27 Jun 1902
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1902
Page
1
A nostalgic Savannah ad urges choosing Johnson's Tonic over Quinine for fever. It argues quarantine time, health loss, and family impact from fever and promotes Johnson's Tonic as harmless, rapid, and highly effective. It claims a 17 year success record and 909 cures per 1000, urging readers to take Johnson's Tonic now.
The store claims a reputation among good dressers for attention to the latest novelties of fashion. Since starting, it has supplied best values for the least money and Fashionable Facts of the season. Hats suits extra trousers shirts underwear neckwear collars handkerchiefs suspenders and more are offered with correct styles.
A vintage advertisement offers a free sample bottle of Hagan's Magnolia beauty lotion. It promises facial and skin benefits after applying to face, neck, arms, and hands and asks readers to mail in a coupon with payment details. The text shows garbled branding and unclear company address.
A midnight blast at William Parke's rath road camp four miles from La Follette destroys the home while occupants sleep. Herb Jones and Martha Chapman die, a baby survives unscathed, and four cases of dynamite are reported missing from a magazine. Authorities believe enemies placed the explosives under the house and have fled.
A late night blaze at the Phoenix iron works in Portland destroyed six city blocks over four hours, with total losses pegged at $600,000. Key sufferers included East Side Lumber, Phoenix Iron Works, J H Johnston shipyard, and the Portland city railroad line, plus several smaller firms and facilities.
A column discusses why firstborns are often the healthiest and links maternal vitality to child health. It promotes Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a means to keep expectant mothers vigorous, noting benefits like better appetite and sleep and a painless delivery. A testimonial from Mrs. P. Douglas is cited.
General A B Burt, newly arrived from the Philippines, argues a bold plan to end the Philippine question by turning the islands over to Japan. He suggests an installment sale for 150 million dollars, enabling U S influence in the Orient without a large military presence and with two allied nations shaping Eastern markets and trade interests.
Fire and police rescue thirteen men after the center section of the St James hotel collapses at 2 05 am in Dallas Texas. The nearby Sherman lodging house also falls but all guests escape. Three men on the third floor suffer serious injuries while the operator McDonald escapes with a scalp wound.
Five soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry escorting a wagon train near Camp Vicars Mindanao were attacked by ten bolomen. One soldier suffered a bad arm cut, another a head wound, and a Moros rifle was captured. The attackers were said to be Moroz from Bondod. Lieutenant Colonel Frank D. Baldwin reports Moros held a conference at Bacolor urging friendship with Americans while some Dattel rulers resisted.
June 3 1886 Madison Missouri area reports Louis Westrop and a violent wife in Topeka Kansas after a child killing. Westrop to have violent ward placement with straps to bed during surveillance. Milroy Lowe shot at reform school survivor sent to hospital with two bullets. husband jailed. American Whist League holds annual conference in New York with large turnout and women outnumbering men.
London reports King Edward is seriously ill after a surgical procedure. Officials announce postponement of the coronation indefinitely, as crowds react with shock and markets dip. Royal physicians list perioperative complications and caution a four week recovery before any ceremony.
Dr Cyrus Elson explained King Edward's illness as perityphlitis with an abscess near the start of the large intestine. The operation aimed to drain pus and may delay coronation duties by about four weeks after recovery. Washington notified as Secretary Hay received a cable from Ambassador Choate.
In Jennings Florida on June 23 a white man Robert Alderman was shot in the abdomen by a Black assailant Jin Hood. Hood fled into the woods as a posse hunts him without available tracking dogs. A telegram sought Valdosta track hounds to pursue the suspect.
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