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Newspaper
Bowen Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1901
Page
7
A playful portrait of a lively boy by George Cooper features in Golden Days. The child roams the house causing mischief yet shows tender affection, described as terror to sisters yet a blessing to his mother.
Mehitable Green and her mother live a quiet rural life in New England. Mehitable, a shy, book-loving woman, treks to the village library weekly to borrow Ouida and George Eliot novels, dreaming of gentler ladylike society while tending hens and vegetables in a sunlit, old house.
Funeral preparations unfold in Indianapolis as James A. Mount lies in state at the Indiana Capitol. A funeral escort from infantry and artillery guards the bier while public viewings proceed at the capitol and First Presbyterian Church before interment at Denison.
United States Marshal Alcott seized in New York $17,600 worth of diamonds brought by Antonio Ansenias without duty payment. Customs officials found the gems on his person as he left a Hamburg American Line steamer at Hoboken. Ansenias was not arrested. the diamonds will be held pending Treasury Department decision on smuggling. His defense portrays him as a Cuban merchant merely passing through to Cuba.
A London dispatch claims Lord Pauncefote told the Washington government months ago that England would accept fortifying the waterway or suspending the Clayton Bulwer treaty. The secretary of state fully contradicts this statement.
Salt Lake City Utah Jan 19 The American Cattle Growers association formed by representatives from fifteen transmississippi states aims to mirror the National Wool Growers in cattle. Temporary officers are all from Colorado with hundreds of millions in capital. adjournment set for a Denver meeting in March.
A moral on maternal neglect and urging mothers to seek advice from Lydia E. Pinkham. Mrs August Pfalzgraf writes of her daughter’s two year irregular menstruation, headaches, side pain, and swelling. Pinkham’s advice leads to reported cure by March 1899. The piece extols Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as unmatched for regulating women’s monthly troubles.
A historical snippet notes Britain’s linen output at 300 million yards annually. It also mentions Craig-y-Nos castle in Wales meaning Rock of the Night and an African American inventor in St Louis creating an elevator using a screw instead of weights.
In Tacoma Washington on January 21 1901 Hon Moses B Crane secretary of Odin Lodge No 123 I O O F and Senior Vice Commander of G A R Post No 5 testifies that Dodd's Kidney Pills cured his heart disease after years of suffering He reports improved eating sleeping and energy and claims the pills offer permanent relief for heart kidney bladder and rheumatic ailments.
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