26 Apr 1901
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1901
Page
1
A physician from Graniteville, D. C., aged 50 with 25 years of practice, recommends Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic as a top combination remedy for chill and fever. He asserts it corrects vitiated liver secretions, relieves costiveness, and promotes food absorption and assimilation, endorsing its claimed indications.
The text touts Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic as a superior fever cure, claiming it improves eyes, skin, appetite, and liver function. It asserts it outperforms quinine, enjoys elder endorsement, and warns against imitators and counterfeiters impersonating the medicine.
April 24 report from Masiva notes 100 soldiers and 3,100 bolos have sworn allegiance to the United States at Narvacan in South Iloilo. Surrenders accelerate as commissary probes proceed. Reed trial delayed. Major Noble reports further surrenders of Salaza's forces, seen as likely to end insurrection on Panay. An island for leper isolation is being considered with sites like Busanga and Jolo visited.
About 75 Black workers left Greensboro for Stoney Point Virginia to work on a new railroad, part of a yearlong exodus to railroads in Virginia and coal mines in West Virginia. Emigration has reduced farm labor and domestic help, hindering crops and household staffing in the county. Nearby, Father O Connell of the American college in Rome is reportedly elected bishop of Portland Maine with papal confirmation pending. Governor signed a measure allowing women taxpayers in villages and towns to hold positions spending public funds.
A testimonial extols Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery for women. It claims the remedies stabilize nerves, restore regularity, strengthen health, and aid motherhood. The statement notes the adviser is available free on request by mail.
The United States prepares for the upcoming congress of American republics to be held in the City of Mexico. A commission will meet in Washington to organize and select a chairman, with ex-Senator Davis of West Virginia among potential picks. Debates include commercial reciprocity, a transcontinental railway project, and international arbitration for Western Hemisphere nations. proceedings will be conducted in Spanish.
Five Cuban constitutional delegates led by Domingo Mendez Capote reach Washington to confer with President McKinley on Cuba-US relations. They are met by Assistant Secretary Hill and others, with General Wood arriving to discuss Cuban governance and security ahead of spring elections.
Lospos April 24 Brigadier General Frederick Ludgard high commissioner and commander in northern Nigeria and Colonel G V Comball with West Africa frontier troops defeated slave raiding emirs of Bida and Kontagora capturing capitals and freeing thousands of slaves. The emirs terrorized the region for years with heavy losses. In London April 24 news of a Fort Darwin Mashonaland clash reached here as Charterland police fought Chintal natives led by outlaw Maponi Sixty four outlaws fell.
In Virginia, James M. Barr will become the first vice president and general manager of the Seaboard Air Line system on May 1. Barr, a prominent railroad executive, resigned as third vice president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe to take the Seaboard post. His arrival is awaited with interest and some concern due to his noted zeal for payroll purges.
In Vienna the Reichsrat session was adjourned after Pan-German and Christian Socialist factions clashed over abolishing the penal code paragraph that punished criticism of imperial family members. Bonnerstorfer argued the clause barred campaign against clerical lands and targeted Archduke Francis Ferdinand’s recent Catholic Schools patronage and a speech seen as attacking Protestantism. The uproar forced the president to suspend proceedings.
Mrs May Wright Sewall, representing the United States on the international peace committee of women, calls for nationwide meetings for international peace and arbitration on May 18. She notes the Hague conference halt and the expected convening of the permanent court of international arbitration at The Hague on its second anniversary May 14.
Omeersati April 24 A flood climax described as predicted by the weather bureau reached 51 feet by early morning, with back water surrounding the city from east to south. Officials expect the crest near 58 feet today, relief arriving as the Ohio valley shows slower rises downstream. Louisville reports 59 feet and rising, with business districts already submerged and losses mounting. A separate incident notes a riverfront shooting in Parkersburg as a house fills with water, and a fire on a cotton ship near Penascola. In Chicago the Machinists' conference ends without a grievance presentment, schedule pending.
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