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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1900
Page
4
Letters from readers praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a reliable remedy. Women describe personal relief after consulting Mrs. Pinkham, who offers free advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
A Harper's Magazine passage asserts exiles in Siberia often prefer to stay, citing life’s relative ease, wealth, and opportunity for colonists. A brief humor item follows about McJigger-Simmkins graduating from veterinary college and receiving machinists’ tools for auto repair from his father.
Survivors report stunned grief as Galveston grapples with the port city’s catastrophic destruction. Bodies are disposed of amid wreckage, with clergy diverted to aid the living and feared outbreaks of disease looming over the floating remains and burning corpses.
Gov Theodore Roosevelt and party faced a mob of about 150 in Victor Colorado after a train arrival. A drunken Hungarian miner led clashes near Armory Hall while missiles and a party pole banner were used against Roosevelt supporters. No injuries reported in his group.
The Rev D C Greene notes pantheism in Japan while a Barcelona bishop rails against bullfights. Ira D Sankey tours Ireland and Open Air Workers praise summer services in New York. A England to Rome pilgrimage heads by Cardinal Vaughan and the Duke of Norfolk. Liverpool churches welcome surpliced choirs into Unitarian churches. The Epiphany Church at Chestnut and Fifteenth streets Philadelphia will be torn down after years as a city landmark. A syndicate buys the site for 1 million dollars. John W Angamaker represents the church and Anthony M Kane the syndicate.
A wide scan of state items notes Wayne County chicken thefts as a local nuisance while Indiana records 608 patients at Eastern Indiana Insane Asylum. Reports mark fatal horse, mining, rail, and household accidents. a boy killed by a lever and a girl burned to death. a nurse and workers injured. religious and civic events noted across towns like Martinsville, Muncie, and Marion.
A Philadelphia Press note highlights a Jesuit Charlevoix anecdote about a red Indian tracking a thief by minute clues. The writer likens the method to Sherlock Holmes, noting how the hunter identifies the thief through small details. The piece ponders whether Conan Doyle read the tale before creating Holmes.
A saltwater anecdote recalls a young Erin cook on a harbor vessel who mistook sausages for herrings. After the skipper bought sausages for dinner, the boy served skins instead of meat, revealing his routine of cleaning and gutting herrings.
A Paris exposition showcases a large national exhibit while news arrives that Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is said to cure dyspepsia indigestion and constipation. Sir Robert Finlay, England's new attorney general, questions a hostler about a horse's age and learns he knows it from the mare herself.
An advertisement promotes Grain-O as a nourishing grain based drink to replace coffee for children. It claims Grain-O tastes like tea or coffee when prepared properly and is sold by grocers at 26 cents. The Antiquity of Wigs notes Polybius cites Hannibal wearing a wig and suggests wigs date to early Roman emperors with Otho’s leather scalp and real hair.
A family question answered with a quick Jell-O dessert idea. Describes flavors Lemon Orange Raspberry and Strawberry. No boiling or baking required, just add hot water and cool. Sold at grocers for 10 cents.
A jumble of quips and ads from a early 20th century page includes a pocketbook plea for a loan, a claim of a one day cold cure with Laxative Bromo Quinine, telegraphic post cards demand in Vienna, and notices about Putnam faceless dyes, a very old Lincolnshire bridge, pancake flour for quick breakfasts, and housing cost estimates.
Baney notes Sir Richard Webster the newly created master of the rolls has long been a familiar figure in courts and Parliament. At Winterford he sheds official cares to enjoy cricket shooting and music and spends spare hours at the organ, singing as well as rival Sir Edward Clarke in law and song.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and offered to customers at a price of 75 cents.
A dying man assigns thirds, fifths, a half and a fourth to his four sons John Alex James and Thomas. Alex leaves to fetch a lawyer to challenge the division while the other three attempt to calculate a fair share. The tale ends with the moral that a lawyer may simplify the heirs’ disputes.
Besides new scales the Chiesago Scale Co offers second hand wagon and stock scales in perfect order at low cash prices. Send for their bargain list.
A relic held in the Asiatic Museum, Saint Petersburg, is claimed as the oldest bank note dating to 1399 B C with the Imperial Bank name, issue date and number, a mandarin's signature, and a list of punishments for forgery. It allegedly predates printing in China by tablets from 160 A D and is cited alongside a note by John F. Boyer of Trinity Springs, Ind., dated February 15, 1900.
Cape Grisnez on the French coast opposite Dover will obtain a new electric light of 3,000,000 candle power. The beam is expected to pierce fog up to sixteen miles and emit a white flash.
A collage of dated ad copy and quips including Lane's Family Medicine claims for daily bowel health and liver kidney benefits, Jell O dessert promotion, J. Kline nerve restore offer with a free trial bottle, ink and stationery pitches, and a jokey exchange about a stenographer who can cook.
A promotional notice touts Cascarets cathartic tablets as a natural cure for bowel issues promising easy movements. It warns of imitations and urges starting at ten cents to begin restoring health with genuine Cascarets stamped C. C. on every tablet.
The largest bell is not in Moscow but at the temple of Clars in Kinto Japan. It has no clapper and is struck from outside with a wooden battering ram, distinguishing its method and size.
Grain-O advertised as a coffee substitute made from pure grains with rich mocha like color. It claims to be easier on the stomach and costs 15 and 25 cents per package. Also includes a tea brewing method and mentions other ad content from Ladies Home Journal and Harper's Bazar.
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