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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1901
Page
7
A reader describes ovarian inflammation with dull throbbing pain and swelling. The ad urges contacting Mrs. Pinkham's Laboratory in Lynn Massachusetts for a treatment with E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, citing Anna Aston of Troy Missouri who reports cure after several bottles.
Washington May 11 Secretary of the Treasury bought 28500 dollars of short term 4 percent bonds at 113.65 and 200 dollars of short terms at 113.57 with the purchase dated April 27. Deadlock noted in Northern Pacific affairs as J P Morgan arrives, per Wall Street agency.
The German Emperor amasses a vast collection in the Marble Palace at Potsdam, boasting 2000 pairs. Notable items include slippers said to have belonged to Mohammed and boots worn by Wallenstein Gustavus Adolphus Peter the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte, plus footwear of his ancestors.
A New York apartment feature grants tenants access to a built in wall safe with a secret combination. It enables residents to store valuable silver, jewels, and papers securely within their own Nis apartment rather than using bank vaults or safe deposits.
A plan submitted to architects for a new Stock Exchange building in New York calls for a ten story marble faced structure occupying the present site and three adjacent houses. The structure would cost about 1.9 million dollars and include upper floors for offices.
Pléke Out, the United States Navy, declares that upon death he wishes to be buried in Arlington Cemetery. He has arranged for his own tomb to be erected there, even though he currently enjoys good health and faces many years ahead.
A fragment notes methods to treat pith by removing texture, soaking in water for days, boiling, and pressing between hot iron plates, referencing the San Francisco Call.
A Springfield township couple from Fayette County Pennsylvania who were born on the same day and united in marriage thirty years ago died on the same calendar day recently. The two had never been apart a single day in their long marriage.
An Arkansas planter makes arrangements to start a kangaroo ranch. The note highlights the hides' value and the animals' use for suturing wounds, remarking the ten dons could be split extremely fine as a prized material for surgeons.
A Boston Home Market Club talk by Theodore Roosevelt is critiqued for framing duties as moral imperatives. The piece argues his Philippine policy mixes development with self interest, denying colonial wrongs, and stresses business as civilizer while noting broader economic woes in textiles and looming depression amid high tariffs and a booming stock market.
An extraction of debates on U S war aims during the Spanish American War and a critique of financial power. The text quotes President and administration positions on liberty and humanity, contrasts peace negotiations with Decatur speech, and mentions Manila and the Italo-Philippine context. It also cites Day Hay correspondence and a London critique of Morgan. It closes with praise for Senator McLaurin against Democratic opponents.
The piece notes marked pessimism in many Republican papers about business conditions, highlighting The United States Investor which likens current conditions to 1893 and warns of a coming panic driven by trusts. It questions the silence of financial journals on the system they once opposed and ends by referencing Carnegie, Morgan, and Rockefeller as unmoved by fuel fears.
The troubled booth in the Manufactures and Liberal Arts building was removed today easing friction between labor unions and exposition officials. Union carpenters expect to return to work tomorrow, believing the issue was the only cause of unrest. Attendance remained strong despite a two hour rain, with sacred concerts entertaining visitors.
Port Townsend May 13 The steamer Victorian from Skagway brings 100 passengers reporting strong action to curb smallpox. Indians were driven from Skagway and a guard set to prevent return. A few cases among Treadwell mine workers on Douglas Island may force mine shutdowns as authorities battle the outbreak. Meanwhile Klondike mines report a record harvest due to abundant surface water used for sluicing winter dirt, boosting gold yield beyond expectations.
Secretary Root approves Brigadier General Breckinridge to lead an extended Philippines inspection starting in June aboard the Ingalls. The mission covers many posts to assess conditions for military to civil rule transitions amid ongoing reforms. John McKinley, related to President McKinley, is in a Kansas poorhouse after family hardships.
London May 13 At a banquet of the Cornish association General Pole Carew said at the gathering that if the Boers had fully realized their strength and Britain s unpreparedness at the war s start they and Capetown would have presented the spectacle of conquering South Africa from the seacoast and seizing Capetown
The state department says it believes Germany does not intend to acquire any island on the Venezuelan coast nor a harbor or coaling station in that vicinity. The report also mentions Grover Cleveland allegedly profited $400,000 on Northern Pacific stock in Wall Street.
W M Buttner president of the German American Savings Co in Seattle turned himself in to Seattle police. He says the Omaha case stems from a $23 shortage collected there and that he was on trial for alleged fraud in Omaha and released by the prosecuting attorney.
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