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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1899
Page
9
Avoce New York resident D P Jolly records a long battle with consumption ending in hopeful recovery after using Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. A neighbor urged perseverance, and the patient is now in good health, dated February 2, 1899.
An advertisement extols Ayer's Cherry Pectoral as the best remedy for hard coughs and lingering chest illnesses. It urges immediate use to prevent consumption, claiming the medicine strengthens weak lungs and provides relief today.
A coastal discovery shows seaweed drift contains value when processed with whale oil byproducts from Menhaden factories. New England and Rhode Island anticipate major usage this year, with farms fertilized entirely by seaweed. Fishing steamers may target the ocean crop and discharge at local fish factories near Cape Annopen.
General Gatacre led 3,000 troops and two batteries toward Stormberg to surprise the Boers but was misled by false information from Boer sympathizers. He retired to Molteno after heavy fighting, with over 630 officers and men missing, while the Boers pursued with machine guns and mounted units.
Eighty men entered tunnel No 7 at Carbonado Washington and five hours later a coal damp explosion caused extensive deaths and injuries Fire and smoke trapped workers while rescuers pulled survivors from air shafts as officials opened comms two hours after the blast.
Gen Gregorio del Pilar, Aguinaldo's bodyguard, died after a four hour fight with Maj Peyton Marek's Thirty third infantry battalion eighteen miles northwest of Cervantes. American losses were one dead and six wounded as seventy Filipinos were killed or wounded.
Debates opened in the Tlonse with speeches by Overstreet and others from Rep and Dem parties. Senate and House discuss resolutions on Dewey, Philippines, navy use, and canal questions. Various committee referals, nominations, recess plans, and widespread political maneuvering fill the week, with notable incidents from Louisville school board to a Philadelphia editor’s death and a Royal Baking Powder founder’s passing.
In Pall Mall Magazine an account details Windsor Castle’s royal kitchen as possibly the world’s largest. George IV added the lofty roof and ventilators, with a medieval facade and clocked stone walls. Two enormous smoke-jacks flank the ends, and a central copper table spans a remarkable length as the kitchen feeds a vast royal household.
A fragmented note from Clicage News discusses the typewriter invention and employment figures while wryly noting unclear statistics. It riffs on sedentary work and Abostetter's Stomiach Bitters to cope with strain. It contrasts brains as key for inventors with bone and sinew for butchers in a pithy exchange.
A column discusses winter hand care noting that common soaps strip skin. It urges using pure soap for gentle washing and keeping hands clean through all seasons. The page includes expert advice on domestic remedies and a grocer’s pitch for a new drink called GRATNA as a coffee substitute.
Data compares college attendance rates by country with figures noting Germany, Scotland, the United States, England, and France. Germany shows one in LE to college, Scotland one in 520, the United States one in 2.00, and England one in 3.00. France produces aluminum riolius.
The kind old Indiana man asks if there is a chance to rest at the woolshed after a long journey. He wants a place to stretch out for a while. The Philadelphia Ledger notes the exchange as a brief, human moment.
An early 20th century digest includes a promotional claim offering one hundred dollars for a deafness case cured by catarrh treatment, plus a mix of scattered jokes and notices. It references Ton, Ohio and Chicago ads, a Vienna wedding anecdote, cold cures, and various tonics and remedies.
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