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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1900
Page
2
An advertisement claims severe hair loss stems from starvation and promotes Ayer's Hair Vigor as the solution. It asserts the product nourishes hair roots, increases growth, and restores color, priced at $1.00 and sold by all druggists.
The Senate and House pursued multiple fiscal and political debates. Officials tackled the Porto Rico tariff bill, internal revenue changes, and the Hawaiian government measure while considering expansion and constitutional questions. A Senate vote discussed seating Quay as speechmakers addressed local interests. A curious essay on cross eyed women is included with soldier lore.
The column reports a believed end to Honolulu’s plague. It notes Prince Henry of Prussia’s robbery by Siamese bandits, a Nero survey completion for a Pacific route, a 5 percent price rise at Pittsburg Plate Glass, and other items. It covers deaths, exoduses, farming aid, fires, and diverse global events.
The article describes a perfected wireless telegraph steering system claimed to guide crafts via a secondary wave, potentially rendering torpedo boats highly reliable in naval warfare. It also notes President Steyn of the Orange Free State, a lawyer by training and a Free-Stater by birth, elected in February 1896 with annual emoluments of £3,000 plus allowances.
In a column of advertisements a Chicago house Libby McNeill Libby is promoted for ready to serve luncheon meats and a booklet Flow to Make Good Things to Eat offered free. Also an ad for Grain-O calls it a coffee substitute made from pure grains and priced 4¢ to 25¢ per package.
We claim deafness stems from an inflamed Eustachian tube mucous lining and can be cured only by constitutional remedies. Nine of ten cases are caused by catarrh. We offer one hundred dollars for any case of deafness due to catarrh we cannot cure with Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for free circulars. F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. Sold by druggists Toc.
In a brief item from the New York Press at Mission School a teacher asks why Rebecca was at the well. A girl replies the husband would not draw water, implying domestic difficulty and daily life tension.
The T. M. Roberts Supply House of Minneapolis offers the best bargain in seeds and includes a high grade knife free with every purchase. Mention this paper when writing to advertiser.
Placer answers that luck comes from a winning horse, noting horseshoes as a luck emblem only when the horse wins.
Potatoes 1.20 dollars per barrel and up. Salzer promises world beating prices from La Crosse Wisconsin. Claims largest growers of farm and vegetable seeds and potatoes with millions of pounds of onion seed cabbage radish peas beans corn potatoes. Request catalog.
The banana yields per acre are reported as forty four times the potato and one hundred thirty one times the wheat.
A collage of medical patent ads touts Kemp's Balsam and Piso's Remedy, promising instant cough relief and cold cures. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets claim one day cures with money-back guarantees, while Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup advertises teething comfort for infants and other nostrums sell at low prices.
Advertisement offers a free sealed postpaid hake to any male reader who mentions the paper. Include a stamped self addressed envelope and send to Peabody Medical Institute Boston Mass. Worded as an old New England medical promotion with a cartoon line about a dining scene and a child warning about cake.
An ad touts Grain-O as a nourishing grain based beverage as a coffee substitute for kids. It claims Grain-O costs about 1 percent of coffee and tastes like high grade coffee when prepared, with 15 and 25 cent sizes available from all grocers.
An old health ad promotes Lane's Family Medicine and Dr Kline's invisorating Yenk claiming to cleanse bowels liver and kidneys and cure headaches. It offers a free $1 trial bottle with two weeks' treatment from Dr. Kline's Institute Philadelphia founded 1871. Also notes Central Passenger Association mileage tickets accepted on Nickel Plate trains.
An old health advertisement extols the secret to longevity as keeping bowels open. It claims constipation causes most illnesses and promotes Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a cure. It invites purchases in 10c 25c or 50c sizes and offers a booklet and free sample from Sterling Remedy Co.
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