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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1900
Page
3
An old trade card touts Lauter TE as a liver and kidney cordial that promises vigor and beauty, claiming to lure diseases from women and noting wide United States trade with Zanzibar. It invites readers to hear a hard luck money story if asked by an indebted man.
A stark description of how disease can take hold when a mucous membrane weakens unexpectedly, citing lungs head throat stomach or other organs as possible sites. The passage implies a single underlying cause behind diverse afflictions.
The ad claims catarrh inflames the delicate membrane causing pneumonia, grip, colds, coughs, fevers and other conditions in winter. It asserts Pe r u n a is the only cure reaching the core cause and that dosing elsewhere will not heal illness.
Major H J Kramer drives expansion of the Indiana Mineral Springs sanitarium. A new bath house and two story wing will add forty guest rooms, a dining hall, music room, billiard hall, offices, barber shop, and cooling rooms. Completion is in 90 days with plans for a 166 room future building.
Aug 10 dispatches report Yangtsun captured by allied forces after they routed Chinese at Fei Tsang and advanced toward Pekin. Chaffee notes sixty or more casualties among US troops, many prostrated by heat and fatigue, with a hopeful tone on the campaign's progress. Russians win New Chiang after a fierce assault, taking the city and burning it.
Acting Secretary of State reports a formal note to China urging immediate stop to attacks on foreign legations in Pekin. The communication cites Aug 6 imperial edict allowing ministers to communicate and notes Conger’s dispatch about daily shelling. It urges imperial cooperation with the relief expedition to restore order and protect foreigners.
A published letter from the Chinese emperor urges unity with Japan against western powers and to preserve national existence. The Japanese emperor replies that China should promptly aid foreign ministers to prevent open hostilities and that Japan will assist China if needed while negotiations for peace loom.
In Canton western suburbs inflammatory placards threaten harm to Germans French Americans and English. The message urges action to raise troops and promises peace if the red flag rises. Reports from Hongkong Swatow and Nagasaki note missionary unrest and military transports near Manila and Taku under General MacArthur and General Chaffee.
London reports J T Harahan vice president of the Illinois Central railroad arrived to arrange an improved transatlantic freight service. He cites a year of ocean cutter shortages from southern American ports due to the South African transport demand, with New Orleans as the gulf terminus. He notes rising exports of cotton lumber and by products and says railways must secure adequate ocean transport.
Adyiea dispatch from Bitlis reports that about 200 Armenians including men women and children were killed in Spaghank village in the Sussun district by troops and Kurds under Ali Basha the Bitlis commandant who allegedly ordered the village burned.
Carrie Peters aged 11 years is believed kidnapped from her home near Huntley after disappearing while playing in the orchard Sunday. Diligent search failed to locate her. Authorities urge anyone with information to come forward.
W J Bryan is formally notified of his presidential nomination at Newby oval Indianapolis August 8 1900 Adlai E Stevenson also notified for vice president Bryan outlines the Democratic stance on imperialism and Philippine independence urging Congress to convene in extraordinary session to establish government in the Philippines grant independence and guard against European interference.
A Paris correspondent reports Li Hung Chang's coffin, once carried on his 1896 world tour as a contingency to transport his remains, was put up for auction in Marseilles after being left at a hotel by Jub Seems. The hotel proprietor handed it to customs, and it later appeared in a periodic sale of war relics.
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