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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1900
Page
7
In Nassau Bahamas a colossal ceiba known as the hurricane tree shelters the public square. Its vast buttressed trunk with wind resistant braces endures storms while massive branches cast cooling shade over officials and crowds. The tree’s age likely spans centuries.
In a short Chicago Times-Herald note Mrs. Snitzer sent her card and stated she was not calling. she merely wished to use the telephone, a remark tied to a neighborly exchange.
An 1880s advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for any catarrh cure Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. It includes endorsements of F J Cheney and Co and lists Toledo wholesalers as parties, touts internal action and blood purification, and notes testimonials and price per bottle.
A shopper complains the hot cakes are smaller than last week at a department store lunch counter. The waitress notes that the cakes are flannel cakes and will shrink.
Walworth lad Thomas Ward earned an attendance medal after eleven years of perfect school presence. When asked how he stayed so reliable despite illnesses, his mother answered he only had the usual childhood sicknesses during holidays, not school days, according to a London school board member.
A promotional notice offers a free trial bottle of Dr Kaine’s Great Nerve Restorer promising permanent cure of fire or nervousness after the first day of use. Includes address 951 Arch St Philadelphia PA and request for the reader to bend for the treatise.
The exchange features a humorist and a horse reporter arguing over a joke about a crowded streetcar brand. The witty dialogue mirrors a playful newsroom banter from Chicago News with a pun on standing joke.
Readers are advised to study the advertisements for bargains and value. The publication emphasizes reliability, noting that advertisers send exactly what they advertise and urging steady reading of the ads for bargains and practical information.
An advertised testimonial from JOOHN F Borer of Trinity Springs Indiana dated February 15 1900 promotes Piso’s Cure for Consumption as without equal for coughs and colds.
The balance of trade is to be sealed by the inspector of weights and measures ensuring accurate weighing and measurement standards for commerce.
A girl shopper, unsure yet determined, reveals she has long wanted hip pads to improve her shape. In a crowded store she finally asks for them, but fears the attention and teasing as a clerk shouts the item across the counter.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt presents a child asking about the moon. The mother explains that the moon grows dark each month and brightens again, noting its cycle. The child wonders why God must feed the moon beyond daylight meals to reach its stages.
Purports to ease teething pain for children by softening gums reducing inflammation and soothing wind colic. Sold in a 25 cent bottle. Contains claims of cure and relief typical of patent medicines of its era. Warning phrasing suggests marketing pitch rather than medical endorsement.
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company has taken possession of the Walker Manufacturing plant in Cleveland. The transfer consolidates Westinghouse’s industrial footprint in Ohio and expands production capacity at the site.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer snippet recalls a family claim of an ancestor who fought in the Revolution and died at Bunkerkopje, highlighting oral history and lineage.
Letter from W H Kinkade to B Davies outlines his 21 months in Alameda and western Canada. He arrived with $3.55, worked from March 1898, and earned about $478 in wages plus crop income from twelve acres. He reports moving onto the homestead July 10, 1899, with 32 acres ready for 1900, and urges poor men to consider farming in Canada over high Minnesota wages or rent.
The senate privileges and elections committee voted unanimously to recommend adopting a resolution declaring that Hon. W. A. Clark of Montana is not entitled to his seat. After a two hour session with most members present, the debate centered on cumulative testimony and questions about when Clark began his candidacy.
A Liverpool physician reports finding the bacillus of pinkeye in horses. The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes the remark about Jane Gilroy and a nurse’s five year training before marrying her first patient.
Alabastine is billed as the original durable wall coating that replaces sealing compounds wallpaper and paint. Sold in dry powder form in labeled packages, it dissolves with cold water and comes white or fourteen tints. It can be applied to plaster brick wood or canvas and is claimed to be easy enough for a child to brush on.
The text explains that kalsamines are cheap temporary wall coatings made from whiting chalks and clays with decaying animal glue, while alabastine is a rock base cement that sets hard and can be recoated without washing. It is widely used in hospitals for its disinfectant qualities limiting dirt and germs.
The advertisement asserts durable Alabastine should coat interior church walls schoolhouses and public halls. It claims the genuine product does not rub or scale off remains clean during its useful life and urges owners to seek tint cards and request a free booklet from Alabastine Co Grand Rapids Michigan.
The ad warns against dealers selling cheaper substitutes to imitate Alabastine. It highlights risks of infringement for sellers and buyers and asserts Alabastine Co. owns the right to make and sell water mixed wall coatings.
Butte Montana April 12 The senate committee report against Mr Clark provoked little surprise in his home town as supporters had expected a favorable outcome. His son and chief campaign representative received a message from Washington April 10 saying the report will be adverse and that Clark will be vindicated either here or in Montana. Some friends predict resignation and return to Montana for vindication.
In Vienna on April 12 three women died at Cracow University clinical institute due to a dispensing mistake with colchietto, a saffron-derived remedy for bone softening. A medical student prepared the dose ten times too strong after the head authorized experiments, leading to four other patients in danger.
Pittsburg on April 12 faced a serious coal shortage as 1,000 miners walked out and mines operated half time. Coal yards in Pittsburg and Allegheny ran low and domestic customers received only half their usual supply to stretch fuel. The shortage extended to nearby boroughs and towns relying on Pittsburg for coal.
The City of Detroit sailed from Detroit for Cleveland with 100 passengers and freight as navigation between Detroit and Cleveland began. Ice-free Lake Erie seen from both cities but the St. Clair River remains blocked by heavy ice preventing Detroit Port Huron passage.
Berlin report says over 100 Czech miners have been expelled from the Waldenburg coal district. Czech delegates in the Austrian Reichsrat plan to raise these cases in the chamber.
April 12 in Lima area Mr Cuthman Jones filed a claim with the United States legation against the Peruvian government for 5 000 000 sols. The dispute stems from a refused mining rights request.
A Georgia mother reports her nineteen year old daughter suffered heavy menstrual bleeding for three months. She sought Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and later praised the remedy after her daughter improved and could work.
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