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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1900
Page
3
Mrs A Edwards of San Francisco California praises Ayers Hair Vigor after long use and recommends it to many friends who are all perfectly satisfied. She writes February 9 1899 expressing high satisfaction with the product.
Claims that Hair Vigor pleases users who share with friends and restores thin, split, or failing hair. Describes reversing graying to restore dark color and youthful look, with no concrete evidence or testimonials.
A Pullman built train offers a 30 day 7000 mile Mexico tour for a select party of up to fifty. luxury drawing room and observation cars with dining service and hotel-like comforts. Cost about $10 per day. Mr BR Thompson manages. reservations via C S Crane 1000 Lincoln Trust Building St Louis MO.
A lavish edition of the New Testament in English is presented to the Chinese dowager empress on her sixtieth birthday by British and American ministers. The royal quarto copy, weighing 10% pounds, features silver covers with bamboo designs, a gold page bar, and a silver casket.
A Georgia solicitor overhears a cook and a nurse discussing a recent funeral for a Black community member. The nurse imagines a funeral rite with a watermelon vine and fruit juice dripping from the grave as a symbolic gesture.
Frank J. Cheney sworn statement as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio offers reward of one hundred dollars for every catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary public notarizes December 15 1886. Cure taken internally claims to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists 75 cents.
Cecil Rhodes dislikes writing, hoping phonograph and telephone will remove the need for letters. He anticipates future scientific advances will obviate personal correspondence.
An advertisement urges readers to try Grain-O, a grain based drink claimed to resemble Mocha and Java in color. It touts safety for children and adults, easy digestion, and a price of 1 cent to 25 cents per package, noting availability at all grocers.
The New York Press quotes Jinks questioning Coulter on composure during a blaze. Jinks asserts Coulter calmly shed a nightshirt and donned pajamas before acting. The brief exchange suggests a dispute over conduct at the fire.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad touts its facilities for tourists and travelers to Florida Cuba Porto Rico Central America and Nassau. It promotes double daily sleeping car lines from Cincinnati Louisville Chicago and St Louis through Jacksonville to interior Florida ports Miami Tampa and New Orleans. Also advertises Air Cushion Rubber Stamps and a Fort Wayne box for orders.
The Indiana oil field shows December as the biggest month of the season with 266 wells completed, 4235 barrels daily output, and 2017 barrels per well per day. Five months this season had over 200 wells. activity centers in Wells and Grant Counties. Dr Wyckliffe Smith and his Cuban servant were killed near Vlora when their buggy was struck by a Wabash train ten miles west of the town. Smith, a former major in the 160th Indiana Volunteers, lived at Delphi and was unmarried.
Jane Randers, a young farmer, was convicted of attempting to kill Rutledy Cilover, an oil citizen of Franklin. He received a sentence of two to fourteen years in Michigan City prison. The jury deliberated two days before returning a verdict.
Milk sickness causes fatalities in Fulton County with two deaths at Delong. Victims Henry F. Long and his wife died within hours of one another.
Ralph Lingle, 18, died after stepping onto a street car track from the riverbank in Muncie as an approaching car struck him. Investigating details indicate a fatal head injury from the crash.
A scattered news digest reports multiple arson and accident losses including Theodore Moore’s saw mill at Cardige burning for a $2,000 loss and Barnby’s Greencastle plant destroyed for $10,000 with partial insurance. Vaccination orders hit Anderson schools while other notes cover a student fined for child labor, a shooting accident in Rush County, and a nurse’s case of Homer morphine in a murder suspect.
A visitor recalls a Texas family in Skimble County with a grandfather over 90 and all descendants exhibiting six toes per foot. The Higgins clan, nicknamed Six-Toe Higginses, includes a grandmother with the same trait and numerous grandchildren many with six or seven toes. The report notes a hereditary pattern and barefoot summer appearances.
A classic 19th century advertorial mix promoting Lane's Family Medicine for daily bowel movement and liver kidney health with prices 25 and 50 cents, plus Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain at 2 1/2 cents. Also includes sentimental quotes from Bulwer and W M Taylor about death and character.
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