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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1901
Page
7
A local reader notice promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy that cures catarrh by acting on mucous surfaces and building up the constitution. The ad offers a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure and directs readers to send for testimony from F. J. Cueny & Co. and cites O. sar Sola through druggists.
Reduced round trip fares to Chicago December 2 to 4 via Great Rock Island Route from east of the Missouri River and near Muscatine and Wilton. Fare plus $2, trip limits apply. Rock Island ticket agents for details. address John Sebastian G. P. A. Chicago.
A newspaper promotion announces a four-paper club at 1.25 per year including The Live Stock Indicator The Poultry Farmer and The Special Farmer Editions with local and general news from this paper Samples are available at the office The text also advertises Herbine a stomach and liver remedy priced at 50 cents by H L Tucker
Spencer Eddy first secretary of the U S Legation in Constantinople reports that American missionary Miss Stone and her companion Mme Tsilka were alive and well on December 2, confirming earlier concerns.
Washington reports Andrew Carnegie proposes to give bonds of the United States Steel Corpora tion with a par value of 10 million dollars instead of cash for extending higher education. Officials note government acceptance could provoke scrutiny amid public fear of large corporate combinations.
A terse note questions the signature on every brochure for the claimed genuine Laxative Brer Quinine Taview remedy, suggesting possible mislabeling or branding irregularities in the product line.
Democrats in the Senate inform Republicans the minority will not provide committee places for Senators McLaurin and Wellington. It is expected Republican members will assign those spots. A sales pitch for Ballard’s Horehound Syrup claims wide relief from throat and lung troubles, priced at 25 and 35 cents, sold by H. L. Tucker.
Manila reports David Fagin a deserter from the Twenty-fourth infantry long leading Filipinos against U S troops for over two years was killed by native scouts. They decapitated their prisoner. On a captured finger they found engineer Frederick W Alsnetee's class ring. Fagin had been seen as killed before.
In Washington on December 12 the National Association re elected Clara Barton as president and selected other officers for the organization, confirming leadership for the coming year.
Earl Russell fresh from Holloway jail lectured on Our Prison System to a packed crowd at the Pharos club. He told the London correspondent Holloway is not as black as painted, praising warders, but criticizing toilet luxuries and beds while noting long waits for basic items and limited personal freedoms.
A Judge Advocate General Lemiy of the navy jokes about the government’s secretaries in a school lesson. A bright daughter, pupil at the public school, mispronounces the secretary of the navy as she shouts in class, provoking her father’s laughter.
A field encounter ends with a woman and her dogs bringing down a seven foot eagle after it attacked an owl near Dewogna township. In Geneva New York, a Matrimonial Club forms with 40 members and a black bean pledge to marry, costing 50 dollars and funding a wedding through the club treasury.
A Indiana man plans to bottle sun rays but the Chicago Record-Herald warns against it noting Chicago’s limits. Meanwhile smoke nuisance fines are remitted.
W C Cardwell, a young Kansas City man, first appeared as a streetcar conductor. He studied law at night, gained admission to the bar, and was nominated for the legislature. He faced poverty, mortgaged his books, and promised a firm stand in his political effort, while advertisements tout Painkiller Perry Davis for sore throats and coughs.
A bound, ragged and blindfolded German farmer Ewald Eichhorn was found dead last night three miles east of the city by his nephew John Thomas. He lived alone and was last seen Saturday planning a visit to relatives at Belleville. Robbery is suspected after Eichhorn withdrew a large bank sum Friday. The weapon was a stove wood stick.
Des Peres river in St Louis will be covered for two miles to remove flood risk during the fair. A sluiceway forty seven feet wide and fifteen feet deep will be constructed and the stream normally prone to overflows will be submerged while the exposition operates above.
In Paterson New Jersey on December 12 Phoebe Bond 18 Lizzie 12 and Benjamin 9 children of Tunis Bond fell through the ice on Bloomingdale pond last night and were drowned The mother is insane from grief.
A fragmentary OCR item references a site with unclear phrasing and a misread title. No definitive persons or organizations are readable to confirm an event or outcome. The readable bits give no resolvable factual narrative.
A Minnesota mother credits Mother's Friend with easing labor, saying three prior deliveries required chloroform and 12 to 34 hours of pain, while the latest healthy boy came with minimal pains. The letter claims the preparation strengthens the body, reduces morning sickness, and shortens recovery, advertised by The Bradfield Regulator Co. of Atlanta, at ten dollars.
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