Pounds Best Sugar 99 Cents Offer
With every $5 purchase of dry goods and similar items, customers receive 23 pounds of granulated sugar for 99 cents. The offer excludes groceries and applies at one time per transaction.
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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1900
Page
1
With every $5 purchase of dry goods and similar items, customers receive 23 pounds of granulated sugar for 99 cents. The offer excludes groceries and applies at one time per transaction.
A long list of priced goods and bulk items in a historical catalog style. Includes sugar coffee tea beans flour soda canned fruits fish and vegetables with varied per unit prices and bulk offers. Mentions household goods clothing shoes soap hardware and appliances with notes on trade or cash and locations for unloading.
Oliver H. P. Belmont arrived back in New York aboard the Cunard steamer Lucania after a two month European trip mostly in Paris. He criticized Admiral Dewey’s presidential bid as a Democratic party disruption and predicted Bryan would win the Democratic nomination while McKinley would secure the Republican nomination. Belmont argued Dewey would draw more votes from Republicans and condemned the administration on Puerto Rico. He praised Dewey as a naval officer but faulted his advisers.
The St. Louis Republic notes efforts in counties with Democratic conventions to nominate strong legislative candidates. It predicts an able general assembly, influenced by state congressional apportionment. Republicans push redistricting, arguing for a campaign fight, yet current Missouri districts satisfy both parties, making changes, in their view, unlikely to help Republicans.
Salem Illinois April 29 Mrs L M Kagy prominent Woman s Relief Corps member received a letter from Colonel William J Bryan enclosing a 25 dollar check to aid the fund for erecting a monument to unknown dead soldiers and sailors of all wars President McKinley previously contributed 20 dollars to the same fund.
Former Gov. W. J. Stone spent a rest day in Kansas City and did not deny a nomination for vice president. He suggested he would accept if urged, and argued the vice presidential nominee should reinforce the ticket, come from a large state, live east of the Mississippi, and not be from Missouri or the South. He cited the Bryan 1906 support.
London reports from Bloemfontein cite a Boer official stating losses through March 13 include 6500 prisoners and 8000 killed or wounded, with 14,000 deserting home. Boers lack wagons and wheat beyond a Wepener raid, but powder and ammunition are plentiful. All positions south of Pretoria are vulnerable to being turned. The Vaal River offers little protection and Biggarsberg could be turned.
William J. Bryan arrives home in Lincoln on April 27 and will stay largely out of campaign activity for a week in Michigan and northern Ohio starting next Monday. He says this rest is planned and not health related, and he will not attend the Kansas City convention.
A mob seized Mindee the Hindoo from the county jail in Marshall at 11 PM and hanged him from a tree in the courthouse yard after forcing entry. One other escaped prisoner remains at large. Mrs Wilson, sheriff's wife, is reported resting easily tonight.
Carthage Missouri April 29 Dr L W Clark of this city en route to Oronoga veered at Macey and fell as train moved. Wheels crushed left leg severely, amputated below the knee by Dr J W Kitchen. Clark a landed proprietor in Arkansas Texas Kansas and Missouri. Hopes for recovery are entertained.
San Antonio April 20 reports say developments in the past two days indicate the Texas cotton crop will be tremendously short or late due to submersion of a large area of cotton land in floods.
Flood damage leaves fields bare as planters seek seed from railroads with no seed available statewide. Cotton seed for cattle feed and oil commands up to 11 dollars per ton while farmers nearly exhaust supplies except for required planting stock.
Orchard Grove reports warm and cloudy with heavy rain that damaged crops and fences. Farmers debate flax sowing and watering while families like Will Bryant and Etta Woodfin face illnesses. A surprise dinner honors Carrie Rogers. local hunts for foxes and rabbits continue amid wet weather. Woodmen lodge at Pleasant Gap gains members as Bud Poore sells seed potatoes. Eggs and butter prices at Pleasant Gay, sheep losses from a mad dog incident near Pleasant Gap.
At the Waldorf Astoria a banquet honored Elihu Root as War Secretary he warned the nation may soon face choosing between abandoning the Monroe Doctrine or fighting for it. Root presided over the Grant birthday dinner and framed the remark as an official McKinley administration stance.
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