn readers report activity at the Garfield Tea Co laboratory as further proof of strong consumer trust. The piece lists Garfield Tea and Garfield Syrup along with Garfield Digestive Tablets, Plasters, Belladonna Plasters, Cold Cure, and other Garfield products as widely used last year.
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