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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1900
Page
4
An early 20th century advertisement claims Humphreys Witch Hazel Oil cures piles and hemorrhoids external or internal and a wide range of skin and wound ailments. It promotes instant relief for burns sores cuts boils rashes and sunburns. Three sizes priced 25c 50c and 1.00. Sold by druggists or prepaid from Humphreys Med Co New York.
A moving funeral notice for Nellie Kent describes a full Methodist service at the church with pastor James Small and Dr. J W Newland. Songs by a quartet were sung, and Nellie rests in Green Hill Cemetery while honored by family, friends, and loving tributes to her virtuous life.
A grieving speaker laments a beloved mother dying, pledging blessing on her precious boy and praying for his growth as a good man. She leaves a legacy of incorruptible character and a bequeathed heavenly peace, asking grace for all who mourn and for divine strength to endure.
A Liberty Rhode Island mother recounts using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy to save her young daughter from a severe dysentery attack. She urges other mothers to try the medicine, noting its quick effectiveness and listing Elliott's Drug Store as a local seller.
Mrs. S. H. Lincoln recounts a near death of General Burnaham's widow in Machias Maine. Doctors expected her death from Pneumonia but she credited Dr. King's New Discovery with saving her life after three doses and it cured her lung ailment. Remedy priced 50c and 1.00 with free trial bottles at Messick Dodd's store. A Sunday picnic at Donaldson's Cave Lawrenceport Ft Ritner included numerous locals from Seymour Petersburg Orleans and Leans with a large group enjoying the day and reporting a fine time.
Remaining in the Bedford Post Office unclaimed for the week ending Aug 11 1900 are ladies Lesta Clampitt Eliza Conner Myrtle Lane Minnie Mary Richardson Malisa Smith Clara Jennie Underwood and gentlemen Alfonso Brown Albert Cannon J A Collett Fayle Geo B Gardner Charley Hainey W M Lewis A A Prince F C Leitz Fred & Sons Strickland Henry Smith Dan Soloman James Wilson J A White Johnson. Callers to above letters please say advertised. Vinson V Williams P M.
Advertises Foley's Kidney Cure as a remedy for backaches caused by kidney disorder. Promotes no substitute and includes name W C Elliott as the author or distributor.
Rail workers report on shifts and assignments across the S S and B O S W lines at Terre Haute Lafayette and Westport. Sidelined crews return to service while bridge and track work continues with Monon and Southern Indiana updates and a fatal rail wreck verdict summarized.
The Chicago Tribune notes a large rise in railway pay and staff across classes in 1899. Engineers and firemen, shop workers, and track foremen saw substantial increases as more men were needed due to revived business after McKinley’s election. A Bryan victory is warned against as it could hurt industrial morale.
A collage of short items: Mrs. O E Dutton recalls whooping cough relief with Foley s Honey and Tar. a Cincinnati courthouse burn linked to a reputed jury fixer. Kentucky life sentence case. Fred Dillman injured in a quarry fall. a Bloomington girl and a bus remark from a suitor. Robert L Scoggan wins a 54 pound Milam watermelon. A J Jennesse of Chicago credits Foley s Kidney Cure for a kidney ailment with limited improvement.
Miss Maude Hillis visits Heltonville guests of Nellie Butler. Residents attend basket meeting in Weddleville. Miss Blanche Allen of Bedford visits aunt Mrs John Williams. Bertha Hill and Ed Barrett of Sparksville attend league and church. W C Hunt trips to Bedford. Ice cream supper next Saturday night August 25 for pastor’s benefit. all invited. Mollie Gillen returns home from Ft Ritner. Myrtle Bell and Friedley Wilson visit watermelon patch near Sparksville. Grace Bergdoll attends institute at Brownstown. Ida Sutherland and Carrie Thomas improving after church visit. Gracie Jones of Bedford visits locally. Newland Smith and wife of Salem visit ill Dr S W Smith.
A sudden north wind blasted Sheboygan Wisconsin with a violent storm tearing down 200 small houses and wrecking large buildings. Losses exceed 300000 dollars. The article also notes a heat related death near Martinsburg Washington County and reports on oil and gas activity in Indiana and a foiled assassination plot against President McKinley.
A county teachers committee condemns missteps by the institute council, calls for better school sanitation and music staffing, and urges timing changes for the county institute. It advocates rural school consolidation, a township high school, higher wages, reference books, art study, and timely teacher placement. A note praises the Lawrence County School Journal and cites a wartime diarrhoea remedy's local sale.
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