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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1900
Page
7
For six years Mrs. Emily S. Fish has kept the Point Pines lighthouse on Monterey's Pacific coast. Widow of a U S Navy surgeon, she formerly lived in Oakland in a grand home famed for its social life, cuisine, and stylish hostess.
Chicago consumers protest grocers weighing in paper bags three times as heavy as Manila bags. The Chicago Federation of Labor and Chicago Daily News call for honesty and pricing at cost, arguing mispackaging is theft in principle as moral as taking a penny.
In Terpitz Bay the Stella Polare party under Capt Cagni of the Italian army is recalled as the Duke of Abruzzi's ex expedition. A proposal seeks a tablet at Boston's Fitchburg station to mark Jenny Lind's first United States performance, the city’s largest venue at the time for her crowds.
Mazie Winston of Chicago seeks possession of fifty thousand dollars claiming African ancestry. Her blue eyed chestnut haired appearance belies her background as daughter of Dorie Hamner of Virginia, who left provisions for her in a will lost after his death by suicide. Lawyer Luther Laflin Mills plans to travel to Virginia to gather evidence supporting her claim.
Advertisement for Allety's Foot-Ease powder available by mail from Olmsted Le Roy N Y. claims to relieve sweating damp swollen aching feet and ease new or tight shoes with a cure for corns and bunions. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents. Mentions sympathy as a social motto.
An advertisement extols Swanson's 5 Drops as a universal remedy for rheumatism neuralgia backache and a host of ailments. It claims germ-killing purification of the body and instant relief with 800 doses for $1. The letters praise its life saving effects and urge ordering by mail or local agents.
The British experience in South Africa reportedly shows small horses outperform larger drafts. They allegedly endure longer on less food, perform equally in work, and present a smaller target to the enemy.
A collage of old patent remedy pitches and product pitches including Cascarrets candy cathartic teeth dye and laundry aids. The text promotes bowel health cures, dental manufacturing notes, facial dye, bleaching blue, corn cures, hair dye, teething syrup, and gum brand mentions with brief testimonial style claims and household tips.
A Graham bread adaptation uses rye meal instead of course flour to create a stickier dough. With careful mixing and white flour on the board the dough can be handled enough to shape, per American Kitchen Magazine. A Japanese craze fascinates women with a morning room set of matting and a divan.
Miss Ethel Mortlock an English painter is at work on a portrait of the shah She has prior portraits including Don Carlos the Sultan of Johore and Lord Wolseley Her portrait of Miss Dodwill appears in this year s Royal Academy exhibition.
An advertisement claims Smiths Sure Kidney Cure fully cures kidney and bladder ailments including dropsy Brights disease and albuminuria with a 50 cent price. It asserts universal accessibility via druggists and promises a complete cure. Separately a note comments on taxation of land in China, claiming land belongs to the state and rent is a fixed per acre sum.
An old testimonial style advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for catarrh cures with Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co claim reliability with 15 years of reputation and endorsements from wholesale druggists est and truax Walding Kinnan Marvin. The note mentions internal circulation to the blood and mucous surfaces and claims price per bottle with testimonials available.
The son and daughter of the late Joseph Cowen of New Castle England will run their father's newspapers in the city. Miss Cowen will have complete business and editorial charge of the Weekly Chronicle. The article contrasts Alaska and Ireland and notes frogs and toads in the gold country with casual reflections on social friction.
An advertisement extols Wolfe's Aromatic Schiedam Schnapps as universally popular and indispensable in warm climates for toning the system and dispelling ailments. It claims benefits for malaria kidney and bladder troubles chronic rheumatism and general internal strength through a medicinal use.
In a rapid mail system, letters dropped into a Paris box reach Berlin within an hour and a half, sometimes in thirty minutes, propelled through underground tubes by pneumatic power.
The text opines on China’s future amid foreign power maneuvers and notes public health woes from dyspepsia to stomach diseases. It mocks a campaign house built of asbestos and critiques a blithe complacency while quoting Phillips Brooks on ignorance.
An advertisement proclaims Allen's Foot-Frce as the cure for foot ailments including sweetlen smarting burning sweating feet corns and bunions offering a free sample and powder to shake into shoes. It also notes the Turkish reverence for mothers with a man standing in her presence until invited to sit.
An ad from Port Dearborn Pub Co Chicago seeks solicitors for Chautauqua Cards Kindergarten Games Standard and Holiday Books with terms. It mentions a native New Zealand king Tawkiao who edits a bilingual eight page paper the Vleiades of Seven Stars printed in English and native tongue.
Two honest reliable men wanted no absolute experience required salary and expenses paid Pacahontas Tobacco Works Co Bedford City The rest of the text includes unrelated ad phrases and jokes about politics and tonics with no coherent news item.
A Victorian era testimonial promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as an absolute remedy for fatigue, headaches, backaches, and other female ailments. Mrs. Ella Rice of Chelsea, Wis., reports two years of suffering ending in cure after using the product and seeking Mrs. Pinkham's advice at Lynn, Massachusetts.
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